UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): July 27, 2009

 

 

DUKE REALTY CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Indiana   1-9044   35-1740409

(State or other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

  (Commission File Number)  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

600 East 96th Street

Suite 100

Indianapolis, IN 46240

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (317) 808-6000

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 


Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws; Change in Fiscal Year.

On July 27, 2009, following approval by the shareholders of Duke Realty Corporation (the “Company”) at a Special Meeting of the shareholders held on July 22, 2009 in accordance with the Indiana Business Corporation Law, the Company filed its Fourth Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation with the Indiana Secretary of State for the purpose of increasing the number of shares of common stock authorized thereunder from 250 million shares to 400 million shares.

On July 29, 2009, the Company’s board of directors approved an amendment to Section 5.08 of the Company’s Third Amended and Restated By-Laws to elect that the terms of office of the Company’s board of directors shall not be governed by Indiana Code Section 23-1-33-6(c), a newly-enacted provision of the Indiana Business Corporation Law that would, absent this election by the Company’s board of directors, require the Company to maintain a classified board of directors. This amendment to the By-Laws will not affect the current structure of the Company’s board of directors.

Pursuant to General Instruction F to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Current Report on Form 8-K, the Fouth Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and the Fourth Amended and Restated By-Laws are attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and Exhibit 3.2, respectively, and are incorporated into this Item 5.03 by this reference.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

  (d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

3.1   Fourth Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Duke Realty Corporation, effective July 27, 2009.
3.2   Fourth Amended and Restated By-Laws of Duke Realty Corporation, effective July 29, 2009.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  DUKE REALTY CORPORATION
July 29, 2009   By:  

/s/ Howard L. Feinsand

  Name:   Howard L. Feinsand
  Title:  

Executive Vice President, General

Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Exhibit 3.1

FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

OF

DUKE REALTY CORPORATION

ARTICLE I

Identification

Section 1.01.  Name . The name of the Corporation is Duke Realty Corporation.

ARTICLE II

Definitions

Section 2.01.  Certain Definitions . The following terms when used herein shall have the meanings set forth below:

(a)  Act . The “Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.

(b)  Affiliate . “Affiliate” shall mean, as to any Person, (i) any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person, (ii) any other Person that owns beneficially, directly or indirectly, five percent (5%) or more of the outstanding capital stock, shares or equity interests of such Person, or (iii) any officer, director, employee, general partner or trustee of such Person or of any Person controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person (excluding trustees and Persons serving in similar capacities who are not otherwise an Affiliate of such Person), and shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Act.

(c)  Articles . “Articles” shall mean the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, filed with the Indiana Secretary of State, as amended from time to time.

(d)  Business Combination . “Business Combination” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 9.01.

(e)  By-Laws . “By-Laws” shall mean the By-Laws of the Corporation, as amended from time to time.

(f)  Code . “Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

(g)  Continuing Director . The term “Continuing Director” shall mean a Person who was a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation immediately prior to the date as of which the Substantial Shareholder in question became a Substantial Shareholder, or, following such date, a Person designated (before his initial election or appointment as a director) as a Continuing Director by a majority of the Whole Board, but only if a majority of the Whole Board shall then consist of Continuing Directors, or, if a majority of the Whole Board shall not then consist of Continuing Directors, by a majority of the then Continuing Directors.

(h)  Corporation . The “Corporation” shall mean Duke Realty Corporation

(i)  Director . “Director” shall mean a member of the Corporation’s Board of Directors.


(j)  Gender And Number . As used herein the masculine and feminine gender and the singular and plural number shall be interchangeable, as the context requires.

(k)  Owner . A Person is the “Owner” of Shares he has the right to acquire either immediately or at some future date pursuant to any agreement, or upon exercise of conversion rights, warrants or options or otherwise. A Person is also the Owner of any Shares whose ownership is attributed to him by reason of the ownership provisions of Sections 542 and 544 of the Code, and any Shares he beneficially owns under Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Act.

(l)  Person . “Person” shall mean an individual, partnership, trust, corporation, or any other entity.

(m)  Real Property . “Real Property” shall mean land, leasehold interests (including, but not limited to interests of lessor or lessee therein), rights and interests in land, and any buildings, structures, improvements, furnishings, fixtures and equipment used on or in connection with land, leasehold interests or rights in land or interests therein.

(n)  REIT . “REIT” or “real estate investment trust” shall mean a real estate investment trust meeting all the qualifications in the Code.

(o)  Securities . “Securities” shall mean any stock, shares, voting trust certificates, bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness or in general any instruments commonly known as “securities” or any certificates of interest, shares or participations in, temporary or interim certificates for, receipts for, guarantees of, or warrants, options or rights to subscribe to, purchase or acquire any of the foregoing.

(p)  Shareholders . “Shareholders” shall mean as of any particular time all holders of record of outstanding Shares at such time.

(q)  Shares . “Shares” shall mean the capital stock of the Corporation.

(r)  Substantial Shareholder . “Substantial Shareholder” shall mean any Person, corporation or other entity, together with any other entity with which it or its Affiliate has any agreement, arrangement or understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of capital stock of the Corporation or which is its Affiliate, which immediately prior to any Business Combination is the Owner of 10% or more of the outstanding Shares of the Corporation.

(s)  Unaffiliated Director . “Unaffiliated Director” shall mean a Director who is not an officer or employee of the Corporation or of any Affiliate of the Corporation.

(t)  Whole Board . “Whole Board” shall mean the total number of Directors which this Corporation would have if there were no vacancies.

In connection with the foregoing and other defined terms in these Articles, where applicable except as otherwise provided in the relevant definition, calculations of amounts should be made in accordance with the accrual basis of accounting.

 

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ARTICLE III

Registered Office and Agent

The street address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Indiana is 36 South Pennsylvania Street Suite 700, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204. The name of its registered agent at such address is CT Corporation System.

ARTICLE IV

Purposes

The purposes of the Corporation shall be:

(a) To purchase, hold, and otherwise deal in and with income- producing interests in Real Property, and to make distributions of such income to its Shareholders so as to qualify as a REIT at all times.

(b) To engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the Indiana Business Corporation Law, as amended from time to time, not inconsistent with paragraph (a) above, and not otherwise specifically prohibited in these Articles.

ARTICLE V

Authorized Shares

The total number of shares of capital stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is four hundred and five million (405,000,000), of which four hundred million (400,000,000) shall be common stock having a par value of $.01 per share, and five million (5,000,000) shall be serial preferred stock having a par value of $.01 per share.

ARTICLE VI

Terms of Authorized Shares

Section 6.01.  Terms of Stock . Each Share of common stock shall have the same relative rights as and be identical in all respects with all other Shares of common stock. The Shares of preferred stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series. The Board of Directors of the Corporation shall have authority to fix by resolution or resolutions the designations and the powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, including, without limitation, the voting rights, the dividend rate, conversion rights, redemption price and liquidation preference, of any series of Shares of preferred stock, to fix the number of Shares constituting any such series, and to increase or decrease the number of Shares of any such series (but not below the number of Shares thereof then outstanding). In case the number of Shares of any such series shall be so decreased, the Shares constituting such decrease shall resume the status they had prior to the adoption of the resolution or resolutions originally fixing the number of Shares of such series. Shares shall have such other voting powers, participating, optional or other special rights and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, as are stated below:

(a)  Dividends . Whenever there shall have been paid, or declared and set aside for payment, to the holders of the outstanding Shares of any class of stock having preference over the common stock as to the payment of dividends, the full amount of dividends and of sinking fund or retirement fund or other retirement payments, if any, to which such holders are respectively entitled in preference to the common stock, then dividends may be paid on the common stock and on any class or series of Shares entitled to participate therewith as to dividends, out of any assets legally available for the payment of dividends in such form and amount as shall be determined by the Board of Directors in accordance with the Indiana Business Corporation Law.

 

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(b)  Termination . In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, winding up or other termination of the Corporation, after the payment in full of the claims of creditors and after there shall have been paid to or set aside for the holders of any class having preference over the common stock in event of liquidation, dissolution, winding up or other termination the full preferential amounts to which they are respectively entitled, the remaining assets of the Corporation available for payment and distribution to Shareholders shall be distributed ratably among the holders of the common stock, and any class or series of Shares entitled to participate therewith, in whole or in part, as to the distribution of assets.

Section 6.02.  Dilution . The Corporation shall not increase the number of authorized Shares without the approval of a majority of the Unaffiliated Directors, and the affirmative vote of a majority of the Shareholders.

Section 6.03.  Liability For Further Assessments . The Shares, when duly issued and paid for, will be fully paid and non-assessable by the Corporation.

Section 6.04.  Voting Rights . Holders of Shares of common stock are entitled to one vote per Share of common stock on all matters upon which such holders are entitled to vote, except as otherwise specified herein. The Shares shall not have cumulative voting rights.

ARTICLE VII

Board of Directors

Section 7.01.  Number, Classes, Term of Office and Qualifications Of Directors . There shall be no fewer than five (5) nor more than fifteen (15) Directors. The initial Board of Directors shall consist of fifteen (15) members. The number of Directors may be increased or decreased from time to time by the Directors.

At each annual meeting beginning at the annual meeting of Shareholders in 2004, all Directors shall be elected to hold office for a term of one year. Directors may be re-elected any number of times. Election of each Director at an annual meeting shall be by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the Shareholders entitled to vote thereon present in person or by proxy at such meeting. Each Director shall hold office until the election and qualification of his successor. Directors may, but need not, own Shares or other securities of the Corporation.

A Director shall be an individual at least twenty-one (21) years of age who is not under legal disability. Prior to the annual meeting of Shareholders in 2005, a majority of the Directors shall at all times be Persons who are Unaffiliated Directors. Commencing with the annual meeting of Shareholders in 2005, at least three-fourths of the Directors shall at all times be Persons who are Unaffiliated Directors. Notwithstanding the preceding two sentences, upon a failure to comply with this requirement because of the resignation, removal or death of a Director who is an Unaffiliated Director, such requirement shall not be applicable for a period of one hundred and eighty (180) days. Nominees to serve as Unaffiliated Directors shall be nominated by the then current Unaffiliated Directors, if any, otherwise by the remaining Directors. Unless otherwise required by law, no Director shall be required to give bond, surety or security in any jurisdiction for the performance of any duties or obligations hereunder. The Directors in their capacity as Directors shall not be required to devote their entire time to the business and affairs of the Corporation.

Section 7.02.  Resignation, Removal and Death Of Directors . A Director may resign at any time by giving written notice to the remaining Directors at the principal office of the Corporation. Such resignation shall take effect on the date specified in such notice, without need for prior accounting. A Director judged incompetent, or for whom a guardian or conservator has been appointed, shall be deemed to have resigned as of the date of such adjudication or appointment. A Director may be removed for cause by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the total votes eligible to be cast by the Shareholders at a duly constituted meeting of Shareholders called expressly for such purpose. Except as may otherwise be provided by law, cause for removal shall be construed to exist only if the Director whose removal is proposed has been judged incompetent, convicted of a felony by a court of competent jurisdiction and such conviction is no longer subject to appeal, or has been adjudged by a court of competent

 

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jurisdiction to be liable for gross negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the Corporation in a matter of substantial importance to the Corporation, and such adjudication is no longer subject to direct appeal. At least 20 days prior to such meeting of Shareholders, written notice shall be sent to the Director or Directors whose removal will be considered at such meeting.

Section 7.03.  Vacancies . Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this Article, each Director shall serve until his successor is elected and qualified or until his death, retirement, resignation or removal. Should a vacancy occur or be created, whether arising through death, resignation or removal of a Director or through an increase in the number of Directors of any class, such vacancy shall be filled by a majority vote of the remaining Directors then in office, whether or not a quorum. A Director so elected to fill a vacancy shall serve for the remainder of the then present term of office of the class to which he was elected.

Section 7.04.  Quorum . A quorum for all meetings of the Directors shall be a majority of the total number of Directors; provided, however, that, whenever the vote of a majority of a particular group of Directors (including, but not limited to the Unaffiliated Directors) is required at a meeting, a quorum for such meeting shall be a majority of the total number of Directors which shall include a majority of such group.

Section 7.05.  Committees . The Directors may appoint from among their number an audit committee and such other standing committees as the Directors determine; provided, however, the composition of the members of the nominating committee, the compensation committee and the asset committee may not be changed without the approval of at least sixty percent (60%) of the Directors. Each standing committee shall consist of three or more members. All members of the audit committee shall be Unaffiliated Directors. A majority of the members of each other standing committee shall be Unaffiliated Directors; provided, however, that upon a failure to comply with this requirement because of the resignation, removal or death of a director who is an Unaffiliated Director, such requirement shall not be applicable for a period of sixty (60) days. Each committee shall have such powers, duties and obligations as the Directors may deem necessary or appropriate. The standing committees shall report their activities periodically to the Directors.

ARTICLE VIII

Shareholders’ Meetings

Section 8.01.  Location . All meetings of Shareholders to elect Directors and to transact such other business as may properly be presented to the meeting shall be held at such place, either within or without the State of Indiana, as may be authorized in the By-Laws and specified in the respective notices of any such meetings.

Section 8.02.  Special Meetings . Special meetings of the Shareholders may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, a majority of the Board of Directors, a majority of the Unaffiliated Directors, the President of the Corporation, or at the request, in writing, of Shareholders owning ten percent (10%) of the aggregate number of Shares of the Corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote. Such meetings shall be held at such time and place, within or without the State of Indiana, as shall be specified in the notice thereof. Business transacted at any special meeting of Shareholders shall be limited to the purpose or purposes stated in the notice.

Section 8.03.  Action . All actions permitted or required to be taken by the Shareholders shall be taken at an annual or special meeting of the Shareholders. The Shareholders may not act by written consent in lieu of meeting.

ARTICLE IX

Business Combinations

Section 9.01.  Substantial Shareholders . Except as provided in Section 9.02 hereof, the affirmative vote of at least 80% of the Shareholders shall be required to approve any Business Combination involving a Substantial

 

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Shareholder. Such affirmative vote shall be required for any Business Combination notwithstanding the fact that no vote may be required, or that a lesser percentage may be specified by law or in any agreement with any national securities exchange or otherwise. As used in this Article IX, the term Business Combination shall mean:

(a) any merger or consolidation of the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation with (i) any Substantial Shareholder or (ii) any other Person (whether or not itself a Substantial Shareholder) which is, or after such merger or consolidation would be, a Substantial Shareholder or an Affiliate of a Substantial Shareholder; or

(b) any sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer or other disposition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) to or with any Substantial Shareholder, or any Affiliate of any Substantial Shareholder, of any assets of the Corporation or any subsidiary having an aggregate fair market value of $1,000,000 or more; or

(c) the issuance or transfer by the Corporation or any subsidiary (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of any Securities of the Corporation or any subsidiary of any Substantial Shareholder or any Affiliate of any Substantial Shareholder in exchange for cash, Securities or other property (or a combination thereof) having an aggregate fair market value of $1,000,000 or more; or

(d) the adoption of any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation proposed by or on behalf of a Substantial Shareholder or any Affiliate of any Substantial Shareholder; or

(e) any reclassification of Securities (including any reverse stock split), or recapitalization of the Corporation, or any merger or consolidation of the Corporation with any subsidiary or any other transaction (whether or not with or into or otherwise involving a Substantial Shareholder) which has the effect, directly or indirectly, of increasing the proportionate share of the outstanding Shares or Securities of the Corporation or any subsidiary which is directly or indirectly owned by any Substantial Shareholder or any Affiliate of any Substantial Shareholder.

Section 9.02.  Exceptions . Section 9.01 of this Article shall not apply to a Business Combination if (A) the Business Combination is approved by a vote of three-fourths of the Continuing Directors, (B) the Business Combination consists of the issuance or transfer by the Corporation of Shares of its common stock in exchange for a partnership interest in Duke Realty Limited Partnership, an Indiana limited partnership, or Duke Realty Services Limited Partnership, an Indiana limited partnership, or any successor in interest to either such limited partnership or (C) the Substantial Shareholder shall have complied with the provisions of this Section 9.02 of this Article and all Shareholders of the Corporation shall have been given a reasonable opportunity immediately before the consummation of the Business Combination to receive in the Business Combination, or the right to receive as a result of or in the Business Combination cash, cash and other consideration or other consideration, the per Share fair market value of which will not, at the time the Business Combination is effected, together with any cash, be less than the greatest of: (i) the highest price per Share (including brokerage commissions, soliciting dealers’ fees and all other expenses) paid by the Substantial Shareholder in acquiring any of its Shares of the Corporation of the same class; (ii) the per Share book value of the same class of the Corporation’s Shares at the time the Business Combination is effected, determined by such independent appraisal firm or their experts as the Board of Directors deem appropriate; (iii) the highest sale or bid price per Share for the Shares of the same class during the 24 months immediately preceding the time the Business Combination is effected; and (iv) an amount which bears the same or a greater percentage relationship to the market price of the same class of the Corporation’s Shares immediately prior to the announcement of the Business Combination as the highest per Share price paid in (i) above bore to the market price of the same class of the Corporation’s Shares immediately prior to the commencement of acquisition of the Corporation’s Shares by such Substantial Shareholder. The consideration to be received by holders of outstanding Shares under this Section 9.02 shall be in cash or in the same form as the Substantial Shareholder has previously paid for such Shares. If the Substantial Shareholder has paid for Shares with varying forms of consideration, the form of consideration for Shares acquired under this Section 9.02 shall be either cash or the form used to acquire the largest number of Shares previously acquired by such Substantial Shareholder.

 

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Section 9.03. Restrictions on Corporate Action . Without the approval of three-fourths of the Continuing Directors, a Substantial Shareholder, after the time it became such, seeking to comply with Section 9.02 of this Article shall not have (i) made any material change in the Corporation’s business or capital structure, (ii) received the benefit directly or indirectly (except proportionately as a Shareholder) of any loans, advances, guarantees, pledges or other financial assistance provided by the Corporation, or (iii) made, caused or brought about, directly or indirectly, any change in the Corporation’s Articles or By-Laws or in the membership of the Corporation’s Board of Directors of any committee thereof, or (iv) terminated the Corporation’s agreement with the Advisor.

Section 9.04. Board Determinations . A majority of the Whole Board shall have the power to determine, but only if a majority of the Whole Board shall then consist of Continuing Directors, or, if a majority of the Whole Board shall not then consist of Continuing Directors, a majority of the Continuing Directors shall have the power to determine, for the purposes of this Article on the basis of information known to them, (i) the number of Shares of the Corporation of which any Person is the Owner, (ii) whether a Person is an Affiliate of another, and (iii) any other factual matter relating to the applicability or effect of this Article.

Section 9.05.  Good Faith . Any determinations made by the Board of Directors, or by the Continuing Directors, as the case may be, pursuant to this Article in good faith and on the basis of such information and assistance as was then reasonably available for such purpose, shall be conclusive and binding upon this Corporation and its Shareholders, including any Substantial Shareholders.

Section 9.06.  Notice . Notwithstanding any provision of this Article IX to the contrary, no Substantial Shareholder shall consummate any Business Combination unless such Substantial Shareholder shall have mailed to public Shareholders of the Corporation, at least 30 days prior to the date of such consummation, a proxy or information statement describing the proposed Business Combination, which statement shall comply with the Act and the Rules and Regulations thereunder or any successor statute or regulation, whether or not such proxy or information statement is required to be mailed pursuant to such Act, rules or regulations or subsequent provisions.

Section 9.07.  Fiduciary Obligations . Nothing contained in this Article shall be construed to relieve any Substantial Shareholder from any fiduciary obligation imposed by law.

ARTICLE X

Refusal to Transfer Shares, Acquisition

Restriction and Other Restrictions on Rights of Shares

Section 10.01. Notice . The Shareholders shall upon demand disclose to the Directors in writing such information with respect to direct and indirect ownership of the Shares as the Directors deem necessary or appropriate to comply with the REIT provisions of the Code or to comply with the requirements of any taxing authority or governmental agency.

Section 10.02. Transfer Restrictions . Whenever it is deemed by them to be reasonably necessary to protect the status of the Corporation as a REIT, the Directors may require a statement or affidavit from each Shareholder or proposed transferee of Shares setting forth the number of Shares already owned by him and any related Person specified in the form prescribed by the Directors for that purpose. If, in the opinion of the Directors, which shall be conclusive upon any proposed transferee of Shares, any proposed transfer might jeopardize the status of the Corporation as a REIT, the Directors shall have the right, but not the duty, to refuse to permit such transfer.

Section 10.03. Null and Void . Notwithstanding any other provision of these Articles to the contrary, any purported acquisition of Shares of the Corporation which would result in the disqualification of the Corporation as a REIT shall be null and void.

 

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Section 10.04. No Limit . Nothing contained in these Articles shall limit the authority of the Directors to take such other action as they deem necessary or advisable to protect the Corporation and the interests of the Shareholders by preservation of the Corporation’s status as a REIT.

Section 10.05. Stock Exchange . It shall be the policy of the Directors to consult with the appropriate officials of any stock exchange on which the relevant Shares of the Corporation are listed as far as reasonably possible in advance of the final exercise (at any time when the Shares are listed on such exchange) of any powers granted by Sections 10.02 or 10.03.

Section 10.06. Legend . In furtherance of the provisions of this Article X, each certificate evidencing Shares shall contain a legend imprinted thereon to the following effect, or such other legend as the Directors may from time to time adopt:

STATEMENT OF POWERS;

PROVISIONS RELATING TO PROHIBITION OF

TRANSFER OF SHARES AND OTHER RESTRICTIONS

“If necessary to effect compliance by the Corporation with requirements of the Internal Revenue Code relating to real estate investment trusts, rights of the holder of the Shares represented by this certificate may be restricted by the Corporation and/or the transfer thereof may be prohibited upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Articles of Incorporation. The Corporation will furnish a copy of such terms and conditions and a statement of all the powers, designations, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock issued by the Corporation and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights, to the registered holder of this certificate upon request and without charge.”

ARTICLE XI

Amendment of By-Laws

The Shareholders or the Directors may, by a majority vote, amend or repeal any provision of the By-Laws.

ARTICLE XII

Amendment or Repeal

Notwithstanding any other provision of these Articles or the By-Laws of the Corporation (and not withstanding the fact that a lesser percentage may be specified by these Articles or the By-Laws of the Corporation) and in addition to any other procedure specified under Indiana law, the affirmative vote of at least eighty percent (80%) of the issued and outstanding Shares of the Corporation shall be required to repeal or adopt any provision inconsistent with Articles IX, X, XI and XII, or Sections 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, and 8.03, hereof. With respect to any other proposed amendment to or alteration of these Articles not approved by the vote of three-quarters of the Directors, such amendment or alteration shall require the affirmative vote of at least eighty percent (80%) of the issued and outstanding Shares.

ARTICLE XIII

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Section 13.01. Elimination of Certain Liability of Directors . A Director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its Shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a Director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the Director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its Shareholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing

 

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violation of law, (iii) under IND. CODE Section 23-1-35-4, or (iv) for any transaction from which the Director derived an improper personal benefit.

Section 13.02. Indemnification and Insurance .

(a)  Right to Indemnification . Each Person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a Person of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a Director or officer of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a Director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a Director, officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the Indiana Business Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such Person in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to a Person who has ceased to be a Director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that, except as provided in paragraph (b) hereof, the Corporation shall indemnify any such Person seeking indemnification in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation. The right to indemnification conferred in this Section 13.02 shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that, if the Indiana Business Corporation Law requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by a Director or officer in his or her capacity as a Director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such Person while a Director or officer, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in advance of the final disposition of a proceeding, shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such Director or officer, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such Director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this Section 13.02 or otherwise. The Corporation may, by action of its Board of Directors, provide indemnification to employees and agents of the Corporation with the same scope and effect as the foregoing indemnification of Directors and officers.

(b)  Right of Claimant to Bring Suit . If a claim under paragraph (a) of this Section 13.02 is not paid in full by the Corporation within thirty days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition where the required undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered to the Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the Indiana Business Corporation Law for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the burden of proving such defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its Shareholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the Indiana Business Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel, or its Shareholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct.

(c)  Non-Exclusivity of Rights . The right to indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Section 13.02 shall not be exclusive of any other right which any Person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of these Articles, by-law, agreement, vote of Shareholders or disinterested Directors or otherwise.

 

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(d)  Insurance . The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any Director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any such expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such Person against such expense, liability or loss under the Indiana Business Corporation Law.

ARTICLE XIV

Severability

In the event that any Article or Section (or portion thereof) of these Articles shall be found to be invalid, prohibited or unenforceable for any reason, the remaining provisions, or portion thereof, of these Articles shall be deemed to remain in full force and effect, and shall be construed as if such invalid, prohibited or unenforceable provision had been stricken herefrom or otherwise rendered inapplicable, it being the intent of this Corporation and its Shareholders that each such remaining provision (or portion thereof of these Articles remain, to the fullest extent permitted by law, applicable and enforceable as to all Shareholders, including Substantial Shareholders notwithstanding any such findings.

ARTICLE XV

Incorporator

The name and mailing address of the sole incorporator are:

John R. Gaskin

600 East 96th Street, Suite 100

Indianapolis, Indiana 46240

 

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Exhibit A

to the

Fourth Amended and Restated

Articles of Incorporation of

Duke Realty Corporation

Series J Preferred Shares . Pursuant to the authority granted under Section 6.01 of the Corporation’s Third Restated Articles of Incorporation (the “Articles of Incorporation”), the Board of Directors of the Corporation hereby establishes a series of preferred shares designated the 6.625% Series J Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares ($0.01 par value per share) (liquidation preference $250.00 per share) (the “Series J Preferred Shares”) on the following terms:

(a)  Number . The number of authorized shares of the Series J Preferred Shares shall be 460,000.

(b)  Relative Seniority . In respect of rights to receive dividends and to participate in distributions or payments in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the Series J Preferred Shares shall rank (i) on a parity with any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation as to the payment of dividends and as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (whether or not the dividend rates, dividend payment dates or redemption or liquidation prices per share thereof are different from those of the Series J Preferred Shares), if the holders of such class or series of capital shares and the Series J Preferred Shares shall be entitled to the receipt of dividends and of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in proportion to their respective amounts of accrued and unpaid dividends per share or liquidation preferences without preference or priority one over the other, (ii) senior to any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, junior to the Series J Preferred Shares (collectively, “Junior Shares”) and (iii) senior to the Series C Preferred Shares, shares of common stock (“Common Shares”) and any other class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends and upon liquidation, junior to the Series J Preferred Shares (collectively, “Fully Junior Shares”).

(c)  Dividends .

(1) The holders of the then outstanding Series J Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the Board of Directors out of any funds legally available therefor, cumulative dividends at the rate of 6.625% of the liquidation preference per share per year, payable quarterly in equal amounts of $4.140625 per share in cash on the last calendar day of each February, May, August and November or, if not a Business Day (as hereinafter defined), the next succeeding Business Day (each such day being hereinafter called a “Quarterly Dividend Date” and each period ending on a Quarterly Dividend Date being hereinafter called a “Dividend Period”), provided, however, that the first distribution on the Series J Preferred Shares will be paid on December 1, 2003. Dividends shall be payable to holders of record as they appear in the share records of the Corporation at the close of business on the applicable record date (the “Record Date”), which shall be on such date designated by the Board of Directors of the Corporation for the payment of dividends that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Quarterly Dividend Date. The amount of any dividend payable for any partial Dividend Period shall be prorated and computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Dividends on each share of Series J Preferred Shares shall accrue and be cumulative from and including the date of original issue thereof whether or not (i) there are funds legally available for the payment of such distributions or (ii) such distributions are authorized. Dividends paid on the Series J Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a per share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. Except as provided in subparagraph (e)(2)(iv) and the last sentence of this paragraph, unless the full cumulative dividends on the Series J Preferred Shares have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no dividends (other than dividends payable solely in Common Shares or other Fully Junior Shares) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other distribution made upon the Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series J Preferred Shares as to dividends or upon liquidation, nor shall any Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series J Preferred Shares as to

 

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dividends or upon liquidation be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of such shares) by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation (except for conversion into or exchange for such capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to the Series J Preferred Shares as to dividends and upon liquidation). If accrued dividends on the Series J Preferred Shares for all prior Dividend Periods have not been paid in full, then any dividend declared on the Series J Preferred Shares for any Dividend Period and on any series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to the dividends with the Series J Preferred Shares will be declared ratably in proportion to accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series J Preferred Shares and such series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to dividends with the Series J Preferred Shares.

“Business Day” shall mean any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in New York City are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

(2) The amount of any dividends accrued on any Series J Preferred Shares at any Quarterly Dividend Date shall be the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including such Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, and the amount of dividends accrued on any shares of Series J Preferred Shares at any date other than a Quarterly Dividend Date shall be equal to the sum of the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including the last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, plus an amount calculated on the basis of the annual dividend rate of 6.625% per share, for the period after such last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date to and including the date as of which the calculation is made based on a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

(3) Except as provided in this Section, the Series J Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to participate in the earnings or assets of the Corporation.

(4) Any dividend payment made on the Series J Preferred Shares shall be first credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid dividend due with respect to such shares which remains payable.

(5) If, for any taxable year, the Corporation elects to designate as “capital gain dividends” (as defined in Section 857 of the Code) any portion (the “Capital Gains Amount”) of the dividends paid or made available for the year to holders of all classes of capital shares (the “Total Dividends”), then the portion of the Capital Gains Amount that shall be allocated to the holders of the Series J Preferred Shares shall be the amount that the total dividends paid or made available to the holders of the Series J Preferred Shares for the year bears to the Total Dividends.

(6) No dividends on the Series J Preferred Shares shall be authorized by the Board of Directors or be paid or set apart for payment by the Corporation at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Corporation, including any agreement relating to its indebtedness, prohibit such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment or provide that such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment would constitute a breach thereof or a default thereunder, or if such authorization or payment shall be restricted or prohibited by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, dividends on the Series J Preferred Shares will accrue whether or not there are funds legally available for the payment of such distributions or such distributions are authorized.

(d)  Liquidation Rights .

(1) Upon the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of the Series J Preferred Shares then outstanding shall be entitled to receive and to be paid out of the assets of the Corporation legally available for distribution to its shareholders, before any payment or distribution shall be made on any Junior Shares or any Fully Junior Shares, the amount of $250.00 per share, plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid distributions thereon to the date of such liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

(2) After payment of the full amount of the liquidating distributions provided for in this Section to the holders of the Series J Preferred Shares, such holders shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Corporation.

 

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(3) If, upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation, or winding up of the Corporation, the amounts payable with respect to the liquidating distributions of the Series J Preferred Shares and any other shares of the Corporation ranking as to any such distribution on a parity with the Series J Preferred Shares are not paid in full, the holders of the Series J Preferred Shares and of such other shares will share ratably in any such distribution of assets of the Corporation in proportion to the full respective liquidating distributions to which they are entitled.

(4) Neither the sale, lease, transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Corporation, the merger or consolidation of the Corporation into or with any other entity nor the merger or consolidation of any other entity into or with the Corporation shall be deemed to be a dissolution, liquidation or winding up, voluntary or involuntary, for the purposes of this Section.

(e)  Redemption by the Corporation .

(1)  Optional Redemption . On and after August 25, 2008, the Corporation may, at its option, redeem at any time all or, from time to time, part of the Series J Preferred Shares at a price per share (the “Series J Redemption Price”), payable in cash, of $250.00, together with all accrued and unpaid distributions thereon, without interest, to and including the date fixed for redemption (the “Series J Redemption Date”). The Series J Preferred Shares have no stated maturity and will not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption provisions.

(2)  Procedures of Redemption .

(i) Notice of redemption will be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of New York once a week for two successive weeks, and notice will be mailed by the Corporation, postage prepaid, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Series J Redemption Date, addressed to each holder of record of the Series J Preferred Shares to be redeemed at the address set forth in the share transfer records of the Corporation. No failure to give such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any Series J Preferred Shares, except as to the holder to whom the Corporation has failed to give notice or except as to the holder to whom notice was defective. In addition to any information required by law or by the applicable rules of any exchange upon which Series J Preferred Shares (or depositary shares or receipts representing fractional interests in Series J Preferred Shares) may be listed or admitted to trading, such notice shall state: (a) the Series J Redemption Date; (b) the Series J Redemption Price; (c) the number of Series J Preferred Shares to be redeemed; (d) the place or places where certificates for such shares are to be surrendered for payment of the Series J Redemption Price; and (e) that dividends on the shares to be redeemed will cease to accumulate on the Series J Redemption Date. In case fewer than all of the Series J Preferred Shares held by any holder are to be redeemed, the notice mailed to such holder shall also specify the number of Series J Preferred Shares to be redeemed from such holder.

(ii) If notice has been mailed in accordance with subparagraph (e)(2)(i) above and provided that on or before the Series J Redemption Date specified in such notice all funds necessary for such redemption shall have been irrevocably set aside by the Corporation, separate and apart from its other funds in trust for the pro rata benefit of the holders of the Series J Preferred Shares so called for redemption, so as to be, and to continue to be available therefor, then, from and after the Series J Redemption Date, dividends on the Series J Preferred Shares so called for redemption shall cease to accumulate, said shares shall no longer be deemed to be outstanding and shall not have the status of Series J Preferred Shares and all rights of the holders thereof as shareholders of the Corporation (except the right to receive the Series J Redemption Price) shall cease. Upon surrender, in accordance with such notice, of the certificates for any Series J Preferred Shares so redeemed (properly endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Corporation shall so require and the notice shall so state), such Series J Preferred Shares shall be redeemed by the Corporation at the Series J Redemption Price. In case fewer than all the Series J Preferred Shares represented by any such certificate are redeemed, a new certificate or certificates shall be issued representing the unredeemed Series J Preferred Shares without cost to the holder thereof.

(iii) Any funds deposited with a bank or trust company for the purpose of redeeming Series J Preferred Shares shall be irrevocable except that:

 

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(A) the Corporation shall be entitled to receive from such bank or trust company the interest or other earnings, if any, earned on any money so deposited in trust, and the holders of any shares redeemed shall have no claim to such interest or other earnings; and

(B) any balance of monies so deposited by the Corporation and unclaimed by the holders of the Series J Preferred Shares entitled thereto at the expiration of two years from the applicable Series J Redemption Date shall be repaid, together with any interest or other earnings earned thereon, to the Corporation, and after any such repayment, the holders of the shares entitled to the funds so repaid to the Corporation shall look only to the Corporation for payment without interest or other earnings.

(iv) Unless full accumulated dividends on all Series J Preferred Shares shall have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no Series J Preferred Shares shall be redeemed or purchased or otherwise acquired directly or indirectly by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation and no shares of any series of preferred shares of the Corporation shall be redeemed unless all outstanding Series J Preferred Shares are simultaneously redeemed; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prevent the redemption of Series J Preferred Shares to preserve the REIT status of the Corporation or the purchase or acquisition of Series J Preferred Shares pursuant to a purchase or exchange offer made on the same terms to holders of all outstanding shares of Series J Preferred Shares.

(v) If the Series J Redemption Date is after a Record Date and before the related Quarterly Dividend Date, the dividend payable on such Quarterly Dividend Date shall be paid to the holder in whose name the Series J Preferred Shares to be redeemed are registered at the close of business on such Record Date notwithstanding the redemption thereof between such Record Date and the related Quarterly Dividend Date or the Corporation’s default in the payment of the dividend due.

(vi) In case of redemption of less than all Series J Preferred Shares at the time outstanding, the Series J Preferred Shares to be redeemed shall be selected pro rata from the holders of record of such shares in proportion to the number of Series J Preferred Shares held by such holders (with adjustments to avoid redemption of fractional shares) or by any other equitable method determined by the Corporation.

(f)  Voting Rights . Except as required by law and as set forth below, the holders of the Series J Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of the shareholders for the election of Directors or for any other purpose, to otherwise participate in any action taken by the Corporation or the shareholders thereof or to receive notice of any meeting of shareholders.

(1) Whenever dividends on any Series J Preferred Shares shall be in arrears for six or more quarterly periods, whether or not such quarterly periods are consecutive, the holders of such Series J Preferred Shares (voting separately as a class with all other series of preferred shares upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable) will be entitled to vote for the election of two additional Directors of the Corporation at a special meeting called by the holders of record of at least ten percent (10%) of any series of preferred shares so in arrears (unless such request is received less than 90 days before the date fixed for the next annual or special meeting of the shareholders) or at the next annual meeting of shareholders and at each subsequent annual meeting until all dividends accumulated on such Series J Preferred Shares for the past dividend periods and the then current dividend period shall have been fully paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set aside for payment. In such case, the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation will be increased by two Directors.

(2) So long as any Series J Preferred Shares remain outstanding, the Corporation will not, without the affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least two-thirds of the Series J Preferred Shares outstanding at the time, given in person or by proxy, either in writing or at a meeting (such series voting separately as a class), (i) authorize or create, or increase the authorized or issued amount of, any class or series of capital shares ranking prior to the Series J Preferred Shares with respect to the payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up or reclassify any authorized shares of the Corporation into such shares, or create, authorize or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase

 

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any such shares or (ii) amend, alter or repeal the provisions of the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, whether by merger, consolidation or otherwise (an “Event”), so as to materially and adversely affect any right, preference, privilege or voting power of the Series J Preferred Shares or the holders thereof; provided, however, with respect to the occurrence of any of the Events set forth in (ii) above, so long as the Series J Preferred Shares remain outstanding with the terms thereof materially unchanged, taking into account that upon the occurrence of an Event the Corporation may not be the surviving entity, the occurrence of any such Event shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting power of holders of Series J Preferred Shares and provided further that (x) any increase in the amount of the authorized preferred shares or the creation or issuance of any other series of preferred shares, or (u) any increase in the amount of authorized Series J Preferred Shares or any other preferred shares, in each case ranking on a parity with or junior to the Series J Preferred Shares with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers.

The foregoing voting provisions will not apply if, at or prior to the time when the act with respect to which such vote would otherwise be required shall be effected, all outstanding Series J Preferred Shares shall have been redeemed or called for redemption and sufficient funds shall have been deposited in trust to effect such redemption.

(3) On each matter submitted to a vote of the holders of Series J Preferred Shares in accordance with this Section or as otherwise required by law, each Series J Preferred Share shall be entitled to ten (10) votes, each of which ten (10) votes may be directed separately by the holder thereof (or by any proxy or proxies of such holder). With respect to each Series J Preferred Share, the holder thereof may designate up to ten (10) proxies, with each such proxy having the right to vote a whole number of votes (totaling ten (10) votes per Series J Preferred Share).

(g)  Conversion . The Series J Preferred Shares are not convertible into or exchangeable for any other property or securities of the Corporation.

 

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Exhibit B

to the

Fourth Amended and Restated

Articles of Incorporation of

Duke Realty Corporation

Series K Preferred Shares . Pursuant to the authority granted under Section 6.01 of the Corporation’s Third Restated Articles of Incorporation (the “Articles of Incorporation”), the Board of Directors of the Corporation hereby establishes a series of preferred shares designated the 6.5% Series K Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares ($0.01 par value per share) (liquidation preference $250.00 per share) (the “Series K Preferred Shares”) on the following terms:

(a)  Number . The number of authorized shares of the Series K Preferred Shares shall be 600,000.

(b)  Relative Seniority . In respect of rights to receive dividends and to participate in distributions or payments in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the Series K Preferred Shares shall rank (i) on a parity with any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation as to the payment of dividends and as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (whether or not the dividend rates, dividend payment dates or redemption or liquidation prices per share thereof are different from those of the Series K Preferred Shares), if the holders of such class or series of capital shares and the Series K Preferred Shares shall be entitled to the receipt of dividends and of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in proportion to their respective amounts of accrued and unpaid dividends per share or liquidation preferences without preference or priority one over the other, (ii) senior to any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, junior to the Series K Preferred Shares (collectively, “Junior Shares”) and (iii) senior to the Series C Preferred Shares, shares of common stock (“Common Shares”) and any other class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends and upon liquidation, junior to the Series K Preferred Shares (collectively, “Fully Junior Shares”).

(c)  Dividends .

(1) The holders of the then outstanding Series K Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the Board of Directors out of any funds legally available therefor, cumulative dividends at the rate of 6.5% of the liquidation preference per share per year, payable quarterly in equal amounts of $4.0625 per share in cash on the last calendar day of each February, May, August and November or, if not a Business Day (as hereinafter defined), the next succeeding Business Day (each such day being hereinafter called a “Quarterly Dividend Date” and each period ending on a Quarterly Dividend Date being hereinafter called a “Dividend Period”), provided, however, that the first distribution on the Series K Preferred Shares will be paid on May 31, 2004. Dividends shall be payable to holders of record as they appear in the share records of the Corporation at the close of business on the applicable record date (the “Record Date”), which shall be on such date designated by the Board of Directors of the Corporation for the payment of dividends that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Quarterly Dividend Date. The amount of any dividend payable for any partial Dividend Period shall be prorated and computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Dividends on each share of Series K Preferred Shares shall accrue and be cumulative from and including the date of original issue thereof whether or not (i) there are funds legally available for the payment of such distributions or (ii) such distributions are authorized. Dividends paid on the Series K Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a per share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. Except as provided in subparagraph (e)(2)(iv) and the last sentence of this paragraph, unless the full cumulative dividends on the Series K Preferred Shares have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no dividends (other than dividends payable solely in Common Shares or other Fully Junior Shares) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other distribution made upon the Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series K Preferred Shares as to dividends or upon liquidation, nor shall any Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series K Preferred Shares as to dividends or upon liquidation be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys

 

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be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of such shares) by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation (except for conversion into or exchange for such capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to the Series K Preferred Shares as to dividends and upon liquidation). If accrued dividends on the Series K Preferred Shares for all prior Dividend Periods have not been paid in full, then any dividend declared on the Series K Preferred Shares for any Dividend Period and on any series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to the dividends with the Series K Preferred Shares will be declared ratably in proportion to accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series K Preferred Shares and such series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to dividends with the Series K Preferred Shares.

“Business Day” shall mean any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in New York City are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

(2) The amount of any dividends accrued on any Series K Preferred Shares at any Quarterly Dividend Date shall be the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including such Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, and the amount of dividends accrued on any shares of Series K Preferred Shares at any date other than a Quarterly Dividend Date shall be equal to the sum of the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including the last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, plus an amount calculated on the basis of the annual dividend rate of 6.5% per share, for the period after such last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date to and including the date as of which the calculation is made based on a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

(3) Except as provided in this Section, the Series K Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to participate in the earnings or assets of the Corporation.

(4) Any dividend payment made on the Series K Preferred Shares shall be first credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid dividend due with respect to such shares which remains payable.

(5) If, for any taxable year, the Corporation elects to designate as “capital gain dividends” (as defined in Section 857 of the Code) any portion (the “Capital Gains Amount”) of the dividends paid or made available for the year to holders of all classes of capital shares (the “Total Dividends”), then the portion of the Capital Gains Amount that shall be allocated to the holders of the Series K Preferred Shares shall be the amount that the total dividends paid or made available to the holders of the Series K Preferred Shares for the year bears to the Total Dividends.

(6) No dividends on the Series K Preferred Shares shall be authorized by the Board of Directors or be paid or set apart for payment by the Corporation at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Corporation, including any agreement relating to its indebtedness, prohibit such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment or provide that such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment would constitute a breach thereof or a default thereunder, or if such authorization or payment shall be restricted or prohibited by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, dividends on the Series K Preferred Shares will accrue whether or not there are funds legally available for the payment of such distributions or such distributions are authorized.

(d)  Liquidation Rights .

(1) Upon the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of the Series K Preferred Shares then outstanding shall be entitled to receive and to be paid out of the assets of the Corporation legally available for distribution to its shareholders, before any payment or distribution shall be made on any Junior Shares or any Fully Junior Shares, the amount of $250.00 per share, plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid distributions thereon to the date of such liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

(2) After payment of the full amount of the liquidating distributions provided for in this Section to the holders of the Series K Preferred Shares, such holders shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Corporation.

 

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(3) If, upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation, or winding up of the Corporation, the amounts payable with respect to the liquidating distributions of the Series K Preferred Shares and any other shares of the Corporation ranking as to any such distribution on a parity with the Series K Preferred Shares are not paid in full, the holders of the Series K Preferred Shares and of such other shares will share ratably in any such distribution of assets of the Corporation in proportion to the full respective liquidating distributions to which they are entitled.

(4) Neither the sale, lease, transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Corporation, the merger or consolidation of the Corporation into or with any other entity nor the merger or consolidation of any other entity into or with the Corporation shall be deemed to be a dissolution, liquidation or winding up, voluntary or involuntary, for the purposes of this Section.

(e)  Redemption by the Corporation .

(1)  Optional Redemption . On and after February 13, 2009, the Corporation may, at its option, redeem at any time all or, from time to time, part of the Series K Preferred Shares at a price per share (the “Series K Redemption Price”), payable in cash, of $250.00, together with all accrued and unpaid distributions thereon, without interest, to and including the date fixed for redemption (the “Series K Redemption Date”). The Series K Preferred Shares have no stated maturity and will not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption provisions.

(2)  Procedures of Redemption .

(i) Notice of redemption will be mailed by the Corporation, postage prepaid, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Series K Redemption Date, addressed to each holder of record of the Series K Preferred Shares to be redeemed at the address set forth in the share transfer records of the Corporation. No failure to give such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any Series K Preferred Shares, except as to the holder to whom the Corporation has failed to give notice or except as to the holder to whom notice was defective. In addition to any information required by law or by the applicable rules of any exchange upon which Series K Preferred Shares (or depositary shares or receipts representing fractional interests in Series K Preferred Shares) may be listed or admitted to trading, such notice shall state: (a) the Series K Redemption Date; (b) the Series K Redemption Price; (c) the number of Series K Preferred Shares to be redeemed; (d) the place or places where certificates for such shares are to be surrendered for payment of the Series K Redemption Price; and (e) that dividends on the shares to be redeemed will cease to accumulate on the Series K Redemption Date. In case fewer than all of the Series K Preferred Shares held by any holder are to be redeemed, the notice mailed to such holder shall also specify the number of Series K Preferred Shares to be redeemed from such holder.

(ii) If notice has been mailed in accordance with subparagraph (e)(2)(i) above and provided that on or before the Series K Redemption Date specified in such notice all funds necessary for such redemption shall have been irrevocably set aside by the Corporation, separate and apart from its other funds in trust for the pro rata benefit of the holders of the Series K Preferred Shares so called for redemption, so as to be, and to continue to be available therefor, then, from and after the Series K Redemption Date, dividends on the Series K Preferred Shares so called for redemption shall cease to accumulate, said shares shall no longer be deemed to be outstanding and shall not have the status of Series K Preferred Shares and all rights of the holders thereof as shareholders of the Corporation (except the right to receive the Series K Redemption Price) shall cease. Upon surrender, in accordance with such notice, of the certificates for any Series K Preferred Shares so redeemed (properly endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Corporation shall so require and the notice shall so state), such Series K Preferred Shares shall be redeemed by the Corporation at the Series K Redemption Price. In case fewer than all the Series K Preferred Shares represented by any such certificate are redeemed, a new certificate or certificates shall be issued representing the unredeemed Series K Preferred Shares without cost to the holder thereof.

(iii) Any funds deposited with a bank or trust company for the purpose of redeeming Series K Preferred Shares shall be irrevocable except that:

 

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(A) the Corporation shall be entitled to receive from such bank or trust company the interest or other earnings, if any, earned on any money so deposited in trust, and the holders of any shares redeemed shall have no claim to such interest or other earnings; and

(B) any balance of monies so deposited by the Corporation and unclaimed by the holders of the Series K Preferred Shares entitled thereto at the expiration of two years from the applicable Series K Redemption Date shall be repaid, together with any interest or other earnings earned thereon, to the Corporation, and after any such repayment, the holders of the shares entitled to the funds so repaid to the Corporation shall look only to the Corporation for payment without interest or other earnings.

(iv) Unless full accumulated dividends on all Series K Preferred Shares shall have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no Series K Preferred Shares shall be redeemed or purchased or otherwise acquired directly or indirectly by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation and no shares of any series of preferred shares of the Corporation shall be redeemed unless all outstanding Series K Preferred Shares are simultaneously redeemed; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prevent the redemption of Series K Preferred Shares to preserve the REIT status of the Corporation or the purchase or acquisition of Series K Preferred Shares pursuant to a purchase or exchange offer made on the same terms to holders of all outstanding shares of Series K Preferred Shares.

(v) If the Series K Redemption Date is after a Record Date and before the related Quarterly Dividend Date, the dividend payable on such Quarterly Dividend Date shall be paid to the holder in whose name the Series K Preferred Shares to be redeemed are registered at the close of business on such Record Date notwithstanding the redemption thereof between such Record Date and the related Quarterly Dividend Date or the Corporation’s default in the payment of the dividend due.

(vi) In case of redemption of less than all Series K Preferred Shares at the time outstanding, the Series K Preferred Shares to be redeemed shall be selected pro rata from the holders of record of such shares in proportion to the number of Series K Preferred Shares held by such holders (with adjustments to avoid redemption of fractional shares) or by any other equitable method determined by the Corporation.

(f)  Voting Rights . Except as required by law and as set forth below, the holders of the Series K Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of the shareholders for the election of Directors or for any other purpose, to otherwise participate in any action taken by the Corporation or the shareholders thereof or to receive notice of any meeting of shareholders.

(1) Whenever dividends on any Series K Preferred Shares shall be in arrears for six or more quarterly periods, whether or not such quarterly periods are consecutive, the holders of such Series K Preferred Shares (voting separately as a class with all other series of preferred shares upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable) will be entitled to vote for the election of two additional Directors of the Corporation at a special meeting called by the holders of record of at least ten percent (10%) of any series of preferred shares so in arrears (unless such request is received less than 90 days before the date fixed for the next annual or special meeting of the shareholders) or at the next annual meeting of shareholders and at each subsequent annual meeting until all dividends accumulated on such Series K Preferred Shares for the past dividend periods and the then current dividend period shall have been fully paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set aside for payment. In such case, the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation will be increased by two Directors.

(2) So long as any Series K Preferred Shares remain outstanding, the Corporation will not, without the affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least two-thirds of the Series K Preferred Shares outstanding at the time, given in person or by proxy, either in writing or at a meeting (such series voting separately as a class), (i) authorize or create, or increase the authorized or issued amount of, any class or series of capital shares ranking prior to the Series K Preferred Shares with respect to the payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up or reclassify any authorized shares of the Corporation into such shares, or create, authorize or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such shares or (ii) amend, alter or repeal the provisions of the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, whether

 

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by merger, consolidation or otherwise (an “Event”), so as to materially and adversely affect any right, preference, privilege or voting power of the Series K Preferred Shares or the holders thereof; provided, however, with respect to the occurrence of any of the Events set forth in (ii) above, so long as the Series K Preferred Shares remain outstanding with the terms thereof materially unchanged, taking into account that upon the occurrence of an Event the Corporation may not be the surviving entity, the occurrence of any such Event shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting power of holders of Series K Preferred Shares and provided further that (x) any increase in the amount of the authorized preferred shares or the creation or issuance of any other series of preferred shares, or (u) any increase in the amount of authorized Series K Preferred Shares or any other preferred shares, in each case ranking on a parity with or junior to the Series K Preferred Shares with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers.

The foregoing voting provisions will not apply if, at or prior to the time when the act with respect to which such vote would otherwise be required shall be effected, all outstanding Series K Preferred Shares shall have been redeemed or called for redemption and sufficient funds shall have been deposited in trust to effect such redemption.

(3) On each matter submitted to a vote of the holders of Series K Preferred Shares in accordance with this Section or as otherwise required by law, each Series K Preferred Share shall be entitled to ten (10) votes, each of which ten (10) votes may be directed separately by the holder thereof (or by any proxy or proxies of such holder). With respect to each Series K Preferred Share, the holder thereof may designate up to ten (10) proxies, with each such proxy having the right to vote a whole number of votes (totaling ten (10) votes per Series K Preferred Share).

(g)  Conversion . The Series K Preferred Shares are not convertible into or exchangeable for any other property or securities of the Corporation.

 

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Exhibit C

to the

Fourth Amended and Restated

Articles of Incorporation of

Duke Realty Corporation

Series L Preferred Shares . Pursuant to the authority granted under Section 6.01 of the Corporation’s Third Restated Articles of Incorporation (the “Articles of Incorporation”), the Board of Directors of the Corporation hereby establishes a series of preferred shares designated the 6.6% Series L Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares ($0.01 par value per share) (liquidation preference $250.00 per share) (the “Series L Preferred Shares”) on the following terms:

(a)  Number . The number of authorized shares of the Series L Preferred Shares shall be 800,000.

(b)  Relative Seniority . In respect of rights to receive dividends and to participate in distributions or payments in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the Series L Preferred Shares shall rank (i) on a parity with any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation as to the payment of dividends and as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (whether or not the dividend rates, dividend payment dates or redemption or liquidation prices per share thereof are different from those of the Series L Preferred Shares), if the holders of such class or series of capital shares and the Series L Preferred Shares shall be entitled to the receipt of dividends and of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in proportion to their respective amounts of accrued and unpaid dividends per share or liquidation preferences without preference or priority one over the other, (ii) senior to any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, junior to the Series L Preferred Shares (collectively, “Junior Shares”) and (iii) senior to the Series C Preferred Shares, shares of common stock (“Common Shares”) and any other class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends and upon liquidation, junior to the Series L Preferred Shares (collectively, “Fully Junior Shares”).

(c)  Dividends .

(1) The holders of the then outstanding Series L Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the Board of Directors out of any funds legally available therefor, cumulative dividends at the rate of 6.6% of the liquidation preference per share per year, payable quarterly in equal amounts of $4.125 per share in cash on the last calendar day of each February, May, August and November or, if not a Business Day (as hereinafter defined), the next succeeding Business Day (each such day being hereinafter called a “Quarterly Dividend Date” and each period ending on a Quarterly Dividend Date being hereinafter called a “Dividend Period”), provided, however, that the first distribution on the Series L Preferred Shares will be paid on February 28, 2005. Dividends shall be payable to holders of record as they appear in the share records of the Corporation at the close of business on the applicable record date (the “Record Date”), which shall be on such date designated by the Board of Directors of the Corporation for the payment of dividends that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Quarterly Dividend Date. The amount of any dividend payable for any partial Dividend Period shall be prorated and computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Dividends on each share of Series L Preferred Shares shall accrue and be cumulative from and including the date of original issue thereof whether or not (i) there are funds legally available for the payment of such distributions or (ii) such distributions are authorized. Dividends paid on the Series L Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a per share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. Except as provided in subparagraph (e)(2)(iv) and the last sentence of this paragraph, unless the full cumulative dividends on the Series L Preferred Shares have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no dividends (other than dividends payable solely in Common Shares or other Fully Junior Shares) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other distribution made upon the Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series L Preferred Shares as to dividends or upon liquidation, nor shall any Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series L Preferred Shares as to dividends or upon

 

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liquidation be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of such shares) by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation (except for conversion into or exchange for such capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to the Series L Preferred Shares as to dividends and upon liquidation). If accrued dividends on the Series L Preferred Shares for all prior Dividend Periods have not been paid in full, then any dividend declared on the Series L Preferred Shares for any Dividend Period and on any series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to the dividends with the Series L Preferred Shares will be declared ratably in proportion to accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series L Preferred Shares and such series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to dividends with the Series L Preferred Shares.

“Business Day” shall mean any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in New York City are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

(2) The amount of any dividends accrued on any Series L Preferred Shares at any Quarterly Dividend Date shall be the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including such Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, and the amount of dividends accrued on any shares of Series L Preferred Shares at any date other than a Quarterly Dividend Date shall be equal to the sum of the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including the last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, plus an amount calculated on the basis of the annual dividend rate of 6.6% per share, for the period after such last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date to and including the date as of which the calculation is made based on a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

(3) Except as provided in this Section, the Series L Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to participate in the earnings or assets of the Corporation.

(4) Any dividend payment made on the Series L Preferred Shares shall be first credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid dividend due with respect to such shares which remains payable.

(5) If, for any taxable year, the Corporation elects to designate as “capital gain dividends” (as defined in Section 857 of the Code) any portion (the “Capital Gains Amount”) of the dividends paid or made available for the year to holders of all classes of capital shares (the “Total Dividends”), then the portion of the Capital Gains Amount that shall be allocated to the holders of the Series L Preferred Shares shall be the amount that the total dividends paid or made available to the holders of the Series L Preferred Shares for the year bears to the Total Dividends.

(6) No dividends on the Series L Preferred Shares shall be authorized by the Board of Directors or be paid or set apart for payment by the Corporation at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Corporation, including any agreement relating to its indebtedness, prohibit such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment or provide that such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment would constitute a breach thereof or a default thereunder, or if such authorization or payment shall be restricted or prohibited by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, dividends on the Series L Preferred Shares will accrue whether or not there are funds legally available for the payment of such distributions or such distributions are authorized.

(d)  Liquidation Rights .

(1) Upon the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of the Series L Preferred Shares then outstanding shall be entitled to receive and to be paid out of the assets of the Corporation legally available for distribution to its shareholders, before any payment or distribution shall be made on any Junior Shares or any Fully Junior Shares, the amount of $250.00 per share, plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid distributions thereon to the date of such liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

(2) After payment of the full amount of the liquidating distributions provided for in this Section to the holders of the Series L Preferred Shares, such holders shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Corporation.

 

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(3) If, upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation, or winding up of the Corporation, the amounts payable with respect to the liquidating distributions of the Series L Preferred Shares and any other shares of the Corporation ranking as to any such distribution on a parity with the Series L Preferred Shares are not paid in full, the holders of the Series L Preferred Shares and of such other shares will share ratably in any such distribution of assets of the Corporation in proportion to the full respective liquidating distributions to which they are entitled.

(4) Neither the sale, lease, transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Corporation, the merger or consolidation of the Corporation into or with any other entity nor the merger or consolidation of any other entity into or with the Corporation shall be deemed to be a dissolution, liquidation or winding up, voluntary or involuntary, for the purposes of this Section.

(e)  Redemption by the Corporation .

(1)  Optional Redemption . On and after November 30, 2009, the Corporation may, at its option, redeem at any time all or, from time to time, part of the Series L Preferred Shares at a price per share (the “Series L Redemption Price”), payable in cash, of $250.00, together with all accrued and unpaid distributions thereon, without interest, to and including the date fixed for redemption (the “Series L Redemption Date”). The Series L Preferred Shares have no stated maturity and will not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption provisions.

(2)  Procedures of Redemption .

(i) Notice of redemption will be mailed by the Corporation, postage prepaid, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Series L Redemption Date, addressed to each holder of record of the Series L Preferred Shares to be redeemed at the address set forth in the share transfer records of the Corporation. No failure to give such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any Series L Preferred Shares, except as to the holder to whom the Corporation has failed to give notice or except as to the holder to whom notice was defective. In addition to any information required by law or by the applicable rules of any exchange upon which Series L Preferred Shares (or depositary shares or receipts representing fractional interests in Series L Preferred Shares) may be listed or admitted to trading, such notice shall state: (a) the Series L Redemption Date; (b) the Series L Redemption Price; (c) the number of Series L Preferred Shares to be redeemed; (d) the place or places where certificates for such shares are to be surrendered for payment of the Series L Redemption Price; and (e) that dividends on the shares to be redeemed will cease to accumulate on the Series L Redemption Date. In case fewer than all of the Series L Preferred Shares held by any holder are to be redeemed, the notice mailed to such holder shall also specify the number of Series L Preferred Shares to be redeemed from such holder.

(ii) If notice has been mailed in accordance with subparagraph (e)(2)(i) above and provided that on or before the Series L Redemption Date specified in such notice all funds necessary for such redemption shall have been irrevocably set aside by the Corporation, separate and apart from its other funds in trust for the pro rata benefit of the holders of the Series L Preferred Shares so called for redemption, so as to be, and to continue to be available therefor, then, from and after the Series L Redemption Date, dividends on the Series L Preferred Shares so called for redemption shall cease to accumulate, said shares shall no longer be deemed to be outstanding and shall not have the status of Series L Preferred Shares and all rights of the holders thereof as shareholders of the Corporation (except the right to receive the Series L Redemption Price) shall cease. Upon surrender, in accordance with such notice, of the certificates for any Series L Preferred Shares so redeemed (properly endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Corporation shall so require and the notice shall so state), such Series L Preferred Shares shall be redeemed by the Corporation at the Series L Redemption Price. In case fewer than all the Series L Preferred Shares represented by any such certificate are redeemed, a new certificate or certificates shall be issued representing the unredeemed Series L Preferred Shares without cost to the holder thereof.

(iii) Any funds deposited with a bank or trust company for the purpose of redeeming Series L Preferred Shares shall be irrevocable except that:

 

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(A) the Corporation shall be entitled to receive from such bank or trust company the interest or other earnings, if any, earned on any money so deposited in trust, and the holders of any shares redeemed shall have no claim to such interest or other earnings; and

(B) any balance of monies so deposited by the Corporation and unclaimed by the holders of the Series L Preferred Shares entitled thereto at the expiration of two years from the applicable Series L Redemption Date shall be repaid, together with any interest or other earnings earned thereon, to the Corporation, and after any such repayment, the holders of the shares entitled to the funds so repaid to the Corporation shall look only to the Corporation for payment without interest or other earnings.

(iv) Unless full accumulated dividends on all Series L Preferred Shares shall have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no Series L Preferred Shares shall be redeemed or purchased or otherwise acquired directly or indirectly by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation and no shares of any series of preferred shares of the Corporation shall be redeemed unless all outstanding Series L Preferred Shares are simultaneously redeemed; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prevent the redemption of Series L Preferred Shares to preserve the REIT status of the Corporation or the purchase or acquisition of Series L Preferred Shares pursuant to a purchase or exchange offer made on the same terms to holders of all outstanding shares of Series L Preferred Shares.

(v) If the Series L Redemption Date is after a Record Date and before the related Quarterly Dividend Date, the dividend payable on such Quarterly Dividend Date shall be paid to the holder in whose name the Series L Preferred Shares to be redeemed are registered at the close of business on such Record Date notwithstanding the redemption thereof between such Record Date and the related Quarterly Dividend Date or the Corporation’s default in the payment of the dividend due.

(vi) In case of redemption of less than all Series L Preferred Shares at the time outstanding, the Series L Preferred Shares to be redeemed shall be selected pro rata from the holders of record of such shares in proportion to the number of Series L Preferred Shares held by such holders (with adjustments to avoid redemption of fractional shares) or by any other equitable method determined by the Corporation.

(f)  Voting Rights . Except as required by law and as set forth below, the holders of the Series L Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of the shareholders for the election of Directors or for any other purpose, to otherwise participate in any action taken by the Corporation or the shareholders thereof or to receive notice of any meeting of shareholders.

(1) Whenever dividends on any Series L Preferred Shares shall be in arrears for six or more quarterly periods, whether or not such quarterly periods are consecutive, the holders of such Series L Preferred Shares (voting separately as a class with all other series of preferred shares upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable) will be entitled to vote for the election of two additional Directors of the Corporation at a special meeting called by the holders of record of at least ten percent (10%) of any series of preferred shares so in arrears (unless such request is received less than 90 days before the date fixed for the next annual or special meeting of the shareholders) or at the next annual meeting of shareholders and at each subsequent annual meeting until all dividends accumulated on such Series L Preferred Shares for the past dividend periods and the then current dividend period shall have been fully paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set aside for payment. In such case, the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation will be increased by two Directors.

(2) So long as any Series L Preferred Shares remain outstanding, the Corporation will not, without the affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least two-thirds of the Series L Preferred Shares outstanding at the time, given in person or by proxy, either in writing or at a meeting (such series voting separately as a class), (i) authorize or create, or increase the authorized or issued amount of, any class or series of capital shares ranking prior to the Series L Preferred Shares with respect to the payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up or reclassify any authorized shares of the Corporation into such shares, or create, authorize or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such shares or (ii) amend, alter or repeal the provisions of the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, whether

 

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by merger, consolidation or otherwise (an “Event”), so as to materially and adversely affect any right, preference, privilege or voting power of the Series L Preferred Shares or the holders thereof; provided, however, with respect to the occurrence of any of the Events set forth in (ii) above, so long as the Series L Preferred Shares remain outstanding with the terms thereof materially unchanged, taking into account that upon the occurrence of an Event the Corporation may not be the surviving entity, the occurrence of any such Event shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting power of holders of Series L Preferred Shares and provided further that (x) any increase in the amount of the authorized preferred shares or the creation or issuance of any other series of preferred shares, or (u) any increase in the amount of authorized Series L Preferred Shares or any other preferred shares, in each case ranking on a parity with or junior to the Series L Preferred Shares with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers.

The foregoing voting provisions will not apply if, at or prior to the time when the act with respect to which such vote would otherwise be required shall be effected, all outstanding Series L Preferred Shares shall have been redeemed or called for redemption and sufficient funds shall have been deposited in trust to effect such redemption.

(3) On each matter submitted to a vote of the holders of Series L Preferred Shares in accordance with this Section or as otherwise required by law, each Series L Preferred Share shall be entitled to ten (10) votes, each of which ten (10) votes may be directed separately by the holder thereof (or by any proxy or proxies of such holder). With respect to each Series L Preferred Share, the holder thereof may designate up to ten (10) proxies, with each such proxy having the right to vote a whole number of votes (totaling ten (10) votes per Series L Preferred Share).

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Exhibit D

to the

Fourth Amended and Restated

Articles of Incorporation of

Duke Realty Corporation

Series M Preferred Shares . Pursuant to the authority granted under Section 6.01 of the Corporation’s Third Restated Articles of Incorporation (the “Articles of Incorporation”), the Board of Directors of the Corporation hereby establishes a series of preferred shares designated the 6.95% Series M Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares ($0.01 par value per share) (liquidation preference $250.00 per share) (the “Series M Preferred Shares”) on the following terms:

(a)  Number . The number of authorized shares of the Series M Preferred Shares shall be 736,000.

(b)  Relative Seniority . In respect of rights to receive dividends and to participate in distributions or payments in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the Series M Preferred Shares shall rank (i) on a parity with any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation as to the payment of dividends and as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (whether or not the dividend rates, dividend payment dates or redemption or liquidation prices per share thereof are different from those of the Series M Preferred Shares), if the holders of such class or series of capital shares and the Series M Preferred Shares shall be entitled to the receipt of dividends and of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in proportion to their respective amounts of accrued and unpaid dividends per share or liquidation preferences without preference or priority one over the other, (ii) senior to any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, junior to the Series M Preferred Shares (collectively, “Junior Shares”) and (iii) senior to the Series C Preferred Shares, shares of common stock (“Common Shares”) and any other class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends and upon liquidation, junior to the Series M Preferred Shares (collectively, “Fully Junior Shares”).

(c)  Dividends .

(1) The holders of the then outstanding Series M Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the Board of Directors out of any funds legally available therefor, cumulative dividends at the rate of 6.95% of the liquidation preference per share per year, payable quarterly in equal amounts of $4.34375 per share in cash on the last calendar day of each March, June, September and December, or, if not a Business Day (as hereinafter defined), the next succeeding Business Day (each such day being hereinafter called a “Quarterly Dividend Date” and each period ending on a Quarterly Dividend Date being hereinafter called a “Dividend Period”), provided, however, that the first distribution on the Series M Preferred Shares will be paid on March 31, 2006. Dividends shall be payable to holders of record as they appear in the share records of the Corporation at the close of business on the applicable record date (the “Record Date”), which shall be on such date designated by the Board of Directors of the Corporation for the payment of dividends that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Quarterly Dividend Date. The amount of any dividend payable for any partial Dividend Period shall be prorated and computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Dividends on each share of Series M Preferred Shares shall accrue and be cumulative from and including the date of original issue thereof whether or not (i) there are funds legally available for the payment of such distributions or (ii) such distributions are authorized. Dividends paid on the Series M Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a per share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. Except as provided in subparagraph (e)(2)(iv) and the last sentence of this paragraph, unless the full cumulative dividends on the Series M Preferred Shares have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no dividends (other than dividends payable solely in Common Shares or other Fully Junior Shares) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other distribution made upon the Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series M Preferred Shares as to dividends or upon liquidation, nor shall any Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series M Preferred Shares as to

 

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dividends or upon liquidation be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of such shares) by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation (except for conversion into or exchange for such capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to the Series M Preferred Shares as to dividends and upon liquidation). If accrued dividends on the Series M Preferred Shares for all prior Dividend Periods have not been paid in full, then any dividend declared on the Series M Preferred Shares for any Dividend Period and on any series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to the dividends with the Series M Preferred Shares will be declared ratably in proportion to accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series M Preferred Shares and such series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to dividends with the Series M Preferred Shares.

“Business Day” shall mean any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in New York City are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

(2) The amount of any dividends accrued on any Series M Preferred Shares at any Quarterly Dividend Date shall be the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including such Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, and the amount of dividends accrued on any shares of Series M Preferred Shares at any date other than a Quarterly Dividend Date shall be equal to the sum of the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including the last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, plus an amount calculated on the basis of the annual dividend rate of 6.95% per share, for the period after such last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date to and including the date as of which the calculation is made based on a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

(3) Except as provided in this Section, the Series M Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to participate in the earnings or assets of the Corporation.

(4) Any dividend payment made on the Series M Preferred Shares shall be first credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid dividend due with respect to such shares which remains payable.

(5) If, for any taxable year, the Corporation elects to designate as “capital gain dividends” (as defined in Section 857 of the Code) any portion (the “Capital Gains Amount”) of the dividends paid or made available for the year to holders of all classes of capital shares (the “Total Dividends”), then the portion of the Capital Gains Amount that shall be allocated to the holders of the Series M Preferred Shares shall be the amount that the total dividends paid or made available to the holders of the Series M Preferred Shares for the year bears to the Total Dividends.

(6) No dividends on the Series M Preferred Shares shall be authorized by the Board of Directors or be paid or set apart for payment by the Corporation at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Corporation, including any agreement relating to its indebtedness, prohibit such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment or provide that such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment would constitute a breach thereof or a default thereunder, or if such authorization or payment shall be restricted or prohibited by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, dividends on the Series M Preferred Shares will accrue whether or not there are funds legally available for the payment of such distributions or such distributions are authorized.

(d)  Liquidation Rights .

(1) Upon the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of the Series M Preferred Shares then outstanding shall be entitled to receive and to be paid out of the assets of the Corporation legally available for distribution to its shareholders, before any payment or distribution shall be made on any Junior Shares or any Fully Junior Shares, the amount of $250.00 per share, plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid distributions thereon to the date of such liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

 

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(2) After payment of the full amount of the liquidating distributions provided for in this Section to the holders of the Series M Preferred Shares, such holders shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Corporation.

(3) If, upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation, or winding up of the Corporation, the amounts payable with respect to the liquidating distributions of the Series M Preferred Shares and any other shares of the Corporation ranking as to any such distribution on a parity with the Series M Preferred Shares are not paid in full, the holders of the Series M Preferred Shares and of such other shares will share ratably in any such distribution of assets of the Corporation in proportion to the full respective liquidating distributions to which they are entitled.

(4) Neither the sale, lease, transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Corporation, the merger or consolidation of the Corporation into or with any other entity nor the merger or consolidation of any other entity into or with the Corporation shall be deemed to be a dissolution, liquidation or winding up, voluntary or involuntary, for the purposes of this Section.

(e)  Redemption by the Corporation .

(1)  Optional Redemption . On and after January 31, 2011, the Corporation may, at its option, redeem at any time all or, from time to time, part of the Series M Preferred Shares at a price per share (the “Series M Redemption Price”), payable in cash, of $250.00, together with all accrued and unpaid distributions thereon, without interest, to and including the date fixed for redemption (the “Series M Redemption Date”). The Series M Preferred Shares have no stated maturity and will not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption provisions.

(2)  Procedures of Redemption .

(i) Notice of redemption will be mailed by the Corporation, postage prepaid, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Series M Redemption Date, addressed to each holder of record of the Series M Preferred Shares to be redeemed at the address set forth in the share transfer records of the Corporation. No failure to give such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any Series M Preferred Shares, except as to the holder to whom the Corporation has failed to give notice or except as to the holder to whom notice was defective. In addition to any information required by law or by the applicable rules of any exchange upon which Series M Preferred Shares (or depositary shares or receipts representing fractional interests in Series M Preferred Shares) may be listed or admitted to trading, such notice shall state: (a) the Series M Redemption Date; (b) the Series M Redemption Price; (c) the number of Series M Preferred Shares to be redeemed; (d) the place or places where certificates for such shares are to be surrendered for payment of the Series M Redemption Price; and (e) that dividends on the shares to be redeemed will cease to accumulate on the Series M Redemption Date. In case fewer than all of the Series M Preferred Shares held by any holder are to be redeemed, the notice mailed to such holder shall also specify the number of Series M Preferred Shares to be redeemed from such holder.

(ii) If notice has been mailed in accordance with subparagraph (e)(2)(i) above and provided that on or before the Series M Redemption Date specified in such notice all funds necessary for such redemption shall have been irrevocably set aside by the Corporation, separate and apart from its other funds in trust for the pro rata benefit of the holders of the Series M Preferred Shares so called for redemption, so as to be, and to continue to be available therefor, then, from and after the Series M Redemption Date, dividends on the Series M Preferred Shares so called for redemption shall cease to accumulate, said shares shall no longer be deemed to be outstanding and shall not have the status of Series M Preferred Shares and all rights of the holders thereof as shareholders of the Corporation (except the right to receive the Series M Redemption Price) shall cease. Upon surrender, in accordance with such notice, of the certificates for any Series M Preferred Shares so redeemed (properly endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Corporation shall so require and the notice shall so state), such Series M Preferred Shares shall be redeemed by the Corporation at the Series M Redemption Price. In case fewer than all the Series M Preferred Shares represented by any such certificate are redeemed, a new certificate or certificates shall be issued representing the unredeemed Series M Preferred Shares without cost to the holder thereof.

 

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(iii) Any funds deposited with a bank or trust company for the purpose of redeeming Series M Preferred Shares shall be irrevocable except that:

(A) the Corporation shall be entitled to receive from such bank or trust company the interest or other earnings, if any, earned on any money so deposited in trust, and the holders of any shares redeemed shall have no claim to such interest or other earnings; and

(B) any balance of monies so deposited by the Corporation and unclaimed by the holders of the Series M Preferred Shares entitled thereto at the expiration of two years from the applicable Series M Redemption Date shall be repaid, together with any interest or other earnings earned thereon, to the Corporation, and after any such repayment, the holders of the shares entitled to the funds so repaid to the Corporation shall look only to the Corporation for payment without interest or other earnings.

(iv) Unless full accumulated dividends on all Series M Preferred Shares shall have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no Series M Preferred Shares shall be redeemed or purchased or otherwise acquired directly or indirectly by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation and no shares of any series of preferred shares of the Corporation shall be redeemed unless all outstanding Series M Preferred Shares are simultaneously redeemed; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prevent the redemption of Series M Preferred Shares to preserve the REIT status of the Corporation or the purchase or acquisition of Series M Preferred Shares pursuant to a purchase or exchange offer made on the same terms to holders of all outstanding shares of Series M Preferred Shares.

(v) If the Series M Redemption Date is after a Record Date and before the related Quarterly Dividend Date, the dividend payable on such Quarterly Dividend Date shall be paid to the holder in whose name the Series M Preferred Shares to be redeemed are registered at the close of business on such Record Date notwithstanding the redemption thereof between such Record Date and the related Quarterly Dividend Date or the Corporation’s default in the payment of the dividend due.

(vi) In case of redemption of less than all Series M Preferred Shares at the time outstanding, the Series M Preferred Shares to be redeemed shall be selected pro rata from the holders of record of such shares in proportion to the number of Series M Preferred Shares held by such holders (with adjustments to avoid redemption of fractional shares) or by any other equitable method determined by the Corporation.

(f)  Voting Rights . Except as required by law and as set forth below, the holders of the Series M Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of the shareholders for the election of Directors or for any other purpose, to otherwise participate in any action taken by the Corporation or the shareholders thereof or to receive notice of any meeting of shareholders.

(1) Whenever dividends on any Series M Preferred Shares shall be in arrears for six or more quarterly periods, whether or not such quarterly periods are consecutive, the holders of such Series M Preferred Shares (voting separately as a class with all other series of preferred shares upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable) will be entitled to vote for the election of two additional Directors of the Corporation at a special meeting called by the holders of record of at least ten percent (10%) of any series of preferred shares so in arrears (unless such request is received less than 90 days before the date fixed for the next annual or special meeting of the shareholders) or at the next annual meeting of shareholders and at each subsequent annual meeting until all dividends accumulated on such Series M Preferred Shares for the past dividend periods and the then current dividend period shall have been fully paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set aside for payment. In such case, the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation will be increased by two Directors.

(2) So long as any Series M Preferred Shares remain outstanding, the Corporation will not, without the affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least two-thirds of the Series M Preferred Shares outstanding at the time, given in person or by proxy, either in writing or at a meeting (such series voting separately as a class), (i) authorize or create, or increase the authorized or issued amount of, any class or series of capital shares ranking prior to the Series M Preferred Shares with respect to the payment of dividends or the distribution of

 

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assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up or reclassify any authorized shares of the Corporation into such shares, or create, authorize or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such shares or (ii) amend, alter or repeal the provisions of the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, whether by merger, consolidation or otherwise (an “Event”), so as to materially and adversely affect any right, preference, privilege or voting power of the Series M Preferred Shares or the holders thereof; provided, however, with respect to the occurrence of any of the Events set forth in (ii) above, so long as the Series M Preferred Shares remain outstanding with the terms thereof materially unchanged, taking into account that upon the occurrence of an Event the Corporation may not be the surviving entity, the occurrence of any such Event shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting power of holders of Series M Preferred Shares and provided further that (x) any increase in the amount of the authorized preferred shares or the creation or issuance of any other series of preferred shares, or (u) any increase in the amount of authorized Series M Preferred Shares or any other preferred shares, in each case ranking on a parity with or junior to the Series M Preferred Shares with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers.

The foregoing voting provisions will not apply if, at or prior to the time when the act with respect to which such vote would otherwise be required shall be effected, all outstanding Series M Preferred Shares shall have been redeemed or called for redemption and sufficient funds shall have been deposited in trust to effect such redemption.

(3) On each matter submitted to a vote of the holders of Series M Preferred Shares in accordance with this Section or as otherwise required by law, each Series M Preferred Share shall be entitled to ten (10) votes, each of which ten (10) votes may be directed separately by the holder thereof (or by any proxy or proxies of such holder). With respect to each Series M Preferred Share, the holder thereof may designate up to ten (10) proxies, with each such proxy having the right to vote a whole number of votes (totaling ten (10) votes per Series M Preferred Share).

(g)  Conversion . The Series M Preferred Shares are not convertible into or exchangeable for any other property or securities of the Corporation.

 

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Exhibit E

to the

Fourth Amended and Restated

Articles of Incorporation of

Duke Realty Corporation

Series N Preferred Shares . Pursuant to the authority granted under Section 6.01 of the Corporation’s Third Restated Articles of Incorporation (the “Articles of Incorporation”), the Board of Directors of the Corporation hereby establishes a series of preferred shares designated the 7.25% Series N Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares ($0.01 par value per share) (liquidation preference $250.00 per share) (the “Series N Preferred Shares”) on the following terms:

(a)  Number . The number of authorized shares of the Series N Preferred Shares shall be 440,000.

(b)  Relative Seniority . In respect of rights to receive dividends and to participate in distributions or payments in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the Series N Preferred Shares shall rank (i) on a parity with any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation as to the payment of dividends and as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (whether or not the dividend rates, dividend payment dates or redemption or liquidation prices per share thereof are different from those of the Series N Preferred Shares), if the holders of such class or series of capital shares and the Series N Preferred Shares shall be entitled to the receipt of dividends and of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in proportion to their respective amounts of accrued and unpaid dividends per share or liquidation preferences without preference or priority one over the other, (ii) senior to any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, junior to the Series N Preferred Shares (collectively, “Junior Shares”) and (iii) senior to the Series C Preferred Shares, shares of common stock (“Common Shares”) and any other class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends and upon liquidation, junior to the Series N Preferred Shares (collectively, “Fully Junior Shares”).

(c)  Dividends .

(1) The holders of the then outstanding Series N Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the Board of Directors out of any funds legally available therefor, cumulative dividends at the rate of 7.25% of the liquidation preference per share per year, payable quarterly in equal amounts of $4.53125 per share in cash on the last calendar day of each March, June, September and December, or, if not a Business Day (as hereinafter defined), the next succeeding Business Day (each such day being hereinafter called a “Quarterly Dividend Date” and each period ending on a Quarterly Dividend Date being hereinafter called a “Dividend Period”), provided, however, that the first distribution on the Series N Preferred Shares will be paid on September 30, 2006. Dividends shall be payable to holders of record as they appear in the share records of the Corporation at the close of business on the applicable record date (the “Record Date”), which shall be on such date designated by the Board of Directors of the Corporation for the payment of dividends that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Quarterly Dividend Date. The amount of any dividend payable for any partial Dividend Period shall be prorated and computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Dividends on each share of Series N Preferred Shares shall accrue and be cumulative from and including the date of original issue thereof whether or not (i) there are funds legally available for the payment of such dividends or (ii) such dividends are authorized. Dividends paid on the Series N Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a per-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. Except as provided in subparagraph (e)(2)(iv) and the last sentence of this paragraph, unless the full cumulative dividends on the Series N Preferred Shares have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no dividends (other than dividends payable solely in Common Shares or other Fully Junior Shares) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other distribution made upon the Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series N Preferred Shares as to dividends or upon liquidation, nor shall any Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series N Preferred Shares as to dividends or upon liquidation be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys

 

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be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of such shares) by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation (except for conversion into or exchange for such capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to the Series N Preferred Shares as to dividends and upon liquidation). If accrued dividends on the Series N Preferred Shares for all prior Dividend Periods have not been paid in full, then any dividend declared on the Series N Preferred Shares for any Dividend Period and on any series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to the dividends with the Series N Preferred Shares will be declared ratably in proportion to accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series N Preferred Shares and such series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to dividends with the Series N Preferred Shares.

“Business Day” shall mean any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in New York City are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

(2) The amount of any dividends accrued on any Series N Preferred Shares at any Quarterly Dividend Date shall be the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including such Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, and the amount of dividends accrued on any shares of Series N Preferred Shares at any date other than a Quarterly Dividend Date shall be equal to the sum of the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including the last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, plus an amount calculated on the basis of the annual dividend rate of 7.25% per share, for the period after such last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date to and including the date as of which the calculation is made based on a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

(3) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Series N Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to participate in the earnings or assets of the Corporation.

(4) Any dividend payment made on the Series N Preferred Shares shall be first credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid dividend due with respect to such shares which remains payable.

(5) If, for any taxable year, the Corporation elects to designate as “capital gain dividends” (as defined in Section 857 of the Code) any portion (the “Capital Gains Amount”) of the dividends paid or made available for the year to holders of all classes of capital shares (the “Total Dividends”), then the portion of the Capital Gains Amount that shall be allocated to the holders of the Series N Preferred Shares shall be the amount that the total dividends paid or made available to the holders of the Series N Preferred Shares for the year bears to the Total Dividends.

(6) No dividends on the Series N Preferred Shares shall be authorized by the Board of Directors or be paid or set apart for payment by the Corporation at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Corporation, including any agreement relating to its indebtedness, prohibit such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment or provide that such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment would constitute a breach thereof or a default thereunder, or if such authorization or payment shall be restricted or prohibited by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, dividends on the Series N Preferred Shares will accrue whether or not there are funds legally available for the payment of such dividends or such dividends are authorized.

(d)  Liquidation Rights .

(1) Upon the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of the Series N Preferred Shares then outstanding shall be entitled to receive and to be paid out of the assets of the Corporation legally available for distribution to its shareholders, before any payment or distribution shall be made on any Junior Shares or any Fully Junior Shares, the amount of $250.00 per share, plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid distributions thereon to the date of such liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

(2) After payment of the full amount of the liquidating distributions provided for in this Subsection (d) to the holders of the Series N Preferred Shares, such holders shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Corporation.

 

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(3) If, upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation, or winding up of the Corporation, the amounts payable with respect to the liquidating distributions of the Series N Preferred Shares and any other shares of the Corporation ranking as to any such distribution on a parity with the Series N Preferred Shares are not paid in full, the holders of the Series N Preferred Shares and of such other shares will share ratably in any such distribution of assets of the Corporation in proportion to the full respective liquidating distributions to which they are entitled.

(4) Neither the sale, lease, transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Corporation, the merger or consolidation of the Corporation into or with any other entity nor the merger or consolidation of any other entity into or with the Corporation shall be deemed to be a dissolution, liquidation or winding up, voluntary or involuntary, for the purposes of this Subsection (d).

(e)  Redemption by the Corporation .

(1)  Optional Redemption . The Series N Preferred Shares are not redeemable prior to June 30, 2011. On and after June 30, 2011, the Corporation may, at its option, redeem at any time all or, from time to time, part of the Series N Preferred Shares at a price per share (the “Series N Redemption Price”), payable in cash, of $250.00, together with all accrued and unpaid distributions thereon, without interest, to and including the date fixed for redemption (the “Series N Redemption Date”). The Series N Preferred Shares have no stated maturity and will not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption provisions.

(2)  Procedures of Redemption .

(i) Notice of redemption will be mailed by the Corporation, postage prepaid, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Series N Redemption Date, addressed to each holder of record of the Series N Preferred Shares to be redeemed at the address set forth in the share transfer records of the Corporation. No failure to give such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any Series N Preferred Shares, except as to the holder to whom the Corporation has failed to give notice or except as to the holder to whom notice was defective. In addition to any information required by law or by the applicable rules of any exchange upon which Series N Preferred Shares (or depositary shares or receipts representing fractional interests in Series N Preferred Shares) may be listed or admitted to trading, such notice shall state: (a) the Series N Redemption Date; (b) the Series N Redemption Price; (c) the number of Series N Preferred Shares to be redeemed; (d) the place or places where certificates for such shares are to be surrendered for payment of the Series N Redemption Price; and (e) that dividends on the shares to be redeemed will cease to accumulate from and after the Series N Redemption Date. In case fewer than all of the Series N Preferred Shares held by any holder are to be redeemed, the notice mailed to such holder shall also specify the number of Series N Preferred Shares to be redeemed from such holder.

(ii) If notice has been mailed in accordance with subparagraph (e)(2)(i) above and provided that on or before the Series N Redemption Date specified in such notice all funds necessary for such redemption shall have been irrevocably set aside by the Corporation, separate and apart from its other funds in trust for the pro rata benefit of the holders of the Series N Preferred Shares so called for redemption, so as to be, and to continue to be available therefor, then, from and after the Series N Redemption Date, dividends on the Series N Preferred Shares so called for redemption shall cease to accumulate, said shares shall no longer be deemed to be outstanding and shall not have the status of Series N Preferred Shares and all rights of the holders thereof as shareholders of the Corporation (except the right to receive the Series N Redemption Price) shall cease. Upon surrender, in accordance with such notice, of the certificates for any Series N Preferred Shares so redeemed (properly endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Corporation shall so require and the notice shall so state), such Series N Preferred Shares shall be redeemed by the Corporation at the Series N Redemption Price. In case fewer than all the Series N Preferred Shares represented by any such certificate are redeemed, a new certificate or certificates shall be issued representing the unredeemed Series N Preferred Shares without cost to the holder thereof.

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(A) the Corporation shall be entitled to receive from such bank or trust company the interest or other earnings, if any, earned on any money so deposited in trust, and the holders of any shares redeemed shall have no claim to such interest or other earnings; and

(B) any balance of monies so deposited by the Corporation and unclaimed by the holders of the Series N Preferred Shares entitled thereto at the expiration of two years from the applicable Series N Redemption Date shall be repaid, together with any interest or other earnings earned thereon, to the Corporation, and after any such repayment, the holders of the shares entitled to the funds so repaid to the Corporation shall look only to the Corporation for payment without interest or other earnings.

(iv) Unless full accumulated dividends on all Series N Preferred Shares shall have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no Series N Preferred Shares shall be redeemed or purchased or otherwise acquired directly or indirectly by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation and no shares of any series of preferred shares of the Corporation shall be redeemed unless all outstanding Series N Preferred Shares are simultaneously redeemed; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prevent the redemption of Series N Preferred Shares to preserve the REIT status of the Corporation or the purchase or acquisition of Series N Preferred Shares pursuant to a purchase or exchange offer made on the same terms to holders of all outstanding shares of Series N Preferred Shares.

(v) If the Series N Redemption Date is after a Record Date and before the related Quarterly Dividend Date, the dividend payable on such Quarterly Dividend Date shall be paid to the holder in whose name the Series N Preferred Shares to be redeemed are registered at the close of business on such Record Date notwithstanding the redemption thereof between such Record Date and the related Quarterly Dividend Date or the Corporation’s default in the payment of the dividend due.

(vi) In case of redemption of less than all Series N Preferred Shares at the time outstanding, the Series N Preferred Shares to be redeemed shall be selected pro rata from the holders of record of such shares in proportion to the number of Series N Preferred Shares held by such holders (with adjustments to avoid redemption of fractional shares) or by any other equitable method determined by the Corporation.

(f)  Voting Rights . Except as required by law and as set forth below, the holders of the Series N Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of the shareholders for the election of Directors or for any other purpose, to otherwise participate in any action taken by the Corporation or the shareholders thereof or to receive notice of any meeting of shareholders.

(1) Whenever dividends on any Series N Preferred Shares shall be in arrears for six or more quarterly periods, whether or not such quarterly periods are consecutive, the holders of such Series N Preferred Shares (voting separately as a class with all other series of preferred shares upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable) will be entitled to vote for the election of two additional Directors of the Corporation at a special meeting called by the holders of record of at least ten percent (10%) of any series of preferred shares so in arrears (unless such request is received less than 90 days before the date fixed for the next annual or special meeting of the shareholders) or at the next annual meeting of shareholders and at each subsequent annual meeting until all dividends accumulated on such Series N Preferred Shares for the past dividend periods and the then current dividend period shall have been fully paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set aside for payment. In such case, the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation will be increased by two Directors.

(2) So long as any Series N Preferred Shares remain outstanding, the Corporation will not, without the affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least two-thirds of the Series N Preferred Shares outstanding at the time, given in person or by proxy, either in writing or at a meeting (such series voting separately as a class), (i) authorize or create, or increase the authorized or issued amount of, any class or series of capital shares ranking prior to the Series N Preferred Shares with respect to the payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up or reclassify any authorized shares of the Corporation into such shares, or create, authorize or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such shares or (ii) amend, alter or repeal the provisions of the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, whether

 

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by merger, consolidation or otherwise (an “Event”), so as to materially and adversely affect any right, preference, privilege or voting power of the Series N Preferred Shares or the holders thereof; provided, however, with respect to the occurrence of any of the Events set forth in (ii) above, so long as the Series N Preferred Shares remain outstanding with the terms thereof materially unchanged, taking into account that upon the occurrence of an Event the Corporation may not be the surviving entity, the occurrence of any such Event shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting power of holders of Series N Preferred Shares and provided further that (x) any increase in the amount of the authorized preferred shares or the creation or issuance of any other series of preferred shares, or (u) any increase in the amount of authorized Series N Preferred Shares or any other preferred shares, in each case ranking on a parity with or junior to the Series N Preferred Shares with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers.

The foregoing voting provisions will not apply if, at or prior to the time when the act with respect to which such vote would otherwise be required shall be effected, all outstanding Series N Preferred Shares shall have been redeemed or called for redemption and sufficient funds shall have been deposited in trust to effect such redemption.

(3) On each matter submitted to a vote of the holders of Series N Preferred Shares in accordance with this Section or as otherwise required by law, each Series N Preferred Share shall be entitled to ten (10) votes, each of which ten (10) votes may be directed separately by the holder thereof (or by any proxy or proxies of such holder). With respect to each Series N Preferred Share, the holder thereof may designate up to ten (10) proxies, with each such proxy having the right to vote a whole number of votes (totaling ten (10) votes per Series N Preferred Share).

(g)  Conversion . The Series N Preferred Shares are not convertible into or exchangeable for any other property or securities of the Corporation.

 

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Exhibit F

to the

Fourth Amended and Restated

Articles of Incorporation of

Duke Realty Corporation

Series O Preferred Shares . Pursuant to the authority granted under Section 6.01 of the Corporation’s Third Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation (the “Articles of Incorporation”), the Board of Directors of the Corporation hereby establishes a series of preferred shares designated the 8.375% Series O Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares ($0.01 par value per share) (liquidation preference $250.00 per share) (the “Series O Preferred Shares”) on the following terms:

(a)  Number . The number of authorized shares of the Series O Preferred Shares shall be 1,265,000.

(b)  Relative Seniority . In respect of rights to receive dividends and to participate in distributions or payments in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the Series O Preferred Shares shall rank (i) on a parity with any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation as to the payment of dividends and as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (whether or not the dividend rates, dividend payment dates or redemption or liquidation prices per share thereof are different from those of the Series O Preferred Shares), if the holders of such class or series of capital shares and the Series O Preferred Shares shall be entitled to the receipt of dividends and of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up in proportion to their respective amounts of accrued and unpaid dividends per share or liquidation preferences without preference or priority one over the other, (ii) senior to any class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, junior to the Series O Preferred Shares (collectively, “Junior Shares”) and (iii) senior to the Series C Preferred Shares, shares of common stock (“Common Shares”) and any other class or series of capital shares of the Corporation ranking, as to dividends and upon liquidation, junior to the Series O Preferred Shares (collectively, “Fully Junior Shares”).

(c)  Dividends .

(1) The holders of the then outstanding Series O Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the Board of Directors out of any funds legally available therefor, cumulative dividends at the rate of 8.375% of the liquidation preference per share per year, payable quarterly in equal amounts of $5.23437 per share in cash on the last calendar day of each March, June, September and December, or, if not a Business Day (as hereinafter defined), the next succeeding Business Day (each such day being hereinafter called a “Quarterly Dividend Date” and each period ending on a Quarterly Dividend Date being hereinafter called a “Dividend Period”), provided, however, that the first distribution on the Series O Preferred Shares will be paid on March 31, 2008. Dividends shall be payable to holders of record as they appear in the share records of the Corporation at the close of business on the applicable record date (the “Record Date”), which shall be on such date designated by the Board of Directors of the Corporation for the payment of dividends that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Quarterly Dividend Date. The amount of any dividend payable for any partial Dividend Period shall be prorated and computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Dividends on each Series O Preferred Share shall accrue and be cumulative from and including the date of original issue thereof whether or not (i) there are funds legally available for the payment of such dividends or (ii) such dividends are authorized. Dividends paid on the Series O Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a per-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. Except as provided in subparagraph (e)(2)(iv) and the last sentence of this paragraph, unless the full cumulative dividends on the Series O Preferred Shares have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no dividends (other than dividends payable solely in Common Shares or other Fully Junior Shares) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other distribution made upon the Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series O Preferred Shares as to dividends or upon liquidation, nor shall any Common Shares or any other capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series O Preferred Shares as to dividends or upon liquidation be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (or any moneys

 

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be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of such shares) by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation (except for conversion into or exchange for such capital shares of the Corporation ranking junior to the Series O Preferred Shares as to dividends and upon liquidation). If accrued dividends on the Series O Preferred Shares for all prior Dividend Periods have not been paid in full, then any dividend declared on the Series O Preferred Shares for any Dividend Period and on any series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to the dividends with the Series O Preferred Shares will be declared ratably in proportion to accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series O Preferred Shares and such series of preferred shares at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to dividends with the Series O Preferred Shares.

“Business Day” shall mean any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in New York City are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

(2) The amount of any dividends accrued on any Series O Preferred Shares at any Quarterly Dividend Date shall be the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including such Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, and the amount of dividends accrued on any shares of Series O Preferred Shares at any date other than a Quarterly Dividend Date shall be equal to the sum of the amount of any unpaid dividends accumulated thereon, to and including the last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date, whether or not earned or declared, plus an amount calculated on the basis of the annual dividend rate of 8.375% per share, for the period after such last preceding Quarterly Dividend Date to and including the date as of which the calculation is made based on a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

(3) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Series O Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to participate in the earnings or assets of the Corporation.

(4) Any dividend payment made on the Series O Preferred Shares shall be first credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid dividend due with respect to such shares which remains payable.

(5) If, for any taxable year, the Corporation elects to designate as “capital gain dividends” (as defined in Section 857 of the Code) any portion (the “Capital Gains Amount”) of the dividends paid or made available for the year to holders of all classes of capital shares (the “Total Dividends”), then the portion of the Capital Gains Amount that shall be allocated to the holders of the Series O Preferred Shares shall be the amount that the total dividends paid or made available to the holders of the Series O Preferred Shares for the year bears to the Total Dividends.

(6) No dividends on the Series O Preferred Shares shall be authorized by the Board of Directors or be paid or set apart for payment by the Corporation at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Corporation, including any agreement relating to its indebtedness, prohibit such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment or provide that such authorization, payment or setting apart for payment would constitute a breach thereof or a default thereunder, or if such authorization or payment shall be restricted or prohibited by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, dividends on the Series O Preferred Shares will accrue whether or not there are funds legally available for the payment of such dividends or such dividends are authorized.

(d)  Liquidation Rights .

(1) Upon the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of the Series O Preferred Shares then outstanding shall be entitled to receive and to be paid out of the assets of the Corporation legally available for distribution to its shareholders, before any payment or distribution shall be made on any Junior Shares or any Fully Junior Shares, the amount of $250.00 per share, plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid distributions thereon to the date of such liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

(2) After payment of the full amount of the liquidating distributions provided for in this Subsection (d) to the holders of the Series O Preferred Shares, such holders shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Corporation.

 

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(3) If, upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation, or winding up of the Corporation, the amounts payable with respect to the liquidating distributions of the Series O Preferred Shares and any other shares of the Corporation ranking as to any such distribution on a parity with the Series O Preferred Shares are not paid in full, the holders of the Series O Preferred Shares and of such other shares will share ratably in any such distribution of assets of the Corporation in proportion to the full respective liquidating distributions to which they are entitled.

(4) Neither the sale, lease, transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Corporation, the merger or consolidation of the Corporation into or with any other entity nor the merger or consolidation of any other entity into or with the Corporation shall be deemed to be a dissolution, liquidation or winding up, voluntary or involuntary, for the purposes of this Subsection (d).

(e)  Redemption by the Corporation .

(1)  Optional Redemption . The Series O Preferred Shares are not redeemable prior to February 22, 2013. On and after February 22, 2013, the Corporation may, at its option, redeem at any time all or, from time to time, part of the Series O Preferred Shares at a price per share (the “Series O Redemption Price”), payable in cash, of $250.00, together with all accrued and unpaid distributions thereon, without interest, to and including the date fixed for redemption (the “Series O Redemption Date”). The Series O Preferred Shares have no stated maturity and will not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption provisions.

(2)  Procedures of Redemption .

(i) Notice of redemption will be mailed by the Corporation, postage prepaid, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Series O Redemption Date, addressed to each holder of record of the Series O Preferred Shares to be redeemed at the address set forth in the share transfer records of the Corporation. No failure to give such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any Series O Preferred Shares, except as to the holder to whom the Corporation has failed to give notice or except as to the holder to whom notice was defective. In addition to any information required by law or by the applicable rules of any exchange upon which Series O Preferred Shares (or depositary shares or receipts representing fractional interests in Series O Preferred Shares) may be listed or admitted to trading, such notice shall state: (a) the Series O Redemption Date; (b) the Series O Redemption Price; (c) the number of Series O Preferred Shares to be redeemed; (d) the place or places where certificates for such shares are to be surrendered for payment of the Series O Redemption Price; and (e) that dividends on the shares to be redeemed will cease to accumulate from and after the Series O Redemption Date. In case fewer than all of the Series O Preferred Shares held by any holder are to be redeemed, the notice mailed to such holder shall also specify the number of Series O Preferred Shares to be redeemed from such holder.

(ii) If notice has been mailed in accordance with subparagraph (e)(2)(i) above and provided that on or before the Series O Redemption Date specified in such notice all funds necessary for such redemption shall have been irrevocably set aside by the Corporation, separate and apart from its other funds in trust for the pro rata benefit of the holders of the Series O Preferred Shares so called for redemption, so as to be, and to continue to be available therefor, then, from and after the Series O Redemption Date, dividends on the Series O Preferred Shares so called for redemption shall cease to accumulate, said shares shall no longer be deemed to be outstanding and shall not have the status of Series O Preferred Shares and all rights of the holders thereof as shareholders of the Corporation (except the right to receive the Series O Redemption Price) shall cease. Upon surrender, in accordance with such notice, of the certificates for any Series O Preferred Shares so redeemed (properly endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Corporation shall so require and the notice shall so state), such Series O Preferred Shares shall be redeemed by the Corporation at the Series O Redemption Price. In case fewer than all the Series O Preferred Shares represented by any such certificate are redeemed, a new certificate or certificates shall be issued representing the unredeemed Series O Preferred Shares without cost to the holder thereof.

(iii) Any funds deposited with a bank or trust company for the purpose of redeeming Series O Preferred Shares shall be irrevocable except that:

 

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(A) the Corporation shall be entitled to receive from such bank or trust company the interest or other earnings, if any, earned on any money so deposited in trust, and the holders of any shares redeemed shall have no claim to such interest or other earnings; and

(B) any balance of monies so deposited by the Corporation and unclaimed by the holders of the Series O Preferred Shares entitled thereto at the expiration of two years from the applicable Series O Redemption Date shall be repaid, together with any interest or other earnings earned thereon, to the Corporation, and after any such repayment, the holders of the shares entitled to the funds so repaid to the Corporation shall look only to the Corporation for payment without interest or other earnings.

(iv) Unless full accumulated dividends on all Series O Preferred Shares shall have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods and the then current Dividend Period, no Series O Preferred Shares shall be redeemed or purchased or otherwise acquired directly or indirectly by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation and no shares of any series of preferred shares of the Corporation shall be redeemed unless all outstanding Series O Preferred Shares are simultaneously redeemed; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prevent the redemption of Series O Preferred Shares to preserve the REIT status of the Corporation or the purchase or acquisition of Series O Preferred Shares pursuant to a purchase or exchange offer made on the same terms to holders of all outstanding shares of Series O Preferred Shares.

(v) If the Series O Redemption Date is after a Record Date and before the related Quarterly Dividend Date, the dividend payable on such Quarterly Dividend Date shall be paid to the holder in whose name the Series O Preferred Shares to be redeemed are registered at the close of business on such Record Date notwithstanding the redemption thereof between such Record Date and the related Quarterly Dividend Date or the Corporation’s default in the payment of the dividend due.

(vi) In case of redemption of less than all Series O Preferred Shares at the time outstanding, the Series O Preferred Shares to be redeemed shall be selected pro rata from the holders of record of such shares in proportion to the number of Series O Preferred Shares held by such holders (with adjustments to avoid redemption of fractional shares) or by any other equitable method determined by the Corporation.

(f)  Voting Rights . Except as required by law and as set forth below, the holders of the Series O Preferred Shares shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of the shareholders for the election of Directors or for any other purpose, to otherwise participate in any action taken by the Corporation or the shareholders thereof or to receive notice of any meeting of shareholders.

(1) Whenever dividends on any Series O Preferred Shares shall be in arrears for six or more quarterly periods, whether or not such quarterly periods are consecutive, the holders of such Series O Preferred Shares (voting separately as a class with all other series of preferred shares upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable) will be entitled to vote for the election of two additional Directors of the Corporation at a special meeting called by the holders of record of at least ten percent (10%) of any series of preferred shares so in arrears (unless such request is received less than 90 days before the date fixed for the next annual or special meeting of the shareholders) or at the next annual meeting of shareholders and at each subsequent annual meeting until all dividends accumulated on such Series O Preferred Shares for the past dividend periods and the then current dividend period shall have been fully paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set aside for payment. In such case, the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation will be increased by two Directors.

(2) So long as any Series O Preferred Shares remain outstanding, the Corporation will not, without the affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least two-thirds of the Series O Preferred Shares outstanding at the time, given in person or by proxy, either in writing or at a meeting (such series voting separately as a class), (i) authorize or create, or increase the authorized or issued amount of, any class or series of capital shares ranking prior to the Series O Preferred Shares with respect to the payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up or reclassify any authorized shares of the Corporation into such shares, or create, authorize or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such shares or (ii) amend, alter or repeal the provisions of the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, whether

 

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by merger, consolidation or otherwise (an “Event”), so as to materially and adversely affect any right, preference, privilege or voting power of the Series O Preferred Shares or the holders thereof; provided, however, with respect to the occurrence of any of the Events set forth in (ii) above, so long as the Series O Preferred Shares remain outstanding with the terms thereof materially unchanged, taking into account that upon the occurrence of an Event the Corporation may not be the surviving entity, the occurrence of any such Event shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting power of holders of Series O Preferred Shares and provided further that (x) any increase in the amount of the authorized preferred shares or the creation or issuance of any other series of preferred shares, or (y) any increase in the amount of authorized Series O Preferred Shares or any other preferred shares, in each case ranking on a parity with or junior to the Series O Preferred Shares with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect such rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers.

The foregoing voting provisions will not apply if, at or prior to the time when the act with respect to which such vote would otherwise be required shall be effected, all outstanding Series O Preferred Shares shall have been redeemed or called for redemption and sufficient funds shall have been deposited in trust to effect such redemption.

(3) On each matter submitted to a vote of the holders of Series O Preferred Shares in accordance with this Section or as otherwise required by law, each Series O Preferred Share shall be entitled to ten (10) votes, each of which ten (10) votes may be directed separately by the holder thereof (or by any proxy or proxies of such holder). With respect to each Series O Preferred Share, the holder thereof may designate up to ten (10) proxies, with each such proxy having the right to vote a whole number of votes (totaling ten (10) votes per Series O Preferred Share).

(g)  Conversion . The Series O Preferred Shares are not convertible into or exchangeable for any other property or securities of the Corporation.

 

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Exhibit 3.2

FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED BY-LAWS

OF

DUKE REALTY CORPORATION

ARTICLE I

Identification

Section 1.01. Name. The name of the Corporation is Duke Realty Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”).

Section 1.02. Registered Office and Registered Agent. The street address of the registered office of the Corporation is 36 South Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204; and the name of its Registered Agent at such address is CT Corporation System. The location of the registered office of the Corporation or the designation of its Registered Agent or both may be changed at any time or from time to time when authorized by the Board of Directors, by filing a notice of change with the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana on or before the day any such change is to take effect, or as soon as possible after the death of the Registered Agent or other unforeseen termination of his agency.

Section 1.03. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

ARTICLE II

Definitions

Section 2.01. Certain Definitions. The following terms when used herein shall have the meanings set forth below:

(a) Affiliate. “Affiliate” shall mean, as to any Person, (i) any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person, (ii) any other Person that owns beneficially, directly or indirectly, five percent (5%) or more of the outstanding capital stock, shares or equity interests of such Person, or (iii) any officer, director, employee, general partner or trustee of such Person or of any Person controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person (excluding trustees and Persons serving in similar capacities who are not otherwise an Affiliate of such person), and shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

(b) Articles. “Articles” shall mean the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, filed with the Indiana Secretary of State, as amended from time to time.

(c) By-Laws. “By-Laws” shall mean the By-Laws of the Corporation, as amended from time to time.

(d) Code. “Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

(e) Corporation. “Corporation” shall mean Duke Realty Corporation

(f) Director. “Director” shall mean a member of the Corporation’s Board of Directors.

(g) Exchange Act. “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.


(h) Fiscal Year. “Fiscal Year” or any term describing any part thereof (such as “fiscal quarter”) shall mean the fiscal year of the Corporation.

(i) Gender and Number. As used herein the masculine and feminine gender and the singular and plural number shall be interchangeable, as the context requires.

(j) Person. “Person” shall mean an individual, partnership, trust, corporation, or any other entity.

(k) REIT. “REIT” or “real estate investment trust” shall mean a real estate investment trust meeting all the qualifications in the Code.

(1) Shareholders. “Shareholders” shall mean as of any particular time all holders of record of outstanding Shares at such time.

(m) Shares. “Shares” shall mean the common stock of the Corporation.

(n) Unaffiliated Director. “Unaffiliated Director” shall mean a Director who is not an officer or employee of the Corporation or of any Affiliate of the Corporation.

ARTICLE III

Capital Stock

Section 3.01. Certificates; Direct Registration System. Shares of the Corporation’s capital stock may be certificated or uncertificated, as provided under the Indiana Business Corporation Law, and shall be entered in the books of the Corporation and registered as they are issued. The interest of each shareholder in the Corporation’s capital stock may be evidenced by one or more certificates representing shares of the Corporation, which shall be in such form as the Board of Directors may from time to time adopt. Unless otherwise determined by the Directors, any such certificates shall be signed by the Chairman or the President and the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary and shall be countersigned by a transfer agent, and registered by a registrar, if any, and such signatures may be via facsimile or other electronic means. There shall be filed with each transfer agent a copy of any such form of certificate so approved by the Board of Directors, certified by the Chairman, President, or Secretary, and such form shall continue to be used unless and until the Directors approve some other form.

The interest of a shareholder in the Corporation also may be evidenced by registration in the holder’s name in uncertificated, book-entry form on the books of the Corporation in accordance with a direct registration system approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission and by the New York Stock Exchange (or its successor) or any other securities exchange or automated quotation system on which shares of the Company’s capital stock may from time to time be listed for quotation and trading.

Section 3.02. Fractional Shares. In connection with any issuance of Shares, the Directors may issue fractional Shares or may provide for the issuance of scrip including, without limitation, the time within which any scrip must be surrendered for exchange into full Shares and the rights, if any, of holders of scrip upon the expiration of the time so fixed, the rights, if any, to receive proportional distributions, and the rights, if any, to redeem scrip for cash, or the Directors may, in their discretion, or if they see fit at the option of each holder, provide in lieu of scrip for the adjustment of the fractions in cash. The provisions of Section 3.01 hereof relative to certificates for Shares shall apply so far as applicable to such scrip, except that such scrip may in the discretion of the Directors be signed by a transfer agent alone.

Section 3.03. Share Record; Issuance and Transferability of Shares. Records shall be kept by or on behalf of and under the directions of the Board of Directors, which shall contain the names and addresses of the Corporation’s shareholders, the number of shares of the Corporation’s capital stock held by them respectively, and, if such shares of capital stock are certificated, the numbers of the certificates representing such shares, and in which there shall be recorded all transfers of shares of the Corporation’s capital stock. The Corporation, the Board of Directors, and the officers, employees and agents of the Corporation, shall be entitled to deem the Persons in whose names any such certificates are registered on the records of the Corporation to be the absolute owners of the shares of the Corporation’s capital stock represented thereby for all purposes; but nothing herein shall be deemed to preclude the Board of Directors or the officers, employees or agents of the Corporation, from inquiring as to the actual ownership of any such shares of the Corporation’s capital stock. Until a transfer of shares of the Corporation’s capital stock is duly effected on the records of the Corporation, the Board of Directors shall not be affected by any notice of such transfer, either actual or constructive.

Subject to any restrictions on transfer, and unless otherwise provided by the Board of Directors, shares of the Corporation’s capital stock may be transferred, and such transfers shall be made upon the records of the Corporation. If such shares of the


Corporation’s capital stock are issued in certificated form, then those shares shall be transferable on the records of the Corporation only by the record holder thereof or by his or her agent thereunto duly authorized in writing upon delivery to the Board of Directors, or a properly acting transfer agent, of the certificate or certificates therefor, properly endorsed or accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer and accompanied by all necessary documentary stamps together with such evidence of the genuineness of each such endorsement, execution or authorization, and payment of all necessary transfer taxes, and of other matters as may reasonably be required by the Board of Directors or such transfer agent. Upon such delivery, the transfer shall be recorded in the records of the Corporation and, absent instructions to the contrary, a new certificate for such shares so transferred shall be issued to the transferee, and, in case of a transfer of only a part of the shares represented by any certificate, a new certificate for the balance shall be issued to the transferor. Any Person becoming entitled to any shares of the Corporation’s capital stock in consequence of the death of a shareholder or otherwise by operation of law shall be recorded as the holder of such shares and may receive a new certificate therefore, but only upon delivery to the Board of Directors, or a properly acting transfer agent, of instruments and other evidence required by the Board of Directors or the transfer agent to demonstrate such entitlement, the existing certificate for such shares and such releases from applicable governmental authorities as may be required by the Board of Directors or the transfer agent. With respect to certificated shares of the Corporation’s capital stock, every such certificate exchanged, returned or surrendered to the Corporation shall be marked “Cancelled,” with the date of cancellation, by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Corporation, or the properly acting transfer agent thereof. In case of the loss, mutilation or destruction of any certificate for shares of the Corporation’s capital stock, the Directors may issue or cause to be issued a replacement certificate upon proof, satisfactory to the Directors of ownership of such lost, mutilated or destroyed certificate. Nothing in these By-Laws shall impose upon the Board of Directors, or a properly acting transfer agent, a duty or limit their rights to inquire into adverse claims. If the shares of the Corporation’s capital stock are issued in uncertificated form, then those shares may be transferred upon receipt of proper transfer instructions from the registered holder of the uncertificated shares, or from his or her agent thereunto duly authorized, in writing and upon payment of all necessary transfer taxes and compliance with appropriate procedures for transferring shares in uncertificated form.

Section 3.04. Transfer Agent, Dividend Disbursing Agent and Register. The Directors shall have power to employ one or more transfer agents, dividend disbursing agents and registrars and to authorize them on behalf of the Corporation to keep records and to hold and to disburse any dividends or distributions.

Section 3.05. Record Date. The Board of Directors may fix a record date, which shall not be more than seventy (70) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of any meeting of Shareholders. If a Shareholders meeting is adjourned to a date more than one hundred twenty (120) days after the date fixed for the original meeting, a new record date must be fixed.

Section 3.06.   Regulations. The issue, transfer, conversion and registration of certificates for Shares shall be governed by such other regulations as the Board of Directors may establish.

ARTICLE IV

Meetings of Shareholders

Section 4.01. Effect of Quorum. The Shareholders present at a duly called or held meeting at which a quorum is present may not continue to do business after the withdrawal of enough Shareholders to leave less than a quorum.

Section 4.02. Place of Meeting. Meetings of the Shareholders shall be held at the principal office of the Corporation or at such place within or without the State of Indiana as is designated by the Directors or the Chairman or President.

Section 4.03. Annual Meeting. A regular annual meeting of the Shareholders shall be called by the Chairman or President within six (6) months after the end of each fiscal year.

Section 4.04. Notice of Regular or Special Meetings.

(a) A special meeting of the Shareholders may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, a majority of the Board of Directors, a majority of the Unaffiliated Directors (as defined in the Articles), the President of the Company or at the request, in writing, addressed and delivered to the attention of the Company’s Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company and made in accordance with Section 4.09 of these By-Laws, of the record owners of ten percent (10%) of the aggregate number of Shares of the Company outstanding and entitled to vote.

(b) Business transacted at any special meeting of Shareholders will be limited to the purpose or purposes expressly stated in the notice of that meeting. Such purposes shall be stated with specificity in the notice of each such special meeting and may not include generalizations such as “any other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.”


(c) If a special meeting of Shareholders is requested by Shareholders pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section 4.04 for purposes any of which are the same as or substantially related to any of the purposes of a special meeting of Shareholders previously held at the request of Shareholders pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section 4.04, such subsequently requested special meeting shall not be held until after the first anniversary of the date on which the previous special meeting was held.

(d) Written or oral notice specifying the place, day and hour of any annual or special meeting of Shareholders, the purposes of the meeting, and all other matters required by law shall be given to each Shareholder of record entitled to vote, either personally or by sending a copy thereof by any means permitted by applicable provisions of the Indiana Business Corporation Law, as in effect on the date thereof, to the address appearing on the books of the Company or theretofore given by each Shareholder to the Company for the purpose of notice or, if no address appears or has been given, addressed to the place where the principal office of the Company is situated. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to give notice of each Annual Meeting of the Shareholders and of each special meeting to be held on call of the Company’s Board of Directors at least fifteen (15) days and not more than sixty (60) days before the date on which it is to be held, subject to any longer period required by law.

(e) Whenever a request to call a special meeting of Shareholders has been duly made other than by the Company’s Board of Directors, it shall be the duty of the Board of Directors to fix the date and hour thereof, which date shall be not less than twenty (20) days and not more than ninety (90) days after the receipt of such request if the request has been delivered in person or after the date of mailing the request, as the case may be, and to give notice of such special meeting no fewer than ten (10) and no more than sixty (60) days before the meeting date. If the date of such special meeting is not so fixed and notice thereof not given within eighty (80) days after the date of the Company’s receipt of the request, the date and hour of such meeting may be fixed by the Person or Persons calling or - requesting the meeting and notice thereof shall be given by such Person or Persons not less than twenty (20) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date on which the meeting is to be held.

Section 4.05. Notice of Adjourned Meetings. It shall not be necessary to give notice of the time and place of any adjourned meeting or of the business to be transacted thereat other than by announcement at the meeting at which such adjournment is taken, except that when a meeting is adjourned and a new record date is set, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting to Shareholders as of the new record date.

Section 4.06. Proxies. The appointment of a proxy or proxies shall be made by an instrument in writing executed by the Shareholder or his duly authorized agent and filed with the Secretary of the Corporation. No proxy shall be valid after the expiration of eleven (11) months from the date of its execution. At a meeting of Shareholders all questions concerning the qualification of voters, the validity of proxies, and the acceptance or rejection of votes shall be decided by the Secretary of the meeting unless inspectors of election are appointed pursuant to Section 4.07 in which event such inspectors shall pass upon all questions and shall have all other duties specified in said section.

Section 4.07. Inspectors of Election. In advance of any meeting of Shareholders, the Directors may appoint inspectors of election to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. If inspectors of election are not so appointed, the Chairman of any meeting of Shareholders may, and on the request of any Shareholder or his proxy shall, appoint inspectors of election at the meeting. The number of inspectors shall be either one or three. If appointed at the meeting on the request of one or more Shareholders or proxies, a majority of Shares present, shall determine whether one or three inspectors are to be appointed. In case any Person appointed as inspector fails to appear or fails or refuses to act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the Directors in advance of the convening of the meeting or at the meeting by the Chairman of the meeting. The inspectors of election shall determine the number of Shares outstanding, the Shares represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum, and the authenticity, validity and effect of proxies, receive votes, ballots, or consents, hear and determine all challenges and questions in any way arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all votes or consents, determine the results, and do such acts as may be proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all Shareholders. If there are three inspectors of election, the decision, act or certificate of a majority is effective in all respects as the decision, act or certificate of all. On request of the Chairman of the meeting or of any Shareholder or his proxy, the inspectors shall make a report in writing of any challenge, question or matter determined by them and execute a certificate of any facts found by them.


Section 4.08. Quorum. At any meeting of the Shareholders, the holders of a majority of the Shares entitled to vote with respect to the matter under consideration, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for such purpose, unless or except to the extent that the presence of a larger number may be required by law.

If a quorum for any purpose shall fail to attend any meeting, the chairman of the meeting or the holders of a majority of the Shares entitled to vote who are present, in person or by proxy, may adjourn the meeting to another place, date, or time.

If a notice of any adjourned special meeting of Shareholders is sent to all Shareholders entitled to vote thereat, stating that it will be held with those present constituting a quorum, then except as otherwise required by law, those present at such adjourned meeting shall constitute a quorum.

Section 4.09. Shareholder Proposals and Requests for Special Meetings.

(a) Nominations for the election of Directors and proposals for any new business to be taken up at any annual meeting of Shareholders may be made by the Board of Directors of the Company or by any Shareholder of the Company entitled to vote. In order for a Shareholder of the Company to make any such nomination or proposal, the Shareholder shall give timely notice thereof in writing, delivered or mailed by first class United States mail, postage prepaid, to the Secretary of the Company. To be timely, the Shareholder’s notice must be received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company at least one hundred twenty (120) calendar days before the first anniversary of the date that the Company’s proxy statement was released to Shareholders in connection with the previous year’s annual meeting of Shareholders. However, if no annual meeting of Shareholders was held in the previous year or if the date of the annual meeting of Shareholders has been changed by more than thirty (30) calendar days from the date contemplated at the time of the previous year’s proxy statement, the notice shall be received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not fewer than the later of (i) One hundred fifty (150) calendar days prior to the date of the contemplated annual meeting or (ii) the date which is ten (10) calendar days after the date of the first public announcement or other notification to the Shareholders of the date of the contemplated annual meeting.

(b) Any written request by Shareholders for a special meeting of Shareholders pursuant to Section 4.04 of the By-Laws and any notice of a nomination or proposal pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section 4.09 shall include or be accompanied by a written statement which shall set forth (i) as to each person whom the Shareholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a Director, all information relating to such person that is required be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of Directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a Director if elected and evidence satisfactory to the Company that such nominee has no interests that would limit his or her ability to fulfill his or her duties of office); (ii) as to any other business that the Shareholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a concise description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such Shareholder and of the beneficial owner or owners, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made; (iii) as to each Shareholder giving the notice and beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, (x) the name and address of such Shareholder, as they appear on the Company’s books, and of such beneficial owner and (y) the number of each class of shares of the Company which are owned beneficially and of record by such Shareholder and such beneficial owner; and (iv) any other information required by Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act, including a statement in support and requisite documentary support for any claim of beneficial ownership.

 

  (c)

(i) Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 4.09 shall be eligible to serve as Directors and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of Shareholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 4.09. The Chairman of the meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 4.09 and, if any


proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with this Section 4.09, to declare to the meeting that such defective nomination or proposal be disregarded.

(ii) For purposes of this Section 4.09, “public announcement” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable news service or in a document publicly filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.09, a Shareholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of state law and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 4.09.

ARTICLE V

The Board of Directors

Section 5.01. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such place or places, on such date or dates, and at such time or times as shall have been established by the Board of Directors and publicized among all Directors. A notice of each regular meeting shall not be required.

Section 5.02. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by one-third of the Directors then in office (rounded up to the nearest whole number) , by the Chairman of the Board or by the President and shall be held at such place, on such date, and at such time as they or he or she shall fix. Written notice of any special meeting of the Board shall be given to each Director at least one day prior thereto delivered personally, by messenger or by telegram or at least five days prior thereto delivered by mail at the last address given by the Director to the Corporation for such purpose. Such notice shall be deemed delivered when deposited in the United States mail so addressed, with postage thereon prepaid, if mailed, or when delivered to the telegram company if sent by telegram. Such notice shall be deemed to be delivered upon receipt by the Director if delivered personally or by messenger. Any Director may waive notice of any meeting by a writing filed with the Secretary. The attendance of a Director at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except in the event a Director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any meeting of the Board need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting.

Section 5.03. Compensation and other Remuneration. Each Director shall be paid such director’s fees and fixed sums and expenses for attendance at each annual, regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors or committees of the Board of Directors as the Board of Directors by resolution so determine. The Directors and Corporation officer shall be entitled to receive remuneration for services rendered to the Corporation in any capacity. Such services may include, without limitation, services as an officer of the Corporation, legal, accounting or other professional services, or services as a broker, transfer agent or underwriter, whether performed by a Director or any Affiliate of a Director.

Section 5.04. Actions by Directors. The Directors may act with or without a meeting. Unless specifically provided otherwise in these By-Laws or in the Certificate, any action of the Directors may be taken at a meeting by vote of a majority of the Directors present (a quorum being present) or without a meeting by unanimous written consent of the Directors, which consents shall be filed with the records of meetings of the Directors. Any action or actions permitted to be taken by the Directors in connection with the business of the Corporation may be taken pursuant to authority granted by a meeting of the Directors conducted by a telephone conference call, and the transaction of Corporation business represented thereby shall be of the same authority and validity as if transacted at a meeting of the Directors held in person or by written consent. The minutes of the Directors meeting held by telephone shall be prepared in the same manner as a meeting of the Directors held in person.

Section 5.05. Actions by Unaffiliated Directors. The following actions may only be taken by, or with approval of a majority of, the Unaffiliated Directors:


(a) A restructuring of Duke Realty Services Limited Partnership, an Indiana limited partnership, as provided for in Section 4.15 of the Agreement of the Limited Partnership of Duke Realty Services Limited Partnership (the “Services Partnership Agreement”).

(b) The Corporation’s approval of an exercise of any option held by Duke Realty Limited Partnership, an Indiana limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), for its purchase of the Principal Owners’ interests in any of the Excluded Businesses or any of the twenty-five (25) specific properties (the “Excluded Properties”) or the indirect interest of the Principal Owners in such properties, subject to certain option agreements, each of which has been denominated “Acquisition Option” (the “Acquisition Options”) with owners of the Excluded Businesses or the Excluded Properties or the indirect interests therein.

(c) The Corporation’s consent pursuant to each of the Acquisition Options to an increase in the mortgage debt applicable to any Excluded Property.

(d) The Corporation’s consent pursuant to Section 7.02 of the Agreement of Limited Partnership of Duke Realty Limited Partnership (the “Operating Partnership Agreement”) to the Assignment (as defined in Section 1.04 of the Operating Partnership Agreement) of any units of partnership interest in the Operating Partnership (“Units”) by any of Gary A. Burk, Thomas L. Hefner and Darell E. Zink, Jr. (together, the “Principal Owners”).

(e) The Corporation’s consent pursuant to Section 3(1) of a certain Purchase Agreement by and among the Principal Owners, the Corporation and the underwriters named therein to certain dispositions of Units or any shares of the Corporation’s Common Stock.

(f) The voting of Operating Partnership Units owned by the Corporation in order for the Corporation to engage in any of the activities referred to in Section 3.09 (a) or Section 3.09(b) of the Operating Partnership Agreement.

(g) The exercise of the Corporation’s option to purchase the interests of DMI Partnership, an Indiana partnership, pursuant to Section 7.03 of the Services Partnership Agreement or any successor provision.

(h) The Corporation’s decision to enforce or to waive enforcement of a provision of the Property Contribution Agreements, the Inside Contribution Agreement or the Outside Contribution Agreement.

Section 5.06. Quarterly Meetings. The Board of Directors shall meet during the forty-five (45) day period immediately following the close of each fiscal quarter of the Corporation for the purpose of (a) considering the value of the Corporation’s assets and reviewing the income of the Corporation with a view to assuring the Corporation’s continued qualification as a “real estate investment trust” and (b) transacting such other business as properly may come before the meeting. Such quarterly meeting may be combined with the annual meeting or any special meeting of the Directors.

Section 5.07. Conduct of Committee Meetings. Each committee may determine the procedural rules for meeting and conducting its business and shall act in accordance therewith, except as otherwise provided herein or required by law. Adequate provision shall be made for notice to members of all meetings; one-third of the members shall constitute a quorum unless the committee shall consist of one or two members, in which event one member shall constitute a quorum; and all matters shall be determined by a majority vote of the members present. Action may be taken by any committee without a meeting if all members thereof consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of the proceedings of such committee.

Section 5.08 Number of Directors and Classification of Board of Directors. The number of Directors shall be no fewer than five (5) nor more than fifteen (15). At each annual meeting of the Corporation’s Shareholders beginning at the annual meeting of Shareholders in 2004, all Directors shall be elected to hold office for a term of one (1) year. Directors may be re-elected any number of times. Election of each Director at an annual meeting shall be by affirmative vote by at least a majority of the Shareholders entitled to vote thereon


present in person or by proxy at such meeting. Each Director shall hold office until the election and qualification of his successor. Directors may, but need not, own shares or other securities of the Corporation. The provisions of Indiana Business Corporation Law § 23-1-33-6(c), and/or any successor provision(s), shall not apply to the Corporation.

Section 5.09. Conflict of Interest. Any transaction with the Corporation in which a Director has a direct or indirect interest is subject to review by the disinterested directors to ensure that the terms are commensurate with the terms for similar services or products with third parties in the market place.

ARTICLE VI

Officers of the Corporation

Section 6.01 Appointment . The Board of Directors at each annual meeting of directors shall elect such officers as it shall deem necessary, who shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors. Any number of offices may be held by the same person unless the Articles or these By-Laws otherwise provide. The appointment of an officer does not itself create contract rights.

Section 6.02 Resignation and Removal of Officers . An officer may resign at any time by delivering notice to the Corporation and such resignation is effective when the notice is delivered unless the notice specifies a later effective date. The Board of Directors may remove any officer at any time with or without cause.

Section 6.03 Vacancies . Any vacancy in office resulting from any cause may be filled by the Board of Directors or by any officer authorized by these By-Laws to appoint such officer.

Section 6.04 Delegation of Authority . In case of the absence of any officer of the Corporation or for any other reason that the Board of Directors may deem sufficient, the Board of Directors may delegate, for the time being, any or all of the powers or duties of such officer to any other officer or to any director.

Section 6.05   Appointment by Officers . A duly appointed officer may appoint one or more officers or assistant officers, as he or she deems necessary and as authorized by the Board of Directors and these By-Laws.

ARTICLE VII

Contracts, Checks, Notes, Etc.

Special Corporate Acts

Section 7.01. All contracts and agreements entered into by the Corporation and all checks, drafts and bills of exchange, orders for the payment of money, and deeds, mortgages, notes or bonds of the Corporation shall, unless otherwise directed by the Board of Directors or unless otherwise required by law, be signed by either the President, the Managing Director, any Vice President or the Secretary, singly.

ARTICLE VIII

Miscellaneous

Section 8.01,. Facsimile Signatures. Facsimile signatures of any officer or officers of the Corporation may be used whenever and as authorized by the Board of Directors or a committee thereof.

Section 8.02. Corporate Seal. The Board of Directors may provide a suitable seal, containing the name of the Corporation, which seal shall be in the charge of the Secretary. If and when so directed by the Board of Directors or a committee thereof, duplicates of the seal may be kept and used by the Treasurer or by an Assistant Secretary or Assistant Treasurer.

Section 8.03. Reliance upon Books, Reports and Records. Each Director, each member of any committee designated by the Board of Directors, and each officer of the’ Corporation shall, in the performance of his duties, be


protected to the fullest possible extent in relying in good faith upon the books of account or other records of the Corporation, including reports made to the Corporation by any of its officers, by an independent certificate public accountant, or by an appraiser selected with reasonable care.

Section 8.04. Severability.

(a) The provisions of these By-Laws are severable, and if the Directors shall determine, with the advice of counsel, that any one or more of such provisions (the “Conflicting Provisions”) are in conflict with the REIT provisions of the Code, or with other applicable Federal laws and regulations, the Conflicting Provisions shall be deemed never to have constituted a part of these By-Laws.

(b) If any provision of these By-Laws shall be held unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall attach only to such provision and shall not in any manner affect or render invalid or unenforceable any other provision of this Declaration, and these By-Laws shall be carried out as if any such invalid or unenforceable provision were not contained herein.

Section 8.05. Amendment. The Shareholders or the Directors may, by a majority vote, amend or repeal any provision of these By-Laws, except that Section 5.05 hereof can only be amended or repealed by a majority vote of the Shareholders or the Unaffiliated Directors.

 

Date: July 29, 2009

   By:    /s/ Howard L. Feinsand   
   Name:    Howard L. Feinsand   
   Title:    Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary