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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 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): January 14, 2021

 

 

PUBLIC STORAGE

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Maryland   001-33519   95-3551121

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS. Employer

Identification No.)

 

701 Western Avenue,

Glendale, California

  91201-2349
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

(818) 244-8080

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

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

 

Written communication 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))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of Class

 

Trading

Symbol

 

Name of exchange

on which registered

Common Shares, $0.10 par value   PSA   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 5.400% Cum Pref Share, Series B, $0.01 par value   PSAPrB   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 5.125% Cum Pref Share, Series C, $0.01 par value   PSAPrC   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 4.950% Cum Pref Share, Series D, $0.01 par value   PSAPrD   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 4.900% Cum Pref Share, Series E, $0.01 par value   PSAPrE   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 5.150% Cum Pref Share, Series F, $0.01 par value   PSAPrF   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 5.050% Cum Pref Share, Series G, $0.01 par value   PSAPrG   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 5.600% Cum Pref Share, Series H, $0.01 par value   PSAPrH   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 4.875% Cum Pref Share, Series I, $0.01 par value   PSAPrI   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 4.700% Cum Pref Share, Series J, $0.01 par value   PSAPrJ   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 4.750% Cum Pref Share, Series K, $0.01 par value   PSAPrK   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 4.625% Cum Pref Share, Series L, $0.01 par value   PSAPrL   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 4.125% Cum Pref Share, Series M, $0.01 par value   PSAPrM   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 3.875% Cum Pref Share, Series N, $0.01 par value   PSAPrN   New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares Each Representing 1/1,000 of a 3.875% Cum Pref Share, Series O, $0.01 par value   PSAPrO   New York Stock Exchange
0.875% Senior Notes due 2032   PSA32   New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company  ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

 

 

 


Item 1.01

Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement

Underwriting Agreement

On January 14, 2021, Public Storage (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Company and BofA Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as managers of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), for the sale of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 0.875% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”). On January 19, 2021, the Company completed the offering of the Notes. The Underwriting Agreement is filed as Exhibit 1.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

The offering of the Notes was made pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-231510) filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 15, 2019. A prospectus supplement, dated January 14, 2021, relating to the Notes and supplementing the prospectus was filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

The Underwriters have performed investment banking and advisory services for the Company from time to time for which they have received customary fees and expenses. The Underwriters may, from time to time, engage in transactions with and perform services for the Company in the ordinary course of their business.

The lenders under the Company’s revolving credit facility include, among other financial institutions from time to time as lenders party thereto, Bank of America, N.A., an affiliate of BofA Securities, Inc.; JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., an affiliate of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC; and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, an affiliate of Wells Fargo Securities, LLC. Wells Fargo Bank, National Association is agent of the facility and also a lender under the revolving credit facility. Wells Fargo Bank, National Association is also the trustee under the indenture that governs the Company’s outstanding senior notes and that will govern the Notes.

Supplemental Indenture

The Notes have been issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2017 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company, as issuer, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 19, 2021 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee.

The Notes bear interest at a rate of 0.875% per annum. Interest on the Notes is payable semi-annually on February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing August 15, 2021. The Notes will mature on February 15, 2026. The Notes are the Company’s direct, unsecured and unsubordinated obligations and will rank equally in right of payment with all of the Company’s existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness.

The Company may redeem the Notes at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, at the applicable make-whole redemption price specified in the Indenture. If the Notes are redeemed on or after January 15, 2026 (one month prior to the applicable maturity date), the redemption price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but not including, the redemption date.

The Indenture contains certain covenants that, among other things, limit the ability of the Company, subject to exceptions, to incur secured and unsecured indebtedness and to consummate a merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of its assets. In addition, the Indenture requires the Company to maintain total unencumbered assets of at least 125% of total unsecured indebtedness. These covenants are subject to a number of important exceptions and qualifications. The Indenture also provides for customary events of default which, if any of them occurs, would permit or require the principal of and accrued interest on the Notes to become or to be declared due and payable.

The foregoing description is a summary of the terms of the Indenture and the Notes and does not purport to be a complete statement of the parties’ rights and obligations thereunder. The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture (including the form of Notes), copies of which are attached as Exhibits 4.1 and 4.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.


Item 2.03

Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation Under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of the Registrant.

The information set forth above under Item 1.01 is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

 

Item 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d)    Exhibits

 

Exhibit
No.

    
  1.1    Underwriting Agreement, dated as of January 14, 2021, by and among the Company and BofA Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as managers of the several underwriters named therein.
  4.1    Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2017, between Public Storage and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee. Filed with Public Storage’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 18, 2017 and incorporated by reference herein.
  4.2    Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 19, 2021, between Public Storage and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee.
  4.3    Form of Global Note representing the Notes (included in Exhibit 4.2).
  5.1    Opinion of Hogan Lovells US LLP.
23.1    Consent of Hogan Lovells US LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
104    Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).


SIGNATURES

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

 

    PUBLIC STORAGE
    By:  

/s/ Nathaniel A. Vitan

      Nathaniel A. Vitan
Date: January 19, 2021       Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary

Exhibit 1.1

Execution Version

PUBLIC STORAGE

0.875% Senior Notes due 2026

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

January 14, 2021


January 14, 2021

To the Managers named in Schedule I hereto

for the Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Public Storage (the “Company”), a Maryland real estate investment trust (“REIT”), proposes to issue and sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as managers (the “Managers”), the principal amount of its debt securities identified in Schedule I hereto (the “Securities”), to be issued under the indenture (the “Base Indenture”) and the fourth supplemental indenture (the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”) specified in Schedule I hereto between the Company and the Trustee identified in such Schedule (the “Trustee”). If the firm or firms listed in Schedule II hereto include only the Managers listed in Schedule I hereto, then the terms “Underwriters” and “Managers” as used herein shall each be deemed to refer to such firm or firms. Certain terms used in this Agreement are defined in Section 1(jj).

1. Representations and Warranties. The Company represents, warrants and covenants to the Underwriters as set forth below.

(a) The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement, registration number 333-231510, on Form S-3, including the related prospectus included in the Registration Statement, for the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of the offering and sale of, inter alia, the Securities. The Company has filed with, or transmitted for filing to, or shall promptly hereafter file with or transmit for filing to, the Commission a prospectus supplement (the “Prospectus Supplement”) specifically relating to the Securities pursuant to Rules 415 and 424 under the Securities Act. The Company has included or will include in such Registration Statement, as amended at the Execution Time, and in the Prospectus Supplement all information required by the Securities Act and the rules thereunder to be included therein with respect to the Securities and the offering thereof. As filed, such Registration Statement, as so amended, and form of final prospectus contained in the Registration Statement and Prospectus Supplement, contains or will contain all required information with respect to the Securities and the offering thereof and, except to the extent the Managers shall agree in writing to a modification, shall be in all substantive respects in the form furnished to the Underwriters prior to the date hereof or, to the extent not completed at the Execution Time, shall contain only such specific additional information and other changes as the Company has advised the Managers, prior to the Execution Time, will be included or made therein.


(b) At the respective times the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto became effective, at each deemed effective date pursuant to Rule 430B and on the Closing Date, the Registration Statement complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules thereunder and did not contain and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; and, the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time the Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement was issued and on the Closing Date complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules thereunder and did not and will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to (A) the information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Managers specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) or (B) that part of the Registration Statement that constitutes the Statement of Eligibility (Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), of the Trustee.

(c) As of the Applicable Time (as defined below), the Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectus(es) (as defined below) issued at or prior to the Applicable Time and the Statutory Prospectus (as defined below) all considered together (collectively, the “General Disclosure Package”), did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to the information contained in or omitted from the General Disclosure Package in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Managers specifically for inclusion therein. As used in this subsection and elsewhere in this Agreement:

Applicable Time” means 3:45 p.m. (New York City time) on January 14, 2021 or such other time as agreed by the Company and the Managers.

Statutory Prospectus” means the prospectus relating to the Securities contained in the Registration Statement at the Effective Date, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any Preliminary Prospectus.

 

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Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 of the Securities Act, relating to the Securities that (i) is required to be filed with the Commission by the Company, (ii) is a “roadshow that is a written communication” within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i), whether or not required to be filed with the Commission or (iii) is exempt from filing pursuant to Rule 433(d)(5)(i) because it contains a description of the Securities or of the offering that does not reflect the final terms, in each case in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained by the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) of the Securities Act.

Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is intended for general distribution to prospective investors, as evidenced by its being specified in Schedule III hereto.

(d) Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Securities or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Managers, did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with any information contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any preliminary or other prospectus deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified.

(e) (i) At the time of filing of the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or form of prospectus), (iii) at the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c) of the Securities Act) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption of Rule 163 of the Securities Act and (iv) at the date hereof, the Company was and is a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement,” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act and the Securities, since their registration on the Registration Statement, have been and remain eligible for registration by the Company on a Rule

 

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405 of the Securities Act “automatic shelf registration statement.” The Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Securities Act objecting to the use of the automatic shelf registration statement form. (i) At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) of the Securities Act) of the Securities and (ii) at the date hereof, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act, including the Company or any other subsidiary in the preceding three years not having been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor or having been made the subject of a judicial or administrative decree or order as described in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

(f) The Registration Statement has become effective under the Securities Act, and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is in effect and no proceedings for such purpose are, to the knowledge of the Company, pending before or threatened by the Commission.

(g) The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the General Disclosure Package, at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission, complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and, when read together with the other information in the General Disclosure Package, at the Applicable Time, and with the Prospectus, at the date of the Prospectus, on the Closing Date did not and will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances, under which they were made, not misleading.

(h) The only significant subsidiaries of the Company are the subsidiaries listed on Annex A hereto (the “Subsidiaries”). Each of the Company, the Subsidiaries, and the partnerships listed on Annex B hereto (the “Partnerships”) has been duly organized and is validly existing in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is organized, with full power and authority to own or lease and occupy its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus, and is duly qualified to do business, and is in good standing, in each jurisdiction which requires such qualification, except where the failure to so qualify would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the business, operations, earnings, assets or financial condition of the Company (a “Material Adverse Effect”). All of the outstanding shares of capital stock or equity interests, as applicable, of each of the Subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued,

 

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are fully paid and nonassessable, and are owned by the Company directly, or indirectly through another Subsidiary, free and clear of any lien, adverse claim, security interest, equity, or other encumbrance. All of the Company’s ownership interests in the Partnerships are owned free and clear of any security interest, claim, lien or other encumbrance. The Company owns as of the date hereof 100% of the issued and outstanding partnership units in PSA Institutional Partners, L.P.

(i) The Company, each of the Subsidiaries and each Partnership have all requisite power and authority, and all necessary material authorizations, approvals, orders, licenses, certificates and permits of and from all regulatory or governmental officials, bodies and tribunals, to own or lease their respective properties and to conduct their respective businesses as now being conducted and as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; all such authorizations, approvals, licenses, certificates and permits are in full force and effect, except where the failure to be in full force and effect would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, such Subsidiary or such Partnership; and the Company, each of the Subsidiaries and each Partnership are complying with all applicable laws, ordinances, administrative and governmental rules and regulations applicable to the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any of the Partnerships and any decrees of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any of the Partnerships, in each case, the violation of which could have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, such Subsidiary or such Partnership, as the case may be.

(j) The Company, each Subsidiary and each Partnership have good and marketable title to their properties, free and clear of all material liens, charges and encumbrances and equities of record, except as set forth or reflected in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(k) The Company, each Subsidiary and each Partnership maintains adequate insurance for the conduct of their respective business as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(l) The Company, either directly or through the Subsidiaries or Partnerships, owns or licenses or otherwise has the right to use all patents, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, trade secrets and rights material to the Company’s business as described in the Prospectus; other than routine proceedings which if adversely determined would not materially affect the business (as described in the Prospectus) of the Company, the Subsidiaries and the Partnerships taken

 

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as a whole, no claims have been asserted by any person with respect to the use of any such patents, trademarks, trade names or trade secrets or challenging or questioning the validity or effectiveness of any such patents, trademarks, trade names or trade secrets; to the best knowledge of the Company, the use, in connection with the business and operations of the Company, the Subsidiaries and the Partnerships, of such patents, trademarks and trade names does not infringe on the rights of any person.

(m) There is no pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, after due inquiry, threatened, action, suit or proceeding before any court, governmental agency, authority or body or arbitrator involving the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any of the Partnerships or any of their respective officers or any of their respective properties, assets or rights of a character required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement or Prospectus which is not adequately disclosed in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, and there is no franchise, contract or other document of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, or to be filed as an exhibit, which is not described or filed as required. The statements in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, insofar as they are descriptions of contracts, agreements or other legal documents, or refer to statements of law or legal conclusions, are accurate, and present fairly the information required to be shown, in all material respects.

(n) The Company has full corporate power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities and to issue, sell and deliver the Securities; and this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities have been duly authorized; and this Agreement and the Base Indenture have been, and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture and the Securities as of the Closing Date will have been, duly executed and delivered by the Company. The Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and, on the Closing Date, the Indenture will constitute a valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that enforcement thereof may be limited by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereinafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether a proceeding is considered at law or in equity).

(o) No consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or governmental agency, authority or body is required (and has not been received) for the execution by the Company of this Agreement, the Indenture or the Securities, the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder or thereunder or the consummation by the

 

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Company of the transactions contemplated herein or therein, including the issuance and sale of the Securities, except such as are required under the state securities or the Blue Sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates is presently doing any business with the government of Cuba or with any person or affiliate located in Cuba.

(p) Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in violation of, in conflict with, in breach of or in default under (and none of them know of an event which with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both would be reasonably likely to constitute a default under) its charter or by-laws, and none of the Partnerships is in violation of its respective partnership agreement (and none of them know of an event which with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both would be reasonably likely to constitute a violation), and neither the Company, any Subsidiary nor any Partnership is in default in the performance of any obligation, agreement or condition contained in any loan, note or other evidence of indebtedness or in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or any other material agreement by which it or its properties are bound, except for such defaults as could not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, such Subsidiary or such Partnership, as the case may be.

(q) Neither the Company, any of the Subsidiaries nor any of the Partnerships has violated any environmental, safety or similar law or regulation applicable to its business relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants, nor has the Company, any of the Subsidiaries nor any of the Partnerships violated any Federal, state or local law relating to discrimination in the hiring, promotion, pay or terms or conditions of employment of employees nor any applicable wage or hour laws, nor has the Company or any of the Partnerships engaged in any unfair labor practice, which in each case could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, such Subsidiary or such Partnership, as the case may be.

(r) The execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance by the Company of its obligations under, this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities, including the issuance and sale of the Securities, will not conflict with, result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under any law or the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or the partnership agreement of any of the Partnerships or the terms of any indenture or other agreement or instrument to which the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any of the Partnerships is a party or is bound or any judgment, order or decree applicable to the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any of the Partnerships of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body or arbitrator having jurisdiction over the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any of the Partnerships.

 

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(s) The Company has fulfilled its obligations, if any, under the minimum funding standards of Section 302 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder with respect to each “pension plan” (as defined in ERISA and such regulations and published interpretations) in which employees of the Company are eligible to participate and each such plan is in compliance in all material respects with the presently applicable provisions of ERISA and such regulations and published interpretations (except for such failure to so comply that would not have, singularly or in the aggregate with all other such failures to comply, a Material Adverse Effect), and has not incurred any unpaid liability to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (other than for the payment of premiums in the ordinary course) or to any such plan under Title IV of ERISA.

(t) No holders of securities of the Company have rights to the registration of such securities under the Registration Statement.

(u) The Company is qualified, has been qualified since January 1, 1981, has been operating, since the beginning of the current fiscal year, in a manner that would continue to permit it to be qualified, and intends to operate so as to continue to be qualified, (i) as a REIT under Section 856 et seq. of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and (ii) to be taxed on its “real estate investment trust income” pursuant to Section 857 of the Code.

(v) No statement, representation, warranty or covenant made by the Company in this Agreement or made in any certificate or document required by this Agreement to be delivered to the Managers is, or will be, when made, inaccurate, untrue or incorrect in any material respect.

(w) To the best of the Company’s knowledge, the firm of accountants that have certified or shall certify the applicable financial statements and supporting schedules filed or to be filed with the Commission as part of (or incorporated by reference in) the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are independent public accountants with respect to the Company and any other applicable entity, as required by the Securities Act. The financial statements, together with related schedules and notes, incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and the Registration Statement comply as to form in all material respects with

 

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the requirements of the Securities Act. Such financial statements fairly present the consolidated financial position of the Company, the Subsidiaries and the Partnerships at the respective dates indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the respective periods indicated, and have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), except as otherwise expressly stated therein, as consistently applied throughout such periods. The other financial and statistical information and data included in the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and in the Registration Statement are, in all material respects, accurately presented and prepared on a basis consistent with applicable financial statements and the books and records of the Company, the Subsidiaries and the Partnerships or, with respect to information and data relating to persons other than the Company, the Subsidiaries and the Partnerships, other information available to the Company. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (“XBRL”) included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

(x) Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), subsequent to the respective dates as of which such information is given in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), neither the Company, any of the Subsidiaries nor any of the Partnerships has incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, or entered into any transaction, not in the ordinary course of business, that is material to the Company, the Subsidiaries and the Partnerships taken as a whole, and there has not been any material change in the capital stock, or material increase in the short-term debt or long-term debt, of the Company, any Subsidiary or any of the Partnerships, or any material adverse change, or any development (that relates to the Company, the Subsidiaries and the Partnerships or to any of its respective properties or assets) which may reasonably be expected to involve a prospective material adverse change, in the condition (financial or other), business, net worth or results of operations of the Company, the Subsidiaries and the Partnerships taken as a whole.

(y) The Company has not distributed and, prior to the later to occur of (i) the Closing Date and (ii) completion of the distribution of the Securities, will not distribute any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities other than the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package or other materials, if any, permitted by the Securities Act.

 

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(z) The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that in all material respects (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (v) the interactive data in XBRL included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

(aa) To the Company’s knowledge, neither the Company, any of its Subsidiaries nor any of the Partnerships nor any employee or agent of the Company, any Subsidiary or any Partnership has made any payment of funds of the Company, any Partnership or any Subsidiary or received or retained any funds in violation of any law, rule or regulation, which payment, receipt or retention of funds is of a character required to be disclosed in the Prospectus.

(bb) The Company, each of the Subsidiaries and each of the Partnerships have filed all tax returns required to be filed (except to the extent extensions have been timely filed related thereto), which returns are complete and correct in all material respects, and neither the Company, any Partnership nor any Subsidiary is in default in the payment of any taxes which were payable pursuant to said returns or any assessments with respect thereto.

(cc) The Securities have been duly authorized and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereinafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally and equitable principles of general applicability (regardless of whether a proceeding is considered at law or in equity), and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

(dd) To the best of the Company’s knowledge, no labor disturbance by the employees of the Company, the Subsidiaries or the Partnerships exists or is imminent that would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. No collective bargaining agreement exists with any of the Company’s employees and, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, no such agreement is imminent.

 

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(ee) The Company has been advised concerning the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), and the rules and regulations thereunder, and has in the past conducted, and intends in the future to conduct, its affairs in such a manner as to ensure that it will not become an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the 1940 Act and such rules and regulations.

(ff) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has at any time during the last five (5) years (i) made any unlawful contribution to any candidate for foreign office or failed to disclose fully any contribution in violation of law, or (ii) made any payment to any federal or state governmental officer or official, or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties, other than payments required or permitted by the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction thereof.

(gg) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, trustee, officer, agent, employee or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made or taken an act in furtherance of an offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government or regulatory official or employee, including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office; (iii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iv) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom, or any other applicable anti-bribery or anticorruption laws; or (v) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment.

(hh) The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or

 

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enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

(ii) None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, trustee, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is (i) currently subject to any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”)); or (ii) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the subject of Sanctions that broadly prohibit dealings with that country or territory; and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any Sanctions.

(jj) The terms which follow, when used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated. The term “the Effective Date” shall mean each date that the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto became or is deemed to have become effective. “Execution Time” shall mean the date and time that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto. “Preliminary Prospectus” shall mean any preliminary prospectus or preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Securities, in each case filed pursuant to Rule 424(b). “Prospectus” shall mean the final prospectus in the form first furnished to the Underwriters for use in connection with the offering of Securities and any Preliminary Prospectus that forms a part thereof and any Prospectus Supplement relating to the Securities that is first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time. “Registration Statement” shall mean the Registration Statement referred to in paragraph (a) above, including any required information deemed to be a part thereof at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430B under the Securities Act and all exhibits and financial statements thereto, as amended at the Execution Time and, in the event any amendment thereto becomes effective prior to the Closing Date, shall also mean such registration statement as so amended. “Rule 424” refers to such rule under the Securities Act. Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, a Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein either pursuant to the terms of the

 

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Registration Statement or pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Exchange Act on or before the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be (collectively, the “Incorporated Documents”); and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date of the Registration Statement, or the issue date of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein by reference.

(kk) Neither the Company nor any of its officers, directors, or controlling persons has taken, directly or indirectly, any action intended, or which might reasonably be expected, to cause or result, under the Securities Act or otherwise, in, or which has constituted, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities in violation of the Securities Act.

(ll) (i) There has been no security breach or incident, unauthorized access or disclosure, or other compromise relating to the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, data and databases (including the data and information of their respective customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data maintained, processed or stored by the Company and its subsidiaries, and any such data processed or stored by third parties on behalf of the Company and its subsidiaries), equipment or technology (collectively, “IT Systems and Data”), (ii) neither the Company nor its subsidiaries have been notified of, and have no knowledge of any event or condition that would result in, any security breach or incident, unauthorized access or disclosure or other compromise to their IT Systems and Data and (iii) the Company and its subsidiaries have implemented appropriate controls, policies, procedures, and technological safeguards to maintain and protect the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of their IT Systems and Data reasonably consistent with industry standards and practices, or as required by applicable regulatory standards, except with respect to clauses (i) and (ii), for any such security breach or incident, unauthorized access or disclosure, or other compromises, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, or with respect to clause (iii), where the failure to do so would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its subsidiaries are presently in compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification.

 

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2. Agreements to Sell and Purchase. The Company hereby agrees to sell to the several Underwriters, and each Underwriter, upon the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the conditions hereinafter stated, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company the respective principal amounts of Securities set forth in Schedule II hereto opposite its name at the purchase price set forth in Schedule I hereto plus any additional principal amount of Securities which such Underwriter may become obligated to purchase pursuant to the provisions of Section 10 hereof.

3. Public Offering. The Company has been advised by you that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of their respective portions of the Securities as soon after this Agreement has been entered into as in your judgment is advisable and initially to offer the Securities upon the terms set forth in the Prospectus.

4. Payment and Delivery.

(a) Payment for the Underwriters’ Securities shall be made to the Company in federal (same day) or other funds immediately available by wire transfer to an account at a bank specified in writing to the Underwriters by the Company on the closing date and time set forth in Schedule I hereto, or at such other time on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as shall be agreed upon by you and the Company. The time and date of such payment are hereinafter referred to as the “Closing Date.”

(b) Payment for the Securities shall be made against delivery to you on the Closing Date and at the closing location set forth in Schedule I hereto for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters of the Securities registered in such names and in such denominations as you shall request in writing not later than one full business day prior to the Closing Date, with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the transfer of the Securities to the Underwriters duly paid.

(c) Delivery of Securities. The Company shall make one or more global certificates (collectively, the “Global Securities”) representing the Securities available for inspection by the Underwriters on the business day prior to the Closing Date and, on or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver the Global Securities to The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or to the Trustee, acting as custodian for DTC, as applicable. Delivery of the Securities to the Managers on the Closing Date shall be made through the facilities of DTC unless the Underwriters shall otherwise instruct.

 

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5. Conditions to the Underwriters Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters are subject to the following conditions:

(a) All of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct on the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if made on and as of the Closing Date.

(b) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date, there shall not have occurred any downgrading, nor shall any public announcement have been made of any surveillance or review or placement on a so-called “watch list,” with possible negative implications, in the rating accorded the Company or any of the securities of the Company by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act; and

(c) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date, there shall not have occurred any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the General Disclosure Package that, in your judgment, is material and adverse and that makes it, in your judgment, impracticable to market the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the General Disclosure Package.

(d) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by an executive officer of the Company, to the effect set forth in Section 5(b) above and to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date and that the Company has complied with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date. The officer signing and delivering such certificate may rely upon the best of his or her knowledge as to proceedings threatened.

(e) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a negative assurance letter of Hogan Lovells US LLP, outside counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form set forth in Annex C hereto, which negative assurance letter shall be satisfactory in all respects to the Managers.

(f) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date opinions of Hogan Lovells US LLP, outside counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the forms set forth in Annex D and Annex E hereto, which opinions shall be satisfactory in all respects to the Managers.

 

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(g) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, which opinion shall be satisfactory in all respects to the Managers, and such counsel shall have been provided by the Company with such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass on such matters.

(h) The Underwriters shall have received, on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date, a letter dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from Ernst & Young LLP, independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than three business days prior to the Closing Date.

(i) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to you such further certificates and documents as you shall have requested.

All such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents will be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are satisfactory in form and substance to you and your counsel.

Any certificate or document signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to you, as Managers, or to counsel for the Underwriters, shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to each Underwriter as to the statements made therein.

6. Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants with each Underwriter as follows:

(a) To furnish to you, without charge, a signed copy of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein) and to deliver to each of the Underwriters during the period mentioned in Section 6(d) or 6(e) below, as many copies of the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any documents incorporated by reference therein and any supplements and amendments thereto or to the Registration Statement as you may reasonably request.

 

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(b) Before amending or supplementing the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, to furnish to you a copy of each such proposed amendment or supplement and not to file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object.

(c) To furnish to you a copy of each proposed free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act and relating to the offering of the Securities) to be prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and not to use or refer to any proposed free writing prospectus to which you reasonably object (any such free writing prospectus not objected to by the Managers is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus”).

(d) If the General Disclosure Package is being used to solicit offers to buy the Securities at a time when the General Disclosure Package is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances, not misleading, or if any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which the General Disclosure Package conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement then on file, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to any dealer upon request, either amendments or supplements to the General Disclosure Package so that the statements in the General Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the General Disclosure Package is delivered to a prospective purchaser, be misleading or so that the General Disclosure Package, as amended or supplemented, will no longer conflict with the Registration Statement, or so that the General Disclosure Package, as amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law.

(e) If, during such period after the first date of the public offering of the Securities as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter or dealer, any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to

 

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the dealers (whose names and addresses you will furnish to the Company) to which Securities may have been sold by you on behalf of the Underwriters and to any other dealers upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law.

(f) To cooperate with the Managers and counsel to the Underwriters in connection with the qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as you shall reasonably request; provided, that in no event shall the Company be obligated to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified or to take any action which would subject it to general service of process in any jurisdiction where it is not now so subject.

(g) To make generally available to the Company’s security holders as soon as practicable an earnings statement covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the date of this Agreement which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

(h) If this Agreement shall terminate or shall be terminated after execution pursuant to any provisions hereof (otherwise than pursuant to the second paragraph of Section 10 hereof or by notice given by you terminating this Agreement pursuant to Section 9 or Section 10 hereof) or if this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters because of any failure or refusal on the part of the Company to comply with the terms or fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, the Company agrees to reimburse the Managers for all out-of-pocket expenses (including fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters) reasonably incurred by you in connection herewith.

(i) The Company agrees to pay the following costs and expenses and all other costs and expenses incident to the performance by it of its obligations hereunder: (i) the preparation, printing or reproduction, and filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits thereto), the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and each amendment or supplement to any of them; (ii) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery (including postage, air freight charges and charges for counting and packaging and any costs associated with electronic delivery) of such copies of the Registration

 

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Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, the Incorporated Documents, and all amendments or supplements to any of them, as may be reasonably requested for use in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities; (iii) the preparation, printing, authentication, issuance and delivery of certificates for the Securities, including any stamp taxes in connection with the original issuance and sale of the Securities; (iv) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery of this Agreement, the preliminary and supplemental Blue Sky Memoranda, the Indenture and all other agreements or documents printed (or reproduced) and delivered in connection with the offering of the Securities; (v) the fees and expenses of the Trustee, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee, if any; (vi) if applicable, the registration of the Securities under the Exchange Act and the listing of the Securities on the NYSE; (vii) the registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of the several states as provided in Section 6(g) hereof (including the reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters relating to the preparation, printing or reproduction, and delivery of the preliminary and supplemental Blue Sky Memoranda and such registration and qualification); (viii) the filing fees and the fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with any filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; (ix) the transportation and other expenses incurred by or on behalf of Company representatives in connection with presentations to prospective purchasers of the Securities; (x) the fees and expenses of the Company’s accountants and the fees and expenses of counsel (including local and special counsel) for the Company; and (xi) the costs and expenses (including without limitation any damages or other amounts payable in connection with legal or contractual liability) associated with the reforming of any contracts for sale of the Securities made by the Underwriters caused by a breach of the representation in Section 1(c).

(j) During the period beginning on the date hereof and continuing to and including the Closing Date, not to offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities of the Company or warrants to purchase or otherwise acquire debt securities of the Company substantially similar to the Securities (other than (i) the Securities, (ii) commercial paper issued in the ordinary course of business or (iii) securities or warrants permitted with the prior written consent of the Managers with the authorization to release this lock-up on behalf of the Underwriters).

(k) To prepare a final term sheet relating to the offering of the Securities, containing only information that describes the final terms of the Securities or the offering in a form consented to by the Managers, and to file such final term sheet within the period required by Rule 433(d)(5)(ii) under the Securities Act following the date the final terms have been established for the offering of the Securities.

 

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(l) To use its best efforts to permit the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.

7. Covenants of the Underwriters. Each Underwriter severally covenants with the Company not to take any action that would result in the Company being required to file with the Commission under Rule 433(d) a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that otherwise would not be required to be filed by the Company thereunder, but for the action of the Underwriter.

8. Indemnity and Contribution.

(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each of you and each other Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable costs of investigation) arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto, or arising out of or based upon any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission which has been made therein or omitted therefrom in reliance upon and in conformity with the information relating to such Underwriter furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through you expressly for use in connection therewith. The foregoing indemnity agreement shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have.

(b) If any action, suit or proceeding shall be brought against any Underwriter or any person controlling any Underwriter in respect of which indemnity may be sought against the Company, such Underwriter or such controlling person shall promptly notify the Company (but failure to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company from any liability hereunder to the extent it is not materially prejudiced as a result thereof and in any event shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement) and the Company shall assume the defense thereof, including the employment of counsel and payment of all fees and expenses; provided, however, that if the defendants in any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party

 

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shall have reasonably concluded that there may be one or more legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, the indemnifying party shall not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified party or parties and such indemnified party or parties shall have the right to select separate counsel to defend such action on behalf of such indemnified party or parties. Such Underwriter or any such controlling person shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action, suit or proceeding and to participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Underwriter or such controlling person unless (i) the Company has agreed in writing to pay such fees and expenses, (ii) the Company has failed promptly to assume the defense and employ counsel, or (iii) the named parties to any such action, suit or proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both such Underwriter or such controlling person and the Company and such Underwriter or such controlling person shall have been advised by its counsel that representation of such indemnified party and the Company by the same counsel would be inappropriate under applicable standards of professional conduct (whether or not such representation by the same counsel has been proposed) due to actual or potential differing interests between them (in which case the Company shall not have the right to assume the defense of such action, suit or proceeding on behalf of such Underwriter or such controlling person). It is understood, however, that the Company shall, in connection with any one such action, suit or proceeding or separate but substantially similar or related actions, suits or proceedings in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of only one separate firm of attorneys (in addition to any local counsel) at any time for all such Underwriters and controlling persons not having actual or potential differing interests with you or among themselves, which firm shall be designated in writing by the Managers, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. The Company shall not be liable for any settlement of any such action, suit or proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such written consent, or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff in any such action, suit or proceeding, the Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any Underwriter, to the extent provided in the preceding paragraph, and any such controlling person from and against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense by reason of such settlement or judgment.

(c) Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers who sign the Registration Statement, and any person who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, to the same extent as the foregoing

 

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indemnity from the Company to each Underwriter, but only with respect to information relating to such Underwriter furnished in writing by or on behalf of such Underwriter through you expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto. If any action, suit or proceeding shall be brought against the Company, any of its directors, any such officer, or any such controlling person based on the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, and in respect of which indemnity may be sought against any Underwriter pursuant to this paragraph (c), such Underwriter shall have the rights and duties given to the Company by paragraph (b) above (except that if the Company shall have assumed the defense thereof such Underwriter shall not be required to do so, but may employ separate counsel therein and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at such Underwriter’s expense), and the Company, its directors, any such officer, and any such controlling person shall have the rights and duties given to the Underwriters by paragraph (b) above. The foregoing indemnity agreement shall be in addition to any liability which the Underwriters may otherwise have.

(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is unavailable to an indemnified party under paragraph (a) or (c) hereof in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to therein, then an indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand from the offering of the Securities, or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus. The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or by the Underwriters on the other hand and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

 

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(e) The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 8 were determined by a pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating any claim or defending any such action, suit or proceeding. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price of the Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 8 are several in proportion to the respective aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their names in Schedule II hereto (or such principal amount of Securities increased as set forth in Section 11 hereof) and not joint.

(f) No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such action, suit or proceeding and does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

(g) If at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated by Section 8(b) effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into

 

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more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, an indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated by Section 8(b) effected without its consent if such indemnifying party (i) reimburses such indemnified party in accordance with such request to the extent such indemnifying party considers such request to be reasonable and (ii) provides written notice to the indemnified party substantiating the unpaid balance as unreasonable, in each case prior to the date of such settlement.

(h) Any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses for which an indemnified party is entitled to indemnification or contribution under this Section 8 shall be paid by the indemnifying party to the indemnified party as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are incurred. The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this Section 8 and the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of (i) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any person controlling any Underwriter, the Company, its directors or officers, or any person controlling the Company, (ii) acceptance of any Securities and payment therefor hereunder, and (iii) any termination of this Agreement. A successor to any Underwriter or any person controlling any Underwriter, or to the Company, its directors or officers, or any person controlling the Company, shall be entitled to the benefits of the indemnity, contribution and reimbursement agreements contained in this Section 8.

9. Termination. This Agreement shall be subject to termination in your absolute discretion, without liability on the part of any Underwriter to the Company by notice to the Company, if prior to the Closing Date, (i) there has been, since the time of execution of this Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus or the General Disclosure Package, any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the business, properties, net worth or results of operations of the Company, the Subsidiaries or the Partnerships, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (ii) trading in securities generally on the NYSE, the NYSE American, Nasdaq Global Select Market or the Nasdaq Global Market shall have been suspended or materially limited, (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York or California shall have been declared by either federal or state authorities, or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other

 

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international or domestic calamity, crisis or change in political, financial or economic conditions, the effect of which on the financial markets of the United States is such as to make it, in your judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to commence or continue the offering of the Securities at the offering price to the public set forth on the cover page of the Prospectus or to enforce contracts for the resale of the Securities by the Underwriters. Notice of such termination may be given to the Company by telegram, telecopy or telephone and shall be subsequently confirmed by letter.

10. Effectiveness; Defaulting Underwriters. This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.

If, on the Closing Date, any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Securities that it has or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, and the aggregate principal amount of Underwriters’ Securities which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not more than one-tenth of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally in the proportions that the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule II bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as you may specify, to purchase the Underwriters’ Securities which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on such date. If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Underwriters’ Securities and the aggregate principal amount of Underwriters’ Securities with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be purchased on such date, and arrangements satisfactory to you and the Company for the purchase of such Underwriters’ Securities by one or more non-defaulting Underwriters or other party or parties approved by you and the Company are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company. In any such case which does not result in termination of this Agreement, either you or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement, in the General Disclosure Package, in the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement. The term “Underwriter” as used in this Agreement includes, for all purposes of this Agreement, any party not listed in Schedule II hereto who, with your approval and the approval of the Company, purchases Securities which a defaulting Underwriter is obligated, but fails or refuses, to purchase.

11. Entire Agreement.

(a) This Agreement, together with any contemporaneous written agreements and any prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement) that relate to the offering of the Securities, represents the entire agreement between the Company and the Underwriters with respect to the preparation of any preliminary prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, the conduct of the offering, and the purchase and sale of the Securities.

 

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(b) The Company acknowledges that in connection with the offering of the Securities: (i) the Underwriters have acted at arms length, are not agents of, and owe no fiduciary duties to, the Company or any other person, (ii) the Underwriters owe the Company only those duties and obligations set forth in this Agreement and prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement), if any, and (iii) the Underwriters may have interests that differ from those of the Company. The Company waives to the full extent permitted by applicable law any claims it may have against the Underwriters arising from an alleged breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the offering of the Securities.

12. Information Furnished by the Underwriters. The statements set forth in the eighth and ninth paragraphs under the caption “Underwriting” in the Prospectus Supplement constitute the only information furnished by or on behalf of the Underwriters through you as such information is referred to in Sections 1(b), 1(c) and 8 hereof.

13. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.

14. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.

15. Headings. The headings of the sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of this Agreement.

16. Notices. All communications hereunder shall be in writing and effective only upon receipt and if to the Underwriters shall be delivered, mailed or sent to you at the address set forth in Schedule I hereto; and if to the Company shall be delivered, mailed or sent to the address set forth in Schedule I hereto.

17. Patriot Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.

 

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18. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.

(a) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity (as defined below) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime (as defined below), the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

(b) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity (as defined below) or a BHC Act Affiliate (as defined below) of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights (as defined below) under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

For purposes of this Section 18, (w) the term “BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k); (x) the term “Covered Entity” means any of the following: (i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b); (y) the term “Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable; and (z) the term “U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

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Very truly yours,

 

PUBLIC STORAGE

By:  

/s/ H. Thomas Boyle

  Name: H. Thomas Boyle
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]


Accepted as of the date hereof

 

BOFA SECURITIES, INC.

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC

 

Acting severally on behalf of themselves and the several Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto

By: BOFA SECURITIES, INC.
By:  

/s/ Hicham Hamdouch

Name: Hicham Hamdouch
Title: Managing Director
By: J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC
By:  

/s/ Robert Bottamedi

Name: Robert Bottamedi
Title: Executive Director
By: WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC
By:  

/s/ Carolyn Hurley

Name: Carolyn Hurley
Title: Director

 

[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]


SCHEDULE I

 

Managers:   

BofA Securities, Inc.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Indenture:    Indenture dated as of September 18, 2017, between the Company and the Trustee, as supplemented by the fourth supplemental indenture to be dated as of January 19, 2021, between the Company and the Trustee
Trustee:    Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
Securities to be purchased:    0.875% Senior Notes Due 2026
Aggregate Principal Amount:    $500,000,000
Purchase Price:    99.217% of the principal amount of the Securities, plus accrued interest, if any, from January 19, 2021
Maturity:    February 15, 2026
Interest Rate:    0.875% per annum, accruing from January 19, 2021
Interest Payment Dates:    February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing on August 15, 2021
Closing Date and Time:    January 19, 2021 (T+2) 10:00 a.m. New York City Time
Closing Location:   

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

300 South Grand Avenue

Los Angeles, California 90071

Address for Notices to Underwriters:   

BofA Securities, Inc.

1540 Broadway

NY8-540-26-02

New York, NY 10036

Attention: High Grade Transaction Management/Legal

Facsimile: (212) 901-7881

Email: dg.hg_ua_notices@bofa.com

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

383 Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10179

Attention: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk

 

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Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

550 South Tryon Street, 5th Floor

Charlotte, NC 28202

Attention: Transaction Management

Address for Notices to the Company:   

Public Storage

701 Western Avenue, 2nd Floor

Glendale, California 91201-2397

Attention: Legal Department

 

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SCHEDULE II

 

Underwriter

   Principal Amount of
0.875% Senior Notes
Due 2026 To Be
Purchased
 

BofA Securities, Inc.

     166,667,000  

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

     166,667,000  

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

     166,666,000  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 500,000,000  
  

 

 

 

 

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SCHEDULE III

Issuer Free Writing Prospectus

Filed Pursuant to Rule 433

Registration Statement No. 333-231510

January 14, 2021

PUBLIC STORAGE

$500,000,000 0.875% Senior Notes due 2026

Final Term Sheet

 

Issuer:    Public Storage (PSA)
Security:    0.875% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”)
Trade Date:    January 14, 2021
Settlement Date:    January 19, 2021 (T+2)
Aggregate Principal Amount:    $500,000,000
Maturity Date:    February 15, 2026
Coupon:    0.875% per annum
Benchmark Treasury:    0.375% due December 31, 2025
Benchmark Treasury Price / Yield:    99-15 14 / 0.482%
Spread to Benchmark Treasury:    T+ 43 basis points
Yield to Maturity:    0.912%
Price to Public:    99.817% of principal amount
Underwriting Discount:    0.600% of principal amount
   The underwriters have agreed to make a payment to Public Storage in an amount equal to $1,250,000, including in respect of expenses.
Interest Payment Dates:    February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing on August 15, 2021
Record Dates:    February 1 and August 1
Redemption Provision:    Make-whole call prior to January 15, 2026 (one month prior to the maturity date of the Notes) based on U.S. Treasury + 10 basis points or at par on or after January 15, 2026
Joint Book-Running Managers:    BofA Securities, Inc.

 

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   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
   Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
ISIN Number:    US74460WAA53
CUSIP Number:    74460W AA5

The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a base prospectus) and prospectus supplement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the base prospectus in that registration statement, the prospectus supplement, and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the base prospectus and the prospectus supplement related thereto if you request it by contacting BofA Securities, Inc. toll-free 1-800-294-1322; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC collect 212-834-4533; or Wells Fargo Securities, LLC toll-free 1-800-645-3751.

Any disclaimers or other notices that may appear below are not applicable to this communication and should be disregarded. Such disclaimers or other notices were automatically generated as a result of this communication being sent via Bloomberg or another email system.

 

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ANNEX A

Subsidiaries

 

Shurgard Storage Centers, LLC
PS LPT Properties Investors

 

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ANNEX B

Partnerships

None.

 

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Exhibit 4.2

EXECUTION VERSION

PUBLIC STORAGE

AS ISSUER

AND

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

AS TRUSTEE

FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of January 19, 2021

$500,000,000 0.875% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2026

SUPPLEMENT TO INDENTURE

DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 18, 2017, BETWEEN

PUBLIC STORAGE (AS ISSUER)

AND

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (AS TRUSTEE)

 


FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of January 19, 2021 (this “Fourth Supplemental Indenture”), between PUBLIC STORAGE, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Issuer”), having its principal executive office located at 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201 and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States (the “Trustee”), which supplements that certain Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2017, by and between the Issuer and the Trustee (the “Base Indenture,” and together with this Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of the Base Indenture to the Trustee to provide for the issuance from time to time for its lawful purposes of debt securities evidencing the Issuer’s debentures, Notes or other evidences of indebtedness.

WHEREAS, Section 301 of the Base Indenture provides that by means of a supplemental indenture the Issuer may create one or more series of the Issuer’s debt securities and establish the form, terms and provisions thereof.

WHEREAS, the Issuer intends by this Fourth Supplemental Indenture to (i) create a series of the Issuer’s debt securities, in an initial aggregate principal amount equal to $500,000,000, entitled 0.875% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”) and (ii) establish the form and the terms and provisions of the Notes.

WHEREAS, the consent of Holders to the execution and delivery of this Fourth Supplemental Indenture is not required, and all other actions required to be taken under the Base Indenture with respect to this Fourth Supplemental Indenture have been taken.

NOW, THEREFORE IT IS AGREED:

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS, CREATION, FORM AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE DEBT SECURITIES

Section 1.1 Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Fourth Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Base Indenture. In addition, the following terms shall have the following meanings with respect to this Fourth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes to be equally applicable to both the singular and the plural forms of the terms set forth below:

Adjusted EBITDA” means, for any period, the Issuer’s Pro Rata Share of EBITDA for such period; provided, that, so long as any of PS Business Parks and Shurgard Europe is not a Subsidiary of the Issuer, “Adjusted EBITDA” shall include the amount of dividends, distributions or interest paid in cash by any such entity that is not a Subsidiary to the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries during the applicable period.

 

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Capitalized Property Value” means, with respect to any Person, (a) Property EBITDA of such Person for the four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters ended on a Reporting Date divided by (b) the Capitalization Rate.

Capitalization Rate” means 6.75%.

Debt” means, without duplication, the Issuer’s Pro Rata Share of the aggregate principal amount of indebtedness in respect of (i) borrowed money evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, as determined in accordance with GAAP, (ii) indebtedness secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance or any security interest existing on Property or other assets owned by the Issuer or any Subsidiary directly, or indirectly through unconsolidated joint ventures, as determined in accordance with GAAP, (iii) reimbursement obligations in connection with any letters of credit actually issued and called, (iv) any lease of property by the Issuer or any Subsidiary as lessee which is reflected in the Issuer’s balance sheet as a finance lease, in accordance with GAAP; provided, that Debt also includes, to the extent not otherwise included, any obligation by the Issuer or any Subsidiary to be liable for, or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, items of indebtedness of another Person (other than the Issuer or any Subsidiary) described in clauses (i) through (iv) above (or, in the case of any such obligation made jointly with another Person, the Issuer’s or Subsidiary’s allocable portion of such obligation based on its ownership interest in the related real estate assets or such other applicable assets); and provided, further, that Debt excludes Intercompany Debt.

Depository” means The Depository Trust Company and includes its successors.

Development Property” means a Property currently under development on which the improvements have not been completed, or a Property where development has been completed as evidenced by a certificate of occupancy for the entire Property for the 36-month period following the issuance of such certificate of occupancy (provided that the Issuer may at its option elect to remove a Property from the category of Development Properties prior to the completion of the 36-month period, but any such Property may not be reclassified as a Development Property). The term “Development Property” shall include real property of the type described in the immediately preceding sentence to be (but not yet) acquired by the Issuer, any Subsidiary or any joint venture of the Issuer upon completion of construction pursuant to a contract in which the seller of such real property is required to develop or renovate prior to, and as a condition precedent to, such acquisition.

EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person, for any period and without duplication, net earnings (loss) of such Person for such period excluding the impact of the following amounts with respect to any Person (but only to the extent included in determining net earnings (loss) for such period): (i) depreciation and amortization expense and other non-cash charges of such Person for such period; (ii) interest expense of such Person for such period; (iii) income tax expense of such Person in respect of such period; (iv) extraordinary and nonrecurring gains and losses of such Person for such period, including without limitation, gains and losses from the sale of assets, write-offs and forgiveness of debt, foreign currency translation gains or losses; and (v) non-controlling interests; minus (vi) if during such period any of PS Business Parks or Shurgard Europe is not a Subsidiary of the Issuer, the impact on EBITDA of each of the foregoing Persons that is not a Subsidiary.

 

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Encumbered Asset Value” means, with respect to any Person, for any date, the portion of Total Assets serving as collateral for Secured Debt as of such date.

Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, any share of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, any warrant, option or other right for the purchase or other acquisition from such Person of any share of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, any security convertible into or exchangeable for any share of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrant, right or option for the purchase or other acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and any other ownership or profit interest in such Person (including, without limitation, partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such share, warrant, option, right or other interest is authorized or otherwise existing on any date of determination.

Fair Market Value” means, (a) with respect to a security listed (or an unlisted convertible security that is convertible into a security listed) on Nasdaq or have trading privileges on the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE American, or another recognized national United States securities exchange, the London Stock Exchange, Euronext or another recognized European securities exchange, the price of such security as reported on such exchange or market by any widely recognized reporting method customarily relied upon by financial institutions, and (b) with respect to any other asset, book value (determined in accordance with GAAP).

GAAP” means accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, consistently applied, as in effect from time to time; provided that if, as of a particular date as of which compliance with the covenants contained in the Indenture is being determined, there have been changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America from those that applied to the Issuer’s consolidated financial statements included in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2017, the Issuer may, in its sole discretion, determine compliance with the covenants contained in the Indenture using accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, consistently applied, as in effect as of the end of any calendar quarter selected by the Issuer, in the Issuer’s sole discretion, that is on or after June 30, 2017 and prior to the date as of which compliance with the covenants in the Indenture is being determined (“Fixed GAAP”), and, solely for purposes of calculating the covenants as of such date, “GAAP” shall mean Fixed GAAP.

Indenture” means the Base Indenture as supplemented by this Fourth Supplemental Indenture and as further amended, modified or supplemented with respect to the Notes pursuant to the provisions of the Base Indenture.

Intercompany Debt” means, as of any date, Debt to which the only parties are the Issuer and any of its Subsidiaries, but only so long as that Debt is held solely by any of the Issuer and any of its Subsidiaries as of that date and, provided that, in the case of Debt owed by the Issuer to any Subsidiary, the Debt is subordinated in right of payment to the holders of the Notes.

Interest Expense” means, for any period, the Issuer’s Pro Rata Share of interest expense for such period, with other adjustments as are necessary to exclude: (i) the effect of items classified as extraordinary items, in accordance with GAAP; (ii) amortization of debt issuance costs; (iii) prepayment penalties and (iv) non-cash swap ineffectiveness charges.

 

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Make-Whole Amount” means, in connection with any optional redemption of the Notes: the aggregate present value as of the date of redemption of each dollar of principal being redeemed and the amount of interest, calculated by the Issuer, excluding interest accrued to the date of redemption, that would have been payable in respect of each dollar if the redemption had been made on the Par Call Date (determined by discounting, on a semi-annual basis, the principal and interest at the Reinvestment Rate, determined on the third Business Day preceding the date notice of redemption is given, from the respective dates on which the principal and interest would have been payable if the redemption had been made on the Par Call Date), in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being redeemed.

Marketable Securities” means: (a) common or preferred Equity Interests which are listed on Nasdaq or have trading privileges on the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE American, or another recognized national United States securities exchange, the London Stock Exchange, Euronext or another recognized European securities exchange; (b) convertible securities which can be converted at any time into common or preferred Equity Interests of the type described in the immediately preceding clause (a); and (c) securities evidencing indebtedness issued by Persons which have an investment grade credit rating by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization; provided that Marketable Securities shall not include any securities that are considered cash equivalents.

Pro Rata Share” means any applicable figure or measure of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, less any portion attributable to noncontrolling interests, plus the Issuer’s or its Subsidiaries’ allocable portion of such figure or measure, based on their ownership interest, of unconsolidated joint ventures. For the avoidance of doubt, and except as otherwise specified in this Fourth Supplemental Indenture, so long as any of PS Business Parks and Shurgard Europe is not a Subsidiary of the Issuer, the calculations of such figures or measures shall exclude the impact of any such entity that is not a Subsidiary.

Property” means a parcel (or group of related parcels) of real property.

Property EBITDA” means, for any period, the Issuer’s Pro Rata Share of EBITDA for such period adjusted to add back the impact of corporate level general and administrative expenses.

PS Business Parks” means PS Business Parks, Inc., PS Business Parks, L.P. and any of their Subsidiaries and their respective successors and assigns.

Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Note or portion thereof to be redeemed in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.4(d) hereof, the date fixed for such redemption in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.4(d) hereof.

 

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Reinvestment Rate” means the yield on treasury securities at a constant maturity corresponding to the remaining life to maturity (rounded up to the nearest month) of the principal of the Notes being redeemed as of the date of redemption (which maturity shall be deemed to be the Par Call Date) (the “Treasury Yield”), plus 0.10%. For purposes of calculating the Reinvestment Rate, the Treasury Yield will be equal to the arithmetic mean of the yields published in the Statistical Release under the heading “Week Ending” for “U.S. Government Securities—Treasury Constant Maturities” with a maturity equal to the deemed remaining life to maturity of the Notes. However, if no published maturity exactly corresponds to such remaining life, then the Treasury Yield will be interpolated or extrapolated on a straight-line basis from the arithmetic means of the yields for the next shortest and next longest published maturities. For purposes of calculating the Reinvestment Rate, the most recent Statistical Release published prior to the date of determination of the Make-Whole Amount will be used. If the format or content of the Statistical Release changes in a manner that precludes determination of the Treasury Yield in the above manner, then the Treasury Yield will be determined in the manner that most closely approximates the above manner, as the Issuer reasonably determines.

Reporting Date” means the date ending the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Issuer for which the Issuer’s consolidated financial statements are publicly available, it being understood that at any time when the Issuer is not subject to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act, the term “Reporting Date” shall be deemed to refer to the date ending the fiscal quarter covered by the Issuer’s most recent quarterly financial statements delivered to the Trustee or, in the case of the last fiscal quarter of the year, the Issuer’s annual financial statements delivered to the Trustee.

Secured Debt” means Debt secured by any mortgage, lien, pledge, encumbrance or security interest of any kind upon any of the Issuer’s Property or other assets or the Property or other assets of any Subsidiary.

Shurgard Europe” means Shurgard Self Storage SA and its Subsidiaries and their respective successors and assigns.

Statistical Release” means the statistical release designated “H.15” or any successor publication that is published weekly by the Federal Reserve System (or companion online data resource published by the Federal Reserve System) and that reports yields on actively traded United States government securities adjusted to constant maturities, or, if that statistical release is not published at the time of any required determination under the Indenture, then another reasonably comparable index which the Issuer shall designate.

Subsidiary” means, for any Person, a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other entity, a majority of the outstanding voting stock, partnership interests or membership interests, as the case may be, of which is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person and, for the purposes of this definition, “voting stock, partnership interests, or membership interests” means interests having control over the selection of directors, managers, or trustees, as the case may be, whether at all times or only so long as no senior interest has such voting power by reason of any contingency. Unless the context otherwise requires, “Subsidiary” refers to a Subsidiary of the Issuer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the Persons comprising PS Business Parks or Shurgard Europe shall at any time constitute or be considered to be a Subsidiary of the Issuer for any purpose of the Indenture so long as (a) any class of Equity Interests of the applicable holding company of PS Business Parks or Shurgard Europe, as applicable, is publicly traded or (b) such holding company is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Issuer.

 

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Total Assets” means, as of any date, the sum (without duplication) of: (a) the Capitalized Property Value of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries, excluding Capitalized Property Value attributable to Properties acquired or disposed of by the Issuer or any Subsidiary during the four (4) consecutive quarters ending on such date and Development Properties; (b) all cash and cash equivalents (excluding tenant deposits and other cash and cash equivalents the disposition of which is restricted) of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries at such time; (c) the Pro Rata Share of the current undepreciated book value of Development Properties and all land held for development; (d) the Pro Rata Share of the purchase price paid by the Issuer or any Subsidiary (less the Pro Rata Share of any amounts paid to the Issuer or such Subsidiary as a purchase price adjustment, held in escrow, retained as a contingency reserve, or in connection with other similar arrangements, and without regard to allocations of property purchase prices pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 141 or other provisions of GAAP) for any Property or business acquired by the Issuer or such Subsidiary during the four (4) consecutive quarters ending on such date; (e) the contractual purchase price of Properties of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries subject to purchase obligations, repurchase obligations, forward commitments and unfunded obligations to the extent such obligations and commitments are included in determinations of Debt; and (f) the Fair Market Value of all Marketable Securities owned by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, plus all other assets of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries (the value of which is determined in accordance with GAAP but excluding assets classified as intangible under GAAP), excluding Equity Interests in Shurgard Europe or PS Business Parks if such interests are not Marketable Securities. The Issuer shall have the option to include Capitalized Property Value under clause (a) above from any such Properties that are otherwise subject to valuation under clause (c) or (d) above; provided, however, that if such election is made, any value attributable to such Properties under clause (c) or (d) above shall be excluded from the determination of the amount under clause (c) or (d).

Unencumbered Assets” means, as of any date, Total Assets as of such date less Encumbered Asset Value as of such date.

Unsecured Debt” means Debt that is not secured by any mortgage, lien, pledge, encumbrance or security interest of any kind upon any of the Issuer’s Property or other assets or the Property or other assets of any Subsidiary.

Section 1.2 Creation of the Notes. In accordance with Section 301 of the Base Indenture, the Issuer hereby creates the Notes as a separate series of its senior debt securities, entitled “0.875% Senior Notes due 2026”, issued pursuant to the Indenture. The Notes shall initially be limited to an aggregate principal amount equal to $500,000,000, subject to the exceptions set forth in Section 301(2) of the Base Indenture and Section 1.4(f) hereof.

Section 1.3 Form of the Notes. The Notes will be issued in the form of one or more permanent fully registered global securities (the “Global Note”) that will be deposited with, or on behalf of the Depository, and registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee, as the case may be, subject to Section 305 of the Base Indenture. So long as the Depository, or its nominee, is the registered owner of the Global Note, the Depository or its nominee, as the case may be, will be considered the sole Holder of the Notes represented by the Global Note for all purposes under the Indenture.

 

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Section 1.4 Terms and Provisions of the Notes. The Notes shall be governed by all of the terms and provisions of the Base Indenture, as supplemented by this Fourth Supplemental Indenture, and in particular, the following provisions shall be terms of the Notes:

(a) Registration and Form. The Notes shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and the Notes shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.

(b) Payment of Principal and Interest. All payments of principal, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest in respect of the Global Notes will be made by the Issuer in immediately available funds to the Depository or its nominee, as the case may be, as the Holder of each of the Global Notes. The Notes shall mature, and the unpaid principal thereon, shall be payable, on February 15, 2026, subject to the provisions of the Base Indenture. The rate per annum at which interest shall be payable on the Notes shall be 0.875%. Interest on the Notes will be payable semi-annually in arrears on each February 15 and August 15, commencing August 15, 2021 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”) and on the Stated Maturity as specified in this Section 1.4(b), to the Persons in whose names the Notes are registered in the Security Register applicable to the Notes at the close of business on February 1 for Interest Payment Dates of February 15 and August 1 for Interest Payment Dates of August 15 (in each case, whether or not a Business Day) (each a “Record Date”). Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the Notes shall accrue from January 19, 2021.

(c) Sinking Fund. There shall be no sinking fund provided for the Notes.

(d) Redemption at the Option of the Issuer.

(1) The Issuer shall have the option to redeem the Notes at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, at a redemption price (the “Redemption Price”) equal to the sum of (x) the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes to the Redemption Date; and (y) the Make-Whole Amount, if any. If the Notes are redeemed on or after January 15, 2026 (the “Par Call Date”), the Redemption Price will not include the Make-Whole Amount.

(2) The Issuer shall not redeem the Notes pursuant to Section 1.4(d)(1) hereof on any date if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded or annulled on or prior to such date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a default by the Issuer in the payment of the Redemption Price with respect to the Notes to be redeemed).

(e) Payment of Notes Called for Redemption by the Issuer.

(1) If notice of redemption has been given as provided in Article Eleven of the Base Indenture (as amended by the Fourth Supplemental Indenture), the Notes or portion of Notes with respect to which such notice has been given shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the place or places stated in such notice at the Redemption Price, and

 

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unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of such Notes at the Redemption Price, so long as the Paying Agent holds funds irrevocably deposited with it sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of the Notes to be redeemed on the Redemption Date, then (a) such Notes will cease to be Outstanding on and after the date of the deposit, (b) interest on the Notes or portion of Notes so called for redemption shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date, and (c) the Holders of the Notes being redeemed shall have no right in respect of such Notes except the right to receive the Redemption Price thereof. On surrender of such Notes at the place of payment specified in such notice, the said Notes or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Issuer at the Redemption Price, together with interest accrued thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

(2) The Notes will not be convertible or exchangeable for any other security or property.

(f) Additional Issues. The Issuer may, from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Holders of the Notes, create and issue further notes having the same terms and conditions as the Notes in all respects, except for the issue date and, to the extent applicable, the issue price, the payment of interest accruing prior to the issue date and the first Interest Payment Date. Additional notes issued in this manner shall be consolidated with, and shall form a single series with, the previously outstanding Notes; provided, however, that the issuance of such additional notes will not be so consolidated for United States federal income tax purposes unless such issuance constitutes a “qualified reopening” within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder.

Section 1.5 Book-Entry Provisions. This Section 1.5 shall apply only to the Global Notes deposited with or on behalf of the Depository.

(a) The Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 1.5 and Section 303 of the Base Indenture, authenticate and deliver the Global Notes that shall be registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and shall be held by the Trustee as custodian for the Depository.

(b) Participants of the Depository shall have no rights either under the Indenture or with respect to the Global Notes. The Depository or its nominee, as applicable, shall be treated by the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee as the absolute owner and Holder of each such Global Note for all purposes under the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Issuer or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depository or its nominee, as applicable, or impair, as between the Depository and its participants, the operation of customary practices of such Depository governing the exercise of the rights of an owner of a beneficial interest in the Global Notes.

 

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ARTICLE TWO

ADDITIONAL COVENANTS FOR BENEFIT OF HOLDERS OF NOTES

In addition to the covenants set forth in the Base Indenture, the Issuer hereby further covenants as follows, the following covenants being for the sole benefit of the Holders of the Notes:

Section 2.1 Limitations on Incurrence of Debt.

(a) Aggregate Debt Test. The Issuer will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, incur any Debt if, immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of such Debt and any other Debt incurred or repaid since the end of the most recent Reporting Date prior to the incurrence of such Debt and the application of the proceeds from such Debt and such other Debt on a pro forma basis, the aggregate principal amount of the Issuer’s Debt would exceed 65% of the sum of the following (without duplication): (1) the Issuer’s Total Assets as of such Reporting Date; (2) the aggregate purchase price of any assets acquired, and the aggregate amount of proceeds received from any incurrence of other Debt and any securities offering proceeds received (to the extent such proceeds were not used to acquire assets or used to reduce Debt), by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries since the end of the most recent Reporting Date prior to the incurrence of such Debt; and (3) the proceeds or assets obtained from the incurrence of such Debt and other securities issued as part of the same transaction on a pro forma basis (including assets to be acquired in exchange for debt assumption and security issuance as in the case of a merger).

(b) Secured Debt Test. The Issuer will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, incur any Secured Debt if, immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of such Secured Debt and any other Secured Debt incurred or repaid since the end of the most recent Reporting Date prior to the incurrence of such Secured Debt and the application of the proceeds from such Secured Debt and such other Secured Debt on a pro forma basis, the aggregate principal amount of the Issuer’s Secured Debt would exceed 50% of the sum of the following (without duplication): (1) the Issuer’s Total Assets as of such Reporting Date; (2) the aggregate purchase price of any assets acquired, and the aggregate amount of proceeds received from any incurrence of other Debt and any securities offering proceeds received (to the extent such proceeds were not used to acquire assets or used to reduce Debt), by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries since the end of the most recent Reporting Date prior to the incurrence of such Debt; and (3) the proceeds or assets obtained from the incurrence of such Secured Debt and other securities issued as part of the same transaction on a pro forma basis (including assets to be acquired in exchange for debt assumption and security issuance as in the case of a merger).

(c) Debt Service Test. The Issuer will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, incur any Debt if, immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of such Debt and the application of the proceeds from such Debt on a pro forma basis, the ratio of Adjusted EBITDA to Interest Expense for the four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters ended on the most recent Reporting Date prior to the incurrence of such Debt would be less than 1.50 to 1.00, and calculated on the following assumptions (without duplication): (1) such Debt and any other Debt incurred since such Reporting Date and outstanding on the date of determination had been

 

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incurred, and the application of the proceeds from such Debt (including to repay or retire other Debt) had occurred, on the first day of such four-quarter period; (2) the repayment or retirement of any other Debt since such Reporting Date had occurred on the first day of such four-quarter period; and (3) in the case of any acquisition or disposition by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries of any asset or group of assets since such Reporting Date, whether by merger, stock purchase or sale or asset purchase or sale or otherwise, such acquisition or disposition had occurred as of the first day of such four-quarter period with the appropriate adjustments with respect to such acquisition or disposition being included in such pro forma calculation. If any Debt incurred during the period from such Reporting Date to the date of determination bears interest at a floating rate, then, for purposes of calculating the Interest Expense, the interest rate on such Debt will be computed on a pro forma basis as if the average daily rate during such interim period had been the applicable rate for entire relevant four-quarter period. For purposes of the foregoing, Debt will be deemed to be incurred by a Person whenever such Person creates, assumes, guarantees or otherwise becomes liable in respect thereof.

(d) Maintenance of Total Unencumbered Assets. As of each Reporting Date, the Issuer’s Unencumbered Assets will not be less than 125% of the Issuer’s Unsecured Debt.

Section 2.2 Covenant Defeasance and Waiver of Covenant. The covenants set forth in Section 2.1 shall be subject to covenant defeasance under Section 402(3) of the Base Indenture and subject to waiver under Section 1006 thereof.

Section 2.3 Merger, Consolidation or Sale. The Issuer may consolidate with or into, or sell, assign, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its property and assets to, any other entity, provided that:

 

  (1)

it shall be the continuing entity, or the successor entity (if other than the Issuer) formed by or resulting from such consolidation or merger or which shall have received such sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer or lease of property and assets shall be an entity domiciled in the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume by supplemental indenture payment of the principal of and interest on all of the Notes, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions in the Indenture;

 

  (2)

immediately after giving effect to the transaction and treating the Pro Rata Share of any indebtedness which becomes the Issuer’s obligation or the obligation of a Subsidiary or any of its unconsolidated joint ventures as a result thereof and is not repaid substantially concurrently with the transaction as having been incurred by the Issuer, that Subsidiary or that unconsolidated joint venture at the time of the transaction, no Event of Default under the Indenture, and no event which, after notice or the lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and

 

  (3)

an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel covering these conditions is delivered to the Trustee.

 

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ARTICLE THREE

TRUSTEE

Section 3.1 Trustee. The Trustee is appointed as the principal paying agent, transfer agent and registrar for the Notes and for the purposes of Section 1002 of the Base Indenture. The Notes may be presented for payment at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or at any other agency as may be appointed from time to time by the Issuer in the continental United States. The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Fourth Supplemental Indenture or the due execution hereof by the Issuer. The recitals of fact contained herein shall be taken as the statements solely of the Issuer, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof.

Section 3.2 Preferential Collection of Claims. If the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes), the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of the claims against the Issuer (or any such other obligor). The Trustee is permitted to engage in other transactions with the Issuer and its Affiliates. If, however, it acquires any conflicting interest under the Trust Indenture Act relating to any of its duties with respect to the Notes, it must eliminate that conflict or resign, subject to its right under the Trust Indenture Act to seek a stay of its duty to resign.

Section 3.3 Calculation with Respect to the Notes. The Issuer shall be responsible for making all calculations required under this Fourth Supplemental Indenture or with respect to the Notes. The Issuer will make such calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, the Issuer’s calculations will be final and binding on the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Issuer shall provide a schedule of its calculations to the Trustee promptly after it makes such calculations, and the Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon the accuracy of the Issuer’s calculations without independent verification. The Trustee shall forward the Issuer’s calculations to any Holder of the Notes upon request of the Issuer.

ARTICLE FOUR

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 4.1 Ratification of Base Indenture. This Fourth Supplemental Indenture is executed and shall be construed as an indenture supplemental to the Base Indenture, and as supplemented and modified hereby, the Base Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Base Indenture and this Fourth Supplemental Indenture shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument. In the event of a conflict between the language of this Fourth Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, the language of this Fourth Supplemental Indenture shall control.

Section 4.2 Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

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Section 4.3 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Fourth Supplemental Indenture by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 4.4 Separability Clause. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Fourth Supplemental Indenture shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 4.5 Governing Law. This Fourth Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. This Fourth Supplemental Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, that are required to be part of this Fourth Supplemental Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.

Section 4.6 Counterparts. This Fourth Supplemental Indenture may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Fourth Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.

 

PUBLIC STORAGE

as Issuer

By:

  /s/ H. Thomas Boyle

Name:

 

H. Thomas Boyle

Title:

 

Chief Financial Officer

[Signature Page to Fourth Supplemental Indenture]


WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

By:

  /s/ Maddy Hughes
 

Name: Maddy Hughes

 

Title: Vice President

[Signature Page to Fourth Supplemental Indenture]


EXHIBIT A

Form of 0.875% Senior Note due 2026

THIS GLOBAL NOTE IS HELD BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE DEPOSITORY (AS DEFINED IN THE FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS NOTE) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (1) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SECTION 305 OF THE BASE INDENTURE, (2) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 305 OF THE BASE INDENTURE, (3) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 309 OF THE BASE INDENTURE AND (4) THIS GLOBAL NOTE MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE ISSUER.

UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR NOTES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.


PUBLIC STORAGE

0.875% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2026

No. [●]

CUSIP No.:     74460W AA5

ISIN:         US74460WAA53

$[●]

Public Storage, a Maryland real estate investment trust (herein called the “Issuer,” which term includes any successor entity under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received hereby promises to pay to [Cede & Co.]*, or its registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] ($[●]), [or such lesser amount as is set forth in the Schedule of Increases or Decreases In the Global Note on the other side of this Note]*, on February 15, 2026 at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for that purpose in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest, semi-annually on February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing August 15, 2021 on said principal sum at said office or agency, in like coin or currency, at the rate per annum of 0.875%, from the immediately preceding interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, unless no interest has been paid or duly provided for on the Notes, in which case from January 19, 2021 until payment of said principal sum has been made or duly provided for. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Indenture, at the option of the Issuer, interest on the Notes due and payable on any Interest Payment Date may be paid by mailing a check to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or by transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located in the United States of America; provided, that the Paying Agent shall have received appropriate wire transfer instructions at least five Business Days prior to the Interest Payment Date. Any such interest which is punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered as of the close of business on the February 1 and August 1 (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding such Interest Payment Date.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof and the Indenture governing this Note. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed manually by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent under the Indenture.

 

* 

Include only if the Note is issued in global form.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this Note to be duly executed.

Dated: __________, _____

 

PUBLIC STORAGE

as Issuer

By:

   
    Name:
    Title:

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-named Indenture.

Dated: __________, _____

 

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL

ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

By:

   
    Authorized Signatory
     

 

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REVERSE SIDE OF NOTE

PUBLIC STORAGE

0.875% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2026

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its 0.875% Senior Notes due 2026 (herein called the “Notes”), issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of September 18, 2017 (herein called the “Base Indenture”), between the Issuer and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (herein called the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of January 19, 2021 (herein called the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and the Trustee, to which Indenture and any indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders of the Notes. Defined terms used but not otherwise defined in this Note shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.

The Issuer shall have the option to redeem the Notes at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, at a Redemption Price equal to the sum of (x) the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes to the Redemption Date; and (y) the Make-Whole Amount, if any. If the Notes are redeemed on or after the Par Call Date, the Redemption Price will not include the Make-Whole Amount.

The Issuer shall not redeem the Notes pursuant to Section 1.4(d)(1) of the Fourth Supplemental Indenture on any date if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded or annulled on or prior to such date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a default by the Issuer in the payment of the Redemption Price with respect to the Notes to be redeemed).

If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5), 501(6) or 501(7) of the Base Indenture) occurs and is continuing, the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest on all Notes may be declared to be due and payable by either the Trustee or the Holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, and, upon said declaration the same shall be immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5), 501(6) or 501(7) of the Base Indenture occurs, the principal of and premium, if any, and interest accrued and unpaid on all the Notes shall be immediately and automatically due and payable without necessity of further action.

The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Issuer and the Trustee, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, to execute supplemental indentures adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of any supplemental indenture with respect to the Notes or modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes, subject to exceptions set forth in Section 902 of the Base Indenture. Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding may, on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes, waive any past default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes, subject to exceptions set forth in the Indenture.

 

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No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall impair, as among the Issuer and the Holder of the Notes, the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, on and interest on this Note at the place, at the respective times, at the rate and in the coin or currency herein and in the Indenture prescribed.

Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

The Notes are issuable in fully registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 principal amount and any multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. At the office or agency of the Issuer referred to on the face hereof, and in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, without payment of any service charge but with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, Notes may be transferred or may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of any other authorized denominations.

The Issuer shall have the right to redeem the Notes under certain circumstances as set forth in Section 1.4(d) of the Fourth Supplemental Indenture and Article Eleven of Base Indenture.

The Notes are not subject to redemption through the operation of any sinking fund.

Except to the extent expressly provided in Article Sixteen of the Base Indenture, no recourse for the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on this Note, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Issuer in the Indenture or any supplemental indenture or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any past, present or future general partner, limited partner, member, employee, incorporator, controlling person, stockholder, officer, director or agent, as such, of the Issuer or of any of the Issuer’s predecessors or successors, either directly or through the Issuer, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the Notes by the Holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue of the Notes.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

(I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to:

 

 

 

 

(Insert assignee’s legal name)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

and irrevocably appoint _______________________________ to transfer this Note on the books of the Issuer. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

Date: _______________________________________

 

Your Signature: ________________________________________

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)

Signature Guarantee*: ___________________________________________

* Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program (or other signature guarantor acceptable to the Trustee).

 

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SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN THE GLOBAL NOTE *

The following increases or decreases in the principal amount of this Global Note have been made:

 

Date of

Increase or Decrease

 

Amount of

decrease in

Principal Amount

at maturity of

this Global Note

 

Amount of

increase in

Principal Amount

at maturity of

this Global Note

  

Principal Amount

at maturity of

this Global Note

following such

decrease (or

increase)

  

Signature of

authorized officer

of Trustee or

Custodian

 

* This schedule should be included only if the Note is issued in global form.

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

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Hogan Lovells US LLP

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January 19, 2021

Board of Trustees

Public Storage

701 Western Avenue

Glendale, CA 91201

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We are acting as counsel to Public Storage, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Company”), in connection with the issuance and sale of $500 million principal amount of the Company’s 0.875% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”) pursuant to its registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-231510) (the “Registration Statement”) filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), on May 15, 2019, and the prospectus dated May 15, 2019 (the “Prospectus”), as supplemented by the supplement to the Prospectus dated January 14, 2021 (the “Prospectus Supplement”). The Notes are to be issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated September 18, 2017, between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee (the “Indenture”), as supplemented by a Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated January 19, 2021, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture”). This opinion letter is furnished to you at your request to enable you to fulfill the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K, 17 C.F.R. § 229.601(b)(5), in connection with the Registration Statement.

For purposes of this opinion letter, we have examined copies of such agreements, instruments and documents as we have deemed an appropriate basis on which to render the opinions hereinafter expressed. In our examination of the aforesaid documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the accuracy and completeness of all documents submitted to us, the authenticity of all original documents, and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies (including pdfs). As to all matters of fact, we have relied on the representations and statements of fact made in the documents so reviewed, and we have not independently established the facts so relied on. This opinion letter is given, and all statements herein are made, in the context of the foregoing.

For purposes of this opinion letter, we have assumed that (i) Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) under the Indenture, to be supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture, has and, upon execution of the Supplemental Indenture, will have all requisite power and authority under all applicable laws, regulations and governing documents to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture and

 

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has complied with all legal requirements pertaining to its status as such status relates to the Trustee’s right to enforce the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture against the Company, (ii) the Trustee has authorized, executed and delivered the Indenture and has authorized and will duly execute and deliver the Supplemental Indenture, (iii) the Trustee is validly existing and in good standing in all necessary jurisdictions, (iv) the Indenture constitutes and, upon its execution, the Supplemental Indenture will constitute valid and binding obligations, enforceable against the Trustee in accordance with their terms, (v) there has been no, and in the case of the Supplemental Indenture, there will be no mutual mistake of fact or misunderstanding, or fraud, duress or undue influence, in connection with the negotiation, execution or delivery of the Indenture or the Supplemental Indenture, and the conduct of all parties to the Indenture and, upon execution, the Supplemental Indenture has complied and will comply with any requirements of good faith, fair dealing and conscionability and (vi) there are, have been and will be no agreements or understandings among the parties, written or oral, and there is, has been and will be no usage of trade or course of prior dealing among the parties (and no act or omission of any party) that would, in either case, define, supplement or qualify the terms of the Indenture or, upon its execution, the Supplemental Indenture. We also have assumed the validity and constitutionality of each relevant statute, rule, regulation and agency action covered by this opinion letter.

This opinion letter is based as to matters of law solely on the applicable provisions of the following, as currently in effect: (i) Title 8 of the Corporations and Associations Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended, including applicable provisions of the Maryland General Corporation Law, as amended; and (ii) the laws of the State of New York (but not including any laws, statutes, ordinances, administrative decisions, rules or regulations of any political subdivision below the state level). We express no opinion herein as to any other statutes, rules or regulations (and in particular, we express no opinion as to any effect that such other statutes, rules or regulations may have on the opinion expressed herein).

Based upon, subject to and limited by the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Notes have been duly authorized on behalf of the Company and that, following (i) receipt by the Company of the consideration therefor specified in the Underwriting Agreement dated January 14, 2021, by and among the Company and BofA Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as managers of the several underwriters named therein, and (ii) the due execution, authentication, issuance and delivery of the Notes pursuant to the terms of the Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture, and as contemplated by the Prospectus Supplement, the Notes will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company.

The opinion expressed above with respect to the valid and binding nature of obligations may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights (including, without limitation, the effect of statutory and other law regarding fraudulent conveyances, fraudulent transfers and preferential transfers) and by the exercise of judicial discretion and the application of principles of equity, good faith, fair dealing, reasonableness, conscionability and materiality (regardless of whether the Notes are considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

This opinion letter has been prepared for use in connection with the filing by the Company of a Current Report on Form 8-K on the date hereof (the “Form 8-K”), which Form 8-K will be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and Prospectus Supplement, and speaks as of the date hereof. We assume no obligation to advise of any changes in the foregoing subsequent to the delivery of this opinion letter.


We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Form 8-K, and to the reference to this firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus Supplement, which constitutes part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are an “expert” within the meaning of the Act.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Hogan Lovells US LLP

HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP