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):  April 30, 2014

 

 

DUKE REALTY CORPORATION

DUKE REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

(Exact name of registrant specified in its charter)

 

 

Duke Realty Corporation:

 

Indiana   1-9044   35-1740409
(State of   (Commission   (IRS Employer
Formation)   File Number)   Identification No.)

Duke Realty Limited Partnership:

 

Indiana   0-20625   35-1898425
(State of   (Commission   (IRS Employer
Formation)   File Number)   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 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Please see the information in Item 5.03 below, which is incorporated herein by this reference.

 

Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On April 30, 2014, Duke Realty Corporation, an Indiana corporation (the “Company”), the sole general partner of Duke Realty Limited Partnership, an Indiana limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), issued a press release (the “Press Release”) announcing its results of operations and financial condition for the quarter ended March 31, 2014. A copy of the Press Release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated into this Item 2.02 by this reference.

On May 1, 2014, the Company also held a conference call to discuss the Company’s financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2014. Pursuant to General Instruction F to Form 8-K, a copy of the transcript from the conference call (the “Transcript”) is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2 and is incorporated into this Item 2.02 by this reference. The Transcript has been selectively edited to facilitate the understanding of the information communicated during the conference call.

The information contained in this Item 2.02, including the related information set forth in the Press Release and the Transcript attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein, is being “furnished” and shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise. The information in this Item 2.02 shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or into any filing or other document pursuant to the Exchange Act, except as otherwise expressly stated in any such filing.

 

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

Following approval by the Company’s Board of Directors on January 29, 2014 and the Company’s shareholders at the Company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on April 30, 2014 (the “Annual Meeting”), the Company filed its Fifth Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to be effective on May 5, 2014 with the Indiana Secretary of State in accordance with the Indiana Business Corporation Law for the purpose of increasing the number of shares of common stock authorized thereunder from 400 million shares to 600 million shares, establishing certain detailed stock ownership and transfer restrictions intended to enable the Company to better protect its status as a real estate investment trust; and eliminating certain references or sections that are no longer applicable and make other ministerial changes.

Also on May 5, 2014, the Operating Partnership executed a corresponding Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership, which was approved by the Company’s Board of Directors on April 30, 2014.


The Fifth Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and the Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership are attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and Exhibit 3.2, respectively, and are incorporated into this Item 5.03 by this reference.

 

Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

At the Annual Meeting, the shareholders of the Company voted on four proposals. Each proposal was approved pursuant to the following final voting results from the Annual Meeting:

1. To elect thirteen directors to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors for a one-year term ending at the 2015 Annual Meeting of Shareholders:

 

   

FOR

 

AGAINST

 

ABSTAIN

 

BROKER
NON-VOTES

Thomas J. Baltimore, Jr.

  273,200,754   4,345,377   1,448,794   21,081,896

William Cavanaugh III

  273,538,245   4,133,525   1,323,155   21,081,896

Alan H. Cohen

  276,466,295   1,076,772   1,451,858   21,081,896

Ngaire E. Cuneo

  274,766,942   2,903,430   1,324,553   21,081,896

Charles R. Eitel

  274,597,201   3,075,484   1,322,240   21,081,896

Martin C. Jischke, PhD

  276,304,958   1,233,993   1,455,974   21,081,896

Dennis D. Oklak

  271,277,861   5,380,079   2,336,985   21,081,896

Melanie R. Sabelhaus

  276,735,310   809,276   1,450,339   21,081,896

Peter M. Scott, III

  276,512,984   1,032,008   1,449,933   21,081,896

Jack R. Shaw

  274,999,192   2,670,178   1,325,555   21,081,896

Michael E. Szymanczyk

  276,599,990   1,057,313   1,337,622   21,081,896

Lynn C. Thurber

  276,749,383   795,250   1,450,292   21,081,896

Robert J. Woodward, Jr.

  275,002,237   2,668,072   1,324,616   21,081,896

2. To vote on a non-binding resolution to approve the compensation of the Company’s executive officers for 2013:

 

FOR

 

AGAINST

 

ABSTAIN

 

BROKER
NON-VOTES

253,698,159

  20,877,957   4,418,809   21,081,896

3. To ratify the reappointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accountants for the fiscal year 2014:

 

FOR

 

AGAINST

 

ABSTAIN

 

BROKER
NON-VOTES

297,678,733

  1,868,717   520,371  


4. To approve three proposals to amend the Company’s articles of incorporation, including to:

 

  a. increase the number of shares of common stock that the Company is authorized to issue from 400,000,000 to 600,000,000:

 

FOR

 

AGAINST

 

ABSTAIN

 

BROKER
NON-VOTES

289,635,901

  9,606,832   834,088  

 

  b. establish certain detailed stock ownership and transfer restrictions intended to enable the Company to better protect its status as a real estate investment trust:

 

FOR

 

AGAINST

 

ABSTAIN

 

BROKER
NON-VOTES

276,273,698

  2,190,597   530,630   21,081,896

 

  c. eliminate certain references or sections that are no longer applicable and make other ministerial changes.

 

FOR

 

AGAINST

 

ABSTAIN

 

BROKER
NON-VOTES

295,402,424

  3,786,901   887,496  

The proposal to adjourn the meeting to solicit additional proxies in favor of the foregoing proposals was not submitted to a vote of the Company’s shareholders.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

3.1    Fifth Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Duke Realty Corporation, effective May 5, 2014.
3.2    Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Duke Realty Limited Partnership, effective May 5, 2014.
99.1    Duke Realty Corporation press release dated April 30, 2014, with respect to its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2014.*
99.2    Duke Realty Corporation transcript from the conference call held on May 1, 2014, with respect to its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2014.*

 

* The Press Release and the Transcript attached hereto as Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2, respectively, are “furnished” and not “filed,” as described in Item 2.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K.


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 thereunto duly authorized.

 

DUKE REALTY CORPORATION
By:   / S / A NN C. D EE
  Ann C. Dee
  Executive Vice President, General
Counsel and Corporate Secretary
DUKE REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
B Y :   Duke Realty Corporation, its general partner
By:   / S / A NN C. D EE
  Ann C. Dee
  Executive Vice President, General
Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Dated: May 5, 2014


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

3.1    Fifth Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Duke Realty Corporation, effective May 5, 2014.
3.2    Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Duke Realty Limited Partnership, effective May 5, 2014.
99.1    Duke Realty Corporation press release dated April 30, 2014, with respect to its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2014.*
99.2    Duke Realty Corporation transcript from the conference call held on May 1, 2014, with respect to its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2014.*

 

* The Press Release and the Transcript attached hereto as Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2, respectively, are “furnished” and not “filed,” as described in Item 2.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Exhibit 3.1

FIFTH 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 251 E. Ohio Street Suite 1100, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240. 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 six hundred and five million (605,000,000), of which six hundred million (600,000,000) 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 Board of Directors as of the date hereof consists of thirteen (13) members. The number of Directors may be increased or decreased from time to time by the Directors.

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. At least three-fourths of the Directors shall at all times be Persons who are Unaffiliated Directors. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, 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 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.

 

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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 audit 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 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:

 

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(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.

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

Restriction on Ownership and Transfer of Shares

Section 10.01 Definitions . For the purpose of this Article X, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit . The term “Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit” shall mean 9.8% in value of the aggregate of the outstanding shares of Capital Stock, or such other percentage determined by the Board of Directors in accordance with Section 10.02.08 of the Articles. For the purpose of determining the percentage of ownership of Capital Stock by any Person, shares of Capital Stock that may be acquired upon the conversion, exchange, redemption or exercise of any securities of the Corporation directly or Constructively held by such Person, but not shares of Capital Stock issuable upon the conversion, exchange, redemption or exercise of securities of the Corporation held by other Persons, shall be deemed to be outstanding prior to such conversion exchange, redemption or exercise.

Beneficial Ownership . The term “Beneficial Ownership” shall mean ownership of Capital Stock by a Person, whether the interest in the shares of Capital Stock is held directly or indirectly (including by a nominee), and shall include interests that would be treated as owned through the application of Section 544 of the Code, as modified by Section 856(h)(1)(B) of the Code. The terms “Beneficial Owner,” “Beneficially Owns” and “Beneficially Owned” shall have the correlative meanings.

 

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Business Day . The term “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.

Capital Stock . The term “Capital Stock” shall mean all classes or series of stock of the Corporation, including, without limitation, Common Stock and Preferred Stock.

Charitable Beneficiary . The term “Charitable Beneficiary” shall mean one or more beneficiaries of the Trust as determined pursuant to Section 10.03.06.

Common Stock Ownership Limit . The term “Common Stock Ownership Limit” shall mean 9.8% (in value or in number of shares, whichever is more restrictive) of the aggregate of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Corporation, or such other percentage determined by the Board of Directors in accordance with Section 10.02.08 of the Articles. For the purpose of determining the percentage of ownership of Common Stock by any Person, shares of Common Stock that may be acquired upon the conversion, exchange, redemption or exercise of any securities of the Corporation directly or Constructively held by such Person, but not shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion, exchange, redemption or exercise of securities of the Corporation held by other Persons, shall be deemed to be outstanding prior to such conversion exchange, redemption or exercise.

Constructive Ownership . The term “Constructive Ownership” shall mean ownership of Capital Stock by a Person, whether the interest in the shares of Capital Stock is held directly or indirectly (including by a nominee), and shall include interests that would be treated as owned through the application of Section 318(a) of the Code, as modified by Section 856(d)(5) of the Code. The terms “Constructive Owner,” “Constructively Owns” and “Constructively Owned” shall have the correlative meanings.

Excepted Holder . The term “Excepted Holder” shall mean a shareholder of the Corporation for whom an Excepted Holder Limit is created by the Articles or by the Board of Directors pursuant to Section 10.02.07.

Excepted Holder Limit . The term “Excepted Holder Limit” shall mean, provided that the affected Excepted Holder agrees to comply with the requirements established by the Board of Directors pursuant to Section 10.02.07 and subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 10.02.08, the percentage limit established by the Board of Directors pursuant to Section 10.02.07.

Initial Date . The term “Initial Date” shall mean the date upon which the Articles of Incorporation first containing this Article X become effective.

Market Price . The term “Market Price” on any date shall mean, with respect to any class or series of outstanding shares of Capital Stock, the Closing Price for such Capital Stock on such date. The “Closing Price” on any date shall mean the last sale price for such Capital Stock, regular way, or, in case no such sale takes place on such day, the average of the closing bid and asked prices, regular way, for such Capital Stock, in either case as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed or admitted to trading on the NYSE or, if such Capital Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on the NYSE, as reported on the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed on the principal national securities exchange on which such Capital Stock is listed or admitted to trading or, if such Capital Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, the last quoted price, or, if not so quoted, the average of the high bid and low asked prices in the over-the-counter market, as reported by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Automated Quotation System or, if such system is no longer in use, the principal other automated quotation system that may then be in use or, if such Capital Stock is not quoted by any such organization, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in such Capital Stock selected by the Board of Directors or, in the event that no trading price is available for such Capital Stock, the fair market value of the Capital Stock, as determined by the Board of Directors.

NYSE . The term “NYSE” shall mean the New York Stock Exchange.

 

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Person . The term “Person” shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, estate, trust (including a trust qualified under Sections 401(a) or 501(c)(17) of the Code), a portion of a trust permanently set aside for or to be used exclusively for the purposes described in Section 642(c) of the Code, association, private foundation within the meaning of Section 509(a) of the Code, joint stock company or other entity and also includes a group as that term is used for purposes of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act and a group to which an Excepted Holder Limit applies.

Prohibited Owner . The term “Prohibited Owner” shall mean, with respect to any purported Transfer, any Person who, but for the provisions of this Article X, would Beneficially Own or Constructively Own shares of Capital Stock in violation of Section 10.02.01, and if appropriate in the context, shall also mean any Person who would have been the record owner of the shares that the Prohibited Owner would have so owned.

Restriction Termination Date . The term “Restriction Termination Date” shall mean the first day after the Initial Date on which the Board determines pursuant to Section 10.07 of the Articles that compliance with the restrictions and limitations on Beneficial Ownership, Constructive Ownership and Transfers of shares of Capital Stock set forth herein is no longer required in order for the Corporation to qualify as a REIT.

Transfer . The term “Transfer” shall mean any issuance, sale, transfer, redemption, gift, assignment, devise or other disposition, as well as any other event that causes any Person to acquire or possess Beneficial Ownership or Constructive Ownership, or any agreement to take any such actions or cause any such events, of Capital Stock or the right to vote or receive dividends on Capital Stock, including (a) the granting or exercise of any option (or any disposition of any option), (b) any disposition of any securities or rights convertible into or exchangeable for Capital Stock or any interest in Capital Stock or any exercise of any such conversion or exchange right and (c) Transfers of interests in other entities that result in changes in Beneficial or Constructive Ownership of Capital Stock; in each case, whether voluntary or involuntary, whether owned of record, Constructively Owned or Beneficially Owned and whether by operation of law or otherwise. The terms “Transferring” and “Transferred” shall have the correlative meanings.

Trust . The term “Trust” shall mean any trust provided for in Section 10.03.01.

Trustee . The term “Trustee” shall mean the Person unaffiliated with the Corporation and a Prohibited Owner that is appointed by the Corporation to serve as trustee of the Trust.

Section 10.02 Capital Stock .

Section 10.02.01 Ownership Limitations . During the period commencing on the Initial Date and prior to the Restriction Termination Date, but subject to Section 10.04:

(a) Basic Restrictions .

(i) (1) No Person, other than a Person exempted from the Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit pursuant to Section 10.02.07 or an Excepted Holder, shall Beneficially Own or Constructively Own shares of Capital Stock in excess of the Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit, (2) no Person, other than a Person exempted from the Common Stock Ownership Limit pursuant to Section 10.02.07 or an Excepted Holder, shall Beneficially Own or Constructively Own shares of Common Stock in excess of the Common Stock Ownership Limit and (3) no Excepted Holder shall Beneficially Own or Constructively Own shares of Capital Stock in excess of the Excepted Holder Limit for such Excepted Holder.

(ii) No Person shall Beneficially or Constructively Own shares of Capital Stock to the extent that such Beneficial or Constructive Ownership of Capital Stock would result in the Corporation being “closely held” within the meaning of Section 856(h) of the Code (without regard to whether the ownership interest is held during the last half of a taxable year), or otherwise failing to qualify as a REIT (including, without limitation, Beneficial or Constructive Ownership that would result in the Corporation owning (actually or Constructively) an interest in a tenant that is described in Section 856(d)(2)(B) of the Code if the income derived by the Corporation from such tenant would cause the Corporation to fail to satisfy any of the gross income requirements of Section 856(c) of the Code).

 

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(iii) Any Transfer of shares of Capital Stock that, if effective, would result in the Capital Stock being beneficially owned by less than 100 Persons (determined under the principles of Section 856(a)(5) of the Code) shall be null and void ab initio , and the intended transferee shall acquire no rights in such shares of Capital Stock.

(b) Transfer in Trust . If any Transfer of shares of Capital Stock occurs which, if effective, would result in any Person Beneficially Owning or Constructively Owning shares of Capital Stock in violation of Section 10.02.01(a)(i) or (ii),

(i) then that number of shares of the Capital Stock the Beneficial or Constructive Ownership of which otherwise would cause such Person to violate Section 10.02.01(a)(i) or (ii) (rounded up to the nearest whole share) shall be automatically transferred to a Trust for the benefit of a Charitable Beneficiary, as described in Section 10.03, effective as of the close of business on the Business Day prior to the date of such Transfer, and such Person shall acquire no rights in such shares; or

(ii) if the transfer to the Trust described in clause (i) of this sentence would not be automatically effective for any reason to prevent the violation of Section 10.02.01(a)(i) or (ii), then the Transfer of that number of shares of Capital Stock that otherwise would cause any Person to violate Section 10.02.01(a)(i) or (ii) shall be void ab initio , and the intended transferee shall acquire no rights in such shares of Capital Stock.

(iii) To the extent that, upon a transfer of shares of Capital Stock pursuant to this Section 10.02.01(b), a violation of any provision of this Article X would nonetheless be continuing (for example where the ownership of shares of Capital Stock by a single Trust would violate the 100 shareholder requirement applicable to REITs), then shares of Capital Stock shall be transferred to that number of Trusts, each having a distinct Trustee and a Charitable Beneficiary or Beneficiaries that are distinct from those of each other Trust, such that there is no violation of any provision of this Article X.

Section 10.02.02 Remedies for Breach . If the Board of Directors shall at any time determine that a Transfer or other event has taken place that results in a violation of Section 10.02.01 or that a Person intends to acquire or has attempted to acquire Beneficial or Constructive Ownership of any shares of Capital Stock in violation of Section 10.02.01 (whether or not such violation is intended), the Board of Directors shall take such action as it deems advisable to refuse to give effect to or to prevent such Transfer or other event, including, without limitation, causing the Corporation to redeem shares, refusing to give effect to such Transfer on the books of the Corporation or instituting proceedings to enjoin such Transfer or other event; provided , however , that any Transfer or attempted Transfer or other event in violation of Section 10.02.01 shall automatically result in the transfer to the Trust described above, and, where applicable, such Transfer (or other event) shall be void ab initio as provided above irrespective of any action (or non-action) by the Board of Directors.

Section 10.02.03 Notice of Restricted Transfer . Any Person who acquires or attempts or intends to acquire Beneficial Ownership or Constructive Ownership of shares of Capital Stock that will or may violate Section 10.02.01(a), and any Person who would have owned shares of Capital Stock that resulted in a transfer to the Trust pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.02.01(b), shall immediately give written notice to the Corporation of such event or, in the case of such a proposed or attempted transaction, give at least 15 days prior written notice, and shall provide to the Corporation such other information as the Corporation may request in order to determine the effect, if any, of such Transfer on the Corporation’s status as a REIT.

Section 10.02.04 Owners Required To Provide Information . From the Initial Date and prior to the Restriction Termination Date:

(a) every owner of 5% or more (or such lower percentage as required by the Code or the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder) of the outstanding shares of Capital Stock, within 30 days after the end of each taxable year, shall give written notice to the Corporation stating the name and address of such owner,

 

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the number of shares of Capital Stock Beneficially Owned and a description of the manner in which such shares are held. Each such owner shall provide to the Corporation such additional information as the Corporation may request in order to determine the effect, if any, of such Beneficial Ownership on the Corporation’s status as a REIT and to ensure compliance with the Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit and the Common Stock Ownership Limit; and

(b) each Person who is a Beneficial or Constructive Owner of Capital Stock and each Person (including the shareholder of record) who is holding Capital Stock for a Beneficial or Constructive Owner shall provide to the Corporation in writing such information as the Corporation may request, in order to determine the Corporation’s status as a REIT or to comply with requirements of any taxing authority or governmental authority or to determine such compliance.

Section 10.02.05 Remedies Not Limited . Subject to Section 10.07 of the Articles, nothing contained in this Section 10.02 shall limit the authority of the Board of Directors to take such other action as it deems necessary or advisable to protect the Corporation and the interests of the Shareholders in preserving the Corporation’s status as a REIT.

Section 10.02.06 Ambiguity . In the case of an ambiguity in the application of any of the provisions of this Section 10.02, Section 10.03 or any definition contained in Section 10.01, the Board of Directors may determine the application of the provisions of this Section 10.02 or Section 10.03 or any such definition with respect to any situation based on the facts known to it. In the event Section 10.02 or 10.03 requires an action by the Board of Directors and the Articles fails to provide specific guidance with respect to such action, the Board of Directors may determine the action to be taken so long as such action is not contrary to the provisions of Sections 10.01, 10.02 or 10.03. Absent a decision to the contrary by the Board of Directors, if a Person would have (but for the remedies set forth in Section 10.02.02) acquired Beneficial or Constructive Ownership of Capital Stock in violation of Section 10.02.01, such remedies (as applicable) shall apply first to the shares of Capital Stock which, but for such remedies, would have been Beneficially Owned or Constructively Owned (but not actually owned) by such Person, pro rata among the Persons who actually own such shares of Capital Stock based upon the relative number of the shares of Capital Stock held by each such Person.

Section 10.02.07 Exceptions .

(a) Subject to Section 10.02.01(a)(ii), the Board of Directors may exempt (prospectively or retroactively) a Person from the Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit and the Common Stock Ownership Limit, as the case may be, and may establish or increase an Excepted Holder Limit for such Person if:

(i) the Board of Directors obtains such representations and undertakings from such Person as are reasonably necessary for the Board to ascertain that no individual’s Beneficial or Constructive Ownership of such shares of Capital Stock will violate Section 10.02.01(a)(i);

(ii) the Board of Directors obtains such representations and undertakings from such Person as are reasonably necessary for the Board to ascertain that such Person does not and represents that it will not own, actually or Constructively, an interest in a tenant of the Corporation (or a tenant of any entity owned or controlled by the Corporation) that would cause the Corporation to own, actually or Constructively, more than a 9.9% interest (as set forth in Section 856(d)(2)(B) of the Code) in such tenant (for this purpose, a tenant from whom the Corporation (or an entity owned or controlled by the Corporation) derives (and is expected to continue to derive) a sufficiently small amount of revenue such that, in the judgment of the Board, rent from such tenant would not adversely affect the Corporation’s ability to qualify as a REIT shall not be treated as a tenant of the Corporation); and

(iii) such Person agrees that any violation or attempted violation of such representations or undertakings (or other action which is contrary to the restrictions contained in Sections 10.02.01 through 10.02.06) will result in such shares of Capital Stock being automatically transferred to a Trust in accordance with Sections 10.02.01(b) and 10.03.

 

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(b) Prior to granting any exception or creating any Excepted Holder Limit pursuant to Section 10.02.07(a), the Board of Directors may require a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, or an opinion of counsel, in either case in form and substance satisfactory to the Board of Directors, as it may deem necessary or advisable in order to determine or ensure the Corporation’s status as a REIT. Notwithstanding the receipt of any ruling or opinion, the Board of Directors may impose such conditions or restrictions as it deems appropriate in connection with granting such exception.

(c) Subject to Section 10.02.01(a)(ii), an underwriter which participates in a public offering or a private placement of Capital Stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Capital Stock) may Beneficially Own or Constructively Own shares of Capital Stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Capital Stock) in excess of the Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit, the Common Stock Ownership Limit, or both such limits, but only to the extent necessary to facilitate such public offering or private placement.

(d) The Board of Directors may only revoke an exemption previously granted to any Person pursuant to Section 10.02.07(a) or reduce the Excepted Holder Limit for an Excepted Holder: (1) with the written consent of such exempted Person or Excepted Holder at any time, or (2) pursuant to the terms and conditions of the agreements and undertakings entered into with such exempted Person or Excepted Holder in connection with the establishment of the exemption for such exempted Person or Excepted Holder Limit for that Excepted Holder. No Excepted Holder Limit shall be reduced to a percentage that is less than the Common Stock Ownership Limit.

Section 10.02.08 Increase or Decrease in Common Stock Ownership or Aggregate Stock Ownership Limits . Subject to Section 10.02.01(a)(ii) and this Section 10.02.08, the Board of Directors may from time to time increase or decrease the Common Stock Ownership Limit or the Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit, or both. No decreased Common Stock Ownership Limit or Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit will be effective for any Person whose percentage of ownership of Capital Stock is in excess of such decreased Common Stock Ownership Limit or Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit, as applicable, until such time as such Person’s percentage of ownership of Capital Stock equals or falls below the decreased Common Stock Ownership Limit or Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit, as applicable; provided, however, any further acquisition of Capital Stock by any such Person (other than a Person for whom an exemption has been granted pursuant to Section 10.02.07(a) or an Excepted Holder) in excess of the Capital Stock owned by such person on the date the decreased Common Stock Ownership Limit or Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit, as applicable, became effective will be in violation of the Common Stock Ownership Limit or Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit. No increase to the Common Stock Ownership Limit or Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit may be approved if the new Common Stock Ownership Limit and/or Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit would allow five or fewer Persons to Beneficially Own, in the aggregate more than 49.9% in value of the outstanding Capital Stock.

Section 10.02.09 Legend . Each certificate, if any, for shares of Capital Stock shall bear substantially the following legend:

The shares represented by this certificate are subject to restrictions on Beneficial and Constructive Ownership and Transfer for the purpose, among others, of the Corporation’s maintenance of its status as a Real Estate Investment Trust under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). Subject to certain further restrictions and except as expressly provided in the Corporation’s Articles, (i) no Person may Beneficially or Constructively Own shares of the Corporation’s Common Stock in excess of the Common Stock Ownership Limit unless such Person is an Excepted Holder (in which case the Excepted Holder Limit shall be applicable); (ii) no Person may Beneficially or Constructively Own shares of Capital Stock of the Corporation in excess of the Aggregate Stock Ownership Limit, unless such Person is an Excepted Holder (in which case the Excepted Holder Limit shall be applicable); (iii) no Person may Beneficially or Constructively Own Capital Stock that would result in the Corporation being “closely held” under Section 856(h) of the Code or otherwise cause the Corporation to fail to qualify as a REIT; and (iv) no Person may Transfer shares of Capital Stock if such Transfer would result in the Capital Stock of the Corporation being owned by fewer than 100 Persons. Any Person who Beneficially or Constructively Owns or attempts to Beneficially or Constructively Own shares of Capital Stock which causes or will cause a Person to Beneficially or Constructively Own shares of Capital Stock in excess or in violation of the above limitations must immediately notify the Corporation. If the restrictions on ownership or transfer set forth in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) above are

 

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violated, the shares of Capital Stock represented hereby will be automatically transferred to a Trustee of a Trust for the benefit of one or more Charitable Beneficiaries. In addition, the Corporation may redeem shares upon the terms and conditions specified by the Board of Directors in its sole and absolute discretion if the Board of Directors determines that ownership or a Transfer or other event may violate the restrictions described above. Furthermore, any Transfer of shares of Capital Stock that would result in the Capital Stock of the Corporation being owned by fewer than 100 Persons and, upon the occurrence of certain events, attempted Transfers in violation of the other restrictions described above will be void ab initio . All capitalized terms in this legend have the meanings defined in the Articles of the Corporation, as the same may be amended from time to time, a copy of which, including the restrictions on ownership and transfer of Capital Stock, will be furnished to each holder of Capital Stock of the Corporation on request and without charge. Requests for such a copy may be directed to the Secretary of the Corporation at its Principal Office.

Instead of the foregoing legend, the certificate may state that the Corporation will furnish a full statement about certain restrictions on transferability to a shareholder on request and without charge. If shares of Capital Stock are issued without a certificate, a statement describing the restrictions on ownership and transfer of such shares shall also be included in the written statement of information to the shareholder, if one is sent to any shareholder who is issued uncertificated shares.

Section 10.03 Transfer of Capital Stock in Trust .

Section 10.03.01 Ownership in Trust . Upon any purported Transfer or other event described in Section 10.02.01(b) that would result in a transfer of shares of Capital Stock to a Trust, such shares of Capital Stock shall be deemed to have been transferred to the Trustee as trustee of a Trust for the exclusive benefit of one or more Charitable Beneficiaries. Such transfer to the Trustee shall be deemed to be effective as of the close of business on the Business Day prior to the purported Transfer or other event that results in the transfer to the Trust pursuant to Section 10.02.01(b). The Trustee shall be appointed by the Corporation and shall be a Person unaffiliated with the Corporation and any Prohibited Owner. Each Charitable Beneficiary shall be designated by the Corporation as provided in Section 10.03.06.

Section 10.03.02 Status of Shares Held by the Trustee . Shares of Capital Stock held by the Trustee shall be issued and outstanding shares of Capital Stock of the Corporation. The relevant Prohibited Owner shall have no rights in the shares held by the Trustee. Such Prohibited Owner shall not benefit economically from ownership of any shares held in trust by the Trustee, shall have no rights to dividends or other distributions and shall not possess any rights to vote or other rights attributable to the shares held in the Trust.

Section 10.03.03 Dividend and Voting Rights . The Trustee shall have all voting rights and rights to dividends or other distributions with respect to shares of Capital Stock held in the Trust, which rights shall be exercised for the exclusive benefit of the Charitable Beneficiary. Any dividend or other distribution paid prior to the discovery by the Corporation that the shares of Capital Stock have been transferred to the Trustee shall be paid by the recipient of such dividend or distribution to the Trustee upon demand and any dividend or other distribution authorized but unpaid shall be paid when due to the Trustee. Any dividend or distribution so paid to the Trustee shall be held in trust for the Charitable Beneficiary. The Prohibited Owner shall have no voting rights with respect to shares held in the Trust and, subject to Indiana law, effective as of the date that the shares of Capital Stock have been transferred to the Trustee, the Trustee shall have the authority (at the Trustee’s sole and absolute discretion) (i) to rescind as void any vote cast by a Prohibited Owner prior to the discovery by the Corporation that the shares of Capital Stock have been transferred to the Trustee and (ii) to recast such vote; provided, however, that if the Corporation has already taken irreversible corporate action, then the Trustee shall not have the authority to rescind and recast such vote. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article X, until the Corporation has received notification that shares of Capital Stock have been transferred into a Trust, the Corporation shall be entitled to rely on its share transfer and other shareholder records for purposes of preparing lists of shareholders entitled to vote at meetings, determining the validity and authority of proxies and otherwise conducting votes and determining the other rights of shareholders.

 

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Section 10.03.04 Sale of Shares by Trustee . Within 20 days of receiving notice from the Corporation that shares of Capital Stock have been transferred to the Trust, the Trustee of the Trust shall sell the shares held in the Trust to a person, designated by the Trustee, whose ownership of the shares will not violate the ownership limitations set forth in Section 10.02.01(a). Upon such sale, the interest of the Charitable Beneficiary in the shares sold shall terminate and the Trustee shall distribute the net proceeds of the sale to the relevant Prohibited Owner and to the Charitable Beneficiary as provided in this Section 10.03.04. The Prohibited Owner shall receive the lesser of (1) the price paid by the Prohibited Owner for the shares or, if the event causing the shares to be held in the Trust did not involve a purchase of such shares at Market Price, the Market Price of the shares on the last trading day before the day of such event and (2) the price per share received by the Trustee (net of any commissions and other expenses of sale) from the sale or other disposition of the shares held in the Trust. The Trustee may reduce the amount payable to the Prohibited Owner by the amount of dividends and distributions which have been paid to the Prohibited Owner and are owed by the Prohibited Owner to the Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03.03 of this Article X. Any net sales proceeds in excess of the amount payable to the Prohibited Owner and other amounts held in the trust with respect to such shares shall be immediately paid to the Charitable Beneficiary. If, prior to the discovery by the Corporation that shares of Capital Stock have been transferred to the Trustee, such shares are sold by a Prohibited Owner, then (i) such shares shall be deemed to have been sold on behalf of the Trust and (ii) to the extent that the Prohibited Owner received an amount for such shares that exceeds the amount that such Prohibited Owner was entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 10.03.04, such excess shall be paid to the Trustee upon demand.

Section 10.03.05 Purchase Right in Stock Transferred to the Trustee . Shares of Capital Stock transferred to the Trustee shall be deemed to have been offered for sale to the Corporation, or its designee, at a price per share equal to the lesser of (i) the price per share in the transaction that resulted in the transfer of such shares to the Trust (or, if the event that resulted in the transfer to the Trust did not involve a purchase of such shares at Market Price, the Market Price on the last trading day before the day of such event) and (ii) the Market Price on the date the Corporation, or its designee, accepts such offer. The Corporation may reduce the amount payable by the amount of dividends and distributions which has been paid to the Prohibited Owner and is owed by the Prohibited Owner to the Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03.03 of this Article X and may pay the amount of such reduction to the Trustee for the benefit of the Charitable Beneficiary. The Corporation shall have the right to accept such offer until the Trustee has sold the shares held in the Trust pursuant to Section 10.03.04. Upon such a sale to the Corporation, the interest of the Charitable Beneficiary in the shares sold shall terminate and the Trustee shall distribute the net proceeds of the sale to the Prohibited Owner, and distribute any dividends or other distributions held by the Trustee with respect to the shares to the Charitable Beneficiary.

Section 10.03.06 Designation of Charitable Beneficiaries . By written notice to the Trustee, the Corporation shall designate one or more nonprofit organizations to be the Charitable Beneficiary of the interest in the Trust such that (i) the shares of Capital Stock held in the Trust would not violate the restrictions set forth in Section 10.02.01(a) in the hands of such Charitable Beneficiary and (ii) each such organization must be described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Code and contributions to each such organization must be eligible for deduction under each of Sections 170(b)(1)(A), 2055 and 2522 of the Code. Neither the failure of the Corporation to make such designation nor the failure of the Corporation to appoint the Trustee before the automatic transfer provided in Section 10.02.01(b) shall make such transfer ineffective, provided that the Corporation thereafter makes such designation and appointment.

Section 10.04 NYSE Transactions . Nothing in this Article X shall preclude the settlement of any transaction entered into through the facilities of the NYSE or any other national securities exchange or automated inter-dealer quotation system. The fact that the settlement of any transaction occurs shall not negate the effect of any other provision of this Article X and any transferee in such a transaction shall be subject to all of the provisions and limitations set forth in this Article X.

Section 10.05 Enforcement . The Corporation is authorized specifically to seek equitable relief, including injunctive relief, to enforce the provisions of this Article X.

Section 10.06 Non-Waiver . No delay or failure on the part of the Corporation or the Board of Directors in exercising any right hereunder shall operate as a waiver of any right of the Corporation or the Board of Directors, as the case may be, except to the extent specifically waived in writing.

Section 10.07 Termination of Restrictions . The Board of Directors, in its sole and absolute discretion, may (a) determine that compliance with any restriction or limitation on stock ownership and transfers set forth in Article X is no longer required for REIT qualification and (b) make any other determination or take any other action pursuant to Article X.

 

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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 notwithstanding 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 violation of law, (iii) under Indiana 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

 

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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.

(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.

 

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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

Fifth 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.

 

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(iii) Any funds deposited with a bank or trust company for the purpose of redeeming Series J 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 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

Fifth 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.

 

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(iii) Any funds deposited with a bank or trust company for the purpose of redeeming Series K 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 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

Fifth 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.

 

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(iii) Any funds deposited with a bank or trust company for the purpose of redeeming Series L 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 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).

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

 

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Exhibit 3.2

 

 

FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

OF

DUKE REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

 

 

Dated as of May 5, 2014


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I            GENERAL PROVISIONS

     1   

Section 1.01.

 

Name

     1   

Section 1.02.

 

Place of Business

     1   

Section 1.03.

 

Continuation and Term

     1   

Section 1.04.

 

Definitions

     1   

ARTICLE II            MEMBERS AND STATUS

     9   

Section 2.01.

 

The Partners

     9   

Section 2.02.

 

Additional Partners

     9   

Section 2.03.

 

Classification and Ownership of Units

     9   

Section 2.04.

 

Liability of General Partner

     10   

Section 2.05.

 

Limitation Upon Liability of Limited Partners

     11   

ARTICLE III          SCOPE OF PARTNERSHIP AND MODE OF OPERATION

     12   

Section 3.01.

 

Scope of Partnership

     12   

Section 3.02.

 

Powers of the Partnership

     12   

Section 3.03.

 

Management of the Partnership

     13   

Section 3.04.

 

Limitation on Powers

     13   

Section 3.05.

 

Non-Participation in Management by Limited Partners

     13   

Section 3.06.

 

Time to be Devoted to Business

     13   

Section 3.07.

 

Dealings With Related Entities

     13   

Section 3.08.

 

Other Business

     14   

Section 3.09.

 

Restriction on the General Partner and Partnership Activities

     14   

Section 3.10.

 

Indemnification

     15   

Section 3.11.

 

Voting Rights of Partners

     16   

Section 3.12.

 

Approval Procedures

     17   

Section 3.13.

 

Loans to and from the Partnership

     17   

Section 3.14.

 

Reimbursement of Expenses

     17   

Section 3.15.

 

Indemnification of Certain Recourse Debt

     18   

 

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ARTICLE IV          CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS, PROFITS AND LOSSES AND DISTRIBUTIONS

     18   

Section 4.01.

 

Purchase of Units and Capital Contributions

     18   

Section 4.02.

 

Issuance of Additional Partnership Interests

     18   

Section 4.03.

 

Distributable Cash

     19   

Section 4.04.

 

Distributions From Terminating Capital Transaction

     19   

Section 4.05.

 

Allocation of Profits and Losses

     19   

Section 4.06.

 

Mandatory Allocations

     21   

Section 4.07.

 

Other Allocation Rules

     22   

Section 4.08.

 

Tax Allocations; Code Section 704(c)

     22   

Section 4.09.

 

General Provisions

     22   

Section 4.10.

 

No Interest on Capital Accounts

     23   

Section 4.11.

 

Distribution of Property

     23   

Section 4.12.

 

Return of Capital Contribution

     23   

ARTICLE V            ACCOUNTING, REPORTING AND HOLDING OF ASSETS

     23   

Section 5.01.

 

Fiscal Year

     23   

Section 5.02.

 

Records, Accounting and Reports

     23   

Section 5.03.

 

Right to Inspection

     24   

Section 5.04.

 

Holding and Transfer of Assets

     24   

Section 5.05.

 

Bank Accounts

     25   

Section 5.06.

 

Tax Status; Notice of Tax Controversy

     25   

Section 5.07.

 

Tax Matters Partner; Tax Elections; Tax Returns

     25   

Section 5.08.

 

Tax Matters Partner Not Liable

     26   

Section 5.09.

 

Withholding

     26   

ARTICLE VI           DISSOLUTION AND CONTINUATION OF PARTNERSHIP

     27   

Section 6.01.

 

Dissolution

     27   

Section 6.02.

 

Notice of Dissolution

     27   

Section 6.03.

 

Continuation of Partnership

     27   

Section 6.04.

 

Extension of Term

     27   

 

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ARTICLE VII         TRANSFER OF UNITS AND CHANGES IN PARTNERS

     27   

Section 7.01.

 

General Partner Transfers Restricted

     27   

Section 7.02.

 

Limited Partner Transfers Restricted

     28   

Section 7.03.

 

Transfer and Assignment of Partnership Interest

     29   

Section 7.04.

 

Substitution as a Partner

     30   

Section 7.05.

 

Additional Conditions to Assignment and Substitution

     30   

Section 7.06.

 

Allocation Upon Assignment or Redemption

     30   

Section 7.07.

 

Redemption Right

     30   

Section 7.08.

 

Effect of Transfer

     32   

ARTICLE VIII        LIQUIDATION

     32   

Section 8.01.

 

Liquidation Determination

     32   

Section 8.02.

 

Liquidation Procedure

     32   

Section 8.03.

 

Allocation of Liquidation Proceeds

     33   

ARTICLE IX          MISCELLANEOUS

     33   

Section 9.01.

 

Notice

     33   

Section 9.02.

 

Construction

     33   

Section 9.03.

 

Assigns and Successors in Interest

     33   

Section 9.04.

 

Assignment

     33   

Section 9.05.

 

Amendment

     33   

Section 9.06.

 

Certificate of Limited Partnership

     34   

Section 9.07.

 

Further Assurances

     35   

Section 9.08.

 

Warranties of Representatives

     35   

Section 9.09.

 

Computation of Time

     35   

Section 9.10.

 

Captions

     35   

Section 9.11.

 

Identification

     35   

Section 9.12.

 

Counterparts

     35   

Section 9.13.

 

Partners’ Capability

     35   

Section 9.14.

 

Severability

     35   

Section 9.15.

 

Approval or Consent

     35   

 

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Section 9.16.

 

Meetings

     35   

Section 9.17.

 

Consent of Partners and Assignees

     35   

Section 9.18.

 

Limitation on Benefits of this Agreement

     35   

Section 9.19.

 

Special Power of Attorney

     36   

 

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FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

OF

DUKE REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

Duke Realty Corporation, an Indiana corporation and the Persons whose names are set forth on Exhibit 1 hereto, hereby adopt and agree as provided in the following Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership (the “ Agreement ”).

ARTICLE I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 1.01. Name . The name of the Partnership is Duke Realty Limited Partnership.

Section 1.02. Place of Business . The specified office of the Partnership shall be 600 East 96 th Street, Suite 100, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240, or such location as may be selected from time to time by the General Partner.

Section 1.03. Continuation and Term . The Partners agree that as of the date of this Agreement (i) the Persons listed in Exhibit 1 (other than the General Partner) are Limited Partners and (ii) the Fourth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership dated October 28, 2009 (the “Prior Partnership Agreement”) that previously evidenced the Partnership is hereby amended and restated in its entirety, subject to the terms provided herein, and the Partnership is continued without interruption under and pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Act. The term of the Partnership shall extend until December 31, 2099, subject to extension as provided in Section 6.04, unless sooner terminated as hereinafter provided.

Section 1.04. Definitions . The following terms have the following meanings herein:

Act ” means the Indiana Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, as now or hereafter amended.

Additional Limited Partner ” means a Person admitted to the Partnership as a Limited Partner pursuant to Sections 2.02 and 4.02, and who is shown as such on the books and records of the Partnership.

Adjusted Capital Account ” means, with respect to any Partner, such Partner’s Capital Account as of the end of the relevant fiscal year or other period, after giving effect to the following adjustments:

 

  (i) Credit to such Capital Account any amounts which such Partner is obligated to restore pursuant to this Agreement or an Indemnity Agreement, deemed obligated to restore to the Partnership pursuant to Section 1.704-l(b)(2)(ii)(c) of the Treasury Regulations or deemed obligated to restore to the Partnership pursuant to Sections 1.704-2(g)(1) and 1.704-2(i)(5) of the Treasury Regulations, and

 

  (ii) Debit to such Capital Account the items described in Section 1.704-1 (b)(2)(ii)(d)(4), (5) and (6) of the Treasury Regulations.

Affiliate ” means a Person who, with respect to another person, directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such other Person.

Aggregate Indemnity Amount ” means with respect to the Indemnitor Partners, as a group, the aggregate amount of Indemnity Amounts, if any, of the Indemnitor Partners, as determined on the date in question.

Aggregate Restoration Amount ” means with respect to the Obligated Partners, as a group, the aggregate amount of the Restoration Amounts, if any, of the Obligated Partners, as determined on the date in question.

Agreed Value ” means (i) in the case of any property owned by the Partnership as of the date immediately prior to the Merger, the fair market value of such property; and (ii) in the case of any Contributed Property contributed pursuant to or subsequent to the Merger, the fair market value of such property or other consideration at the time of contribution, in each case as determined by the General Partner using such reasonable method of valuation as it may adopt, reduced in either case by any liabilities either assumed by the Partnership upon such contribution or to which such property is subject when contributed.

 

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Assignee ” means a Person who has acquired a direct beneficial interest in the Partnership but who has not become a Substituted Partner.

Assignee of Record ” means an Assignee whose beneficial interest in the Partnership has been recorded on the books of the Partnership and is the subject of a written assignment, the effective date of which has passed.

Assignment ” means, for purposes of Article VII with regard to Units, any sale, assignment, transfer, pledge, encumbrance or other disposition of, or the granting of a security interest in, one or more Units, including without limitation a transfer in connection with a dissolution, merger, consolidation or similar action of a Partner or an Assignee, but does not include a redemption or acquisition of Units from a Limited Partner pursuant to Section 7.07. “Assign” means to effect an Assignment.

Bankruptcy ” means, with respect to a Person, the happening of any of the following:

 

  (i) The entry by a court or governmental agency having jurisdiction in the premises of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Person in an involuntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of such Person, or for any substantial part of such Person’s property or ordering the winding up or liquidation of such Person’s affairs, and such decree or order remaining unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or

 

  (ii) The consent by the Person to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of any substantial part of such Person’s property, or the filing of a pleading in any court of record admitting in writing the inability of the Person to pay his, her or its debts as they come due; or

 

  (iii) The commencement by the Person of a voluntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by such Person to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law; or

 

  (iv) The making by the Person of a general assignment for the benefit of creditors.

Business Day ” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York or Indianapolis, Indiana are authorized or required by law to close.

Capital Account ” means, as to any Partner, a book account maintained in accordance with the following provisions: To each Partner’s Capital Account there shall be credited:

 

  (i) The Agreed Value of any property other than cash such Partner has contributed to the Partnership as a Capital Contribution;

 

  (ii) The amount of cash such Partner has contributed to the Partnership (including any contribution pursuant to Section 4.01 and Section 2.05, and including any payments in satisfaction of Recourse Liabilities made by an Indemnitor Partner pursuant to an Indemnity Agreement);

 

  (iii) The amount of Profits allocated to such Partner and any items in the nature of income or profits that are specifically allocated to such Partner pursuant to Section 4.06; and

 

  (iv) The amount of any liabilities of the Partnership that are assumed by the Partner or are secured by any property distributed by the Partnership to such Partner determined in accordance with Treasury Regulations issued under Section 752 of the Code;

To each Partner’s Capital Account there shall be debited:

 

  (i) The amount of cash and the gross fair market value of any Partnership asset distributed to such Partner with respect to the Partner’s Units pursuant to any provision of this Agreement;

 

  (ii) The amount of Losses allocated to such Partner and any items in the nature of expenses or losses that are allocated to such Partner pursuant to Section 4.06; and

 

  (iii) Any reimbursement by the Partnership to an Indemnitor Partner pursuant to an Indemnity Agreement.

 

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Each Partner’s Capital Account shall be further maintained and adjusted in accordance with the Code and Treasury Regulations thereunder, including any other adjustments to Capital Accounts provided in the Treasury Regulations issued under Section 704 of the Code, such as, but not limited to, increases or decreases to reflect a revaluation of Partnership property on the Partnership’s books in accordance with the rules of Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f). The foregoing provisions and other provisions of this Agreement relating to the maintenance of Capital Accounts are intended to comply with Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b), and shall be interpreted and applied in a manner consistent with such Treasury Regulations. Any questions with respect to a Partner’s Capital Account shall be resolved by the General Partner in its reasonable discretion, applying principles consistent with this Agreement. Generally, a transferee of a Partnership interest shall succeed to the Capital Account relating to the Partnership interest transferred or the corresponding portion thereof. The Capital Account of a Partner may, under certain circumstances, be an amount less than zero.

Capital Contribution ” means the total amount of cash and the Agreed Value of any Contributed Property contributed to the Partnership by a Partner.

Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any corresponding provision of succeeding law). A reference to a section of the Code shall be deemed to include any amendatory or successor provision thereto.

Code Section 705(a)(2)(B) Expenditures ” mean expenditures described in Code Section 705(a)(2)(B) and any amounts treated as Code Section 705(a)(2)(B) expenditures under Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(i)(2).

Common Units ” means Units that are not Preferred Units.

Contributed Property ” means each property or other asset, in such form as may be permitted by the Act, but excluding cash, contributed by any Partner or deemed contributed by any Partner to the Partnership.

Current Market Price ” means for a REIT Share at any date, the average of the daily closing prices for thirty (30) consecutive Business Days, where the closing price for each day is (A) the last reported sale price or, in case no such reported sale takes place on such day, the average of the last reported bid and asked prices, in either case on the principal national securities exchange registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, on which the REIT Shares are admitted to trading or listed; or (B) if not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, the mean between the closing high bid and low asked quotations of the REIT Shares on any system of automated dissemination of quotations of securities prices then in common use, if so quoted; or (C) if not so listed or admitted for trading on such exchange and if not so quoted, the mean between the high bid and low asked quotations for REIT Shares as reported by the OTC Pink Sheets or such other nationally recognized quotation service selected by the General Partner for that purpose, if at least two securities dealers have inserted both bid and asked quotations for the REIT Shares on at least five (5) of the ten (10) trading days preceding such valuation date; or (D) if none of the conditions set forth in (A), (B), or (C) is met, unless the holder of the REIT Shares or Units and the General Partner otherwise agree, the fair market value of such REIT Shares as determined by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. mutually acceptable to such holder and the General Partner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Current Market Price” for purposes of determining any Redemption Amount being paid in cash to any Redeeming Partner who was a limited partner of Weeks Realty, L.P. immediately prior to the Merger on any date, shall mean the average of the closing prices for the ten (10) consecutive Business Days ending on such date.

Depreciation ” means for each fiscal year or other period, an amount equal to the depreciation, amortization, or other cost recovery deduction allowable for federal income tax purposes with respect to an asset for such year or other period, except that if the Partnership asset is reflected on the books of the Partnership at a book value that differs from the adjusted tax basis of such asset pursuant to Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(d) or 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f) of the Treasury Regulations, depreciation, amortization, or other cost recovery deductions shall be computed for book purposes with respect to such asset pursuant to Section 1.704-1 (b)(2)(iv)(g) or 1.704-3(2) of the Treasury Regulations.

 

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Distributable Cash ” means, with respect to any period for which such calculation is being made, the sum of:

 

  (i) The Partnership’s Profit or Loss (as the case may be, with any Loss stated as a negative number) for such period;

 

  (ii) Depreciation and all other noncash charges deducted in determining Profit or Loss for such period;

 

  (iii) The amount of any reduction in reserves of the Partnership referred to in clause (xi) below (including, without limitation, reductions resulting because the General Partner determines such amounts are no longer necessary);

 

  (iv) The excess of proceeds (net of transaction expenses) from the sale, exchange, disposition, or financing or refinancing of Partnership property for such period over any gain recognized from such sale, exchange, disposition, or financing or refinancing during such period (excluding Terminating Capital Transactions);

 

  (v) Any expense or loss amount included in determining Profit or Loss for such period that was not disbursed by the Partnership during such period; and

 

  (vi) All other cash received by the Partnership for such period that was not included in clauses (i) to (v) above with respect to such period;

less the sum of:

 

  (vii) All principal debt payments made during such period by the Partnership;

 

  (viii) Capital expenditures made by the Partnership during such period;

 

  (ix) Investments in any entity (including loans made thereto) to the extent that such investments are not otherwise described in clauses (vii) or (viii);

 

  (x) Any income or gain amount included in determining Profit or Loss for such period that was not received by the Partnership during such period;

 

  (xi) The amount of any increase in reserves established during such period which the General Partner determines is necessary or appropriate in its sole and absolute discretion; and

 

  (xii) All other expenditures and payments not deducted in determining Profit or Loss or included in clauses (vii) to (xi) with respect to such period.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributable Cash shall not include any cash received or reductions in reserves, or take into account any disbursements made or reserves established, after commencement of the dissolution and liquidation of the Partnership.

Distribution ” means any cash or property distributed to a Partner or Assignee arising from its interest in the Partnership.

Duke Services ” means Duke Realty Services Limited Partnership, an Indiana limited partnership and Duke Realty Services, LLC, an Indiana limited liability company.

Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time in the United States.

General Partner ” means Duke Realty Corporation, an Indiana corporation.

Immediate Family ” has the meaning given to such term in Rule 16a-l(e) under the Exchange Act.

Incapacity ” or “ Incapacitated ” means, (i) as to any individual Partner, death, total physical disability or entry by a court of competent jurisdiction adjudicating him incompetent to manage his Person or his estate; (ii) as to any corporation which is a Partner, the filing of a certificate of dissolution, or its equivalent, for the corporation or the revocation of its charter, (iii) as to any partnership which is a Partner, the dissolution and commencement of winding

 

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up of the partnership; (iv) as to any estate which is a Partner, the distribution by the fiduciary of the estate’s entire interest in the Partnership; (v) as to any trustee of a trust which is a Partner, the termination of the trust (but not the substitution of a new trustee); or (vi) as to any Partner, the Bankruptcy of such Partner.

Indemnity Agreement ” means an agreement between a Partner and the General Partner pursuant to which such Partner has agreed to indemnify the General Partner from and against payment of a portion of the Partnership’s Recourse Liabilities and which shifts the economic risk of loss, within the meaning of Section 1.752-2 of the Treasury Regulations, to one or more Partners. Each Partner who is a party to an Indemnity Agreement is listed on Exhibit 7 attached hereto as an “Indemnitor,” together with the Indemnity Amount of such Indemnitor.

Indemnity Amount ” means the maximum amount of Partnership Recourse Liabilities as to which an Indemnitor Partner (or a person related to an Indemnitor Partner within the meaning of Section 1.752-4(b) of the Treasury Regulations) has agreed to bear the economic risk of loss (within the meaning of Section 1.752-2 of the Treasury Regulations) through an Indemnity Agreement.

Indemnitor Partners ” means those Partners who are allocated the economic risk of loss as to a portion of the Partnership’s Recourse Liabilities through an Indemnity Agreement.

Insolvent ” means, with respect to a Person, a situation where (i) the Person is unable to pay its debts as they become due in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) the Person’s liabilities exceed the Person’s assets as determined under GAAP.

IRS ” means the Internal Revenue Service.

Limited Partners ” means (i) the Partners listed in Exhibit 1 hereto other than the General Partner, (ii) Additional Limited Partners and (iii) successors who have complied with the requirements of Article VII and who have been accepted as Substituted Partners pursuant to Section 7.04, in each case until all of the Units owned by any such Person are transferred under Article VII.

Liquidation Preference Amount ” means with respect to any Preferred Unit, the amount payable with respect to such Preferred Unit pursuant to the applicable Partnership Unit Designation upon the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Partnership, as the case may be, as determined under the applicable Partnership Unit Designation.

Merger ” means the merger between Weeks Realty, L.P., a Georgia limited partnership, with and into the Partnership pursuant to an agreement and plan of merger dated February 28, 1999; such merger being in connection with and in contemplation of a merger between Weeks Corporation, a Georgia corporation, with and into the General Partner.

Nonrecourse Deductions ” means the nonrecourse deductions as defined in Section 1.704-2(b)( 1) of the Treasury Regulations. The amount of Nonrecourse Deductions for a fiscal year equals the net increase, if any, in the amount of Partnership Minimum Gain during such fiscal year reduced by any distributions during such fiscal year of proceeds of a Nonrecourse Liability that are allocable to an increase in Partnership Minimum Gain, determined according to the provisions of Sections 1.704-2(c) and 1.704-2(h) of the Treasury Regulations.

Nonrecourse Liability ” means a liability described in Section 1.704-2(b)(3) of the Treasury Regulations.

Notice of Redemption ” means the Notice of Redemption substantially in the form of Exhibit 3 to this Agreement.

Obligated Partner(s) ” means that or those Limited Partner(s) listed as Obligated Partner(s) on Exhibit 5 attached hereto and made a part hereof, as such Exhibit may be amended from time to time by the General Partner, whether by express amendment to this Partnership Agreement or by execution of a written instrument by and between any additional Obligated Partner(s) being directly affected thereby and the General Partner, acting on behalf of the Partnership and without the prior consent of the Limited Partners (whether or not such Limited Partners are Obligated Partners or Indemnitor Partners other than the Obligated Partner(s) being directly affected thereby). Any successor, Assignee, or transferee of the entire Partnership Interest of an Obligated Partner shall be considered an Obligated Partner; provided , however, that (i) if an entity Obligated Partner makes a distribution of all or any

 

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portion of its Units, the General Partner shall, upon receipt of written notice from such Obligated Partner and such distributee(s) of Units, amend Exhibit 5 to add any such distributee(s) as an additional Obligated Partner in the manner set forth in such notice, and (ii) the General Partner shall not become an Obligated Partner with respect to any Units acquired from an Obligated Partner pursuant to Section 7.07 or otherwise.

Obligated Partner-Controlled Partnership ” means any of those certain general partnerships that, on August 24, 1994, had as its sole partners an Obligated Partner and a corporation wholly-owned by such Obligated Partner and that became a Limited Partner in Weeks Realty, L.P. at that date.

Partner ” means the General Partner or any Limited Partner.

Partner Minimum Gain ” means an amount with respect to each Partner Nonrecourse Debt, equal to the Partnership Minimum Gain that would result if such Partner Nonrecourse Debt were treated as a Nonrecourse Liability, determined in accordance with Section 1.704-2(i)(3) of the Treasury Regulations.

Partner Nonrecourse Debt ” means a liability as defined in Section 1.704-2(b)(4) of the Treasury Regulations.

Partner Nonrecourse Deductions ” means the partner nonrecourse deductions as defined in Section 1.704-2(i)(2) of the Treasury Regulations. The amount of Partner Nonrecourse Deductions with respect to a Partner Nonrecourse Debt for a fiscal year equals the net increase, if any, in the amount of Partner Minimum Gain during such fiscal year attributable to such Partner Nonrecourse Debt, reduced by any distributions during that fiscal year to the Partner that bears the economic risk of loss for such Partner Nonrecourse Debt to the extent that such distributions are from the proceeds of such Partner Nonrecourse Debt and are allocable to an increase in Partner Minimum Gain attributable to such Partner Nonrecourse Debt, determined according to the provisions of Sections 1.704-2(h) and 1.704-2(i) of the Treasury Regulations.

Partnership ” means the partnership governed by this Agreement.

Partnership Minimum Gain ” means the aggregate gain, if any, that would be realized by the Partnership for purposes of computing Profits and Losses with respect to each Partnership asset if each Partnership asset subject to a Nonrecourse Liability were disposed of for the amount outstanding on the Nonrecourse Liability by the Partnership in a taxable transaction. Partnership Minimum Gain with respect to each Partnership asset shall be further determined in accordance with Section 1.704-2(d) of the Treasury Regulations and any subsequent rule or regulation governing the determination of minimum gain. A Partner’s share of Partnership Minimum Gain at the end of any Partnership year shall equal the aggregate Nonrecourse Deductions allocated to such Partner (or his predecessors in interest) up to that time, less such Partner’s (and predecessors’) aggregate share of decreases in Partnership Minimum Gain determined in accordance with Section 1.704-2(g) of the Treasury Regulations.

Partnership Record Date ” means the record date established by the General Partner for the distribution of Distributable Cash pursuant to Section 4.03 hereof, which record date shall be the same as the record date established by the General Partner for a distribution to its shareholders of some or all of its portion of such distribution.

Partnership Unit Designation ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.02.

Percentage Share ” means, with respect to each Partner, the product of 100% and a fraction, the numerator of which is equal to the number of Common Units owned by the Partner and the denominator of which is equal to the total number of outstanding Common Units.

Permitted Transaction ” means a merger by the General Partner with another entity, immediately after which substantially all of the assets of the surviving entity, other than Units held by the General Partner, are contributed to the Partnership as a Capital Contribution in exchange for Units with a fair market value equal to the net fair market value of the assets so contributed.

Person ” means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, estate, trust, pension or profit-sharing plan or other entity.

 

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Preferred Units ” means (i) the Units described in Exhibits J through L that are outstanding on the date of this Agreement and (ii) all other Units issued after the date of this Agreement pursuant to Section 4.02 that are designated as Preferred Units.

Profits ” and “ Losses ” mean, for each fiscal year or other period, an amount equal to the Partnership’s taxable income or loss for such fiscal year or period, determined in accordance with Code Section 703(a) (for this purpose, all items of income, gain, loss or deduction required to be stated separately pursuant to Code Section 703(a)(1) shall be included in taxable income or loss), with the following adjustments:

 

  (i) Any income of the Partnership that is exempt from federal income tax and not otherwise taken into account in computing Profits or Losses shall be added to such taxable income or loss;

 

  (ii) Any Code Section 705(a)(2)(B) Expenditures not otherwise taken into account in computing Profits or Losses shall be subtracted from such taxable income or loss;

 

  (iii) In the event any asset of the Partnership is distributed to any Partner or sold by the Partnership, the difference on such date between (a) the gross fair market value and (b) either (1) the adjusted basis of the asset for federal income tax purposes, or (2) if the asset is reflected on the books of the Partnership at a book value that differs from the adjusted tax basis of such asset pursuant to Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-l(b)(2)(iv)(d) or 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f), the gross fair market value on the date of the contribution of the asset to the Partnership or the gross fair market value of the asset on the date of the asset’s revaluation on the Partnership’s books, as the case may be (as determined by the General Partner) less Depreciation, shall be taken into account as gain or loss from the disposition of such asset for purposes of computing Profits or Losses;

 

  (iv) In lieu of the depreciation, amortization, and other cost recovery deductions taken into account in computing such taxable income or loss, there shall be taken into account Depreciation for such fiscal year or other period; and

 

  (v) Notwithstanding any other provision of this definition, any items which are allocated pursuant to Section 4.06 hereof shall not be taken into account in computing Profits and Losses.

Recourse Liabilities ” means, as of the date of determination, the amount of indebtedness owed by the Partnership on that date other than Nonrecourse Liabilities and Partner Nonrecourse Debt.

Redeeming Partner ” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.07.

Redemption Amount ” means either (i) the REIT Shares Amount, or (ii) upon a determination by the General Partner in the reasonable exercise of its discretion that transfer of the REIT Shares Amount to the Redeeming Partner could cause the General Partner to fail to qualify as a REIT, an amount of cash equal to the REIT Shares Amount times the Current Market Price per REIT Share as of the date of receipt by the General Partner of the Notice of Redemption (or, if such date is not a Business Day, the first Business Day thereafter).

Redemption Ratio ” means the amount determined in accordance with Section 7.07(d).

Redemption Right ” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.07.

REIT ” means a real estate investment trust under Section 856 of the Code.

REIT Share ” means a share of common stock of the General Partner.

REIT Shares Amount ” means a number of REIT Shares equal to the product of the number of Units offered for redemption by a Redeeming Partner, multiplied by the Redemption Ratio; provided , however, that in the event the General Partner issues to all holders of REIT Shares rights, options, warrants or convertible or exchangeable securities entitling the shareholders to subscribe for or purchase REIT Shares, or any other securities or property (collectively, “ rights ”) and the General Partner can issue such, rights to Persons exercising the Redemption Right, then the REIT Shares Amount also includes such rights that a holder of that number of REIT Shares would be entitled to receive.

 

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Restoration Amount ” means with respect to any Obligated Partner, the amount set forth opposite the name of such Obligated Partner on Exhibit 5 hereto and made a part hereof, as such Exhibit may be modified from time to time by an amendment to the Partnership Agreement or by execution of a written instrument by and between any additional Obligated Partner(s) being directly affected thereby and the General Partner, acting on behalf of the Partnership and without the prior written consent of the Limited Partners (whether or not such Limited Partners are Obligated Partners or Indemnitor Partners other than the Obligated Partner(s) being directly affected (thereby). If an entity Obligated Partner makes a distribution of all or any portion of its Units, and the General Partner receives a written notice from such Obligated Partner and any distributee (s) of Units to amend Exhibit 5 to add such distributee(s) as additional Obligated Partner(s), the Restoration Amount of such additional Obligated Partner(s) shall be increased by an amount equal to that amount set forth in such notice, and the Restoration Amount of the Obligated Partner making such distribution shall be reduced by such amount. Those Limited Partners who were limited partners of Weeks Realty, L.P. immediately prior to the Merger shall be given proportionate opportunities to increase any Restoration Amount which they have elected to restore upon liquidation of their interest in the Partnership (as more particularly provided in Section 2.05 hereof) on the same basis, if any, as is provided generally to Limited Partners.

Special Partner Approval ” means the approval of Partners holding more than ninety percent (90%) of the outstanding Common Units.

Specified Redemption Date ” means the tenth Business Day after receipt by the General Partner of a Notice of Redemption or such earlier date as determined in the sole and absolute discretion of the General Partner; provided , however, that if the General Partner combines its outstanding REIT Shares into a smaller number of REIT Shares, no Specified Redemption Date shall occur between the record date and the effective date of such combination.

Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation or other entity of which a majority of (i) the voting power of the voting equity securities or (ii) the fair market value of the outstanding equity interests is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person.

Substituted Partner ” means an Assignee of Record, or other Person, who becomes a Partner pursuant to Article VII.

Tax Matters Partner ” means the General Partner, or any successor thereto appointed by the General Partner.

Terminating Capital Transaction ” means either the sale, exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Partnership in a single transaction or a related series of transactions or a dissolution of the Partnership unless the Partnership is continued.

Total Assets ” means, as of the date of determination, all assets of the Partnership on that date, determined on a consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP.

Total Liabilities ” means, as of the date of determination, all liabilities of the Partnership on that date, determined on a consolidated basis in conformity with GAAP.

Treasury Regulations ” means the Income Tax Regulations promulgated under the Code as such Treasury Regulations may be amended from time to time (including Temporary Regulations). A reference to any Treasury Regulation shall be deemed to include any amendatory or successor provision thereto.

Unaffiliated General Partner Directors ” means the members of the General Partner’s board of directors who satisfy the definition of “Unaffiliated Directors” in the General Partner’s Articles of Incorporation, as now or hereafter amended.

Unit ” means a unit of partner interest in the Partnership (including Preferred and Common Units), representing a Capital Contribution and/or a right to receive a share of the Partnership’s Profits, Losses or Distributions, and in all cases the rights, powers and privileges appurtenant thereto in accordance with this Agreement.

Such terms shall be used either in the singular or plural and may be referred to in any gender as required by the context.

 

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ARTICLE II

MEMBERS AND STATUS

Section 2.01. The Partners . The Partners of the Partnership shall consist of and be divided into a general partner and limited partners, with the General Partner as the sole general partner and the Limited Partners as the limited partners.

Section 2.02. Additional Partners . Except as provided in Sections 6.03 and 7.0l(c), no additional general partners shall be admitted. Subject to the limitations of Article VII, Persons who are issued Units by the Partnership, through purchase or otherwise, may be admitted as Additional Limited Partners from time to time by the General Partner subject to and as provided in this Agreement.

Section 2.03. Classification and Ownership of Units .

(a) Units consist of Common Units and Preferred Units. The Partnership may issue an unlimited number of Units. Units may be issued to, acquired and owned by Limited Partners or the General Partner.

(b) The General Partner may, in its sole discretion and without the consent of any other Partner, cause the Partnership to split or reverse split the outstanding Units and (a) in the case of a split, issue to each Partner an additional whole number of Units, such that thereafter the Partner owns a number of Units equal to the number of Units previously owned by such Partner times a fraction which is greater than one, or (b) in the case of a reverse split, cause a reduction in the whole number of Units owned by each Partner, such that thereafter the Partner owns a number of Units equal to the number of Units previously owned by such Partner times a fraction which is less than one.

(c) The General Partner shall cause the Partnership to issue one or more certificates in the names of the Partners owning Units to any Partner who requests such a certificate. Each such certificate shall be denominated in terms of the number of Units evidenced by such certificate. Each such certificate shall contain legends specifying restrictions on transfer imposed by this Agreement or by applicable law and noting the restrictions and agreements contained in Article VII. Upon the transfer, in accordance with Article VII, of a Unit evidenced by a certificate, the General Partner shall cause the Partnership to issue replacement certificates, in accordance with such procedures as the General Partner, in its sole and absolute discretion, may establish. Holders of Units which are not evidenced by certificates will be entitled to all the rights of ownership of such Units notwithstanding the fact that they are not evidenced by certificates.

(d) The Partnership shall issue a new certificate in place of any certificate previously issued if the record holder of such certificate:

 

  (i) Makes proof by affidavit, in form and substance satisfactory to the General Partner, that such previously issued certificate has been lost, destroyed, or stolen;

 

  (ii) Requests the issuance of a new certificate before the Partnership has notice that such previously issued certificate has been acquired by a purchaser for value in good faith and without notice of an adverse claim;

 

  (iii) If requested by the General Partner, delivers to the Partnership a bond, in form and substance satisfactory to the General Partner, with such surety or sureties and with fixed or open penalty, as the General Partner may direct, to indemnify the Partnership against any claim that may be made on account of the alleged loss, destruction, or theft of such previously issued certificate; and

 

  (iv) Satisfies any other reasonable requirements imposed by the General Partner.

When a previously issued certificate has been lost, destroyed, or stolen, and the Partner fails to notify the Partnership within a reasonable time after it has notice of such event, and a transfer of Units represented by the certificate is registered before the Partnership receives such notification, the Partner shall be precluded from making any claim against the Partnership with respect to such transfer or for a new certificate.

 

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(e) The Partnership shall be entitled to treat each record holder as the Partner or Assignee of Record of any Units and, accordingly, shall not be required to recognize any equitable or other claim or interest in or with respect to such Units on the part of any other Person, regardless of whether the Partnership shall have actual or other notice thereof and regardless of whether such Person shall have possession of any certificate representing such Units, except as otherwise required by law.

Section 2.04. Liability of General Partner .

(a) Subject to the limitations expressed in this Section, the General Partner shall have unlimited liability for the repayment, satisfaction and discharge of the obligations of the Partnership to third parties dealing with the Partnership as prescribed by law, except for nonrecourse obligations of the Partnership. The General Partner is not liable to the Partnership and the Limited Partners (i) for return of the Capital Contribution or any portion thereof of any Limited Partner, (ii) on account of any disallowance or adjustment by a taxing authority of the allocation of taxable income, gain, losses, deductions or credits in Partnership income tax returns, (iii) on account of any failure by the Partnership to achieve any forecasted financial return or (iv) for any action or omission to act not constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, the General Partner shall not be liable for monetary damages to the Partnership, any Partners or any Assignees for losses sustained or liabilities incurred as a result of errors in judgment or any act or omission if the General Partner acted in good faith.

(c) The Limited Partners (and Assignees by acceptance of an Assignment) expressly acknowledge that the General Partner is acting on behalf of its shareholders collectively, that the General Partner is under no obligation to consider the separate interests of the Limited Partners or Assignees (including, without limitation, the tax consequences to Limited Partners or Assignees) in deciding whether to cause the Partnership to take (or decline to take) any actions, and that the General Partner shall not be liable for monetary damages for losses sustained, liabilities incurred, or benefits not derived by Limited Partners or Assignees in connection with such decisions, provided that the General Partner has not acted in bad faith. The General Partner shall be conclusively presumed not to have acted in bad faith if it reasonably believed that its actions were in the best interests of its shareholders.

(d) Subject to its obligations and duties as General Partner set forth in Section 3.03 hereof, the General Partner may exercise any of the powers granted to it by this Agreement and perform any of the duties imposed upon it hereunder either directly or by or through its agents. The General Partner shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent appointed by it in good faith.

(e) Any amendment, modification or repeal of this Section 2.04, or any provision hereof, shall be prospective only and shall not in any way affect the limitations on the General Partner’s liability to the Partnership and the Limited Partners under this Section 2.04 as in effect immediately prior to such amendment, modification or repeal with respect to claims arising from or relating to matters occurring, in whole or in part, prior to such amendment, modification or repeal, regardless of when such claims may arise or be asserted.

(f) The General Partner may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties.

(g) The General Partner may consult with legal counsel, accountants, appraisers, management consultants, investment bankers and other consultants and advisers selected by it, and any act taken or omitted to be taken in reliance upon the opinion of such Persons as to matters which such General Partner reasonably believes to be within such Person’s professional or expert competence shall be conclusively presumed to have been done or omitted in good faith and in accordance with such opinion.

(h) The General Partner shall have the right, in respect of any of its powers or obligations hereunder, to act through any of its duly authorized officers and a duly appointed attorney or attorneys-in-fact Each such attorney shall, to the extent provided by the General Partner in the power of attorney, have full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and duty which is permitted or required to be done by the General Partner hereunder.

 

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(i) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement or the Act, any action of the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership or any decision of the General Partner to refrain from acting on behalf of the Partnership, undertaken in the good faith belief that such action or omission is necessary or advisable in order (i) to protect the ability of the General Partner to continue to qualify as a REIT, (ii) to protect the tax classification of the Partnership or any other partnership which is an Affiliate of the Partnership as a partnership for tax purposes, or (iii) to avoid the General Partner incurring any taxes under Sections 857 and 4981 of the Code or under Section 1374 of the Code as provided in Section 1.337(d)-7 of the Treasury Regulations is expressly authorized under this Agreement and is deemed approved by all of the Limited Partners.

(j) A holder of Units shall not be deemed solely by virtue thereof to be a shareholder of the General Partner or to have any interest therein, other than the Redemption Right provided by Section 7.07.

(k) The rights and limitations of liability provided by this section to the General Partner shall extend to the directors, officers, employees and agents of the General Partner, provided , however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to create or imply any liability of any director, officer, employee or agent of the General Partner.

Section 2.05. Limitation Upon Liability of Limited Partners .

(a) The personal liability of each Limited Partner to the Partnership (except as provided in Sections 2.05(b) and 2.05 (c)), to the other Partners, to the creditors of the Partnership or to any other third party for the losses, debts or liabilities of the Partnership shall be limited to (i) the amount of its Capital Contribution which has not theretofore been returned to it as a Distribution (including a Distribution upon liquidation), and (ii) the amount of any liability under I.C. 23-16-7-8 for any Capital Contribution returned to the Limited Partner.

(b) Except as provided in the next sentence, Section 2.05(c) or any Indemnity Agreement, no Partner shall be liable to the Partnership or to any other Partner for any deficit or negative balance which may exist in such Partner’s Capital Account. If any Obligated Partner has a deficit balance in its Capital Account (after giving effect to all contributions, distributions, allocations and adjustments to Capital Accounts for all periods including such Partner’s share of any unrealized gain or loss with respect to the Partnership’s assets) on the date of “liquidation” of such Obligated Partner’s respective interest in the Partnership (within the meaning of Section 1.704-l(b)(2)(ii)(g) of the Treasury Regulations), such Obligated Partner shall contribute to the capital of the Partnership an amount equal to its respective deficit balance; such obligation to be satisfied by the end of the Partnership’s first taxable year in which either the Partnership is dissolved or liquidated or such Obligated Partner’s interest in the Partnership is liquidated. To the extent contributions are used to make payments to creditors of the Partnership, no Obligated Partner shall be subrogated to the rights of any such creditor against the General Partner, the Partnership, another Partner or any person related thereto, and each Obligated Partner irrevocably waives any right to reimbursement, contribution or similar right to which such Obligated Partner might otherwise be entitled as a result of the performance of its obligations under this Agreement.

(c) Except as otherwise agreed to in writing by the General Partner and an Obligated Partner prior to the time of admission of such Obligated Partner to the Partnership, notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement other than Section 2.05(d), an Obligated Partner shall not cease to be an Obligated Partner for purposes of this Section 2.05 and shall continue to be subject to the contribution obligations of this Section 2.05 as if such Obligated Partner continued to hold Units upon a sale or redemption by such Obligated Partner of all remaining Units for REIT Shares (pursuant to Section 7.07 or otherwise) unless, at no time during the 12 month period following such sale or redemption, the Partnership:

 

  (i) is in Bankruptcy;

 

  (ii) is Insolvent; or

 

  (iii) fails to maintain a ratio of Total Liabilities to Total Assets of less than 80%;

provided that, after the passage of such 12 months, the Obligated Partner shall cease to be an Obligated Partner at the first time, if any, the Partnership is not subject to any of the conditions set forth in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above.

(d) After the death of an Obligated Partner, the executor of the estate of such Obligated Partner may elect to reduce (or eliminate) the deficit Capital Account restoration obligation of such Obligated Partner pursuant to

 

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Section 2.05(b). Such election may be made by such executor by delivering to the General Partner within two hundred seventy (270) days of the death of such Obligated Partner a written notice setting forth the maximum deficit balance in his Capital Account that such executor agrees to restore under Section 2.05(b), if any. If such executor does not make a timely election pursuant to this Section 2.05(d) (whether or not the balance in his Capital Account is negative at such time), then such Obligated Partner’s estate (and the beneficiaries thereof who receive distribution of Units therefrom) shall be deemed to have a deficit Capital Account restoration obligation as set forth pursuant to the terms of Section 2.05(b). Any Obligated Partner-Controlled Partnership may likewise elect, after the death of its respective Obligated Partner, to reduce (or eliminate) its deficit Capital Account restoration obligation pursuant to Section 2.05(b) by delivering a similar written notice to the General Partner within the time period specified herein. Any Obligated Partner-Controlled Partnership that does not make any such timely election shall similarly be deemed to have a deficit Capital Account restoration obligation as set forth pursuant to the terms of Section 2.05(b).

ARTICLE III

SCOPE OF PARTNERSHIP AND MODE OF OPERATION

Section 3.01. Scope of Partnership . The purpose of the Partnership is to engage, subject to the limitations in Sections 3.09(b) and 3.09(c), in any business that may be lawfully conducted by a limited partnership organized pursuant to the Act.

Section 3.02. Powers of the Partnership . Subject to the limitations in Sections 3.09(b), 3.09(c) and 3.09(d), the Partnership shall have all the powers permitted by law which are necessary or desirable in carrying out the purposes and business of the Partnership, including, but not limited to, the following powers:

(a) To acquire by purchase, exchange, lease, hire, or otherwise, real and personal property of every kind, character and description whatsoever, and wheresoever situated, and any interest therein, either alone or in conjunction with others, and to hold for investment, own, use, develop, operate, lease, mortgage, sell or otherwise dispose of, convey or otherwise deal in the same and any interest therein;

(b) To perform all services related to the acquisition, development, holding, management, financing, leasing and disposition of real and personal property of every kind, character and description, including, but not limited to, the performance of management and other services with respect to its properties pursuant to contracts contributed to the Partnership;

(c) To borrow or raise money for any of the purposes of the Partnership, and from time to time, without limitation as to amount, to draw, make, accept, endorse, execute and issue promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures, evidences of indebtedness and other instruments, and to secure the payment thereof, the interest thereon and any other obligations or liabilities relating thereto, in any manner, including without limitation by mortgage on, security interest in or pledge, or conveyance or assignment in trust of, the whole or any part of the assets of the Partnership, real, personal or mixed, including contract rights and options, whether at the time owned or thereafter acquired, and future earnings, and to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of such securities or other obligations of the Partnership for the furtherance of its purpose;

(d) To act in any state or nation in which the Partnership may lawfully act, for itself or as principal, agent or representative for any individual, association, partnership, corporation or legal entity, respecting business of the Partnership;

(e) To enter into, make, amend, perform and carry out, or cancel and rescind, contracts and other obligations for any lawful purpose pertaining to the business of the Partnership, including, but not limited to, one or more agreements to reimburse or be reimbursed by Duke Services for employee, administrative or other costs associated with the Partnership’s properties or properties for which services are rendered by Duke Services;

(f) To become a partner or member in, and perform the obligations of a partner or member of, any general or limited partnership or limited liability company, including but not limited to Duke Services;

 

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(g) To apply for, register, obtain, purchase or otherwise acquire trademarks, trade names, labels and designs relating to or useful in connection with any business of the Partnership, and to use, exercise, develop and license the use of the same;

(h) To employ, on behalf of the Partnership, legal counsel; financial counsel; accountants; professional advisors; and Persons or entities for the operation and management of the business of the Partnership;

(i) To establish accounts and deposits and maintain funds in the name of the Partnership in banks or other financial institutions and to invest funds of the Partnership temporarily when not required for operation of its properties or distribution to the Partners, in short-term debt obligations, including without limitation obligations of federal and state governments, commercial paper and certificates of deposit of banks and other financial institutions;

(j) To pay or reimburse any and all actual fees, costs and expenses incurred in the formation and organization of the Partnership;

(k) To do all acts which are necessary, customary or appropriate for the protection and preservation of the Partnership’s assets, including the establishment of reserves;

(l) To loan money to, borrow money from and engage in transactions with Affiliates, subject to Sections 3.07 and 3.13;

(m) To compromise, submit to arbitration, sue on, or defend claims in favor of or against the Partnership; and

(n) In general, to exercise all of the general rights, privileges and powers permitted to be had and exercised by the provisions of the Act.

Section 3.03. Management of the Partnership . Subject to the limitations of this section, of Section 3.04 and of Section 3.09, the General Partner shall be responsible for the management of the Partnership’s business and shall have full, exclusive and complete power and discretion, without the need for consent or approval of any other Partner, to make all decisions and to do all things which it deems necessary or desirable on behalf of the Partnership, including but not limited to the exercise of the powers specified in Section 3.02 on behalf of the Partnership.

Section 3.04. Limitation on Powers . As between the Partners and subject to Section 2.04(c), no Partner shall:

 

  (i) Use the Partnership name or assets in any way except for the transaction of legitimate Partnership business or do any act in contravention of this Agreement of Partnership; or

 

  (ii) Do any act which would make it impossible to carry on the business of the Partnership.

Section 3.05. Non-Participation in Management by Limited Partners . Except as specifically provided in this Agreement, no Limited Partner as such shall participate in the control or management of the business of the Partnership, nor act for and on behalf of the Partnership in any manner whatsoever. No Limited Partner shall be deemed to be participating in the management of the business of the Partnership merely by consulting with or advising the General Partner or by acting as an officer, director, employee, agent or shareholder of the General Partner or any Subsidiary of the General Partner or as an employee or agent of the Partnership, Duke Services, or any Subsidiary of the Partnership or Duke Services.

Section 3.06. Time to be Devoted to Business . The General Partner and its employees and agents shall devote such time to the Partnership’s business as the General Partner determines to be reasonably necessary to manage and supervise the Partnership’s business and affairs in an efficient manner. Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the employment, at the expense of the Partnership, of any agent or third party to manage or provide other services with respect to the Partnership’s business, subject to the control of the General Partner. Unless otherwise provided in a writing executed by the General Partner, any such employment, or any appointment of any agent or authorization by the General Partner shall in all cases be subject to immediate termination upon written notice by the General Partner.

Section 3.07. Dealings With Related Entities .

(a) A Partner or any Affiliate of a Partner may contract or otherwise deal with the Partnership for the purchase or sale of goods, property or services or for other purposes, and the Partnership shall have the power to so contract or deal, if the transaction is in the best interests of the General Partner and its shareholders. The requirements of this

 

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subsection shall be deemed to be satisfied with respect to any contract or dealing for which the approval of the Unaffiliated General Partner Directors has been obtained; however, the failure to obtain such approval shall not be evidence that such requirements are not otherwise satisfied. The validity of any transaction, agreement, or payment involving the Partnership and an Affiliate of a Partner otherwise permitted by this Agreement shall not be affected by reason of the relationship between the Partner and the Affiliate or the approval of the transaction, agreement, or payment by the Partner who is otherwise interested in or related to the Affiliate.

(b) If a Partner is employed by or retained by the Partnership in any capacity, compensation to such Partner shall be deemed to be for services rendered not in the Partner’s capacity as a member of the Partnership, and it shall be treated for federal income tax purposes as a payment described by Section 707(a) of the Code.

(c) The General Partner, in its sole and absolute discretion and without the approval of the Limited Partners, may propose and adopt on behalf of the Partnership employee benefit plans funded by the Partnership for the benefit of employees of the General Partner, the Partnership, Duke Services, Subsidiaries of the Partnership or the General Partner or any Affiliate of any of them in respect of services performed, directly or indirectly, for the benefit of the Partnership, the General Partner, Duke Services, or any of the Partnership’s or the General Partner’s Subsidiaries.

(d) The General Partner is expressly authorized to enter into, in the name and on behalf of the Partnership, options, right of first opportunity arrangements and other conflict avoidance agreements with various Affiliates of the Partnership and the General Partner on such terms as the General Partner, in its sole and absolute discretion, believes are advisable.

Section 3.08. Other Business . Subject to Section 3.09, nothing contained in this Agreement shall in any way or manner prohibit or restrict the right or freedom of any Partner, any Affiliate of any Partner or any other Person to conduct or participate in any business or activity individually or as a partner, shareholder or owner of any partnership, corporation or other entity other than the Partnership without any obligation or accountability to the Partnership or any other Partner, even if such business or activity competes with the business of the Partnership; and subject to Section 3.09, any entity which includes as a partner, shareholder or other owner a Partner, any Affiliate of a Partner or any other Person shall have the right at any time to own and operate any business whatsoever other than the business of the Partnership, either individually or with one or more parties, and shall not be required to obtain the consent thereto by any other Partner or offer to any other Partner or the Partnership a participation therein.

Section 3.09. Restriction on the General Partner and Partnership Activities .

(a) Unless Special Partner Approval is obtained, the General Partner shall not engage in any of the following activities:

 

  (i) Directly or indirectly enter into or conduct any business, other than in connection with the ownership, acquisition and disposition of Units as a Limited Partner, the management of the business of the Partnership, activities in connection with the General Partner (which shall be limited to activities in connection with Duke Services and the Partnership), Duke Services, and Duke Construction Limited Partnership, and such activities as are incidental thereto.

 

  (ii) Own any assets other than Units, entities that own only Units, its interest as a General Partner, its interest in Duke Services, and such bank accounts or similar instruments as it deems necessary to carry out its responsibilities contemplated under this Agreement and its Articles of Incorporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the General Partner shall be entitled to own up to a 1% interest in entities that are otherwise directly or indirectly owned by the Partnership.

 

  (iii) Issue any additional shares of capital stock (other than REIT Shares issued pursuant to Section 7.07 or REIT Shares issued without consideration to all holders of REIT Shares); provided , however, that no Special Partner Approval shall be required if the General Partner contributes the net proceeds from the issuance of such shares of capital stock and from the exercise of rights contained in any options, warrants or convertible or exchangeable securities containing the right to subscribe for or purchase such shares of capital stock to the Partnership in exchange for additional Units at the value per Unit established in Section 4.02(c).

 

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  (iv) Engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into another Person or sale of all or substantially all of its assets, or any reclassification, or recapitalization or change of outstanding REIT Shares (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination as described in Section 7.07(d)) other than a Permitted Transaction.

(b) Unless Special Partner Approval is obtained, the Partnership shall not engage in any of the following activities:

 

  (i) Engage in any business other than business in which the General Partner is permitted to engage by its Articles of Incorporation as in effect on the date of this Agreement or which is incidental thereto or reasonably necessary for the protection of the Partnership.

 

  (ii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, effect or enter into an agreement to effect a voluntary sale, exchange or other disposition by merger, consolidation or otherwise (other than a disposition occurring upon a financing or refinancing by the Partnership) of all or substantially all of the assets of the Partnership in a single transaction or a series of related transactions.

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (i) the Partnership shall not take, refrain from taking, or be required to take any action which, in the judgment of the General Partner, in its sole and absolute discretion, (A) could adversely affect the ability of the General Partner to continue to qualify as a REIT, (B) subject to clause (A), could adversely affect the classification of the Partnership or any partnership which is an Affiliate of the Partnership as a partnership for tax purposes, or (C) could violate any law or regulation of any governmental body or agency having jurisdiction over the General Partner or its securities, unless such action (or inaction) shall have been specifically consented to by the General Partner in writing; and (ii) the Partnership, when deemed necessary by the General Partner in its sole and absolute discretion to continue the General Partner’s qualification as a REIT, shall be required to make distributions to its Partners, whether funded by available cash revenues, borrowings or any other means, which are sufficient in amount to enable the General Partner to meet the REIT distribution requirements contained in Code Section 857(a).

(d) Reserved.

(e) Reserved.

Section 3.10. Indemnification .

(a) Each Person who is now or in the future (i) the General Partner (ii) an officer, director, shareholder, or Affiliate of the General Partner, (iii) an officer, employee or agent of the Partnership, or (iv) any such Person’s successors and assigns, shall be indemnified by the Partnership against expenses (including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees, related disbursements and removal of any liens affecting any property of the indemnitee), judgments, fines, and amounts paid in settlement, actually and reasonably incurred by such Person in connection with any action, suit or proceeding to which such Person may be made a party by reason of being, or having been, (i) the General Partner, or (ii) an officer, director, shareholder, employee, agent or Affiliate of the General Partner, or (iii) an officer, employee or agent of the Partnership, or (iv) any such Person’s successor or assign (whether or not continuing to be such at the time of incurring such expense), if such Person acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed by such Person to be in, or at least not opposed to, the best interests of the Partnership, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, such Person had either reasonable cause to believe his or its conduct was lawful or had no reasonable cause to believe his or its conduct was unlawful. An action shall be conclusively presumed to have been reasonably believed by a Person to be in, or at least not opposed to, the best interests of the Partnership if it was reasonably believed by such Person to be in, or at least not opposed to, the best interests of the General Partner or its shareholders. The termination of any proceeding by judgment, order or settlement does not create a presumption that the indemnitee did not meet the requisite standard of conduct set forth in this Section 3.10(a). The termination of any proceeding by conviction or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, or an entry of an order of probation prior to judgment, creates a rebuttable presumption that the indemnitee acted in a manner contrary to that specified in this Section 3.10(a). If a judgment, order, settlement or any other document which terminates a proceeding does not indicate whether the indemnitee met the requisite standard of conduct set forth in this Section 3.10(a), such determination shall be made by independent legal counsel unless the disinterested Unaffiliated General Partner Directors decide otherwise. Any such indemnification shall be limited to the assets of the Partnership and shall not impose any personal liability upon any Partner. This provision is intended to provide such indemnification as is permitted under Indiana law; it shall not operate to indemnify any person in any case in which such indemnification is for any reason contrary to law.

 

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(b) Reasonable expenses incurred by an indemnitee who is a party to a proceeding may be paid or reimbursed by the Partnership in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding upon receipt by the Partnership of (i) a written affirmation by the indemnitee of the indemnitee’s good faith belief that the standard of conduct necessary for indemnification by the Partnership as authorized in this Section 3.10 has been met, and (ii) a written undertaking by or on behalf of the indemnitee to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the standard of conduct has not been met.

(c) The indemnification provided by this Section 3.10 shall be in addition to any other rights to which an indemnitee or any other Person may be entitled under any agreement, pursuant to any vote of the Partners, as a matter of law or otherwise, and shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to serve in such capacity.

(d) The Partnership may purchase and maintain insurance, on behalf of any potential indemnitee and such other Persons as the General Partner shall determine, against any liability that may be asserted against or expenses that may be incurred by such Person in connection with the Partnership’s activities, regardless of whether the Partnership would have the power to indemnify such Person against such liability under the provisions of this Agreement.

(e) For purposes of this Section 3.10, the Partnership shall be deemed to have requested a Person to serve as fiduciary of an employee benefit plan, and such Person shall be deemed to be within the class of indemnitees in subsection (a), whenever the performance by the Person of the Person’s duties to the Partnership also imposes duties on, or otherwise involves services by, it to the plan or participants or beneficiaries of the plan; excise taxes assessed on an indemnitee with respect to an employee benefit plan pursuant to applicable law shall constitute fines within the meaning of Section 3.10(a); and actions taken or omitted by the indemnitee with respect to an employee benefit plan in the performance of its duties for a purpose reasonably believed by it to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the plan shall be deemed to be for a purpose which is not opposed to the best interests of the Partnership.

(f) In no event may an indemnitee subject the Limited Partners to personal liability by reason of the indemnification provisions set forth in this Agreement.

(g) An indemnitee shall not be denied indemnification in whole or in part under this Section 3.10 because the indemnitee had an interest in the transaction with respect to which the indemnification applies if the transaction was otherwise permitted by the terms of this Agreement.

(h) The provisions of this Section 3.10 are for the benefit of the indemnitees and their heirs, successors, assigns and administrators and shall not be deemed to create any rights for the benefit of any other Persons.

Section 3.11. Voting Rights of Partners .

(a) Subject to subsection (b), the following matters require Special Partner Approval:

 

  (i) The matters described in Section 3.09(b).

 

  (ii) Permitting the General Partner to engage in the actions described in Section 3.09(a).

 

  (iii) Causing dissolution of the Partnership as described in Section 6.01(c).

 

  (iv) Amending this Agreement as described in Section 9.05(b).

(b) The parties intend that the exercise of any rights granted to the Limited Partners by this Agreement shall be deemed an action affecting only the agreement among the Partners and not an action affecting the management and control of the business or otherwise inconsistent with the Act. The exercise of any rights of the Limited Partners under this Section shall, at the option of the General Partner, be conditioned upon the prior receipt by the General Partner of an opinion of legal counsel for the Partnership, satisfactory in form and substance to the General Partner, to the effect that such exercise will not have a material adverse federal or state income tax or other material adverse legal impact on the Partnership. A Limited Partner may, however, and shall be permitted to exercise any rights granted to the Limited Partners by this Agreement relating to management and control of the business notwithstanding any adverse effect on such Limited Partner.

 

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Section 3.12. Approval Procedures . Any matter requiring the consent or approval of all or any portion of the Partners shall be deemed to be approved if Partners entitled to vote thereon holding the requisite number of Units consent in writing pursuant to the terms of this Agreement to the proposed action. In lieu thereof, such a matter shall be submitted to the Partners entitled to vote thereon in the following manner:

(a) Within thirty (30) days of the proper proposal of the matter, the General Partner shall send notice of the proposal, the text thereof, and a ballot to each Partner entitled to vote thereon by first class United States mail at the address contained in the records of the Partnership.

(b) The notice shall set forth the recommendation of the General Partner, if any, with respect to the passage or rejection of the proposal and a brief explanation of the reasons therefor.

(c) The ballot supplied with the notice of the proposal shall state that the vote of each Partner is due at the offices of the Partnership in writing on a date certain which shall be no less than ten (10) and no more than thirty (30) days from the date of the notice (which shall be the date of the postmark of such notice) and shall provide that those Partners whose ballots are not received by said date shall be deemed to have voted in accordance with the recommendation of the General Partner or, in the case of a proposal on which the General Partner has not expressed a recommendation, shall provide that those Partners whose ballots are not received by said date shall be deemed to have voted against the proposal.

(d) A matter requiring the consent of a specified portion or portions of the Partners in addition to the consent of the Partners as a whole may be voted upon using the same notice and ballot, and it shall not be necessary for a Partner to mark and return multiple ballots to vote in more than one capacity.

(e) If consent is given or the proposal is passed in accordance with the foregoing procedure, the General Partner is expressly authorized and directed to take such action as may be specified in the consent or proposal.

Section 3.13. Loans to and from the Partnership . In the event that additional funds are required by the Partnership, one or more Partners (or any Affiliate thereof) may, at the option of the General Partner, loan such funds to the Partnership. Each such loan shall be made upon terms and conditions no less favorable to the Partnership than those upon which a commercial lending institution would make such a loan to an entity with financial and business characteristics similar to the Partnership. The Partnership may loan funds to the General Partner only to the extent such funds are needed by the General Partner either (A) to make distributions to the General Partner’s shareholders required for the General Partner to qualify as a REIT or to avoid being subject to income or excise taxes under the Code, or (B) to make payments that are reimbursable by the Partnership to the General Partner under Section 3.14 below. Any such loan shall be repaid as soon as possible, shall have a maximum term of one (1) year and shall be made on other terms and conditions no less favorable to the Partnership than those upon which a commercial lending institution would make such a loan to an entity with financial and business characteristics similar to the General Partner. To the extent that the Partnership loans funds to the General Partner pursuant to this section, the Partnership may also, at the option of the General Partner, loan to any other Partner funds in an amount up to the amount loaned to the General Partner times the ratio of such Partner’s Percentage Share to the General Partner’s Percentage Share, on the same terms as the loan to the General Partner.

Section 3.14. Reimbursement of Expenses .

(a) Except as provided in this Section 3.14 and elsewhere in this Agreement (including the provisions of Article IV regarding distributions, payments, and allocations to which it may be entitled), the General Partner shall not be compensated for its services as general partner of the Partnership.

(b) The General Partner shall be reimbursed on a monthly basis, or such other basis as the General Partner may determine in its sole and absolute discretion, for all expenses it, as the case may be, incurs in connection with the business of the Partnership (including the payment of any federal, state or local taxes incurred by the General Partner as a result of its ownership interest in the Partnership), the issuance of additional Units or REIT Shares pursuant to this Agreement, administrative expenses of the General Partner, and all expenses associated with investor relations and the General Partner’s compliance with the SEC and other public company regulatory requirements. Such reimbursements shall be in addition to any reimbursement to the General Partner as a result of indemnification pursuant to Section 3.10 hereof.

 

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Section 3.15. Indemnification of Certain Recourse Debt . Towne Investment Co. shall indemnify the General Partner for a portion of the Partnership’s Recourse Liabilities as specified in Exhibit 6 attached hereto.

ARTICLE IV

CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS, PROFITS

AND LOSSES AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Section 4.01. Purchase of Units and Capital Contributions .

(a) Prior to the date of this Agreement, the Partners (or their predecessors) have made Capital Contributions and in exchange therefor have received the Units specified in Exhibit 1 hereto.

(b) Except as expressly provided in Section 2.05(b) or Indiana law, the Partners shall not be obligated to make further contributions to the Partnership.

Section 4.02. Issuance of Additional Partnership Interests .

(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, the General Partner is hereby authorized to cause the Partnership to issue such additional partnership interests in the form of Units for any Partnership purpose at any time or from time to time, to Partners (other than the General Partner) or to other Persons, for such consideration and on such terms and conditions as shall be established by the General Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, all without the approval of any Limited Partner. The Partnership may also from time to time issue to the General Partner additional Units in consideration of a contribution by the General Partner as contemplated by Section 3.09(a)(iii) or in connection with a Permitted Transaction. Any additional Units issued pursuant to this Section 4.02 may be Common Units or Preferred Units and, if Preferred Units, may be issued in one or more classes, or one or more series of any of such classes, with such designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, powers and duties, including rights, powers and duties senior to Common or Preferred Units (subject to the terms of any existing Preferred Units) then outstanding, all as shall be determined by the General Partner in its sole and absolute discretion and without the approval of any Limited Partner, including, without limitation, in respect of (i) the allocations of items of Partnership income, gain, loss, deduction and credit to each such class or series of Preferred Units; (ii) the right of each such class or series of Preferred Units to share in Partnership distributions; and (iii) the rights of each such class or series of Preferred Units upon dissolution and liquidation of the Partnership; provided , that a written designation of preferences setting forth the rights, powers, duties and preferences of each class or series of Preferred Units shall be set forth as an additional Exhibit to this Agreement on or prior to the date of issuance of such Preferred Units (each a “Partnership Unit Designation”); and provided further , that with respect to Preferred Units issued to the General Partner, (x) the additional Preferred Units shall be issued in connection with an issuance and sale of shares of capital stock of the General Partner having designations, preferences and other rights that are substantially similar in economic effect to the designations, preferences and other rights of such additional Preferred Units, and (y) the net proceeds from the issuance of such shares by the General Partner shall be contributed by the General Partner to the Partnership in exchange for additional Preferred Units at the value per Preferred Unit established in Section 4.02(c).

(b) No Person shall have any preemptive, preferential or other similar right with respect to (i) additional Capital Contributions or loans to the Partnership, or (ii) issuance or sale of any Units.

(c) The Capital Contribution required upon issuance of any Unit pursuant to this Section will be equal to (i) in the case of a Unit issued in accordance with the proviso contained in Section 3.09(a)(iii), the per share price (net of discounts, commissions and any other related costs incurred by or on behalf of the General Partner in connection with issuing such shares) of the applicable REIT Shares issued by the General Partner divided by the Redemption Ratio at the time the Unit is issued, or (ii) in all other cases, an amount based on the range of quoted market prices of a REIT Share for a reasonable period of time before the Unit is issued adjusted as determined by the General Partner to recognize the possible effects of price fluctuations, quantities traded, issue costs and other market factors and divided by the Redemption Ratio at the time the Unit is issued.

 

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(d) The initial Capital Accounts of the holders of Preferred Units issued in connection with the Merger shall be equal to the Liquidation Preference Amounts (other than any accrued but unpaid distribution thereon) of such class or series of Preferred Units.

Section 4.03. Distributable Cash . Distributions of Distributable Cash shall be made when declared by the General Partner in its sole discretion to the Partners who are Partners on the Partnership Record Date with respect to such distribution; provided that for each fiscal year, all distributions made pursuant to this Section 4.03 shall be made to the Partners (i) first, at the time and in the manner set forth in the applicable Partnership Unit Designation, to each holder of Preferred Units in accordance with the preferences set forth in such Partnership Unit Designation; and (ii) thereafter, to the holders of Common Units (and Preferred Units entitled pursuant to an applicable Partnership Unit Designation to participate pari passu with Common Units) pro rate in proportion to their respective Percentage Shares (and, with respect to the holders of Preferred Units, as provided in such applicable Partnership Unit Designation); provided , that in no event may a Partner receive a distribution of Distributable Cash with respect to a Unit if such Partner is entitled to receive a distribution for such period with respect to a REIT Share for which such Unit has been redeemed and such distribution shall be made to the General Partner.

Section 4.04. Distributions From Terminating Capital Transaction . After the occurrence of a Terminating Capital Transaction, and subject to Section 2.05, all cash of the Partnership from all sources shall be applied and distributed in the following order, after adjusting Capital Accounts for all Distributions under Section 4.03 and all allocations of Profits and Losses:

(a) To the payment of debts and liabilities of the Partnership deemed appropriate by the General Partner to pay at that time in the order of priority as provided by law (other than those to Partners) including the expenses of or relating to sale, refinancing, exchange, condemnation, destruction or other disposition of assets of the Partnership;

(b) To the setting up of such reserves as are reasonably necessary for any contingent liabilities or obligations of the Partnership or for the operation of the Partnership, as determined solely by the General Partner in good faith;

(c) Subject to the terms of any Partnership Unit Designations, to the payment of debts and liabilities of the Partnership to the Partners other than in respect to the balances in the Capital Accounts of Partners; and

(d) To the Partners in proportion to the positive balances in their Capital Accounts determined after taking into account all allocations of Profits, Losses and items thereof through completion of the liquidation of the Partnership.

Section 4.05. Allocation of Profits and Losses .

(a) After giving effect to the allocations set forth in Section 4.06 hereof, for each fiscal year of the Partnership or portion thereof; Profits and Losses shall be allocated as follows:

 

  (i) Profits shall be allocated to the Partners in the following manner and order of priority:

 

  (A) First, to the General Partner to the extent that the cumulative Losses allocated to the General Partner pursuant to Section 4.05(a)(ii)(F) exceed the cumulative Profits allocated to the General Partner pursuant to this Section 4.05(a)(i)(A);

 

  (B) Second, to each Partner to the extent of and in proportion to the amount by which the cumulative Losses allocated to such Partner pursuant to Section 4.05(a)(ii)(E) exceed the cumulative Profits allocated to such Partner pursuant to this Section 4.05(a)(i)(B);

 

  (C) Third, to the General Partner to the extent that the cumulative Losses allocated to the General Partner pursuant to Section 4.05(a)(ii)(D), exceed the cumulative Profits allocated to the General Partner pursuant to this Section 4.05(a)(i)(C);

 

  (D) Fourth, to each holder of Preferred Units to the extent of and in proportion to the amount by which the cumulative Losses allocated to each such holder pursuant to Section 4.05(a)(ii)(C) exceeds the cumulative allocation of Profits to such holder pursuant to this Section 4.05 (a)(i)(D).

 

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  (E) Fifth, to each Partner to the extent of and in proportion to the amount by which the cumulative Losses allocated to such Partner pursuant to Section 4.05(a)(ii)(A), exceed the cumulative Profits allocated to such Partner pursuant to this Section 4.05(a)(i)(E);

 

  (F) Reserved.

 

  (G) Thereafter, to the Partners in accordance with their respective Percentage Shares.

 

  (ii) Losses shall be allocated to the Partners in the following manner and order of priority;

 

  (A) First, to the Partners, in proportion to their respective Percentage Shares; provided that Losses allocated pursuant to this Section 4.05(a)(ii)(A) shall not exceed the maximum amount of Losses that can be allocated without causing any Partner to have a negative Adjusted Capital Account (determined without regard to any Partner’s obligation to fund a deficit Capital Account balance, including the obligation of an Obligated Partner to fund a deficit Capital Account balance pursuant to Section 2.05 hereof, an Indemnitor Partner’s obligation under an Indemnity Agreement, or any other deemed obligation recognized under Section 1.704-l(b)(2)(ii)(c) of the Treasury Regulations and without regard to the amounts credited to the Capital Accounts of holders of Preferred Units for the capital contributed in respect of such Preferred Units);

 

  (B) Reserved.

 

  (C) Third, to the holders of Preferred Units in proportion to their respective Liquidation Preference Amounts (determined by excluding any amount of unpaid distributions accrued and in respect of such Preferred Units); provided that Losses allocated pursuant to this Section 4.05(a)(ii)(C) shall not exceed the maximum amount of Losses that can be allocated without causing any holder of Preferred Units to have a negative Adjusted Capital Account (determined without regard to any such holder’s obligation to fund a deficit Capital Account balance, including the obligation of an Obligated Partner to fund a deficit Capital Account balance pursuant to Section 2.05 hereof, an Indemnitor Partner’s obligation under an Indemnity Agreement, or any other deemed obligation recognized under Section 1.704-1 (b)(2)(ii)(c) of the Treasury Regulations);

 

  (D) Fourth, to the General Partner, until the General Partner’s Adjusted Capital Account (determined without regard to any obligation of the General Partner to fund a deficit Capital Account balance pursuant to this Agreement, including Section 2.05 hereof, or any deemed obligation recognized under Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(c) of the Treasury Regulations) equals the excess of (i) the amount of Recourse Liabilities over (ii) the sum of the Aggregate Restoration Amount and the Aggregate Indemnity Amount;

 

  (E) Fifth, to the Obligated Partners and the Indemnitor Partners, in proportion to their respective Restoration Amounts and Indemnity Amounts, as applicable, until such time as such Partners have been allocated an aggregate amount of Losses pursuant to this Section 4.05(a)(ii)(E) equal to the sum of the Aggregate Restoration Amount and the Aggregate Indemnity Amount; provided that no Losses shall be allocated to any such Partner to the extent such allocation would cause or increase a deficit in such Partner’s Adjusted Capital Account; and

 

  (F) Thereafter, to the General Partner.

This Section 4.05(a) shall control notwithstanding any reallocation or adjustment of taxable income, loss or other items by the IRS or any other taxing authority; provided , however, that neither the Partnership nor the General Partner (nor any of their respective Affiliates) is required to indemnify any Obligated Partner (or its affiliates) for the loss of any tax benefit resulting from any reallocation or adjustment of taxable income, loss or other items by the IRS or other taxing authority. The provisions of this Section 4.05(a) shall not be amended in a manner which adversely affects an Obligated Partner (without the consent of such Obligated Partner), provided that the General Partner may amend Exhibit 5 to add additional Obligated Partners.”

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provisions of this section as though the principal amount of the deferred obligation were received in full at the time of sale. In connection with any Terminating Capital Transaction treated as an installment sale under the Code, the portion of the Profits or Losses in each installment allocable to a given Partner shall, for federal income tax purposes, be in proportion to the Partner’s total share of Profits or Losses from the Terminating Capital Transaction allocated to the Partner pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this section.

Section 4.06. Mandatory Allocations .

(a) (i)  Minimum Gain Chargeback . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article IV, if there is a net decrease in Partnership Minimum Gain during any fiscal year, then, subject to the exceptions set forth in Treasury Regulations Sections 1.704-2(f)(2), (3), (4) and (5), each Partner shall be allocated items of Partnership income and gain for such fiscal year (and, if necessary, subsequent fiscal years) in an amount equal to such Partner’s share of the net decrease in Partnership Minimum Gain determined in accordance with Section 1.704-2(g) of the Treasury Regulations. The items to be so allocated shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.704-2(f) of the Treasury Regulations. This Section 4.06(a)(i) is intended to comply with the minimum gain chargeback requirement in such Section of the Treasury Regulations and shall be interpreted consistently therewith.

 

  (ii) Partner Minimum Gain Chargeback . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article IV except Section 4.06 (a)(i), if there is a net decrease in Partner Minimum Gain attributable to a Partner Nonrecourse Debt during any fiscal year, then, subject to the exceptions set forth in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(4), each Partner who has a share of the Partner Minimum Gain attributable to such Partner Nonrecourse Debt, determined in accordance with Section 1.704-2(i)(5), of the Treasury Regulations, shall be specially allocated items of Partnership income and gain for such fiscal year (and, if necessary, subsequent fiscal years) in an amount equal to the portion of such Partner’s share of the net decrease in Partner Minimum Gain attributable to such Partner Nonrecourse Debt, determined in accordance with Section 1.704-2(i)(4) of the Treasury Regulations. The items to be so allocated shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.704-2(i)(4) of the Treasury Regulations. This Section 4.06 (a)(ii) is intended to comply with the minimum gain chargeback requirement in such Section of me Treasury Regulations and shall be interpreted consistently therewith.

(b) Qualified Income Offset . In the event any Partner would be allocated Losses or other items of deduction or Code Section 705(a)(2)(B) Expenditures hereunder or unexpectedly receives any adjustments, allocations, or distributions described in Sections 1.704-l(b)(2)(ii)(d)(4), (5) or (6) of the Treasury Regulations which would result in an Adjusted Capital Account deficit, items of Partnership income and gain shall be specially allocated to such Partner in an amount and manner sufficient to eliminate, to the extent required by the Treasury Regulations, the Adjusted Capital Account deficit of such Partner as quickly as possible, provided that an allocation pursuant to this Section 4.06(b) shall be made only if and to the extent that such Partner would have an Adjusted Capital Account deficit after all other allocations provided for in this Article IV have been tentatively made as if this Section 4.06(b) were not in the Agreement.

(c) Nonrecourse Deductions . Nonrecourse Deductions for any fiscal year or other period shall be allocated among the Partners in accordance with their Percentage Shares as of the end of such fiscal year or other period.

(d) Partner Nonrecourse Deductions . Any Partner Nonrecourse Deductions for any fiscal year or other period shall be specially allocated to the Partner who bears the economic risk of loss with respect to the Partner Nonrecourse Debt to which such Partner Nonrecourse Deductions are attributable in accordance with Section 1.704-2(i) of the Treasury Regulations.

(e) Section 754 Adjustments . To the extent an adjustment to the adjusted tax basis of any Partnership asset pursuant to Code Section 734(b) or Code Section 743(b) is required, pursuant to Section 1.704-l(b)(2)(iv)(m) of the Treasury Regulations, to be taken into account in determining Capital Accounts, the amount of such adjustment to the Capital Accounts shall be treated as an item of gain (if the adjustment increases the basis of the asset) or loss (if the adjustment decreases such basis) and such gain or loss shall be specially allocated to the Partners in a manner consistent with the manner in which their Capital Accounts are required to be adjusted pursuant to such Section of the Treasury Regulations.

 

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(f) Preferential Income Allocations . After giving effect to the mandatory allocations set forth above, gross income of the Partnership shall be allocated to the holders of Preferred Units until the cumulative amount allocated to each such holder pursuant to this Section 4.06(f) equals the cumulative amount for the current and all prior fiscal years of the sum of (A) the distributions made to each such holder pursuant to Section 4.03 with respect to the holder’s Preferred Units and (B) the portions, if any, of the distributions made to each such holder pursuant to a redemption of a Preferred Unit under the terms of an applicable Partnership Unit Designation that exceed the Liquidation Preference Amount (other than any accrued but unpaid distribution thereon) per Preferred Unit established for such Preferred Unit in the applicable Partnership Unit Designation. Such allocations shall be made in proportion to the relative shortfall amounts determined for each such holder. Solely for purposes of making the required allocation under this Section 4.06(f) in the fiscal year in which the Partnership is liquidated, the amount of any accrued but unpaid distributions in arrears in respect of the Preferred Units (determined in accordance with the relevant provisions in the applicable Partnership Unit Designation) and other amounts payable to the holders of such Preferred Units pursuant to Section (d)(l) of the applicable Partnership Unit Designation, shall be treated as having been distributed to the holders of Preferred Units immediately prior to such liquidation under Section 4.03 hereof.

(g) Curative Allocations . Any allocations of items of income, gain, loss, Code Section 705(a)(2)(B) Expenditures and deduction made pursuant to Sections 4.06(a), 4.06(b), 4.06(c), 406(d) and 4.06(e) hereof shall be taken into account for the purpose of equitably adjusting subsequent allocations of income, gain, loss, Code Section 705(a)(2)(B) Expenditures and deduction among the Partners so that, to the extent possible, the net allocations in the aggregate, allocated to each Partner pursuant to this Article IV and the Capital Accounts of each Partner, shall as quickly as possible and to the extent possible consistent with the requirements of Sections 4.06(a), 4.06(b), 4.06(c), 4.06(d) and 4.06(e) be the same as if no allocations had been made under those sections. For purposes of applying the foregoing sentence, allocations pursuant to this Section 4.06(h) shall only be made with respect to allocations pursuant to Section 4.06(e) hereof to the extent the Tax Matters Partner reasonably determines that such allocations will otherwise be inconsistent with the economic agreement among the parties to this Agreement.

Section 4.07. Other Allocation Rules . Solely for purposes of determining a Partner’s proportionate share of the “excess nonrecourse liabilities” of the Partnership within the meaning of Section 1.752-3(a)(3) of the Treasury Regulations, such excess nonrecourse liabilities shall be allocated among the Partners in proportion to their respective Percentage Shares.

Section 4.08. Tax Allocations; Code Section 704(c) .

(a) In the event any Partnership property is reflected on the books of the Partnership at a book value that differs from the adjusted tax basis of such property at the time of its contribution to the Partnership or its revaluation pursuant to Section 1.704-l(b)(2)(iv)(d) or 1.704-l(b)(2)(iv)(f) of the Treasury Regulations, respectively, income, gain, loss, and deduction with respect to such property shall, solely for tax purposes, be allocated among the Partners in the manner required by Code Section 704 (c) and Sections 1.704-l(b)(4)(i) and 1.704-3 of the Treasury Regulations. For property acquired by or contributed to the Partnership, the Tax Matters Partner shall, at its sole discretion and on a property by property basis, choose between any permissible method contained in Section 1.704-3 of the Treasury Regulations or any similar succeeding applicable provision. For purposes of allocating the Partnership’s earnings and profits to corporate Partners, depreciation, amortization and cost recovery deductions used in determining earnings and profits shall be allocated among the Partners in the same manner as allocations of depreciation, amortization and other cost recovery deductions for regular tax purposes, adjusted for differences in earnings and profits, bases and depreciation periods.

(b)Any elections or other decisions relating to such allocations shall be made by the Tax Matters Partner in any manner that reasonably reflects the purpose and intention of this Agreement. Allocations pursuant to this Section 4.08 are solely for purposes of federal, state, and local taxes and shall not affect, or in any way be taken into account in computing, any Person’s Capital Account or share of Profits, Losses, other items, or distributions pursuant to any provision of this Agreement.

Section 4.09. General Provisions . In the event of an increase or a decrease in the Percentage Share of a Partner at any time during the Partnership’s fiscal year, the share of the Profits and Losses and the Distributable Cash of the Partnership shall be allocated among the Persons whose shares are changed as determined by the General Partner pursuant to Code Section 706(d).

 

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Section 4.10. No Interest on Capital Accounts . No Partner shall be entitled to receive any interest from the Partnership on account of the amount of its Capital Account.

Section 4.11. Distribution of Property . Unless the Partners otherwise agree, in the event it becomes necessary to make a Distribution of Partnership property in kind, then such property shall be transferred and conveyed to the Partners, or their assigns, so as to vest in each of them as a tenant-in-common, a percentage interest in the whole of said property equal to the percentage interest he would have received had such property not been distributed in kind.

Section 4.12. Return of Capital Contribution .

(a) Except as provided in this Agreement, no Partner shall be entitled to withdraw any part of its Capital Contribution or to receive any Distributions from the Partnership. No Partner shall have the right to demand or receive property other than cash in return for its Capital Contribution; and if upon dissolution the Partnership property remaining after the payment or discharge of debts and liabilities of the Partnership is insufficient to return said contributions, no Limited Partner shall have any recourse against the General Partner or any other Limited Partner.

(b) If the General Partner repurchases or redeems REIT Shares from the holders thereof in accordance with its Articles of Incorporation as now or hereafter amended and Indiana law, then (i) the General Partner shall cause the Partnership to purchase from the General Partner an amount equal to the amount paid by the General Partner to the holders to redeem or repurchase such REIT Shares and (ii) the number of Units held by the General Partner shall be decreased by the number of REIT Shares so repurchased or redeemed divided by the Redemption Ratio.

ARTICLE V

ACCOUNTING, REPORTING AND HOLDING OF ASSETS

Section 5.01. Fiscal Year . The fiscal year of the Partnership shall be the calendar year.

Section 5.02. Records, Accounting and Reports .

(a) The books of account and records of the Partnership shall be located at such place as may be specified by the General Partner and shall be kept and maintained on an accrual basis in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

(b) Any records maintained by or on behalf of the Partnership in the regular course of its business may be kept on, or be in the form of, computer disks, magnetic tape, photographs, micrographics or any other information storage device; provided that the records so maintained are convertible into clearly legible written form within a reasonable period of time.

(c) As soon as practicable, but in no event later than one hundred five (105) days after the close of each Partnership Year, the General Partner shall cause to be mailed to each Limited Partner as of the close of the Partnership Year, an annual report on Form 10-K containing financial statements of the Partnership, or of the General Partner if such statements are prepared on a consolidated basis with the General Partner, for such Partnership Year, presented in accordance with GAAP, such statements to be audited by a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants selected by the General Partner. If such annual reports on Form 10-K for the General Partner or the Partnership are available on the General Partner’s website, then the General Partner may elect to notify the Limited Partners that such information is available and direct the Limited Partners to the exact website address at which the documents may be downloaded. The mailing of copies of the General Partner’s or the Partnership’s annual report on Form 10-K to the Limited Partners, or the notification provided to the Limited Partners regarding the website availability thereof, shall constitute compliance with this subsection.

(d) As soon as practicable, but in no event later than sixty (60) days after the close of each calendar quarter (except the last calendar quarter of each year), the General Partner shall cause to be mailed to each Limited Partner as of the last day of the calendar quarter, a report containing unaudited financial statements of the Partnership, or of the General Partner, if such statements are prepared on a consolidated basis with the General Partner, and such other information as may be required by applicable law or regulation, or as the General Partner determines to be appropriate. If such quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the General Partner or the Partnership are available on the

 

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General Partner’s website, then the General Partner may elect to notify the Limited Partners that such information is available and direct the Limited Partners to the exact website address at which the documents may be downloaded. The mailing of copies of the General Partner’s or the Partnership’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q to the Limited Partners, or the notification provided to the Limited Partners regarding the website availability thereof, shall constitute compliance with this subsection.

Section 5.03. Right to Inspection .

(a) Each Partner or his duly authorized agent shall at all reasonable times have access to and the right at his expense to inspect and copy any of the books and records of the Partnership.

(b) In addition to other rights provided by this Agreement or by the Act, and except as limited by subsection (d) hereof, each Limited Partner shall have the right, for a purpose reasonably related to such Limited Partner’s interest as a limited partner in the Partnership, upon written demand with a statement of the purpose of such demand and at such Limited Partner’s own expense:

 

  (i) to obtain a copy of the most recent annual and quarterly reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by the General Partner or the Partnership pursuant to the Exchange Act;

 

  (ii) to obtain a copy of the Partnership’s federal, state and local income tax returns for each Partnership Year;

 

  (iii) to obtain a current list of the name and last known business, residence or mailing address of each Partner;

 

  (iv) to obtain a copy of this Agreement and the Certificate and all amendments thereto, together with executed copies of all powers of attorney pursuant to which this Agreement, the Certificate and all amendments thereto have been executed; and

 

  (v) to obtain true and full information regarding the amount of cash and a description and statement of any other property or services contributed by each Partner and which each Partner has agreed to contribute in the future, and the date on which each became a Partner.

(c) The Partnership shall notify each Limited Partner in writing of any change made to the Redemption Ratio within ten (10) Business Days of the date such change becomes effective.

(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 5.03, the General Partner may keep confidential from the Limited Partners, for such period of time as the General Partner determines in its sole and absolute discretion to be reasonable, any information that (i) the General Partner believes to be in the nature of trade secrets or other information the disclosure of which the General Partner in good faith believes is not in the best interests of the Partnership, the General Partner, or (ii) the Partnership or the General Partner is required by law or by agreements with unaffiliated third parties to keep confidential.

Section 5.04. Holding and Transfer of Assets .

(a) All property, real or personal, owned by the Partnership shall be deemed to be owned by the Partnership as an entity, and no Partner or Assignee, individually or collectively, shall have any ownership interest in such Partnership assets or any portion thereof. Title to any or all of the Partnership assets may be held in the name of the Partnership, the General Partner or one or more nominees, as the General Partner may determine, including Affiliates of the General Partner. The General Partner hereby declares and warrants that any Partnership assets for which legal title is held in the name of the General Partner or any nominee or Affiliate of the General Partner shall be held by the General Partner for the use and benefit of the Partnership is accordance with the provisions of this Agreement; provided , however, that the General Partner shall use its best efforts to cause beneficial and record title to such assets to be vested in the Partnership as soon as reasonably practicable. All Partnership assets shall be recorded as the property of the Partnership on its books and records, notwithstanding the name in which legal title to such assets is held.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, any Person dealing with the Partnership shall be entitled to assume that the General Partner has full power and authority to encumber, sell or otherwise use in any manner any and all assets of the Partnership and to enter into any contracts on behalf of the Partnership, and such

 

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Person shall be entitled to deal with the General Partner as if it were the Partnership’s sole party in interest, both legally and beneficially. Each Limited Partner hereby waives any and all defenses or other remedies which may be available against such Person to contest, negate or disaffirm any action of the General Partner in connection with any such dealing. In no event shall any Person dealing with the General Partner or its representatives be obligated to ascertain that the terms of this Agreement have been complied with or to inquire into the necessity or expedience of any act or action of the General Partner or its representatives. Each and every certificate, document or other instrument executed on behalf of the Partnership by the General Partner or its representatives shall be conclusive evidence in favor of any and every Person relying thereon or claiming thereunder that (i) at the time of the execution and delivery of such certificate, document or instrument, this Agreement was in full force and effect, (ii) the Person executing and delivering such certificate, document or instrument was duly authorized and empowered to do so for and on behalf of the Partnership, and (iii) such certificate, document or instrument was duly executed and delivered in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement and is binding upon the Partnership.

Section 5.05. Bank Accounts . Funds of the Partnership may be deposited in its name in such bank account or accounts as shall be designated from time to time by the General Partner. All withdrawals from Partnership accounts shall be made upon checks signed by or upon the authorization of the General Partner. The General Partner may designate one or more Persons to sign checks upon its authorization.

Section 5.06. Tax Status; Notice of Tax Controversy . The Partnership shall be treated and shall file its tax returns as a partnership for federal, state and municipal income tax and other tax purposes. If any Partner shall receive notice of a tax examination of the Partnership by federal, state or local authorities, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the General Partner.

Section 5.07. Tax Matters Partner; Tax Elections; Tax Returns .

(a) The General Partner is hereby designated as the Tax Matters Partner of the Partnership under Subchapter C of Chapter 63 as contained in subtitle F of the Code. Pursuant to Section 6223(c)(3) of the Code, upon receipt of notice from the IRS of the beginning of an administrative proceeding with respect to the Partnership, the Tax Matters Partner shall furnish the IRS with the name, address and profit interest of each of the Limited Partners; provided , however that such information is provided to the Partnership by the Limited Partners.

(b) The Tax Matters Partner is authorized, but not required:

 

  (i) To enter into any settlement with the IRS with respect to any administrative or judicial proceedings for the adjustment of Partnership items required to be taken into account by a Partner for income tax purposes (such administrative proceedings being referred to as a “ tax audit ” and such judicial proceedings being referred to as “ judicial review ”), and in the settlement agreement the Tax Matters Partner may expressly state that such agreement shall bind all Partners, except that such settlement agreement shall not bind any Partner (A) who (within the time prescribed pursuant to the Code and Regulations) files a statement with the IRS providing that the Tax Matters Partner shall not have the authority to enter into a settlement agreement on behalf of such Partner, or (B) who is a “ notice partner ” (as defined in Section 6231 of the Code) or a member of a “ notice group ” (as defined in Section 6223(b)(2) of the Code);

 

  (ii) In the event that a notice of a final administrative adjustment at the Partnership level of any item required to be taken into account by a Partner for tax purposes (a “ final adjustment ”) is mailed to the Tax Matters Partner, to seek judicial review of such final adjustment, including the filing of a petition for readjustment with the Tax Court or the United States Claims Court, or the filing of a complaint for refund with the District Court of the United States for the district in which the Partnership’s principal place of business is located;

 

  (iii) To intervene in any action brought by any other Partner for judicial review of a final adjustment;

 

  (iv) To file a request for an administrative adjustment with the IRS at any time and, if any part of such request is not allowed by the IRS, to file an appropriate pleading (petition or complaint) for judicial review with respect to such request;

 

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  (v) To enter into an agreement with the IRS to extend the period for assessing any tax which is attributable to any item required to be taken into account by a Partner for tax purposes, or an item affected by such item; and

 

  (vi) To take any other action on behalf of the Partners of the Partnership in connection with any tax audit or judicial review proceeding to the extent permitted by applicable law or regulations.

The taking of any action and the incurring of any expense by the Tax Matters Partner in connection with any such proceeding, except to the extent required by law, is a matter in the sole and absolute discretion of the Tax Matters Partner, and the provisions relating to indemnification of the General Partner set forth in Section 3.10 of this Agreement shall be fully applicable to the Tax Matters Partner in its capacity as such.

(c) The Tax Matters Partner shall receive no compensation for its services. All third-party costs and expenses incurred by the Tax Matters Partner in performing its duties as such (including legal and accounting fees) shall be borne by the Partnership. Nothing herein shall be construed to restrict the Partnership from engaging an accounting firm or legal counsel to assist the Tax Matters Partner in discharging its duties hereunder, so long as the compensation paid by the Partnership for such services is reasonable.

(d) The Tax Matters Partner has the authority to make or not to make any election permitted to be made by the Partnership under the Code. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Tax Matters Partner is authorized to make an election on behalf of the Partnership under Section 754 of the Code. The General Partner shall have the right to seek to revoke any such election (including, without limitation, the election under Section 754 of the Code) upon the General Partner’s determination in its sole and absolute discretion that such revocation is in the best interests of the Partners.

(e) The General Partner shall arrange for the preparation and timely filing of all returns of Partnership income, gains, deductions, losses and other items required of the Partnership for federal and state income tax purposes.

Section 5.08. Tax Matters Partner Not Liable . The Tax Matters Partner shall not be liable to any Partner or the Partnership on account of any action taken or not taken so long as it shall act in good faith in such capacity. Without limiting the generality thereof, the Tax Matters Partner shall be deemed to have acted in good faith in taking any action which benefits Partners holding at least ninety percent (90%) of the Units.

Section 5.09. Withholding . Each Limited Partner hereby authorizes the Partnership to withhold from or pay on behalf of or with respect to such Limited Partner any amount of federal, state, local, or foreign taxes that the General Partner determines that the Partnership is required to withhold or pay with respect to any amount distributable or allocable to such Limited Partner pursuant to this Agreement, including, without limitation, any taxes required to be withheld or paid by the Partnership pursuant to Sections 1441, 1442, 1445, or 1446 of the Code. Any amount paid on behalf of or with respect to a Limited Partner shall constitute a loan by the Partnership to such Limited Partner, which loan shall be repaid by such Limited Partner within fifteen (15) days after notice from the General Partner that such payment must be made unless (i) the Partnership withholds such payment from a Distribution which would otherwise be made to the Limited Partner or (ii) the General Partner determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that such payment may be satisfied out of the available funds of the Partnership which would, but for such payment, be distributed to the Limited Partner. Any amounts withheld pursuant to the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii) shall be treated as having been distributed to such Limited Partner. Any tax credit available with respect to any withheld amount shall be allocated to the Partner with respect to whom such amount was withheld. Each Limited Partner hereby unconditionally and irrevocably grants to the Partnership a security interest in such Limited Partner’s Units to secure such Limited Partner’s obligation to pay to the Partnership any amounts required to be paid pursuant to this Section 5.09 and authorizes the General Partner to file a financing statement without such Limited Partner’s signature in connection with such security interest. In the event that a Limited Partner fails to pay any amounts owed to the Partnership pursuant to this Section 5.09 when due, the General Partner may, in its sole and absolute discretion, elect to make the payment to the Partnership on behalf of such defaulting Limited Partner, and in such event shall be deemed to have loaned such amount to such defaulting Limited Partner and shall succeed to all rights and remedies of the Partnership as against such defaulting Limited Partner (including, without limitation, the right to receive Distributions). Any amounts payable by a Limited Partner hereunder shall bear interest at the base rate on corporate loans at large United States money center commercial banks, as published from time to time in The Wall Street Journal , plus four percentage points (but not higher than the maximum lawful rate) from the date such amount is due ( i.e. , 15 days after demand) until such amount is paid in full. Each Limited Partner shall take such actions as the Partnership or the General Partner shall request in order to perfect or enforce the security interest created hereunder.

 

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ARTICLE VI

DISSOLUTION AND CONTINUATION OF PARTNERSHIP

Section 6.01. Dissolution . The Partnership shall be dissolved and, unless continued, its assets shall be disposed of and its affairs wound up upon the occurrence of any of the following events:

(a) The expiration of the term in Section 1.03, including any extension thereof.

(b) The withdrawal or dissolution of the General Partner (except as permitted under Section 7.01).

(c) Special Partner Approval and approval by the General Partner of a voluntary agreement at any time to dissolve the Partnership.

(d) Entry of a decree of judicial dissolution of the Partnership pursuant to the provisions of the Act.

(e) The sale or other disposition (other than a disposition occurring upon a financing or refinancing) of all or substantially all of the assets and properties of the Partnership.

Section 6.02. Notice of Dissolution . In the event a dissolution of the Partnership occurs pursuant to Section 6.01, the General Partner shall, within thirty (30) days thereafter, provide written notice thereof to each of the Partners.

Section 6.03. Continuation of Partnership . In the event of the dissolution or withdrawal of the General Partner, all powers granted to the General Partner shall terminate and a new General Partner may be selected within ninety (90) days of the date of dissolution and the business of the Partnership may be continued as a successor limited partnership with the approval of (i) the General Partner and (ii) Limited Partners other than the General Partner holding more than 50% of the Units held by Partners other than the General Partner. If the business of the Partnership is so continued, the successor limited partnership shall be governed by the terms and provisions of this Agreement. If the Partnership is not so continued, the Partnership shall be liquidated in accordance with Article VIII.

Section 6.04. Extension of Term . The initial term of this Agreement as set forth in Section 1.03 shall be extended to December 31, 2124 if prior to the expiration of such initial term the extension is approved by Partners holding more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding Units.

ARTICLE VII

TRANSFER OF UNITS AND CHANGES IN PARTNERS

Section 7.01. General Partner Transfers Restricted .

(a) The General Partner shall not voluntarily withdraw from the Partnership or take any action described in item (B), (C) or (D) of the definition of “Bankruptcy” in Section 1.04, or Assign any of its Units, or dissolve or liquidate, except as provided in subsection (b) or (c) or as otherwise permitted by this Agreement.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), the General Partner may (i) Assign Units to another Person with Special Partner Approval, or (ii) grant a bona fide security interest in Units, and such Units may be Assigned to the secured party pursuant to such a security interest; provided , however, that the secured party will have no right to become a Substituted Partner except as provided in this Agreement.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), the General Partner may, at any time after the effective date of this Agreement, in its sole discretion, transfer and assign a portion of its Units to a wholly-owned subsidiary of the General Partner (the “ New Partner ”), and the New Partner shall, at the sole discretion of the General Partner, have the right to be admitted as a Limited Partner (the “ New Limited Partner ”) or a substituted General Partner (the “ New General Partner ”) of the Partnership. If the New Partner is admitted as a New Limited Partner, (i) any

 

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remaining Units held by the General Partner will continue to be held by it in its capacity as the General Partner and (ii) the New Limited Partner shall agree to be bound by all of the terms and obligations hereof. If the New Partner is admitted as a New General Partner, (i) any remaining Units held by the General Partner will be held by it in the capacity of a Limited Partner and (ii) the New General Partner shall assume all of the obligations of the General Partner as the general partner of the Partnership and shall agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions hereof. The General Partner will not be relieved of any obligation accruing to it as the general partner of the Partnership upon such transfer to a New General Partner prior to the date of such transfer. The Partners hereby consent to any future transfer of Units by the General Partner to a New Limited Partner and its admission as a Limited Partner of the Partnership. The Partners further consent with respect to a New General Partner, to the transfer of Units to such New General Partner, to the withdrawal of the General Partner as the general partner of the Partnership upon such transfer, to the admission of the New General Partner as the sole general partner of the Partnership, to the conversion of the General Partner’s status to that of a Limited Partner and to the admission of the General Partner as a Limited Partner of the Partnership. The Partners agree that the withdrawal of the General Partner as the general partner of the Partnership shall not dissolve the Partnership.

(d) Simultaneously with any transfer of Units described in Section 7.01(c), the General Partner shall amend and restate this Agreement as necessary, in order to effect such transfer of Units and the admission of the New Limited Partner or substituted New General Partner, as the case may be. The General Partner shall execute and deliver such amended Agreement and will be bound by and agree to perform and comply with all the provisions imposing obligations or limitations on the General Partner (in its capacity as a General Partner, Limited Partner or REIT, as the case may be) and will guarantee to the Limited Partners (and not to any Person that is not a party to the Agreement) the due and punctual performance by the New Limited Partner or the New General Partner, as the case may be, of all of the New Limited Partner’s or New General Partner’s obligations thereunder.

Section 7.02. Limited Partner Transfers Restricted .

(a) No Limited Partner shall Assign all or any portion of his Units, or any of such Limited Partner’s rights as a Limited Partner, without the prior written consent of the General Partner, which consent may be given or withheld by the General Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, except as follows (subject in each such case to the satisfaction of the requirements of Sections 7.03, 7.04 and 7.05 and provided that the Assignee will have no right to become a Substituted Partner except as provided in this Agreement):

 

  (i) If a Limited Partner is subject to Incapacity, the executor, administrator, trustee, committee, guardian, conservator or receiver of such Limited Partner’s estate shall have all the rights of a Limited Partner, but not more rights than those enjoyed by other Limited Partners for the purpose of settling or managing the estate and such power as the Incapacitated Limited Partner possessed to assign all or any part of his or its interest is the Partnership; however, the Incapacity of a Limited Partner, in and of itself, shall not dissolve or terminate the Partnership.

 

  (ii) If a Limited Partner is a partnership, corporation or trust, the Limited Partner shall be permitted to distribute to any of its equity owners such equity owner’s pro rata share of Units; provided, however , that if the Partnership issues Units on or after October 28, 2009 to any Person who was not an existing Limited Partner as of October 28, 2009, and such Person proposes to distribute less than 1,000 Units to any of its equity holders pursuant to the preceding sentence, then such transferee shall be deemed to have redeemed all such Units, unless, after such transfer, the transferee would own 1,000 Units or more.

 

  (iii) A Limited Partner may Assign all or a portion of his Units to a member of his Immediate Family or to an entity for the benefit of one or more members of his Immediate Family; provided, however , that if the Partnership issues Units on or after October 28, 2009 to any Person who was not an existing Limited Partner as of October 28, 2009, and such Person proposes to distribute less than 1,000 Units to any of his or her Immediate Family or to an entity for the benefit of one or more members of his Immediate Family pursuant to the preceding sentence, then such transferee shall be deemed to have redeemed all such Units, unless, after such transfer, the transferee would own 1,000 units or more.

 

  (iv) A Limited Partner may Assign all or a portion of his Units to a charitable organization within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Code in a donative transfer.

 

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  (v) A Limited Partner may redeem his Units as provided in Section 7.07.

 

  (vi) A Limited Partner may Assign Units to another Limited Partner.

 

  (vii) A Limited Partner may Assign Units to a trust for the benefit of employees of (A) the Partnership, (B) any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the General Partner, (C) Duke Services or (D) any direct or indirect Subsidiary of Duke Services.

(b) Any purported Assignment respecting a Partnership interest by a Limited Partner in violation of Section 7.02(a) shall be void ab initio and shall not be given effect for any purpose by the Partnership. Any Assignment of Units by the General Partner is controlled by Section 7.01 and not by this section.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), no Assignment by a Limited Partner may be permitted or recognized by the Partnership if the General Partner determines, in its sole discretion, that such Assignment might result in the disqualification of the General Partner as a REIT or the classification of the Partnership as an association taxable as a corporation.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), a Limited Partner may grant a bona fide security interest in Units, and such Units may be Assigned to the secured party pursuant to such a security interest; provided, however , that the secured party will have no right to become a Substituted Partner except as provided in this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Person to whom the Partnership issues Units who is not an existing Limited Partner as of the date hereof shall be prohibited from granting a bona fide security interest in Units nor shall they be permitted to Assign such Units to the secured party pursuant to such security interest without the prior written consent of the General Partner.

(e) No Limited Partner may withdraw from the Partnership other than as a result of a permitted Assignment and substitution with respect to all of such Limited Partner’s Units in accordance with this section.

Section 7.03. Transfer and Assignment of Partnership Interest .

(a) To the extent permitted by Section 7.02, a Limited Partner or Assignee shall have the right to Assign all or any portion of its Units by a signed, written assignment document in compliance with and subject to Sections 7.04 and 7.05, provided that (i) the terms of such assignment document are not in contravention of any of the provisions of this Agreement; (ii) such assignment document is fully executed by the assignor and Assignee; (iii) such assignment document is received by the Partnership and recorded on the books thereof, (iv) the General Partner, in its sole discretion, approves the Assignment documents and, to the extent required by Section 7.02, approves the Assignment, and (v) the Partner provides an opinion of counsel, if required by the General Partner, satisfactory to the General Partner, that no material adverse tax or securities law effects will result to the Partnership or the other Partners from such Assignment.

(b) In the event of an Assignment of Units, the following rules shall govern:

 

  (i) The effective date of an Assignment of Units shall be that date set forth on the written instrument of Assignment; provided , however, that no Assignment shall be retroactive and the effective date of an Assignment shall only be the first day of a fiscal quarter of the Partnership, unless the General Partner otherwise agrees.

 

  (ii) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, both the Partnership and the General Partner shall be entitled to treat the Partner or Assignee of Record with respect to such Units as the absolute owner thereof in all respects and shall incur no liability for Distributions of cash or other property made in good faith to such Partner or Assignee of Record until such time as a certificate for the Units Assigned, properly endorsed, has been delivered to the Partnership for registration of the Assignment and any required approvals are given.

 

  (iii) An Assignee shall be entitled to receive Distributions of cash or other property from the Partnership attributable to the Units acquired by reason of such Assignment from and after the effective date of the Assignment of such Units to the Assignee except as provided in subparagraph (ii) above.

 

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  (iv) The Profits, Losses, income, expense, deductions or credits attributable to the interest acquired by reason of such Assignment shall be divided among and allocated between the assignor and Assignee of such Units in accordance with Section 7.06.

 

  (v) If the Partnership issues Units on or after the date hereof to any Person who is not an existing Limited Partner as of the date hereof, and such Person proposed to Assign less than 1,000 Units than such Assignee shall be deemed to have redeemed all such Units unless, after the Assignment, such Assignee would own 1,000 Units or more.

Section 7.04. Substitution as a Partner . No Assignee of the whole or any portion of Units shall have the right to become a Substituted Partner in place of the assignor unless all of the following conditions are satisfied:

 

  (i) The assignor and Assignee execute a written instrument of Assignment, together with such other instruments as the General Partner may deem necessary or desirable to effect the admission of the Assignee as a Substituted Partner, and by which the Assignee agrees to be bound by this Agreement.

 

  (ii) Such instrument of Assignment provided for herein has been delivered to and received by the General Partner.

 

  (iii) The conditions to such substitution in Section 7.05 have been satisfied.

 

  (iv) The written consent of the General Partner to such substitution has been obtained, the granting or denial of which shall be within the sole and absolute discretion of the General Partner, provided that the consent of the General Partner to such substitution shall be withheld if the General Partner shall not have received evidence satisfactory to it that the Substituted Partner is authorized to acquire the interest so Assigned and has the appropriate financial resources to acquire the Units Assigned to it.

 

  (v) A transfer fee has been paid to the Partnership which is sufficient to cover all reasonable expenses connected with such Assignment and substitution, including, but not limited to, legal and filing or recording fees.

Section 7.05. Additional Conditions to Assignment and Substitution . The General Partner and the Partnership shall not recognize any Assignment or substitution for any purpose if the Partnership shall not have received, if required by the General Partner, an opinion of counsel regularly employed by the Partnership (or other counsel reasonably satisfactory to the General Partner) to the effect that such Assignment (A) will not result is termination of the Partnership under the Act; (B) will not result in termination of the Partnership for federal income tax purposes or, if it does result in such a termination, such termination will not cause material adverse federal income tax consequences to the Partnership or the other Partners; (C) will not change the status of the Partnership as a partnership for federal income tax purposes; and (D) will not give rise to liability of the Partnership, any Partner or any agent or advisor of any Partner for violation of the securities Laws of the United States or any state thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing restrictions, a redemption or purchase of the Common Units by the General Partner pursuant to the Redemption Rights granted in Section 7.07 shall not be deemed to be an Assignment for the purposes of this Section 7.05.

Section 7.06. Allocation Upon Assignment or Redemption . If any Units are Assigned during the Partnership’s fiscal year in compliance with the provisions of this Article VII or redeemed pursuant to Section 7.07, Profits, Losses, each item thereof and all other items attributable to such Units for such fiscal year shall be divided and allocated between the transferor Partner and the transferee Partner by taking into account their varying interests during the fiscal year in accordance with Section 4.09.

Section 7.07. Redemption Right .

(a) Subject to Section 7.07(b) and any other applicable agreement between the Partnership and a Limited Partner, each Limited Partner shall have the right (the “Redemption Right”) but not the obligation to require the Partnership to redeem on a Specified Redemption Date all or a portion of the Common Units held by such Limited Partner at a redemption price per Common Unit equal to and in the form of the Redemption Amount. The Redemption Right shall be exercised pursuant to one or more Notices of Redemption delivered to the General Partner by the Limited Partner (or the Limited Partner’s attorney-in-fact) who is exercising the Redemption Right (the “Redeeming Partner”); provided, however , that the Partnership shall not be obligated to satisfy such

 

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Redemption Right if the General Partner elects to purchase the Common Units subject to the Notice of Redemption pursuant to Section 7.07(b). A Limited Partner may not exercise the Redemption Right for less than 1,000 Units or, if such Limited Partner holds less than 1,000 Units, all of the Units held by such Partner. The Redeeming Partner shall have no right, with respect to any Units so redeemed, to receive any Distributions paid after the Specified Redemption Date.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 7.07(a), a Limited Partner that exercises the Redemption Right shall be deemed to have offered to sell the Common Units described in the Notice of Redemption to the General Partner, and the General Partner may, in its sole and absolute discretion, purchase directly and acquire such Units by paying to the Redeeming Partner the Redemption Amount on the Specified Redemption Date, whereupon the General Partner shall acquire the Units offered for redemption by the Redeeming Partner and shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as the owner of such Partnership Units. Unless the General Partner shall exercise its right to purchase Units from the Redeeming Partner pursuant to this Section 7.07(b), the General Partner shall not have any obligation to the Redeeming Partner or the Partnership with respect to the Redeeming Partner’s exercise of the Redemption Right. In the event the General Partner shall exercise its right to purchase Units with respect to the exercise of a Redemption Right in the manner described in the first sentence of this Section 7.07(b), the Partnership shall have no obligation to pay any amount to the Redeeming Partner with respect to such Redeeming Partner’s exercise of such Redemption Right, and each of the Redeeming Partner, the Partnership and the General Partner shall treat the transaction between the General Partner and the Redeeming Partner as a sale of the Redeeming Partner’s Units to the General Partner for federal income tax purposes. Each Redeeming Partner agrees to execute such documents as the General Partner may reasonably require in connection with the issuance of REIT Shares upon exercise of the Redemption Right including, but not limited to, written representations as to tax or securities law matters, and any certificates representing such REIT Shares may bear legends regarding federal and state securities transfer restrictions and imposing reasonable requirements for any transfer.

(c) The General Partner shall at all times reserve and keep available for issuance upon the exercise of the Redemption Right such number of its authorized but unissued REIT Shares as will be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of the Redemption Right by all holders of Units. All REIT Shares, when issued upon exercise of a Redemption Right, shall be duly and validly issued and fully paid and nonassessable, and not subject to preemptive rights.

(d) The Redemption Ratio is 1.0, subject to adjustments as follows:

 

  (i) In case the General Partner shall (A) pay or make a dividend or other distribution on the outstanding REIT Shares in REIT Shares, (B) subdivide or reclassify the outstanding REIT Shares into a greater number of REIT Shares, or (C) combine or reclassify the outstanding REIT Shares into a smaller number of REIT Shares, the Redemption Ratio in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution or subject to such subdivision, combination or reclassification shall be proportionately adjusted so that a holder of Units shall be entitled to receive, upon redemption thereof, the number of REIT Shares which the holder would have owned at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination had such Units been redeemed immediately prior to such determination.

 

  (ii) In case the Partnership shall subdivide or reclassify the outstanding Units into a greater number of Units, the Redemption Ratio in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of Unit holders subject to such subdivision or reclassification shall be proportionately adjusted so that a holder of Units shall be entitled to receive, upon redemption thereof, the number of REIT Shares which the holder would have owned at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination had such Units been redeemed immediately prior to such determination.

 

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  Units, by reference to the Redemption Ratio), and (C) cannot issue such rights or warrants to a Person exercising a Redemption Right as otherwise required by the definition of REIT Shares Amount in Section 1.04, then the Redemption Ratio in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination shall be increased by multiplying such Redemption Ratio by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of REIT Shares outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of REIT Shares so offered for subscription or purchase, and of which the denominator shall be the number of REIT Shares outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of REIT Shares which the aggregate offering price of the total number of REIT Shares so offered for subscription would purchase at such Current Market Price per share, such increase of the Redemption Ratio to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination.

 

  (iv) In case the General Partner shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its common stock (i) shares of capital stock of any class other than its common stock, (ii) evidences of its indebtedness or (iii) assets (excluding any rights or warrants referred to in subparagraph (iii) of this subsection (d), any cash dividend or distribution lawfully paid under the laws of the state of incorporation of the General Partner, and any dividend or distribution referred to in subsection (d)(i)) and the General Partner shall not cause a corresponding distribution to be made to all holders of Units, the Redemption Ratio shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the ratio determined by multiplying the Redemption Ratio in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the Current Market Price per REIT Share on the date fixed for such determination, and of which the denominator shall be such Current Market Price per REIT Share less the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors of the General Partner, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board resolution certified by the Secretary of the General Partner and delivered to the holders of the Units) of the portion of the shares of capital stock or evidences of indebtedness or assets so distributed applicable to one REIT Share, such adjustment to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such distribution.

 

  (v) In case of any reclassification of the REIT Shares (including, but not limited to, any reclassification upon a consolidation or merger in which the General Partner is the continuing corporation) into securities other than REIT Shares, the Units shall thereafter be redeemable into the kind and amount of shares of such securities receivable upon such reclassification by a holder of the number of REIT Shares into which such Units would be redeemable immediately prior to such reclassification.

 

  (vi) For purposes of this subsection (d), if the General Partner receives consideration other than cash for any of its securities, the value of such consideration is to be determined by the Board of Directors of the General Partner in the exercise of its reasonable business judgment and the basis for such valuation shall be included in any certificate delivered by the General Partner pursuant to Section 5.03(c).

Section 7.08. Effect of Transfer . Any Assignee or other transferee of Units or any interest therein shall take subject to the restrictions and conditions to transfer imposed by this Article.

ARTICLE VIII

LIQUIDATION

Section 8.01. Liquidation Determination . In the event of dissolution where the Partnership is not continued pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise, the Partnership shall be liquidated.

Section 8.02. Liquidation Procedure . A reasonable time, as determined by the General Partner, from the date of an event of dissolution shall be allowed for the orderly liquidation of the assets of the Partnership and the discharge of its liabilities. Upon the completion of dissolution in accordance with the terms hereof, the Partnership shall terminate and the General Partner shall execute, acknowledge and cause to be filed a certificate of cancellation

 

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of the Partnership whereupon it shall cease to exist in all respects. In the event of a dissolution of the Partnership, liquidation of the assets of the Partnership and discharge of its liabilities may be carried out by a liquidation trustee or receiver, who shall be a bank or trust company or other person or firm having experience in managing, liquidating or otherwise handling property of the type then owned by the Partnership. Such liquidation trustee or receiver shall be designated by the General Partner (or in the absence of the General Partner, by the Limited Partners holding more than 50% of the Units). A liquidation trustee shall be not personally liable for the debts of the Partnership but otherwise shall have such obligations and authorities as are given the General Partner pursuant to this Agreement or as may be agreed upon between the Partners and said liquidation trustee.

Section 8.03. Allocation of Liquidation Proceeds . Upon liquidation of the Partnership, and subject to Section 2.05 hereof, the liquidation proceeds shall be applied and distributed in the following manner and order of priority:

 

  (i) To the payment of liabilities of creditors other than Partners and to the expenses of liquidation;

 

  (ii) To the setting up of any reserves which the General Partner determines reasonably necessary for any contingent liabilities of the Partnership or of any Partner arising out of or in connection with a Partnership liability, which revenues shall be paid over by the Partnership to an escrow agent or shall be held for the purpose of disbursing such reserves in payment of any such contingent liabilities and, at the expiration of such period as the General Partner shall deem advisable, the balance of which shall be distributed as otherwise provided in this section;

 

  (iii) To the payment of any liabilities to the Partners (other than Capital Accounts), arising out of or in connection with a Partnership liability, or if the amount available for such payment is insufficient, a pro rata portion thereof; and

 

  (iv) The remainder to the Partners in accordance with Section 4.04 of this Agreement.

ARTICLE IX

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 9.01. Notice . All notices, elections, consents and approvals under this Agreement shall be in writing, and shall be effectively given to any Partner if delivered to the Partner or if mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, to such Partner at the address provided to the General Partner. Any Partner may change his or its address for notice by giving notice of such change to the General Partner.

Section 9.02. Construction . This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana.

Section 9.03. Assigns and Successors in Interest . Except as otherwise provided herein, this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall run for the benefit of the parties executing this Agreement, and the personal representatives, heirs, legatees, devisees, assigns and successors in interest of the Partners.

Section 9.04. Assignment . No Partner to this Agreement may Assign its Units or any right therein to any other Person except as expressly permitted by this Agreement. However, in the event of any Assignment of Units in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Partners agree to execute such documents as may be necessary to effect such change, including required changes to this Agreement and the Certificate described in Section 9.06.

Section 9.05. Amendment .

(a) The General Partner, without obtaining the consent of the other Partners, may amend this Agreement at any time, in its sole and exclusive discretion, but only to reflect:

 

  (i) A change in the name of the Partnership;

 

  (ii) A change in the principal place of business of the Partnership;

 

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  (iii) The admission, substitution, termination, or withdrawal of Partners in accordance with this Agreement, so long as any Person admitted or substituted as a Partner executes a written document agreeing to be bound by this Agreement;

 

  (iv) A change that (A) is of an inconsequential nature and does not adversely affect the Limited Partners or any Assignees in any material respect or (B) is required by this Agreement;

 

  (v) A change to set forth the rights, powers, duties, and preferences of the holders of any additional Partnership interests issued pursuant to Section 4.02(b) hereof;

 

  (vi) A change to satisfy any requirements, or conditions contained in any order, directive, opinion, ruling or regulation of a federal or state agency or contained in federal or state law; or

 

  (vii) A change to Exhibit 5, 6 or 7 in accordance with the terms of such Exhibits.

(b) This Agreement may be otherwise amended with the consent of the General Partner and Special Partner Approval. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any amendment which would have any of the following effects must be consented to in writing by each Partner whose rights or obligations as expressly provided in this Agreement are directly and adversely affected by such amendment:

 

  (i) Increase or decrease a Partner’s obligation to contribute to the Partnership or decrease the Capital Account of a Partner;

 

  (ii) Alter the allocations of Profits and Losses;

 

  (iii) Alter the manner of computing Distributions;

 

  (iv) Alter the right of a Partner to Assign his Units and any rights provided in this Agreement to substitute another Person as a Partner;

 

  (v) Alter the voting rights or status of Partners;

 

  (vi) Alter or modify the Redemption Right and Redemption Amount as set forth in Section 7.07 and related definitions;

 

  (vii) Alter the procedures for amending this Agreement; or

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the unanimous consent of the Partners is required for any amendment which, in the opinion of counsel for the Partnership:

 

  (i) Is in violation of the provisions of the Act;

 

  (ii) Would cause the Limited Partners to incur liability as general partners; or

 

  (iii) Would result in the Partnership being treated as other than a partnership for federal income tax purposes.

(d) Section 2.05 shall not be amended without the consent of two-thirds in number of the Obligated Partners.

(e) Amendments to this Agreement may be proposed by the General Partner or by a proposal in writing signed by Partners holding ten percent (10%) or more of the outstanding Units, such proposal to be given to the General Partner and the other Partners at the addresses appearing in the records of the Partnership.

(f) The General Partner shall provide written notice, including a copy of any amendment to this Agreement, to the Limited Partners when any action under subsection (a) is taken.

Section 9.06. Certificate of Limited Partnership . The Partnership has previously filed a Certificate of Limited Partnership in the Office of the Secretary of State of Indiana. The Partnership shall amend such certificate as required by the Act in connection with this Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership and shall file additional Certificates of Limited Partnership in such other office or offices in such other jurisdiction or

 

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jurisdictions where such filings are required by applicable law or deemed desirable by the General Partner. In the event of any change requiring the cancellation or amendment of such certificate under the Act or such other applicable law, the General Partner shall cause the certificate to be cancelled or amended in accordance with law by an appropriate filing, without the necessity of first obtaining the prior consent of the other Partners.

Section 9.07. Further Assurances . The Partners will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts and things as may be necessary to carry out the intent and purpose of this Agreement.

Section 9.08. Warranties of Representatives . Each Person executing this Agreement on behalf of a party hereto represents and warrants that he has been fully empowered to execute this Agreement, and that all necessary action for the execution of this Agreement has been taken.

Section 9.09. Computation of Time . In computing any period of time pursuant to this Agreement, the day of the act, event or default from which the designated period of time begins to run shall not be included. The last day of the period so computed shall be included, unless it is a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday, in which event the period shall run until the end of the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Section 9.10. Captions . Article and section titles or captions contained in this Agreement are inserted only as a matter of convenience and for reference and in no way define, limit, extend or describe the scope of this Agreement or the intent of any provision hereof.

Section 9.11. Identification . Whenever the singular number is used in this Agreement and when required by the context, the same shall include the plural; and the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter genders.

Section 9.12. Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts or by separate signature pages identified as such and all of such counterparts or signature pages shall for all purposes constitute an agreement binding on the parties hereto, notwithstanding that all parties are not signatory to the same counterpart or signature page.

Section 9.13. Partners’ Capability . Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, no Partner, or any Assignee of the interests thereof, shall be a Person or organization prohibited by law from becoming such. Any assignment of an interest in the Partnership to any Person or organization not meeting such standard shall be void and ineffective and shall not bind the Partnership.

Section 9.14. Severability . If any provision of this Agreement shall be declared invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect so far as the intent of the parties can be carried out.

Section 9.15. Approval or Consent . Except as otherwise provided herein, any approval or consent required in this Agreement by Partners holding Units shall be deemed given upon the affirmative vote at a meeting, or the execution of a written ballot or consent form indicating consent, by Partners holding more than fifty percent (50%) of the Common Units. The term “consent” shall comprise the word “approve” as used in the Act.

Section 9.16. Meetings . Meetings of the Partnership may be called by the General Partner and shall be called by the General Partner upon the written request of the Partners holding more than ten percent (10%) of the Units.

Section 9.17. Consent of Partners and Assignees . By acceptance of a Unit, each Partner and each Assignee expressly consents and agrees that, whenever in this Agreement it is specified that an action may be taken upon the affirmative vote or consent of less than all of the Partners, such action may be so taken upon the concurrence of less than all of the Partners, and each such Partner and Assignee shall be bound by the results of such action.

Section 9.18. Limitation on Benefits of this Agreement . It is the explicit intention of the Partners that no Person other than the Partners and the Partnership (and, to the extent provided in Section 3.10, the Persons entitled to be indemnified thereunder) is or shall be entitled to bring any action by or on behalf of the Partnership to enforce any provision of this Agreement against any Partner (or its successors and assigns) or the Partnership, and that the covenants, undertakings, and agreements set forth in this Agreement shall be solely for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable only by, the Partners (or their respective successors and assigns as permitted hereunder) and the Partnership (and, to the extent provided in Section 3.10, the Persons entitled to be indemnified thereunder).

 

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Section 9.19. Special Power of Attorney .

(a) By executing this Agreement, in person or by attorney-in-fact, each Limited Partner (and each Substituted Partner by acceptance of Units) constitutes and appoints the General Partner as the attorney-in-fact for such Limited Partner, with power and authority to act in its name and on its behalf to approve, execute, acknowledge and swear to the execution, acknowledgment and filing of the following documents:

 

  (i) Any amendments to this Agreement which are permitted under Section 9.05(a) or for which the required consent has been given under Section 9.05(b), 9.05(c) or Section 9.05(d), any separate certificates of limited partnership, as well as any amendments to the foregoing which, under the laws of the State of Indiana or the laws of any other state, are required to be made or filed or which are required to be made or filed by any governmental agency;

 

  (ii) Any certificates of limited partnership, as well as any amendments to the foregoing which, under the laws of the State of Indiana or the laws of any other state, are required to be filed or which the General Partner deems it advisable to file;

 

  (iii) Any other instrument or document which may be required to be filed by the Partnership under the laws of any state or by any governmental agency; and

 

  (iv) Any instrument or document which may be required to effect the continuation of the Partnership, the admission of an Additional Limited Partner or Substituted Partner, or the dissolution and termination of the Partnership (provided such continuation, admission or dissolution and termination are in accordance with the terms of this Agreement), or to reflect any reductions in amount of contributions of Partners.

(b) The special power of attorney granted by each Limited Partner:

 

  (i) Is a special power of attorney coupled with an interest, is irrevocable, shall survive the death of the granting Limited Partner (if an individual), and is limited to those matters herein set forth;

 

  (ii) May be exercised by the General Partner acting alone for each Limited Partner by a facsimile signature of the General Partner or by listing all of the Limited Partners executing any instrument with a single signature of the General Partner acting as an attorney-in-fact for all of them; and

 

  (iii) Shall survive an Assignment by a Limited Partner of all or any portion of its Units except that, where the Assignee of the Units owned by a Limited Partner has been approved by the General Partner for admission to the Partnership as a Substituted Partner, the special power of attorney shall survive such Assignment for the sole purpose of enabling the General Partner to execute, acknowledge and file any instrument or document necessary to effect such substitution.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Fifth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership this 5 th day of May 2014.

 

GENERAL PARTNER:
DUKE REALTY CORPORATION
By:  

/s/ A NN C. D EE

Ann C. Dee
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary


Exhibit 1

PARTNERS AND PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS

 

     Total Units
as of
May 5, 2014
 

General Partner:

  
  

 

 

 

Duke Realty Corporation

     199,556,809   
  

 

 

 

Limited Partners:

  

Ackerman & Co.

     40,749   

Alspaugh, Robert E.

     3,514   

Joseph D. Alvado Trust

     1,712   

Baron Investments, II

     4,816   

Michele F. Baur Revocable Trust

     90,000   

Befeler, Henry

     1,020   

Adrian F. Brown Revocable Trust

     36,772   

Burk, Donna L.

     70,000   

Charbonneau, George

     3,046   

Charbonneau, Linda W.

     28,286   

Clayman, MD, Julie

     1,102   

Coletta, Michael

     2,118   

Coletta, Michael & Linda

     66,822   

Thomas M. Crowley Revocable Trust

     44,772   

Cullman, Jr., W. Arthur

     8,299   

Cullman, Richard L.

     4,000   

Desch, Grant D.

     329   

Desch, Luke J.

     529   

Desch, Monica H.

     1,079   

DKE, LLC

     240,148   

Duke Acquisition, Inc

     129,932,554   

Mildred Dworkin Revocable Trust

     1,256   

Eastman, George & Laura

     1,676   

Egger, Beatrice Cullman

     3,299   

Ehrman, Amy R.

     2,833   

Famlee Investment Co.

     146,121   

Ross C. Farro Revocable Trust

     78,350   

Feder, Aaron

     2,304   

Ferris, Joan M.

     1,351   

Ferris, Joanna M.

     329   

Ferris, Lauren M.

     1,079   

Ferris, William J.

     1,079   

Flowers, Mark W.

     2,127   

Otto Gago Trust

     838   

 

Exhibit 1 - 1


Exhibit 1

PARTNERS AND PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS

 

     Total Units
as of
May 5, 2014
 

Gershman Family LLC

     44,772   

Bradley Gershman Revocable Trust

     14,924   

Getzler, Doris

     210   

Gibson, O. Ford

     1,020   

Griffith, Elizabeth M.

     1,079   

Grimme, Michael J.

     1,079   

Grimme, Susan E.

     1,350   

Haas, Adam J.

     1,079   

Haas, Barbara L.

     1,350   

Haas, Carrie J.

     1,079   

Haas, Jeffrey J.

     1,079   

Happe, Gene F.

     1,189   

D. Keith Hayward Trust

     306   

Mary A. Johnson Revocable Trust

     408,814   

Lampe, James J.

     1,351   

Lampe, John T.

     1,079   

Lampe, Thomas R.

     1,351   

Lampe, Tyler J.

     1,079   

Lampe, William T.

     1,079   

Joanne L. Lewandowski Living Trust

     15,076   

Norbert J. Lewandowski Living Trust

     11,900   

Lewis, Mary M.

     3,774   

Lindbergh-Warson Properties, Inc.

     800,000   

Market Squared Enterprises

     3,141   

McCabe, James F.

     54   

Mennel, David R.

     160,759   

MJW Investments, Ltd.

     15,414   

Birch M. Mullins Living Trust, Birch Mullins Trustee

     382,998   

Novick, William Z.

     418   

Kenneth Orkin Life Trust

     28,048   

Laurie Orkin Life Trust

     28,048   

Michael Orkin Life Trust

     28,048   

Orkin, Sanford H.

     168,289   

Sheri Orkin Life Trust

     28,048   

Ottenjohn, David T.

     1,059   

Pinehill Investments, LTD

     4,309   

Pinehill Northwinds, GP

     16,275   

Pixler, Emily J.

     1,079   

Renard, Alicia M.

     189,985   

Robertson, Roland G.

     2,833   

Charles E. Rodgers Trust

     1,862   

 

Exhibit 1 - 2


Exhibit 1

PARTNERS AND PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS

 

     Total Units
as of
May 5, 2014
 

Rodgers, Susan Marie

     4,000   

Rogers, Russell A.

     6,404   

Rosebrough, John S.

     50,964   

Rougeux, Mark J.

     87,951   

Sackheim, Ronald

     1,048   

Sams, Thomas H.

     22,718   

Schwarz, Michael

     10,292   

Sirak, Howard D.

     16,600   

Staton, Daniel C.

     415,329   

Steinfeld, E. J. & C. E.

     210   

Towne Investment Co.

     21,848   

Veres, Joan K.

     6,925   

Wade, Anne S.

     8,224   

Waldemar Industries, Inc.

     45,442   

Trust U/W -A.R. Weeks, Jr. As Trustee f/b/o Marsha Lee Weeks

     168,475   

Helen Weinger Trust

     1,006   

Weiss, Molly

     644   

Clifton J. Wilkow Revocable Trust

     2,644   

Marc R. Wilkow, Revoc. Trust

     1,095   

Wm. A. Natorp Co.

     69,255   

Worton, Charles

     1,102   

Lauren Nicole Zavitz Irrev. Trust U/A

     2,450   

Zavitz, Sarah E.

     4,000   

Zink, Jr., Darell E.

     100,190   

DRE Unit Holder

     267   

Berliant, Jack & Estelle

     59   

Crane, Joshua

     9   

Crane, Michael

     9   

Dreyfuss, Michele

     9   

Dreyfuss, Deborah

     9   

Dreyfuss, Jacqueline

     9   

Dreyfuss, Rebecca

     9   

Dreyfuss, Lori

     9   

Elman, Earl

     7   

F.A.S.S. Benevolent Foundation Inc

     1,007   

Feldman, Barry & Ellyn

     231   

Fried, Leo & Dorothy

     7   

Bernard A. Gassin Trust Dated 6/29/93

     252   

Gerngross, Edith

     132   

Greenman, Vivian

     3   

Radner, Feigie Hirshman

     16   

 

Exhibit 1 - 3


Exhibit 1

PARTNERS AND PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS

 

     Total Units
as of
May 5, 2014
 

Hirshman, Noach

     16   

Hirshman, Pinchas

     16   

Hirshman, Shmuel

     16   

Leon Joy Jennings Trust Charlotte Fisher, TTEE

     164   

Kliot, Jason

     107   

Levin, Richard W.

     3   

Menninger, Claire

     131   

Novick, Daniel

     8   

Phillips, Alan George

     17   

Phillips, Jacqueline Marie

     17   

Sacks, Selig D.

     25   

Schanzer, Reuven

     110   

Simon, Jayne

     16   

Solna Wasser Rev Trt Dtd 11/12/02 Solna Wasser, Trustee

     16   

Wielgoz, Karoline

     55   

Woloshin, Jonathan I.

     36   

Isenberg, Allan

     33   

James D. Eckhoff Revocable Trust U/A dated 10-15-09

     62,395   

BDR Holdings, LLC

     2,094   

Michael S. Kahn Revocable Trust Agreement Dated 4/23/07

     1,292   

E. Jordan Wilkow Trust #2

     183   

Gregg J. Wilkow Trust #2

     183   

Brett M. Wilkow Trust #2

     183   

Adelman, Gerald R.

     261   

Crawford, John K.

     116   

McCormick, Kimberly E.

     115   
  

 

 

 
     134,319,463   
  

 

 

 
     333,876,272   
  

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 1 - 4


Exhibit 3

NOTICE OF REDEMPTION RIGHT EXERCISE

Date:                     

As of the date written above, the undersigned limited partner hereby irrevocably (i) elects to exercise the redemption right with respect to an aggregate of              units of limited partnership interest (“Units”) in Duke Realty Limited Partnership (“DRLP”) in accordance with Section 7.07 of the Fourth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of DRLP (the “Partnership Agreement”), (ii) surrenders such Units and all right, title and interest as further amended, therein to Duke Realty Corporation (the “Corporation”), and (iii) directs that the shares of common stock of the Corporation (“REIT Shares”) deliverable upon exercise of the Redemption Right be delivered to the address specified below, and that such REIT Shares be registered in the name(s) and at the address(es) specified below. The undersigned limited partner acknowledges that the Corporation will purchase the Units in accordance with Section 7.07(b) of the Partnership Agreement, that the purchase is a taxable transaction, and that the undersigned has considered the tax ramifications of the redemption after consultation with a tax advisor.

The undersigned limited partner acknowledges that DRLP is required to pay to certain States, on behalf of such limited partner, income tax payments with respect to State taxable income allocable to the limited partner. DRLP has estimated the amount of the required State tax payments and withheld such amounts from distributions periodically paid to the limited partner. Within 30 days of filing the applicable tax return with such State, DRLP agrees to pay to the limited partner any amounts withheld from the distributions in excess of the required tax payments. To the extent the required tax payments by DRLP to the States are more than the amounts withheld from the distributions, the undersigned limited partner agrees to reimburse DRLP for such excess tax payments. The undersigned agrees to pay DRLP such reimbursement within 30 days of a written request by DRLP. Any such request shall be accompanied by documentation of the actual amount of the tax withholdings and the required State tax payments.

The undersigned limited partner hereby represents that all prior factual representations made by the limited partner in the Acknowledgement and Acceptance and/or the Investor Suitability Questionnaire, which the limited partner executed in connection with the Agreement for Contribution of Property, and as such representations may have been updated pursuant to correspondence properly delivered to the Corporation, remain true and correct as of the date hereof. The undersigned limited partner represents that the limited partner has read the recent filings made by the Corporation with the Securities Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and has had reasonable opportunity to ask questions of the Corporation’s management relating to the Corporation and the REIT Shares. The limited partner further represents that the Corporation is justified and permitted to rely upon all such representations made by the limited partner.

 

Issue REIT Shares as a physical Certificate to:   OR   Deliver REIT Shares via the DWAC (electronic) System to:

 

   

 

Name     Brokerage Name/Account #

 

   

 

    

 

Street Address     DTC #          Contact Name

 

   

 

City, State, Zip Code     Contact Phone Number

 

   

 

 

Exhibit 3-1


Social Security or Federal ID Number                        Contact Email Address                    

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Notice of Redemption Right Exercise as of the date written above.

 

LIMITED PARTNER:     ACCEPTED BY:
    DUKE REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    By: Duke Realty Corporation, general partner

 

    By:  

 

Signature       Neal A. Lewis
      SVP, Taxation

 

     
Name Printed      

 

     
Name on Certificate if Different from Above      

 

     
Street Address      

 

     
City, State, Zip Code      

 

     
Telephone      

 

     
Email Address      

ORIGINAL UNIT CERTIFICATES:

 

¨ Certificate Number                     

(Please return the original certificate with this document)

 

¨ Units were not certificated

 

Administrative:
Stock Issuance Date:  

 

Issuance Transaction Number:  

 

Tax Withholdings Checked:  

 

Hold against units checked:  

 

By:    

 

Registration:  

 

Cost Basis per Share on  

 

 

Exhibit 3-2


State of                     

County of                     

Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally appeared                     (limited partner) and acknowledged the execution of the foregoing Notice of Redemption Right Exercise to be his voluntary act and deed.

Witness my hand and Notarial Seal this          of             , 20    .

 

    

 

  
     Notary Public – Signature   
    

 

  
     Notary Public – Printed   
My Commission Expires:      My County of Residence:   

 

    

 

  

 

Exhibit 3-3


Exhibit 5

Obligated Partners

 

Partner

   Restoration Amount  

Donna L. Burk

     1,348,000.00   

Michael and Linda Coletta, Tenants by the Entireties

     1,300,000.00   

Michael Coletta

     400,000.00   

David R. Mennel

     3,700,000.00   

John S. Rosebrough

     4,962,000.00   

Mark J. Rougeux

     5,187,600.00   

Thomas H. Sams GRAT 1

     1,000,000.00   

Daniel C. Staton

     11,787,600.00   

Darell E. Zink, Jr.

     12,687,600.00   

Ross C. Farro Revocable Trust dtd 3/16/95

     5,500,000.00   

Trust U/W, A.R. Weeks Jr. as Trustee

     700,000.00   

Mark W. Flowers

     2,500.00   

James McCabe

     7,000.00   

James D. Eckhoff

     857,000.00   

Birch M. Mullins Revocable Trust

     8,615,000.00   

Lindbergh-Warson Properties, Inc.

     31,889,000.00   

Michelle F. Baur Revocable Trust

     1,261,000.00   

DKE, LLC

     7,317,000.00   

Michael Schwarz

     287,000.00   

Baron Investments II

     430,000.00   

Pinehill Investments, LTD

     265,000.00   

Pinehill Northwinds, GP

     1,376,000.00   

 

Exhibit 5-1


Exhibit 6

Indemnification of Certain Recourse Debt

(a) Definitions . As used in this Exhibit 6, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

“Claim Percentage” for TIC means 100%; provided, however, in the event any other limited partner of the Partnership is an. indemnitor with respect to an Indemnity Claim, the Claim Percentage for TIC with respect to such Indemnity Claim shall be the percentage determined by dividing TIC’s Maximum Liability by the maximum liability with respect to such Indemnity Claim of all indemnitors of the related Recourse Debt.

“Indemnity Claim” means any demand made to the General Partner by any holder of all or any part of the Recourse Debt for payment of all or any part thereof.

“Indemnity Claim Amount” means, with respect to an Indemnity Claim, the amount determined as prescribed in subsection (c)(iv) of this section.

“Indemnity Credit” for TIC means, at any time, all payments made prior to such time by TIC under subsection (b) of this section.

“Maximum. Liability” for TIC means $3,700,000.

“Recourse Debt” means any and all indebtedness of the Partnership not evidenced by a non-recourse note.

“TIC” means Towne Investment Co., an Ohio limited partnership, which is a Limited Partner as of September 30, 1998.

(b) Indemnification . Upon and subject to the terms and provisions of this Exhibit 6, TIC agrees to indemnify the General. Partner from and against liability for a portion of each Indemnity Claim Amount (regardless of whether actually paid by the General Partner) equal to TIC’s Claim Percentage of the Indemnity Claim Amount, subject, however, to the limitation that the maximum amount required at anytime to be indemnified hereunder by TIC shall not exceed the TIC Maximum Liability reduced (not below zero) by TIC’s Indemnity Credit at such time.

(c) Indemnification Procedure .

 

  (i) The General Partner shall not pay any portion of any Recourse Debt prior to (A) giving TIC written notice of the related Indemnity Claim and the opportunity to defend against the Indemnity Claim as provided in this subsection (c) and (B) the determination of the related Indemnity Claim Amount as provided in subsection (c)(iv) below.

 

  (ii) Whenever an Indemnity Claim arises, the General Partner shall promptly give written notice to TIC setting forth in reasonable detail, to the extent then available, the facts concerning the Indemnity Claim.

 

  (iii) TIC shall be entitled, at its sole expense, to assume the entire defense of each Indemnity Claim with counsel selected by TIC.

 

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  (iv) If TIC chooses to defend against an Indemnity Claim, the related Indemnity Claim Amount shall be the amount specified in a written settlement agreement with the claimant that is approved in writing by the Indemnitors or in an order of a court of competent jurisdiction that is not further appealable. If TIC chooses not to defend against an Indemnity Claim, the related Indemnity Claim Amount shall be the amount of the Indemnity Claim specified in a written settlement agreement between the General Partner and the claimant or in an order of a court of competent jurisdiction that is not further appealable.

(d) Partnership Indemnification of TIC . Subject to subsection (e) of this Exhibit 6, the Partnership shall indemnify TIC against all amounts required to be paid by TIC under the terms of this Exhibit 6.

(e) Limitation on the Partnership Obligations . TIC agrees for the benefit of the General Partner, and any successor general partner of the Partnership, that enforcement by TIC of (i) the Partnership’s indemnity obligation under subsection (d) or (ii) the Partnership’s obligation under any other document to assume, pay, or indemnify against any Recourse Debt shall be subject to the limitation that (A) no Partner of the Partnership shall be personally liable to TIC for performance by the Partnership of any such obligation, (B) TIC shall not be entitled to seek or obtain any personal money or other judgment against any Partner of the Partnership for the Partnership’s default in performance of any such obligation, and (C) any such judgment obtained against the Partnership shall only be enforceable by TIC against the property and assets of the Partnership.

(f) Assumption. of Tin Obligations . Upon the distribution of all the Units held by TIC to its partners, the obligations of TIC pursuant to this Exhibit 6 shall be assigned to and assumed by the applicable partners in proportion to the number of Units distributed to each such partner, and each such partner shall become an indemnitor under this Exhibit 6, and all obligations of TIC that are not then due and payable shall terminate and TIC shall be deemed no longer subject to this Exhibit 6. Except as provided in this subsection (f), TIC shall not have the right to assign its obligations under this Exhibit 6 without the express written consent of the General Partner.

(g) Termination of Indemnitor’s Obligations . This Exhibit 6 shall continue in full force and effect until the first to occur of the following:

 

  (i) The death of an individual indemnitor (including an assignee of any indernnitor), at which time all obligations of the deceased individual indemnitor (a “Terminated Indemnitor”) under this Exhibit 6 that are not then due and payable shall terminate, and the Terminated Indemnitor shall be deemed no longer subject to this Exhibit 6. Following termination with respect to a Terminated Indemnitor, this Exhibit 6 shall remain effective and enforceable with respect to all other indemnitors then subject to this Exhibit 6, and all allocations of obligations under this Exhibit 6 based upon the total Claim Percentages held by indemnitors or a specified group of indemnitors shall thereafter be made.

 

  (ii) Upon the exchange pursuant to Section 7.07 of the Partnership Agreement of all the Units held by TIC or its successors, at which time all obligations of the indemnitors under this Exhibit 6 that are not then due and payable shall terminate.

 

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(h) Notices . All notices, demands, or other communications given pursuant to this section shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given if delivered by courier (including overnight delivery service) or sent by registered or certified mail, first class, postage prepaid, or by telecopy addressed as follows:

 

  (i) If to the General Partner or the Partnership, to:

Duke Realty Corporation

600 East 96 th Street

Suite 100

Indianapolis, Indiana 46240

Telecopier No. (317) 808-6790

Attention: Office of the General Counsel

Telephone No. (317) 808-6000

 

  (ii) If to TIC, to:

Towne Investment Co.

1055 St. Paul Place

Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Telecopier No. (513) 345-6975

Attention: Neil K. Bortz and Marvin Rosenberg

Telephone No. (513) 345-6911

or such other address with respect to any party subject to this section as such party may, from time to time, notify (as provided above) the General Partner and the other parties subject hereto. Any such notice, demand, or communication shall be deemed to have been given (A) if so mailed, as of the close of the third business day following the date so mailed, and (B) if personally delivered or otherwise sent as provided above, on the date received.

 

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Exhibit 7

Indemnitors

 

Partner

   Indemnity Amount  

Towne Investment Company, LP

   $ 3,700,000.00   

Mary A. Johnson Revocable Trust

     1,725,000.00   

Alicia M. Renard

     1,300,000.00   

 

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Exhibit J

Series J Preferred Units

Series J Preferred Units . Pursuant to the authority granted under Section 4.02(a) of the Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Duke Realty Limited Partnership (the “Partnership Agreement”), the General Partner hereby establishes a series of Preferred Units designated the 6.625% Series J Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Units (liquidation preference $250.00 per unit) (the “Series J Preferred Units”) on the terms set forth in this Exhibit J. Capitalized terms used herein without definition have the meanings given to them in the Partnership Agreement.

(a) Number . The number of authorized units of the Series J Preferred Units shall be 460,000 and shall at all times be equal to the number of 6.625% Series J Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares (“Series J Preferred Shares”) issued by the General Partner and then outstanding. Series J Preferred Units shall be issued only to and held only by the General Partner.

(b) Relative Seniority . In respect of rights to receive Distributions and to participate in distributions or payments in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, the Series J Preferred Units shall rank (i) on a parity with any class or series of Units of the Partnership (“Parity Units”) as to the payment of Distributions and as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (whether or not the Distribution rates, Distribution payment dates or redemption or liquidation prices per unit thereof are different from those of the Series J Preferred Units) if the holders of such class or series of Units and Series J Preferred Units shall be entitled to the receipt of Distributions and of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (taking into account the effects of allocations of Profits, Losses and other items) in proportion to their respective amounts of accrued and unpaid Distributions per unit or liquidation preferences without preference or priority one over the other, (ii) senior to any class or series of Units of the Partnership ranking, as to Distributions and upon liquidation, junior to the Series J Preferred Units (collectively, “Junior Units”) and (iii) senior to the Common Units and any other class or series of Units of the Partnership ranking, as to Distributions and upon liquidation, junior to the Series J Preferred Units (collectively, “Fully Junior Units”). Nothing contained in Section 4.06 of the Partnership Agreement or this Exhibit J shall prohibit the Partnership from issuing additional Units that are Parity Units with the Series J Preferred Units.

(c) Distributions .

(1) The General Partner, as holder of the then outstanding Series J Preferred Units, shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the General Partner out of any funds legally available therefor, cumulative Distributions at the rate of 6.625% of the liquidation preference per unit per year, payable quarterly in equal amounts of $4.140625 per unit 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 Distribution Date” and each period ending on a Quarterly Distribution Date being hereinafter called a “Distribution Period”), provided , however, that the first Distribution on the Series J Preferred Units will be paid on December 1, 2003. Distributions shall be payable to the General Partner, as holder of the Series J Preferred Units, at the close of business on the applicable record date (the “Record Date”), which shall be on such date designated by the Partnership for the payment of Distributions that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Quarterly Distribution Date. The amount of any Distribution payable for any partial Distribution Period shall be prorated and computed on the basis of a 360- day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Distributions on each Series J Preferred Unit 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. Distributions paid on the Series J Preferred Units in an amount less than the total amount of such Distributions at the time accrued and payable on such Series J Preferred Units shall be allocated pro rata on a per unit basis among all such Series J Preferred Units at the time outstanding. Except as provided in the last sentence of this paragraph, unless the full cumulative Distributions on the Series J Preferred Units 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 Distribution Periods and the then current Distribution Period, no Distributions (other than Distributions payable solely in Common Units or other Fully Junior Units) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other Distribution made upon the Common Units or any other Units ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series J Preferred Units as to Distributions or upon liquidation, nor shall any Common Units or any other Units ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series J Preferred Units as to Distributions or upon liquidation be redeemed,

 

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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 Units) by the Partnership or any subsidiary of the Partnership (except for conversion into or exchange for such Units of the Partnership ranking junior to the Series J Preferred Units as to Distributions and upon liquidation). If accrued Distributions on the Series J Preferred Units for all prior Distribution Periods have not been paid in full, then any Distribution declared on the Series J Preferred Units for any Distribution Period and on any series of Preferred Units at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to the Distributions with the Series J Preferred Units will be declared ratably in proportion to accrued and unpaid Distributions on the Series J Preferred Units and such series of Preferred Units at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to Distributions with the Series J Preferred Units.

“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 Distributions accrued on any Series J Preferred Units at any Quarterly Distribution Date shall be the amount of any unpaid Distributions accumulated thereon, to and including such Quarterly Distribution Date, whether or not earned or declared, and the amount of Distributions accrued on any units of Series J Preferred Units at any date other than a Quarterly Distribution Date shall be equal to the sum of the amount of any unpaid Distributions accumulated thereon, to and including the last preceding Quarterly Distribution Date, whether or not earned or declared, plus an amount calculated on the basis of the annual Distribution rate of 6.625% per unit for the period after such last preceding Quarterly Distribution 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 Exhibit J the Series J Preferred Units shall not be entitled to participate in the earnings or assets of the Partnership.

(4) Any Distribution made on the Series J Preferred Units shall be first credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid Distribution due with respect to such Series J Preferred Units that remains payable.

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

(6) No Distributions on the Series J Preferred Units shall be authorized by the General Partner or be paid or set apart for payment by the Partnership at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Partnership, 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, Distributions on the Series J Preferred Units 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 Partnership, the holder of the Series J Preferred Units then outstanding shall be entitled to receive and to be paid out of the assets of the Partnership legally available for distribution to the Partners, before any payment or distribution shall be made on any Junior Units or any Fully Junior Units, the amount of $250.00 per Series J Preferred Unit, 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 Exhibit J to the holder of the Series J Preferred Units, such holder shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Partnership.

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

 

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

(e) Redemption by the Partnership .

(1) Redemption . The Series J Preferred Units are not redeemable prior to August 25, 2008. On or after August 25, 2008, the General Partner may, at its option, cause the Partnership to redeem at any time all or, from time to time, part of the Series J Preferred Units at a price per unit, 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 Preferred Units have no stated maturity and will not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption provisions.

(2) Procedures of Redemption . At any time that the General Partner exercises its right to redeem all or any of the Series J Preferred Shares, the General Partner shall exercise its right to cause the Partnership to redeem an equal number of Series J Preferred Units.

(f) Voting Rights . Except as required by law, the General Partner, in its capacity as the holder of the Series J Preferred Units, shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of the Partners or for any other purpose or otherwise to participate in any action taken by the Partnership or the Partners, or to receive notice of any meeting of the Partners.

(g) General . The rights of the General Partner, in its capacity as holder of the Series J Preferred Units, are in addition to and not in limitation of any other rights or authority of the General Partner, in any other capacity, under the Partnership Agreement. In addition, nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or otherwise restrict any rights or authority of the General Partner other than in its capacity as the holder of the Series J Preferred Units.

 

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Exhibit K

Series K Preferred Units

Series K Preferred Units . Pursuant to the authority granted under Section 4.02(a) of the Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Duke Realty Limited Partnership (the “Partnership Agreement”), the General Partner hereby establishes a series of Preferred Units designated the 6.5% Series K Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Units (liquidation preference $250.00 per unit) (the “Series K Preferred Units”) on the terms set forth in this Exhibit K. Capitalized terms used herein without definition have the meanings given to them in the Partnership Agreement.

(a) Number . The number of authorized units of the Series K Preferred Units shall be 600,000 and shall at all times be equal to the number of 6.5% Series K Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares (“Series K Preferred Shares”) issued by the General Partner and then outstanding. Series K Preferred Units shall be issued only to and held only by the General Partner.

(b) Relative Seniority . In respect of rights to receive Distributions and to participate in distributions or payments in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, the Series K Preferred Units shall rank (i) on a parity with any class or series of Units of the Partnership (“Parity Units”) as to the payment of Distributions and as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (whether or not the Distribution rates, Distribution payment dates or redemption or liquidation prices per unit thereof are different from those of the Series K Preferred Units) if the holders of such class or series of Units and Series K Preferred Units shall be entitled to the receipt of Distributions and of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (taking into account the effects of allocations of Profits, Losses and other items) in proportion to their respective amounts of accrued and unpaid Distributions per unit or liquidation preferences without preference or priority one over the other, (ii) senior to any class or series of Units of the Partnership ranking, as to Distributions and upon liquidation, junior to the Series K Preferred Units (collectively, “Junior Units”) and (iii) senior to the Common Units and any other class or series of Units of the Partnership ranking, as to Distributions and upon liquidation, junior to the Series K Preferred Units (collectively, “Fully Junior Units”). Nothing contained in Section 4.06 of the Partnership Agreement or this Exhibit K shall prohibit the Partnership from issuing additional Units that are Parity Units with the Series K Preferred Units.

(c) Distributions .

(1) The General Partner, as holder of the then outstanding Series K Preferred Units, shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the General Partner out of any funds legally available therefor, cumulative Distributions at the rate of 6.5% of the liquidation preference per unit per year, payable quarterly in equal amounts of $4.0625 per unit 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 Distribution Date” and each period ending on a Quarterly Distribution Date being hereinafter called a “Distribution Period”), provided , however, that the first Distribution on the Series K Preferred Units will be paid on May 31, 2004. Distributions shall be payable to the General Partner, as holder of the Series K Preferred Units, at the close of business on the applicable record date (the “Record Date”), which shall be on such date designated by the Partnership for the payment of Distributions that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Quarterly Distribution Date. The amount of any Distribution payable for any partial Distribution Period shall be prorated and computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Distributions on each Series K Preferred Unit 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. Distributions paid on the Series K Preferred Units in an amount less than the total amount of such Distributions at the time accrued and payable on such Series K Preferred Units shall be allocated pro rata on a per unit basis among all such Series K Preferred Units at the time outstanding. Except as provided in the last sentence of this paragraph, unless the full cumulative Distributions on the Series K Preferred Units 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 Distribution Periods and the then current Distribution Period, no Distributions (other than Distributions payable solely in Common Units or other Fully Junior Units) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other Distribution made upon the Common Units or any other Units ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series K Preferred Units as to Distributions or upon liquidation, nor shall any Common Units or any other Units ranking

 

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junior to or on a parity with the Series K Preferred Units as to Distributions 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 Units) by the Partnership or any subsidiary of the Partnership (except for conversion into or exchange for such Units of the Partnership ranking junior to the Series K Preferred Units as to Distributions and upon liquidation). If accrued Distributions on the Series K Preferred Units for all prior Distribution Periods have not been paid in full, then any Distribution declared on the Series K Preferred Units for any Distribution Period and on any series of Preferred Units at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to the Distributions with the Series K Preferred Units will be declared ratably in proportion to accrued and unpaid Distributions on the Series K Preferred Units and such series of Preferred Units at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to Distributions with the Series K Preferred Units.

“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 Distributions accrued on any Series K Preferred Units at any Quarterly Distribution Date shall be the amount of any unpaid Distributions accumulated thereon, to and including such Quarterly Distribution Date, whether or not earned or declared, and the amount of Distributions accrued on any units of Series K Preferred Units at any date other than a Quarterly Distribution Date shall be equal to the sum of the amount of any unpaid Distributions accumulated thereon, to and including the last preceding Quarterly Distribution Date, whether or not earned or declared, plus an amount calculated on the basis of the annual Distribution rate of 6.5% per unit for the period after such last preceding Quarterly Distribution 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 Exhibit K, the Series K Preferred Units shall not be entitled to participate in the earnings or assets of the Partnership.

(4) Any Distribution made on the Series K Preferred Units shall be first credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid Distribution due with respect to such Series K Preferred Units that remains payable.

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

(6) No Distributions on the Series K Preferred Units shall be authorized by the General Partner or be paid or set apart for payment by the Partnership at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Partnership, 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, Distributions on the Series K Preferred Units 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 Partnership, the holder of the Series K Preferred Units then outstanding shall be entitled to receive and to be paid out of the assets of the Partnership legally available for distribution to the Partners, before any payment or distribution shall be made on any Junior Units or any Fully Junior Units, the amount of $250.00 per Series K Preferred Unit, 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 Exhibit K to the holder of the Series K Preferred Units, such holder shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Partnership.

(3) If, upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Partnership, the amounts payable with respect to the liquidating distributions of the Series K Preferred Units and any other Units of

 

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the Partnership ranking as to any such distribution on a parity with the Series K Preferred Units are not paid in full, the holders of the Series K Preferred Units and of such other Units will share ratably in any such distribution of assets of the Partnership 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 Partnership, the merger or consolidation of the Partnership into or with any other entity nor the merger or consolidation of any other entity into or with the Partnership shall be deemed to be a dissolution, liquidation or winding up, voluntary or involuntary, for the purposes of this Exhibit K.

(e) Redemption by the Partnership .

(1) Redemption . The Series K Preferred Units are not redeemable prior to February 13, 2009. On or after February 13, 2009, the General Partner may, at its option, cause the Partnership to redeem at any time all or, from time to time, part of the Series K Preferred Units at a price per unit, 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 Preferred Units have no stated maturity and will not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption provisions.

(2) Procedures of Redemption . At any time that the General Partner exercises its right to redeem all or any of the Series K Preferred Shares, the General Partner shall exercise its right to cause the Partnership to redeem an equal number of Series K Preferred Units.

(f) Voting Rights . Except as required by law, the General Partner, in its capacity as the holder of the Series K Preferred Units, shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of the Partners or for any other purpose or otherwise to participate in any action taken by the Partnership or the Partners, or to receive notice of any meeting of the Partners.

(g) General . The rights of the General Partner, in its capacity as holder of the Series K Preferred Units, are in addition to and not in limitation of any other rights or authority of the General Partner, in any other capacity, under the Partnership Agreement. In addition, nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or otherwise restrict any rights or authority of the General Partner other than in its capacity as the holder of the Series K Preferred Units.

 

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Exhibit L

Series L Preferred Units

Series L Preferred Units . Pursuant to the authority granted under Section 4.02(a) of the Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Duke Realty Limited Partnership (the “Partnership Agreement”), the General Partner hereby establishes a series of Preferred Units designated the 6.6% Series L Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Units (liquidation preference $250.00 per unit) (the “Series L Preferred Units”) on the terms set forth in this Exhibit L. Capitalized terms used herein without definition have the meanings given to them in the Partnership Agreement.

(a) Number . The number of authorized units of the Series L Preferred Units shall be 800,000 and shall at all times be equal to the number of 6.6% Series L Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares (“Series L Preferred Shares”) issued by the General Partner and then outstanding. Series L Preferred Units shall be issued only to and held only by the General Partner.

(b) Relative Seniority . In respect of rights to receive Distributions and to participate in distributions or payments in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, the Series L Preferred Units shall rank (i) on a parity with any class or series of Units of the Partnership (“Parity Units”) as to the payment of Distributions and as to the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (whether or not the Distribution rates, Distribution payment dates or redemption or liquidation prices per unit thereof are different from those of the Series L Preferred Units) if the holders of such class or series of Units and Series L Preferred Units shall be entitled to the receipt of Distributions and of amounts distributable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (taking into account the effects of allocations of Profits, Losses and other items) in proportion to their respective amounts of accrued and unpaid Distributions per unit or liquidation preferences without preference or priority one over the other, (ii) senior to any class or series of Units of the Partnership ranking, as to Distributions and upon liquidation, junior to the Series L Preferred Units (collectively, “Junior Units”) and (iii) senior to the Common Units and any other class or series of Units of the Partnership ranking, as to Distributions and upon liquidation, junior to the Series L Preferred Units (collectively, “Fully Junior Units”). Nothing contained in Section 4.06 of the Partnership Agreement or this Exhibit L shall prohibit the Partnership from issuing additional Units that are Parity Units with the Series L Preferred Units.

(c) Distributions .

(1) The General Partner, as holder of the then outstanding Series L Preferred Units, shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the General Partner out of any funds legally available therefor, cumulative Distributions at the rate of 6.6% of the liquidation preference per unit per year, payable quarterly in equal amounts of $4.125 per unit 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 Distribution Date” and each period ending on a Quarterly Distribution Date being hereinafter called a “Distribution Period”), provided , however, that the first Distribution on the Series L Preferred Units will be paid on February 28, 2005. Distributions shall be payable to the General Partner, as holder of the Series L Preferred Units, at the close of business on the applicable record date (the “Record Date”), which shall be on such date designated by the Partnership for the payment of Distributions that is not more than 30 nor less than 10 days prior to such Quarterly Distribution Date. The amount of any Distribution payable for any partial Distribution Period shall be prorated and computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Distributions on each Series L Preferred Unit 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. Distributions paid on the Series L Preferred Units in an amount less than the total amount of such Distributions at the time accrued and payable on such Series L Preferred Units shall be allocated pro rata on a per unit basis among all such Series L Preferred Units at the time outstanding. Except as provided in the last sentence of this paragraph, unless the full cumulative Distributions on the Series L Preferred Units 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 Distribution Periods and the then current Distribution Period, no Distributions (other than Distributions payable solely in Common Units or other Fully Junior Units) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment or other Distribution made upon the Common Units or any other Units ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series L Preferred Units as to Distributions or upon liquidation, nor shall any Common Units or any other Units ranking junior to or on a parity with the Series L Preferred Units as to Distributions or upon liquidation be

 

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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 Units) by the Partnership or any subsidiary of the Partnership (except for conversion into or exchange for such Units of the Partnership ranking junior to the Series L Preferred Units as to Distributions and upon liquidation). If accrued Distributions on the Series L Preferred Units for all prior Distribution Periods have not been paid in full, then any Distribution declared on the Series L Preferred Units for any Distribution Period and on any series of Preferred Units at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to the Distributions with the Series L Preferred Units will be declared ratably in proportion to accrued and unpaid Distributions on the Series L Preferred Units and such series of Preferred Units at the time outstanding ranking on a parity as to Distributions with the Series L Preferred Units.

“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 Distributions accrued on any Series L Preferred Units at any Quarterly Distribution Date shall be the amount of any unpaid Distributions accumulated thereon, to and including such Quarterly Distribution Date, whether or not earned or declared, and the amount of Distributions accrued on any units of Series L Preferred Units at any date other than a Quarterly Distribution Date shall be equal to the sum of the amount of any unpaid Distributions accumulated thereon, to and including the last preceding Quarterly Distribution Date, whether or not earned or declared, plus an amount calculated on the basis of the annual Distribution rate of 6.6% per unit for the period after such last preceding Quarterly Distribution 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 Exhibit L, the Series L Preferred Units shall not be entitled to participate in the earnings or assets of the Partnership.

(4) Any Distribution made on the Series L Preferred Units shall be first credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid Distribution due with respect to such Series L Preferred Units that remains payable.

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

(6) No Distributions on the Series L Preferred Units shall be authorized by the General Partner or be paid or set apart for payment by the Partnership at such time as the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Partnership, 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, Distributions on the Series L Preferred Units 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 Partnership, the holder of the Series L Preferred Units then outstanding shall be entitled to receive and to be paid out of the assets of the Partnership legally available for distribution to the Partners, before any payment or distribution shall be made on any Junior Units or any Fully Junior Units, the amount of $250.00 per Series L Preferred Unit, 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 Exhibit L to the holder of the Series L Preferred Units, such holder shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Partnership.

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

 

 

L-2


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

(e) Redemption by the Partnership .

(1) Redemption . The Series L Preferred Units are not redeemable prior to November 30, 2009. On or after November 30, 2009, the General Partner may, at its option, cause the Partnership to redeem at any time all or, from time to time, part of the Series L Preferred Units at a price per unit, 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 Preferred Units have no stated maturity and will not be subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption provisions.

(2) Procedures of Redemption . At any time that the General Partner exercises its right to redeem all or any of the Series L Preferred Shares, the General Partner shall exercise its right to cause the Partnership to redeem an equal number of Series L Preferred Units.

(f) Voting Rights . Except as required by law, the General Partner, in its capacity as the holder of the Series L Preferred Units, shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of the Partners or for any other purpose or otherwise to participate in any action taken by the Partnership or the Partners, or to receive notice of any meeting of the Partners.

(g) General . The rights of the General Partner, in its capacity as holder of the Series L Preferred Units, are in addition to and not in limitation of any other rights or authority of the General Partner, in any other capacity, under the Partnership Agreement. In addition, nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or otherwise restrict any rights or authority of the General Partner other than in its capacity as the holder of the Series L Preferred Units.

 

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Exhibit 99.1

 

LOGO

News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DUKE REALTY REPORTS

FIRST QUARTER 2014 RESULTS

Core FFO per Share of $0.28

$108 million of New Development Starts

Total Development Pipeline at $607 million and 86 Percent Leased

(INDIANAPOLIS, April 30, 2014) – Duke Realty Corporation (NYSE: DRE), a leading industrial, suburban and medical office property REIT, today reported results for the first quarter of 2014.

Quarterly Highlights

 

    Core Funds from Operations (“Core FFO”) per diluted share was $0.28 for the quarter. Funds from Operations (“FFO”) per diluted share as defined by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”) was also $0.28 for the quarter.

 

    Operating results:

 

    Total portfolio occupancy of 93.6 percent and in-service portfolio occupancy of 94.0 percent;

 

    Total leasing activity of 6.1 million square feet;

 

    Same-property net operating income growth of 2.2 percent as compared to the quarter ended March 31, 2013 and 3.0 percent as compared to the twelve months ended March 31, 2013;

 

    Adjusted Funds from Operations (“AFFO”) of $0.25 per diluted share, which represents a dividend pay-out ratio of 68 percent.


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    Asset and capital activities:

 

    Began $108 million of new developments;

 

    Completed $79 million of non-strategic asset dispositions;

 

    Completed one $18 million modern bulk industrial acquisition;

 

    Repaid one secured loan, totaling $18 million that bore interest at a weighted average effective rate of 3.5 percent.

Denny Oklak, Chairman and CEO said, “We saw continued strong operational results in the first quarter and maintained a high level of occupancy. Additionally, we executed 2.0 million square feet of renewal leases during the quarter with an impressive 7.9 percent growth in net effective rent. Same property net operating income growth for the quarter was negatively affected by snow removal and utility costs from the harsh winter but we still expect annual same property net operating income growth to be within our guidance range of 2.0 percent to 4.0 percent.”

Financial Performance

 

    The following table reconciles FFO per share, as defined by NAREIT, to Core FFO per share as measured by the company, for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013:

 

    

Three Months Ended

March 31

 
     2014      2013  

FFO per share – diluted, as defined by NAREIT

   $ 0.28       $ 0.24   

Adjustments:

     

Adjustments for redemption/repurchase of preferred shares

     —           0.02   

Gain on land sales

     —           —     

Acquisition-related activity

     —           —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Core FFO per share – diluted

   $ 0.28       $ 0.26   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

    Core FFO for the first quarter of 2014 increased by $10 million, or $0.02 per share, from the first quarter of 2013 because of improved rental operations, lower interest expense as the result of refinancing unsecured debt at lower rates during 2013 and lower preferred dividends resulting from the redemption of the 8.375 percent Series O preferred shares in February 2013. A reconciliation of net income to FFO as defined by NAREIT, as well as to Core FFO, is included in the financial tables included in this release.

 

    Net income was $0.06 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2014 compared to $0.09 per diluted share for the same quarter in 2013. The lower net income per share was the result of the company recognizing nearly $49 million during the first quarter of 2013 for its share of joint ventures’ gains on sales of depreciable property, which was not included in FFO.


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Portfolio Operating Performance

Strong overall operating performance across all product types:

 

    In-service occupancy in the bulk distribution portfolio at March 31, 2014 of 95.0 percent compared to 95.3 percent at December 31, 2013.

 

    In-service occupancy in the suburban office portfolio of 88.1 percent at March 31, 2014 compared to 87.8 percent at December 31, 2013.

 

    In-service occupancy in the medical office portfolio of 93.7 percent at both March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013.

 

    Tenant retention of 65 percent for the quarter, with overall renewal rental rate growth of 7.9 percent.

 

    Same-property net operating income growth of 3.0 percent for the twelve months ended March 31, 2014 and 2.2 percent for the three months ended March 31, 2014 as compared to the comparable periods ended March 31, 2013.

Real Estate Investment Activity

Acquisitions

The company acquired one 100 percent leased 407,000 square foot high-quality modern bulk industrial facility located in Atlanta for $18 million during the first quarter of 2014.

Development

Oklak stated, “New development activity continued to be strong as we began $108 million of bulk distribution projects during the first quarter, which will be primarily constructed on land that we already owned. Our $607 million development pipeline is 86 percent leased with an average expected initial stabilized yield of 7.6 percent. The pipeline of potential projects to start during the remainder of 2014 is also high.”


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The first quarter included the following development activity:

Wholly-Owned Properties

 

    During the quarter, five new developments were started. The company started a 346,000 square foot industrial development on our land in Baltimore, Maryland; a 744,000 square foot industrial development in Columbus, Ohio; and a 257,000 square foot expansion to an industrial development on our land in Atlanta, Georgia, all of which were 100 percent pre-leased. We also started two speculative industrial developments, totaling a combined 473,000 square feet in Houston, Texas.

 

    Wholly-owned development projects under construction at March 31, 2014 consisted of 13 industrial projects totaling 4.9 million square feet, eight medical office projects totaling 397,000 square feet and two suburban office projects totaling 452,000 square feet, which were 81 percent pre-leased in the aggregate.

 

    One 100 percent leased suburban office development totaling 200,000 square feet was placed in service. Additionally, three 100 percent pre-leased medical office projects totaling 193,000 square feet were placed in service.

Joint Venture Properties

 

    Joint venture development projects under construction at March 31, 2014 consisted of two industrial projects totaling nearly 1.8 million square feet, which are 100 percent pre-leased.

Dispositions

 

    Proceeds from property dispositions totaled $79 million during the quarter, of which $57 million was from the sale of two medical office assets totaling 180,000 square feet (100 percent occupied) and $18 million was from the sale of a nine-building portfolio of flex-industrial assets in Indianapolis totaling 439,000 square feet (95 percent occupied). The remaining proceeds were from our share of the sale of a 20 percent-owned suburban office property as well as from the sale of seven acres of undeveloped land.

Dividends Declared

Our board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on our common stock of $0.17 per share, or $0.68 per share on an annualized basis. The first quarter dividend will be payable May 30, 2014 to shareholders of record on May 15, 2014. The board also declared the following dividends on our outstanding preferred stock:

 

Class

 

NYSE Symbol

 

Quarterly
Amount/Share

 

Record Date

 

Payment Date

Series J

  DREPRJ   $0.4140625   May 15, 2014   May 30, 2014

Series K

  DREPRK   $0.40625   May 15, 2014   May 30, 2014

Series L

  DREPRL   $0.4125   May 15, 2014   May 30, 2014


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2014 Earnings Guidance

The company revised its previous Core FFO guidance for 2014 to a range of $1.12 to $1.18 per share, compared to previous guidance of $1.11 to $1.19 per share.

FFO and AFFO Reporting Definitions

FFO: FFO is computed in accordance with standards established by NAREIT. NAREIT defines FFO as net income (loss) excluding gains (losses) on sales of depreciable property, impairment charges related to depreciable real estate assets, and extraordinary items (computed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”)); plus real estate related depreciation and amortization, and after similar adjustments for unconsolidated joint ventures. The company believes FFO to be most directly comparable to net income as defined by GAAP. The company believes that FFO should be examined in conjunction with net income (as defined by GAAP) as presented in the financial statements accompanying this release. FFO does not represent a measure of liquidity, nor is it indicative of funds available for the company’s cash needs, including the company’s ability to make cash distributions to shareholders.

Core FFO: Core FFO is computed as FFO adjusted for certain items that are generally non-cash in nature and that materially distort the comparative measurement of company performance over time. The adjustments include gains on sale of undeveloped land, impairment charges not related to depreciable real estate assets, tax expenses or benefit related to (i) changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowances, (ii) changes in tax exposure accruals that were established as the result of the adoption of new accounting principles, or (iii) taxable income (loss) related to other items excluded from FFO or Core FFO (collectively referred to as “other income tax items”), gains (losses) on debt transactions, adjustments on the repurchase or redemption of preferred stock, gains (losses) on and related costs of acquisitions, and severance charges related to major overhead restructuring activities. Although the company’s calculation of Core FFO differs from NAREIT’s definition of FFO and may not be comparable to that of other REITs and real estate companies, the company believes it provides a meaningful supplemental measure of its operating performance.


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AFFO: AFFO is defined by the company as Core FFO (as defined above), less recurring building improvements and total second generation capital expenditures (the leasing of vacant space that had previously been under lease by the company is referred to as second generation lease activity) related to leases commencing during the reporting period and adjusted for certain non-cash items including straight line rental income and expense, non-cash components of interest expense and stock compensation expense, and after similar adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures.

Same Property Performance

The company includes same-property net operating income growth as a property-level supplemental measure of performance. The company utilizes same-property net income growth as a supplemental measure to evaluate property-level performance, and jointly-controlled properties are included at our ownership percentage.

A description of the properties that are excluded from the company’s same-property measure is included on page 22 of our March 31, 2014 supplemental information.

About Duke Realty Corporation

Duke Realty Corporation owns and operates approximately 154.1 million rentable square feet of industrial and office assets, including medical office, in 22 major U.S. metropolitan areas. Duke Realty Corporation is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol DRE and is listed on the S&P MidCap 400 Index. More information about Duke Realty Corporation is available at www.dukerealty.com .

First Quarter Earnings Call and Supplemental Information

Duke Realty Corporation is hosting a conference call tomorrow, May 1, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. EDT to discuss its first quarter operating results. All investors and other interested parties are invited to listen to the call. Access is available through the Investor Relations section of the company’s website.

A copy of the company’s supplemental information will be available by 6:00 p.m. EDT today through the Investor Relations section of the company’s website.

Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This news release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, including, among others, statements regarding the company’s future financial position or results, future dividends, and future performance, are forward-looking statements. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of the company, members of its management team, as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based, and generally are identified by the use of


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words such as “may,” “will,” “seeks,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “should,” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Many of these factors are beyond the company’s abilities to control or predict. Such factors include, but are not limited to, (i) general adverse economic and local real estate conditions; (ii) the inability of major tenants to continue paying their rent obligations due to bankruptcy, insolvency or a general downturn in their business; (iii) financing risks, such as the inability to obtain equity, debt or other sources of financing or refinancing on favorable terms, if at all; (iv) the company’s ability to raise capital by selling its assets; (v) changes in governmental laws and regulations; (vi) the level and volatility of interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates; (vii) valuation of joint venture investments, (viii) valuation of marketable securities and other investments; (ix) valuation of real estate; (x) increases in operating costs; (xi) changes in the dividend policy for the company’s common stock; (xii) the reduction in the company’s income in the event of multiple lease terminations by tenants; (xiii) impairment charges, (xiv) the effects of geopolitical instability and risks such as terrorist attacks; (xv) the effects of weather and natural disasters such as floods, droughts, wind, tornadoes and hurricanes; and (xvi) the effect of any damage to our reputation resulting from developments relating to any of items (i) – (ix). Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those forward-looking statements is contained from time to time in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company refers you to the section entitled “Risk Factors” contained in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. Copies of each filing may be obtained from the company or the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The risks included here are not exhaustive and undue reliance should not be placed on any forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations. All written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the company, its management, or persons acting on their behalf are qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. Further, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results over time unless otherwise required by law.

Contact Information:

Investors:

Ron Hubbard

317.808.6060

Media:

Helen McCarthy

317.708.8010


Duke Realty Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statement of Operations

March 31, 2014

(Unaudited and in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2014     2013  

Revenues:

    

Rental and related revenue

   $ 237,350      $ 209,879   

General contractor and service fee revenue

     55,820        47,404   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     293,170        257,283   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Expenses:

    

Rental expenses

     50,267        38,861   

Real estate taxes

     32,467        29,040   

General contractor and other services expenses

     47,271        38,341   

Depreciation and amortization

     98,059        92,993   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     228,064        199,235   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Other operating activities:

    

Equity in earnings of unconsolidated companies

     2,321        49,378   

Gain on sale of properties

     15,853        168   

Gain on land sales

     152        —     

Undeveloped land carrying costs

     (2,124     (2,198

Other operating expenses

     (92     (68

General and administrative expenses

     (14,694     (13,145
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     1,416        34,135   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income

     66,522        92,183   

Other income (expenses):

    

Interest and other income, net

     351        153   

Interest expense

     (55,257     (57,181

Acquisition-related activity

     (14     643   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income from continuing operations before income taxes

     11,602        35,798   

Income tax expense

     (2,674     —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income from continuing operations

     8,928        35,798   

Discontinued operations:

    

Loss before gain on sales

     (132     (629

Gain on sale of depreciable properties, net of tax

     16,775        8,954   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income from discontinued operations

     16,643        8,325   

Net income

     25,571        44,123   

Dividends on preferred shares

     (7,037     (9,550

Adjustments for redemption/repurchase of preferred shares

     483        (5,932

Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests

     (334     (598
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income attributable to common shareholders

   $ 18,683      $ 28,043   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Basic net income per common share:

    

Continuing operations attributable to common shareholders

   $ 0.01      $ 0.06   

Discontinued operations attributable to common shareholders

     0.05        0.03   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 0.06      $ 0.09   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Diluted net income per common share:

    

Continuing operations attributable to common shareholders

   $ 0.01      $ 0.06   

Discontinued operations attributable to common shareholders

     0.05        0.03   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 0.06      $ 0.09   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 


Duke Realty Corporation and Subsidiaries

Summary of EPS, FFO and AFFO

March 31, 2014

(Unaudited and in thousands, except per share amounts)

 

     2014      2013  
     Amount     Wtd.
Avg.
Shares
     Per
Share
     Amount     Wtd.
Avg.
Shares
     Per
Share
 

Net income attributable to common shareholders

   $ 18,683            $ 28,043        

Less: dividends on participating securities

     (645           (688     
  

 

 

         

 

 

      

Net income per common share – basic

     18,038        327,106       $ 0.06         27,355        314,936       $ 0.09   

Add back:

               

Noncontrolling interest in earnings of unitholders

     250        4,387            392        4,405      

Other potentially dilutive securities

       223              230      
  

 

 

   

 

 

       

 

 

   

 

 

    

Net income attributable to common shareholders – diluted

   $ 18,288        331,716       $ 0.06       $ 27,747        319,571       $ 0.09   
  

 

 

   

 

 

       

 

 

   

 

 

    

Reconciliation to funds from operations (“FFO”)

               

Net income attributable to common shareholders

   $ 18,683        327,106          $ 28,043        314,936      

Adjustments:

               

Depreciation and amortization

     98,264              99,780        

Company share of joint venture depreciation and amortization

     6,396              7,629        

Gains on depreciable property sales, net of tax-wholly owned, discontinued operations

     (16,775           (8,954     

Gains on depreciable property sales, net of tax-wholly owned, continuing operations

     (13,179           (168     

Gains/losses on depreciable property sales – JV

     165              (48,814     

Noncontrolling interest share of adjustments

     (991           (682     
  

 

 

   

 

 

       

 

 

   

 

 

    

Funds from operations – basic

     92,563        327,106       $ 0.28         76,834        314,936       $ 0.24   

Noncontrolling interest in income of unitholders

     250        4,387            392        4,405      

Noncontrolling interest share of adjustments

     991              682        

Other potentially dilutive securities

       2,887              3,098      
  

 

 

   

 

 

       

 

 

   

 

 

    

Funds from operations – diluted

   $ 93,804        334,380       $ 0.28       $ 77,908        322,439       $ 0.24   

Gain on land sales

     (152           —          

Adjustments for redemption/repurchase of preferred shares

     (483           5,932        

Acquisition-related activity

     14              (643     
  

 

 

   

 

 

       

 

 

   

 

 

    

Core funds from operations – diluted

   $ 93,183        334,380       $ 0.28       $ 83,197        322,439       $ 0.26   
  

 

 

   

 

 

       

 

 

   

 

 

    

Adjusted funds from operations

               

Core funds from operations – diluted

   $ 93,183        334,380       $ 0.28       $ 83,197        322,439       $ 0.26   

Adjustments:

               

Straight-line rental income and expense

     (6,701           (5,891     

Amortization of above/below market rents and concessions

     2,468              2,210        

Stock based compensation expense

     8,277              6,854        

Noncash interest expense

     1,602              2,310        

Second generation concessions

     (76           (68     

Second generation tenant improvements

     (7,461           (7,859     

Second generation leasing commissions

     (6,902           (5,636     

Building improvements

     (337           (634     
  

 

 

   

 

 

       

 

 

   

 

 

    

Adjusted funds from operations – diluted

   $ 84,053        334,380       $ 0.25       $ 74,483        322,439       $ 0.23   
  

 

 

   

 

 

       

 

 

   

 

 

    

 


Duke Realty Corporation and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets

March 31, 2014

(Unaudited and in thousands)

 

     March 31,
2014
    December 31,
2013
 

Assets:

    

Rental property

   $ 7,096,174      $ 7,031,660   

Less: accumulated depreciation

     (1,422,986     (1,382,757

Construction in progress

     277,400        256,911   

Undeveloped land

     570,718        590,052   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net real estate investments

     6,521,306        6,495,866   

Cash and cash equivalents

     19,474        19,275   

Accounts receivable

     34,883        26,664   

Straight-line rents receivable

     126,387        120,497   

Receivables on construction contracts, including retentions

     27,833        19,209   

Investments in and advances to unconsolidated companies

     336,060        342,947   

Deferred financing costs, net

     33,764        36,250   

Deferred leasing and other costs, net

     462,176        473,413   

Escrow deposits and other assets

     205,480        218,493   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 7,767,363      $ 7,752,614   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities and equity:

    

Secured debt

   $ 1,077,468      $ 1,100,124   

Unsecured notes

     3,065,742        3,066,252   

Unsecured line of credit

     180,000        88,000   

Construction payables and amounts due to subcontractors

     72,695        69,391   

Accrued real estate taxes

     77,301        75,396   

Accrued interest

     36,468        52,824   

Other accrued expenses

     52,118        68,276   

Other liabilities

     138,602        142,589   

Tenant security deposits and prepaid rents

     50,307        45,133   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     4,750,701        4,707,985   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Preferred stock

     428,926        447,683   

Common stock and additional paid-in capital

     4,653,199        4,624,228   

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     3,832        4,119   

Distributions in excess of net income

     (2,100,245     (2,062,787
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total shareholders’ equity

     2,985,712        3,013,243   

Noncontrolling interest

     30,950        31,386   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and equity

   $ 7,767,363      $ 7,752,614   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.2

 

 

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CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS

Ron Hubbard Duke Realty Corporation - VP IR

Denny Oklak Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

Jim Connor Duke Realty Corp - COO

Mark Denien Duke Realty Corporation - CFO

CONFERENCE CALL PARTICIPANTS

Kevin Varin Citigroup - Analyst

Blaine Heck Wells Fargo Securities - Analyst

Vance Edelson Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Jamie Feldman BofA Merrill Lynch - Analyst

Eric Frankel Green Street Advisors - Analyst

Paul Adornato BMO Capital Markets - Analyst

Ki Bi Kim Macquarie Research Equities - Analyst

Dave Rodgers Robert W. Baird & Company, Inc. - Analyst

Michael Salinsky RBC Capital Markets - Analyst

PRESENTATION

 

 

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. And welcome to the Duke Realty quarterly earnings call.

(Operator Instructions)

As a reminder, today’s call is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to the Vice President of Investor Relations, Mr. Ron Hubbard. Please go ahead, sir.

 

 

Ron Hubbard - Duke Realty Corporation - VP IR

Thank you, John. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our first-quarter earnings call. Joining me today are Denny Oklak, Chairman and CEO; Jim Connor, Chief Operating Officer; and Mark Denien, Chief Financial Officer.

Before we make our prepared remarks, let me remind you that statements we make today are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. For more information about those risk factors, we would refer you to our December 31, 2013 10-K that we have on file with the SEC. Now for our prepared statements, I will turn it over to Denny Oklak.

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

Thank you, Ron. Good afternoon, everyone. Today I will highlight some of our thoughts on the overall real estate operating environment and how it is affecting us.

Jim Connor will give you an update on our leasing activity and development status. I will review our asset recycling activity. And Mark will then address our first-quarter financial performance and balance sheet activity.

 

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We followed up our very strong 2013 with a solid start to 2014 on all fronts. We signed 6.1 million square feet of leases in the first quarter and ended with overall occupancy at 93.6% overall, which includes projects under development. Rent on renewal releases for the quarter grew by nearly 7.9%, reflective of strong supply-demand fundamentals and improved pricing power.

We started $108 million of new bulk industrial development projects. Three of our five development starts this quarter are 100% pre-leased, while two industrial projects were started on a speculative basis in Houston. We made progress on our 2014 disposition expectations during the quarter by closing on $79 million of transactions along with several other transactions being in various stages of marketing and negotiations.

Now I will touch on market conditions. Demand drivers remain solid, and supply is still relatively in check for the industrial sector. We firmly believe the secular e-commerce story and the supply chain reconfiguration trends have a long runway, and we are in an enviable operational and development platform position to take advantage of growth opportunities.

The healthcare demand drivers for modern outpatient space also has a very bright long-term outlook. We expect a solid year of MOB development starts and further lease up of the existing portfolio.

The suburban office sector continues to improve across most of our markets, and we’re optimistic about further lease up in the portfolio. Our three-month occupancy is up over 300 basis points compared to the prior year on a same property basis, which adjusts for our sizable office disposition activity.

As noted on the last call, we still expect some great opportunities to develop office at very strong yields on the office portion of our remaining land bank. Now I will turn it over to Jim Connor to give a little more color on our leasing activity and development pipeline.

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

Thanks, Denny, and good afternoon, everybody. From an operational standpoint, we had very solid quarter of leasing at 6.1 million square feet, as Denny noted.

Overall occupancy ended at 93.6%, dropping slightly from year-end, which was expected. Most of the impact was from seasonality in our bulk industrial product, and to a lesser extent, a few lease buyouts.

Activity remains very strong, and we anticipate occupancy heading back up in the second quarter. We did have a few lease expirations that were expected that pushed down our tenant retention from the quarter to 65%. However, I’m pleased to note that two leases totaling roughly 500,000 square feet were immediately backfilled with different tenants, pushing our effective retention into the high 70% range.

Rental rate growth on renewals continues to improve across the portfolio with growth of 7.9%. We continue to be very focused on pushing rents throughout the portfolio on the industrial side.

Now I will touch on some key activity within each product type for the first quarter. In the industrial sector for the quarter, the PPR 54 index reported over 30 million square feet of net absorption, continuing the solid trend from 2013, and a roughly 10 basis point drop in vacancy from the fourth quarter to the mid-7% level. Most research firms are projecting for the year that demand will outpace supply at a two-to-one margin, and we’re seeing the majority of the demand in the larger modern bulk space.

I’m proud to see our team has continued to win many of these build-to-suits as evidenced by the three new projects we announced this quarter. The execution on external growth is a testament to our 40-year reputation in the business, having our own construction company, and our strategic land bank.

With respect to leasing in our industrial portfolio, we continue to see fundamentals improve with the completion of 5.5 million square feet of total leasing, a level slightly above the comparable period from one year ago. In-service occupancy in the bulk industrial portfolio at the end of the first quarter was 95%, 140 basis points higher than a year ago. As noted, a majority of the lease expirations were short-term seasonal deals, and we expect to be able to improve on our current occupancy throughout the year.

Many of our larger industrial deals this quarter were in Atlanta and Savannah markets, which are reflective of strong fundamentals in the Southeastern part of the country. We signed six new leases and one renewal in these markets, all between 200,000 and 520,000 square feet, including a 10-year lease with Mizuno and a 15-year lease with Brighton Best. We also signed a 240,000 square foot new lease with a major food service company in Indianapolis and a 250,000 square foot lease with Beckman Coulter in Cincinnati.

 

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Turning to the medical office, this portfolio is in great shape with our in-service occupancy at 93.7%. That’s nearly 300 basis points above where it was one year ago, and we have a weighted-average remaining lease term of over 10 years.

The suburban office market continues to improve slowly with national absorption maintaining a positive trend for 16 consecutive quarters. Vacancy levels are down 40 to 50 basis points compared to a year ago, and concessions continue a downward trend. Our in-service office portfolio ended the quarter at 88.1% leased, up 30 basis points from a year ago.

As Denny alluded in the opening remarks, when adjusted for our active office disposition program, the average same property occupancy for this quarter is up some 330 basis points over the prior year, reflecting a strong performance in this asset class. With regard to leasing, we had a nice quarter of signing about half a million square feet of deals, including a 70,000 square foot new lease with Centene in our St. Louis market.

Turning to development, for the quarter our pipeline is still very strong. We started $108 million of industrial build-to-suits and speculative projects totaling 1.8 million square feet with a weighted average GAAP yield of 8.2%; and I will note we have a solid pipeline of prospects for the remainder of the year.

Last quarter, we announced the startup of a 1 million square foot build-to-suit for Amazon in Baltimore. This year, we’re pleased to announce a second build-to-suit with Amazon in the same park, this time a 346,000 square foot facility that’s leased for 15 years.

We also started a 744,000 square foot project in our West Jefferson Park in Columbus, Ohio. This facility is 100% leased to Bon-Ton stores, a major retailer, for a term of 10 years.

In the Atlanta market, we started a 257,000 square foot expansion of an existing facility for Dick’s Sporting Goods at our Camp Creek Park near Hartsfield Airport with a lease term of 11 years. We also started two speculative industrial buildings totaling 480,000 square feet in Houston in our Gateway North West business park. The vacancy in Houston is currently only 5%. Last year, Houston had 1 million square feet of spec net absorption and over 7 million square feet of total net absorption in the marketplace.

A quick note on the new supply outlook for the industrial sector, spec projects in all markets for the first quarter of 2014 totaled 95 million square feet. This is approximately a 15.5 million square foot increase over the fourth quarter of 2013.

During that same period, leasing in those spec projects increased by about 6 million square feet. The first quarter of 2014 saw the percentage leased of the spec inventory increase by 11% to 24% overall. In this context, and as we’ve alluded to in past earnings calls, supply is relatively disciplined and essentially all of our markets at this point in the cycle compared to historical levels, but we continue to monitor this activity closely.

From an overall development pipeline perspective at the quarter end, we have 25 projects under construction totaling 7.5 million square feet and a projected $608 million in stabilized costs at our share, that are 86% pre-leased. These projects have an initial cash yield of 7.6% and a GAAP yield of 8.3%, and evidence our ability to create significant value through our development platform, as they are being developed at an estimated 20% plus margin.

I’d also like to point out that at 86% pre-leased, most of the risk has been eliminated on these projects. Given that we have entitled land positions and we can support roughly 45 million square feet of bulk industrial development, and given our relationships and track record at winning major build-to-suits with top customers, our development platform’s in a dominant position to continue to drive incremental cash flow growth over the long haul. And now I will turn it back over to Denny, and he can touch on our asset recycling activities.

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

Thanks, Jim. With respect to investment activity, we had $79 million of dispositions during the quarter. The majority of the proceeds were from two medical office assets that closed in January that were part of a larger portfolio sale discussed last quarter.

The remaining disposition proceeds were from a flex portfolio in Indianapolis. We continue to strategically reduce our flex portfolio and are now down to only 37 buildings totaling 2.3 million square feet across the system.

We will continue to be opportunistic in disposing of more of our suburban assets, particularly in light of the aggressive equity capital and cheap debt pricing. We’re actively marketing several significant projects or portfolios and still expect to be within our annual disposition guidance with significant closings late in the second quarter and into the third quarter.

 

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On the acquisition side this quarter, we recycled a small portion of our disposition proceeds into a 407,000 square foot modern bulk facility located in Atlanta and leased to UPS Supply Chain Solutions. The facility is located just east of Hartsfield Airport inside the I-285 beltway. This facility is 100% leased with three years remaining on the term with rents that are currently a little below market and pricing providing an excellent basis of $43 per square foot.

In general, the acquisition market continues to be intensely competitive, and given our strong development pipeline and opportunities, we expect our acquisition activity to be highly selective and strategic in nature. So now I will turn the call over to Mark to discuss our financial results and capital plans.

 

 

Mark Denien - Duke Realty Corporation - CFO

Thanks, Denny and good afternoon, everyone. As Denny mentioned, I would like to provide an update on our financial performance as well as an overview of the capital transactions for the quarter.

Core FFO for the first quarter of 2014 was $0.28 per share compared to $0.29 per share in the fourth quarter of 2013, and $0.26 per share in the first quarter of 2013. Core FFO was down $0.01 per share from the fourth quarter of 2013 due to increased general and administrative expenses which were mainly driven by the accounting rules which require us to immediately expense a substantial portion of our annual stock compensation grant, along with lower absorption of overhead costs due to the decrease in leasing volume from our record fourth quarter of 2013.

The first quarter is always by far our highest quarter of G&A expenses for these reasons. We’re still comfortable with our full-year guidance for G&A expense of $40 million to $44 million. The improvement in core FFO per share over the first quarter of 2013 was due to improved operational performance and development deliveries as well as decreased interest expense.

Same property NOI growth for the twelve and three months ended March 31 was 3.0% and 2.2% respectively due to increased occupancy and growth in rental rates. Same property NOI growth for the three months ended March 31 was constrained by increased snow removal and utility costs driven by the extreme weather conditions in many parts of the country.

In spite of these increased operating expenses in the first quarter, we are still comfortable with our full-year same property NOI guidance of 2% to 4%. Also regarding NOI, this quarter we introduced a new exhibit to our supplemental package which includes a breakout of NOI and square footage by market and by property type. This additional disclosure should better assist everyone in valuing our Company.

As Jim noted, our growth in average net effective rent on renewals was 7.9% for the quarter with positive rental growth across all three product types. We’re optimistic about our ability to continue to push these rental rates. We generated $0.25 per share in AFFO which equates to a conservative dividend payout ratio of 68% compared to $0.21 per share of AFFO for the fourth quarter of 2013. We incurred a significant amount of building improvements in second-generation leasing costs during the fourth quarter of 2013, whereas our capital expenditures during the first quarter of 2014 were more in line with our ongoing run rate.

We are pleased with maintaining our continued strong operating results, and now I will quickly recap our capital position. We finished the quarter with $180 million outstanding on our $850 million line of credit as compared to $88 million outstanding on the line of credit at the end of 2013.

As Denny noted, we anticipate increased disposition activity during the next two quarters which will allow us to repay our current line balance and fund continued development costs. We are in a very good liquidity position and have no significant debt maturities until February of 2015.

In addition, I am pleased to report during the quarter our credit rating for senior unsecured debt was reaffirmed by Moody’s at Baa2 with a stable outlook, and upgraded by Standard & Poor’s to mid-BBB with a stable outlook. These actions by the rating agencies are a testament to our improved overall leverage profile, high-quality assets, very stable cash flow profile and continued focus on further improving our balance sheet.

I will conclude by saying that I’m very happy to have reported another strong quarter. And with that, I will turn it back over to Denny.

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

Thanks, Mark. Yesterday we narrowed our guidance for FFO per share for 2014 to $1.12 to $1.18. With solid results in the first quarter, we set the stage for a strong 2014.

 

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So in closing, I will reiterate that we believe our team and our portfolio is in a unique position to take advantage of strong fundamentals in our businesses. The value creation potential for shareholders is very high. We thank you again for your interest and support of Duke Realty.

We will now open the lines up to the audience. We ask participants to keep the dialogue to one question or perhaps two very short questions. You are of course welcome to get back in the queue. Thank you.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

 

 

Operator

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Michael Bilerman.

 

 

Kevin Varin - Citigroup - Analyst

This is Kevin Varin with Michael. Last quarter you mentioned that sales would be more weighted through the first four months. Now that has been pushed back a little bit. Can you walk us through what’s causing the delay, and then in regards to guidance, can you comment on how that impacts FFO for the remainder of the year? Because it would imply a near-term boost in FFO just given the delay on asset sales dilution. And then secondly, has the shift in timing of assets impacted the timing of capital deployment laid out in guidance?

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

I think we’re pretty much right on. We might be pushed back slightly from what we said in the first quarter, but there’s no significant reason for it. It’s just a timing of marketing, but I think everything’s on track.

Obviously our FFO guidance considers all that and considers the timing. And again, we’re on track with funding the development pipeline. And I think again a lot of that’s going to be funded with the disposition proceeds as we go throughout the year.

 

 

Kevin Varin - Citigroup - Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

 

 

Operator

Blaine Heck.

 

 

Blaine Heck - Wells Fargo Securities - Analyst

Just to follow-up on that, can you give maybe a little more color on any packages you have out for sale at this point? Where they are and what asset type?

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

Well again, I think as far as asset type goes, we’ve said we’re mainly selling the office product, and in certain target markets. I think the one asset I would specifically mention that I think has been out in the press is the 3630 Peachtree building in Buckhead in Atlanta.

 

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We are now at the point where we’re getting very close to selecting a buyer for that property, and we will be moving quickly towards the contract on that. So that’s one of the projects we anticipate closing probably late second quarter.

Other than that, it’s just a few different projects that are out there. And I don’t really want to comment on any specifically, but we’re fairly far down the road with several of the planned dispositions.

 

 

Blaine Heck - Wells Fargo Securities - Analyst

Okay. Fair enough. And then Mark, can you give us a sense of what the impact of the higher than usual snow removal and utilities expense was on same-store?

 

 

Mark Denien - Duke Realty Corporation - CFO

Blaine, it was approximately about 60 to 70 basis points impact on the quarterly number. Obviously less than that on the rolling 12-month number, more like 20 basis points.

And all-in from a dollar amount perspective on bottom-line FFO, it was just over $1 million. So nothing too significant that we can’t recover from for the rest of the year, but it did have an impact on the percentage growth for the current quarter.

 

 

Blaine Heck - Wells Fargo Securities - Analyst

All right. Great. Thanks.

 

 

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Vance Edelson.

 

 

Vance Edelson - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

You mentioned pushing rents on the industrial side. Sounds like you have a real opportunity here given the pricing power that’s kicked in.

How much do you take advantage of that by raising rents even more perhaps, at the expense of further occupancy gains? In other words, how do you balance the pricing versus the ultimate occupancy that you’d like to see?

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

Well, I think that’s more art than science. We do a pretty good job of tracking the deals and when they were originally signed as we’ve talked before.

We are now very focused on the leases that were signed between 2009 and 2011, when we think we were really at the trough in the overall market. And we have about 45% of the leases that roll in the next 18 months fall into that category. So we’re targeting pushing rents there extremely hard.

Most of our industrial portfolios across the country are 95% or better, so they have all of the leverage that they need to go out and push rents. And they’re not the least bit uncomfortable with taking out a little bit of vacancy given the strength of the markets. So that’s the process, and I think we’re pretty proud of the results in the first quarter that our guys have achieved.

 

 

Vance Edelson - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Okay. That’s helpful. And then as my follow-up, you mentioned that the strong capital liquidity out there might encourage you to sell more on the office side. Does it make you any more likely to monetize some of the medical office buildings, or are you pretty happy with everything you have there?

 

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Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

We’re pretty happy with everything we have there. There’s still one building from the portfolio that we closed on at the end — mostly at the end of the fourth quarter last year that’s still hanging in limbo that should likely, I think, will close this quarter. But other than that, that’s it. So just one other property out there.

 

 

Vance Edelson - Morgan Stanley - Analyst

Okay. Great. Thank you.

 

 

Operator

Jamie Feldman.

 

 

Jamie Feldman - BofA Merrill Lynch - Analyst

This earnings season has been an increasing amount of concern over warehouse supply. Can you guys talk about where you think we are in the cycle, when you start to see some downward pressure on rents and which markets you think at this point are closest to being a concern versus those that really have a long way to go before we should even start this discussion?

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

Yes. Thanks, Jamie. I think if you look at the macro numbers and then drill down into all of the specific markets that we operate in, demand is still outpacing supply. We focused a lot, and I shared with the group some of the speculative outlet numbers. Those are the ones that obviously concern us most.

I would tell you that we still believe that the vast majority of the markets and the country in general are in balance. There’s a couple that made some pretty significant moves - the Inland Empire and Houston continued to lead the country with the amount of spec space. Quite candidly, those two markets have done a great job over the last six quarters of keeping the amount of spec space that is under construction north of 30% pre-leased. So a lot of good activity in those markets, a lot of good net absorption.

The one that jumped up pretty big this quarter that’s got us on the watch list is Dallas. Dallas added about 6.5 million square feet of spec space. Their percentage leased is down just under 10%, so that’s probably one that we’ve got to watch.

But in addition to that, there’s probably still five major markets around the country that haven’t started any spec development and a lot of them that are 40% to 50%. So on par, we’re still in pretty good shape. We will continue to monitor throughout 2014 and into 2015 and see what the effect is.

 

 

Jamie Feldman - BofA Merrill Lynch - Analyst

And then along those lines, how fast do you think the warehouse cycle can turn? And is it a six-month, is it nine months, is it several years? And what’s different this cycle versus prior cycles that maybe won’t happen as fast or maybe happens even faster?

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

Well, first and foremost, I think we all remember how tough the four or five years of the recession were. So a lot of it is going to depend on self-control. Clearly there’s a great deal of capital out there chasing industrial development today and that has worked its way into the speculative development pipeline.

But again, most of the markets are in check. It doesn’t take very long for a spec project to sit on the shelf for those 8% underwritten yields to deteriorate, so most people are still very cautious. That’s why we’re very pleased with the 86.5 percentage leased of our underdevelopment portfolio. We’ve got a few spec projects out there, but with the build-to-suit pipeline as strong as it is, that’s where the majority of our focus is, and we see a lot of great value creation there.

 

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Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

Jamie, I’d just add a couple had a couple things to that. One is I think — I’ve said this before — I think one of the things we’re seeing in the industrial space is with GDP growth in the 2% to 2.5% range, a lot of our customers can take the time and do a build-to-suit in 6 to 9 months.

We see them requesting us to accelerate construction, but they’re still doing build-to-suits. Which that sort of changes if your GDP growth jumps up into the 4.5% -,5% range, and we just haven’t seen that yet.

And I think the second thing on the industrial side that we’re seeing is a real — again, everybody is aware of this — just the growth in the e-commerce space. So I think that, as Jim said in his remarks, I think we’ve got I think a lot going for us there in our portfolio. But also just in the industry as a whole, because that I think no matter what happens with the overall economy, that’s going to continue to grow.

 

 

Jamie Feldman - BofA Merrill Lynch - Analyst

But do you think the capital is different now? Are we — I know early this cycle, the discussion was that you needed equity to build and very few merchant builders could get out there. Seems like that’s changed.

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

I think there’s always capital.

 

 

Jamie Feldman - BofA Merrill Lynch - Analyst

Okay. All right. Thank you.

 

 

Operator

Eric Frankel.

 

 

Eric Frankel - Green Street Advisors - Analyst

Mark, did you guys purchase preferred this quarter?

 

 

Mark Denien - Duke Realty Corporation - CFO

Yes, Eric. We had basically reverse inquiry and took down about $19 million face of preferreds for about $18 million. So saved — had about a $1 million gain before writing off the original cost. So the all-in effective yield on that was about 7%. So we thought that was an attractive transaction.

 

 

Eric Frankel - Green Street Advisors - Analyst

Okay. And then Jim, maybe this is for you, can you comment about the positioning of your land bank and where it’s located relative to where all the spec development’s taking place? And if it isn’t located in markets where there’s a lot of spec development, how can you price build-to-suits relative to where spec wants to lease today?

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

Let me see if I can follow the question.

 

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Eric Frankel - Green Street Advisors - Analyst

I can clarify if you’d like.

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

You want to know where our better land holdings are? Is that the first part?

 

 

Eric Frankel - Green Street Advisors - Analyst

The majority of you landholdings, yes, on the book value basis.

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

I would tell you with the exception of Southern California and the Northeast, we’ve got strategic land in most all of our offices. And quite candidly, we’ve sold those inventories down, selling off nonstrategic and as we started to ramp up development. And as you know for the last few quarters, we’ve acquired very little new land in the last few years so we continue to work that inventory down. We’ve got great land and remember, we didn’t impair that land itself for development the last go round. So those are really true yields on the build-to-suits that you’re seeing indicative of our original investments in the land.

 

 

Eric Frankel - Green Street Advisors - Analyst

And when you’re pricing build-to-suits, are the rates that you’re charging comparable to spec development? Are they lower or higher? I’m just trying to get a sense.

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

No. I think we believe the rental rates that we’re charging and the yields that we’re achieving are appropriate risk-adjusted returns for build-to-suits versus spec. And given our success in the marketplace and the yields, as we said, we’ve got a stabilized yield of 7.6% on that under development pipeline, which, we all know where cap rates are today.

That’s a tremendous amount of value creation, and those projects — those are all over the country in all different product types. So that’s a combination of again, we’re pretty good at the build-to-suit business. We’ve got our own construction company, so we’re still getting great pricing, and we’ve got the right land sites.

 

 

Eric Frankel - Green Street Advisors - Analyst

Okay. I will jump back in the queue. Thank you.

 

 

Operator

Paul Adornato.

 

 

Paul Adornato - BMO Capital Markets - Analyst

With respect to capital recycling over the last couple of years, there has been some questions or suggestions that maybe the medical office might be ripe for disposition in some form or another; and so my question is, have you given any thought to a potential spinoff of these assets since the spinoff of other entities has gained some traction within the REIT space? And that would, of course, solve the capital redeployment problem.

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

 

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Well, Paul, we really haven’t given it a lot of thought. I guess what I would say is, as you all know, everybody knows from what we’ve been saying, is we really like the business. We think it’s a good growth business for us.

Today it’s a significant piece of our business particularly on the development side; but overall, it’s still only about 14% or 15% of our business today. One thing we did do is look at that portfolio from a strategic point of view last year, and as you know, we sold — including the couple that closed here in the first quarter in January —we sold about $250 million of that portfolio.

So in our mind, we really recycled some — and generated some very nice gains on that portfolio. And we’re going to continue to move forward on the development side in that business. For us as we continue to really sell some of the surban office, it’s again another great place for us to redeploy that capital back into the development pipeline in MOBs.

 

 

Paul Adornato - BMO Capital Markets - Analyst

Okay. Great. Thank you.

 

 

Operator

[Ki Bi Kim].

 

 

Ki Bi Kim - Macquarie Research Equities - Analyst

You made a comment earlier in your opening remarks about a healthy supply of maybe build-to-suit or spec deals you’re looking at to replenish your pipeline as you continue to complete your development. I was wondering if you could give a little color on, is there a change in future yields based on the projects that are in the pipeline, and is $600 million roughly the number we should expect Duke to be at on a longer-term basis?

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

Well, the first question from a yield perspective, there’s always competitive pressures in the marketplace. But as with the deals we’ve reported and everything in our price, everything that’s in our pipeline, we feel very comfortable with where our pricing is today.

One of the things — and it ties back into the speculative development — one of the reasons we’re monitoring it so closely is for just that effect. To monitor markets where they potentially could get over built, and you will see pricing pressures — downward pricing pressure on build-to-suits as there are more opportunities in the marketplace. We don’t see that today, but that’s obviously a concern out in the future that we’re all monitoring very closely.

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

And as far as the level or the pipeline, I’d just add a couple things. We started about $660 million of projects last year. Our guidance was $350 million to $450 million this year. So I think you’re going to see that pipeline underdevelopment be roughly in that $600 million range give or take.

The only thing that might affect that, I would say, on the upper side would be some of the projects that we’re doing today on both the industrial and the MOB side, and then the occasional office build-to-suits tends to be larger projects. So if you land a couple of the bigger million-plus square foot warehouses or 150,000 square foot medical office building, the pipeline might go up a little bit with those kind of projects in it.

 

 

Ki Bi Kim - Macquarie Research Equities - Analyst

Okay. And very quick accounting question, just want to double check, your same-store NOI is purely based — is on a commencement basis, right? It’s not on a signed basis. Is that correct?

 

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Mark Denien - Duke Realty Corporation - CFO

That’s correct.

 

 

Ki Bi Kim - Macquarie Research Equities - Analyst

So if I look at page 18 some upside in leasing, like medical office up 300 basis points or so, that’s not in your same-store NOI on — that was reported this quarter, correct?

 

 

Mark Denien - Duke Realty Corporation - CFO

No. Our same-store NOI is on a cash basis, so basically it’s tenants paying rent, and the occupancy figures on previous pages are on a lease-up basis.

 

 

Ki Bi Kim - Macquarie Research Equities - Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

 

 

Operator

Dave Rodgers.

 

 

Dave Rodgers - Robert W. Baird & Company, Inc. - Analyst

Mark, could you give us a little bit of color on where you think our current liquidity is and funding sources for the year? Do you feel comfortable funding off the balance sheet? And maybe give us a little rundown on the trend in coverage and leverage metrics as you move throughout the year?

 

 

Mark Denien - Duke Realty Corporation - CFO

Sure, Dave. We’re basically projecting that we can cover all of our cash needs for the year with our disposition pipeline that Denny mentioned. From an acquisition perspective, I think our guidance at the top end was about $200 million and the development pipeline at $450 million. Even at those levels, we should be able to fund all that with the dispositions that we have coming at us in late second, early third and then a few straggling late in the year, so really no needs for capital.

And then as far as costs, I would say from a debt perspective since we really don’t have anything due this year, we’re really out until early next year with the next big debt maturity. That’s about a 7.5% coupon rate. And today our 10-year borrowing rates probably closer to 4.25% give or take.

So I think you won’t see us needing to issue any kind of new debt or equity to cover our debts. Our leverage profile should continue to improve. It’s always a little lower in the first quarter on a coverage basis partially because of some of those higher G&A costs and things like that, that I mentioned.

As we get into the year and the development pipeline comes online and our G&A costs normalize, you will continue to see those leverage metrics get better every quarter as we go through the rest of the year, just based on placing everything in service and normal blocking and tackling without any big capital transactions.

 

 

Dave Rodgers - Robert W. Baird & Company, Inc. - Analyst

Great. One follow-up, maybe two follow-ups — I will put them together. The first is speculative construction projects relative to the overall pipeline. Do you have a comfort level?

I didn’t hear if you addressed that. If you did I apologize. And then the second, can you address development costs, maybe ex-land, what you’re seeing on that side, Jim?

 

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Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

We’re comfortable where we’re running now. One of the challenges we have with as many of our markets that are above 95% occupancy as we have, we have a lot of people in the field that would like to do two spec developments. But with as many good build-to-suit opportunities, we’re focused on keeping that percentage leased of the development pipeline in the range that we kept it.

So you will not — I don’t think you will see us ramp up spec development in order to beat our development goals. I don’t think we will have to do that, so we will keep it at the modest end of the spectrum. And from a cost perspective, there’s been a lot of numbers bandied around that construction costs are moving up into that 3%, 4%, 5% range, I will tell you we are at the very low end of that range. I will tell you across the country, our numbers are in that 1% to 3% range. I think that’s a direct result of having our own construction company.

So we’re not having to fight competitive pricing with the GCs out there who are seeing the increase in demand and able to push their margins. We’ve got our own guys who are getting good pricing and being able to hold the line on material costs pretty well.

 

 

Dave Rodgers - Robert W. Baird & Company, Inc. - Analyst

Great. Thank you.

 

 

Operator

Michael Salinsky.

 

 

Michael Salinsky - RBC Capital Markets - Analyst

On the industrial side, the couple moving pieces in the quarter, it looked like you had the quarter pretty well occupied. Any vacates or anything we should know about over the balance of the year that would create some choppiness in occupancy?

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

No Dave, I would tell you we don’t have any big surprises or uncertainties out there for the balance of the year on the industrial portfolio; big — I mean 300,000 to 500,000 square feet, we’ve got all those addressed and baked into the numbers. And quite candidly, we were very pleased in the first quarter to backfill a couple of those that we knew were leaving down in Atlanta and Savannah as quickly as we did.

 

 

Michael Salinsky - RBC Capital Markets - Analyst

Okay. And then as my follow-up question, given the opportunity you saw in the preferred retirement during the quarter as well as the strong bid you’re seeing for some of the office MOB and industrial assets, any thoughts on advancing, selling a little bit more and retiring some of those preferreds given the coupon on that?

 

 

Mark Denien - Duke Realty Corporation - CFO

Mike, we would certainly entertain that. I think a lot of it’s timing. If we have the disposition pipeline accelerate a little quicker than we think right now, and we’ve got the money sitting around, we would potentially look at a redemption.

The one thing that was great about the transaction we did do, like I mentioned, it was a reverse inquiry. So we’re able to take that down at very favorable pricing at a 7% effective rate, rather than the give or take 6.6% coupon.

So it is something we look at, but right now, we do have a little bit outstanding on our line. We want to get that taken care of first and make sure we have all of our bets covered on the development funding. Once we get that done, if we have excess proceeds, we would look at something like that.

 

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Michael Salinsky - RBC Capital Markets - Analyst

Thank you.

 

 

Operator

Blaine Heck.

 

 

Blaine Heck - Wells Fargo Securities - Analyst

There are some very sizable industrial portfolios that are on the market or rumored to be coming to market. Is that anything you guys would be interested in pursuing at this point? If so, how would you think about funding something like that?

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

Well, I alluded to it or mentioned it in the remarks that things are pretty pricey right now. And there are some, I would say, some portfolios out there that are floating around; some are good and some maybe not quite so good; but I think it’s going to be tough for us to decide to do any large portfolio transaction here in the near future just where pricing is right now. So I wouldn’t speculate I guess then Blaine how we would finance it, if I don’t really think it’s going to happen.

 

 

Blaine Heck - Wells Fargo Securities - Analyst

Sure. Fair enough. Thanks.

 

 

Operator

(Operator Instructions)

Eric Frankel.

 

 

Eric Frankel - Green Street Advisors - Analyst

Just to add onto Blaine’s question, if industrial pricing is getting so aggressive, is there a thought of you maybe selling some of your industrial portfolio to fund higher-yielding or more value creation in your development pipeline?

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

Well, you noticed in the first quarter we sold some of our flex properties in Indianapolis. I think we will continue to monitor in the industrial portfolio some sale of some of our smaller product types in all of our markets, or in any of our markets, I guess.

And I would say what’s fueling that right now is we are starting to see more people interested in that product type, so generally, pricing is a little better right now than it may have been. So I think you will continue to see us do that.

But as you know, we’re very pleased with the quality of our overall portfolio. And some of the statistics that we show in our regular presentations reflect that. So we really have no desire today to sell any of that new or modern bulk because, again, we think we’ve got opportunities to keep driving rents in that portfolio.

 

 

Eric Frankel - Green Street Advisors - Analyst

Okay. Well, I’m just wondering if there’s a price where you’re a taker?

 

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Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

Well, make me an offer, Eric.

 

 

Eric Frankel - Green Street Advisors - Analyst

Fair enough. I guess final question is on suburban office. Is there any movement in values you recognize? Obviously Peachtree is a special example, I’m curious on some of the other suburban offices you’re looking to offload in the next year or two, where activity is there.

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

Well, I would say that we’re pretty pleased with pricing we’re seeing. We were pleased with the pricing we saw on some of that portfolio we moved later last year. Still again have a couple portfolios out there along with some individual assets. So we’re pretty pleased.

The interest seems to be picking up in the suburban office assets. And I would also say the financing markets have remained very favorable. So that’s also helping support the pricing.

 

 

Eric Frankel - Green Street Advisors - Analyst

Perfect. Thank you.

 

 

Operator

Jamie Feldman.

 

 

Jamie Feldman - BofA Merrill Lynch - Analyst

Can you guys talk about whether you’ve seen any incremental shifts in improving conditions in any of the office markets this quarter specifically? So what I’m asking is, we know the recovery’s been kind of slow and steady moving from market to market. What are the new markets this quarter that have improved that maybe caught you guys off guard or give you hope for the future?

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

I don’t know that I can point to specific markets. One of the trends we’re seeing that’s really started in the last quarter, which we take as a positive sign, is you’re starting to see buyers a little more comfortable and a little bit more interested in a little more vacancy.

I wouldn’t say a lot of vacancy, but in 2012 and 2013, we were pushing to get occupancies in buildings that we were going to sell above 90%, really focus on the roll in the next 36 months. And now we’re seeing buyers that are interested in buildings that have occupancies in the 80% to 85% range because they believe in the improving economics of the cycle and they’re willing to underwrite that a little more aggressively.

So for us, that’s opened up some opportunities to sell some additional buildings that haven’t quite gotten leasing up to 90% and not have to incur the costs of doing so. So that’s probably the most positive trend that I think we’ve seen.

 

 

Jamie Feldman - BofA Merrill Lynch - Analyst

What about just on the tenant demand side? For space?

 

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Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

It continues to be consistent with the last couple of quarters. We still are seeing the Financial Services companies, the insurance companies, healthcare companies, healthcare related and servicing companies have been have all been good consumers of space.

A lot of the deals that we have rolling in our own portfolio, it’s not uncommon — we’re renewing those. We’re renewing those users and expanding them at the same time. So that’s been a pleasant trend that we’ve been seeing for the last six to nine months.

 

 

Jamie Feldman - BofA Merrill Lynch - Analyst

And then there’s no markets this quarter that picked up from that trend like versus last quarter? Just kind of consistent?

 

 

Jim Connor - Duke Realty Corp - COO

I can’t point to any one that comes to mind.

 

 

Denny Oklak - Duke Realty Corp - Chairman and CEO

I think we’ve seen some good activity in St. Louis. We signed, Jim mentioned in the remarks, we signed a big lease over there.

I think generally, activities have picked up there. A little bit in Cincinnati, too. The rest of the markets are all very solid.

We’re in the low to mid-90s in all those markets, all those other markets right now. So those markets are doing fine. And we’re starting to see a little pickup in a couple of these other markets.

 

 

Jamie Feldman - BofA Merrill Lynch - Analyst

Okay. All right. Thank you.

 

 

Operator

To the presenters, no further questions in queue.

 

 

Ron Hubbard - Duke Realty Corporation - VP IR

Thanks, John. I’d like to thank everyone for joining the call today. We look forward to seeing many of you at the NAREIT conference in June in a little over a month. If not, we will reconvene during our second quarter call tentatively scheduled for July 31. Thank you.

 

 

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude your conference for today. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.

 

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