EX-10.16 7 ex10-16.txt EXHIBIT 10.16 Exhibit 10.16 NINTH AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP OF BRANDYWINE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, L.P. THIS NINTH AMENDMENT, dated as of May 7, 1999 (the "Amendment"), further amends the Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership Agreement (as amended to date, the "Partnership Agreement") of BRANDYWINE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Partnership"). Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the meanings given such terms in the Partnership Agreement. BACKGROUND ---------- C. Pursuant to the Partnership Agreement, Brandywine Realty Trust (the "General Partner"), as the general partner of the Partnership, has the power and authority to issue additional Partnership Interests to persons on such terms and conditions as the General Partner may deem appropriate. D. The General Partner, pursuant to the exercise of such power and authority and in accordance with the Partnership Agreement, has determined to execute this Amendment to the Partnership Agreement to evidence the issuance of additional Partnership Interests and the admission of the other signatories hereto as Limited Partners of the Partnership in exchange for certain contributions of interests in real estate and real estate related assets that are being made to the Partnership on the date hereof pursuant to a "contribution" agreement (relating to properties owned by persons and entities that include Donald E. Axinn and affiliates) among the Partnership and the other signatories thereto. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt, adequacy and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby amend the Partnership Agreement as follows: 1. The Partnership Agreement is hereby amended to reflect the admission as a Limited Partner on the date hereof of the Persons set forth on Schedule A attached hereto (the "Admitted Partners") and the ownership by such Persons of the number of Class A Units listed opposite each Person's name on Schedule A. Attached as Schedule B is a list of the Partners of the Partnership prior to the admission of the Admitted Partners, together with the number and class of Partnership Interests owned by such partners. 2. The Partnership Interests issued hereby shall constitute Class A Units; provided that any distribution to be received by the Admitted Partners on the Class A Units issued to them on the date hereof on account of the fiscal quarter in which they are admitted to the Partnership shall be pro-rated to reflect the portion of the fiscal quarter of the Partnership for which the Admitted Partners held such Class A Units and shall not be pro-rata in accordance with their then Percentage Interests; provided further that the Redemption Right granted to holders of Class A Units in Article XV of the Partnership Agreement shall not be exercisable by the holders of the Class A Units issued on the date hereof to the Admitted Partners until the first anniversary of the date hereof, except that (i) if the holder of any such Class A Units dies, such holder's estate shall thereupon be permitted to exercise the Redemption Right with respect to all of such Class A Units held by it notwithstanding the foregoing restriction and (ii) if a Change of Control (as defined below) of the General Partner occurs, the foregoing restriction on exercise of the Redemption Right shall automatically terminate with respect to all of such Class A Units. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Partnership Agreement or this Amendment, if the holder of Class A Units exercises its Redemption Right and the General Partner or the holder reasonably believes that the issuance of Common Shares in satisfaction of the Redemption Right would require a notification and filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the "HSR Act"), the obligation of the Partnership and the General Partner to satisfy the Redemption Right may be suspended until applicable filings with the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice have been made and the applicable waiting periods have expired. The General Partner agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to make any requisite filings under the HSR Act in order to promptly obtain expiration of the applicable waiting periods, and the Partnership and the applicable holder of Class A Units shall split equally any filing fees that may be payable under the HSR Act. 3. As used herein, the term "Change of Control" shall mean Change of Control" means: (i) the acquisition in one or more transactions by any "Person" (as the term person is used for purposes of Sections 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act) of "Beneficial ownership" (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) of twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the combined voting power of the General Partner's then outstanding voting securities (the "Voting Securities"), provided that for purposes of this clause (i) Voting Securities acquired directly from the General Partner by any Person shall be excluded from the determination of such Person's Beneficial ownership of Voting Securities (but such Voting Securities shall be included in the calculation of the total number of Voting Securities then outstanding); or (ii) approval by shareholders of the General Partner of: (A) a merger, reorganization or consolidation involving the General Partner if the shareholders of the General Partner immediately before such merger, reorganization or consolidation do not or will not own directly or indirectly immediately following such merger, reorganization or consolidation, more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the outstanding voting securities of the General Partner resulting from or surviving such merger, reorganization or consolidation in substantially the same proportion as their ownership of the Voting Securities outstanding immediately before such merger, reorganization or consolidation; or (B) a complete liquidation or dissolution of the General Partner; or (C) an agreement for the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the General Partner; or (iii) acceptance by shareholders of the General Partner of shares in a share exchange if the shareholders of the General Partner immediately before such share exchange do not or will not own directly or indirectly immediately following such share exchange more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the outstanding voting securities of the entity resulting from or surviving such share exchange in substantially the same proportion as their ownership of the Voting Securities outstanding immediately before such share exchange. 4. By execution of this Amendment to the Partnership Agreement by the General Partner, the Admitted Partners agree to be bound by each and every term of the Partnership Agreement as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Partnership Agreement. The General Partner confirms that the provisions in Section 18.1(a) of the Partnership Agreement shall apply to the Admitted Partners notwithstanding Section 18.7 of the Partnership Agreement. 5. On the date of this Amendment, each of the Admitted Partners shall execute and deliver to Brandywine Realty Trust an Irrevocable Proxy coupled with an Interest in the form set forth on Exhibit 1 hereto attached. 6. Except as expressly set forth in this Amendment to the Partnership Agreement, the Partnership Agreement is hereby ratified and confirmed in each and every respect. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amendment to the Partnership Agreement has been executed and delivered as of the date first above written. GENERAL PARTNER: --------------- BRANDYWINE REALTY TRUST By: --------------------------------------- Gerard H. Sweeney President and Chief Executive Officer ADMITTED PARTNERS: ----------------- ------------------------------------------ Donald E. Axinn, individually SCHEDULE "A" NUMBER OF ADMITTED PARTNERSHIP PARTNERS INTERESTS -------- ----------- Donald E. Axinn SCHEDULE "B" BRANDYWINE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, L.P. OUTSTANDING PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS AS OF MAY 7, 1999
NUMBER OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS (ALL CLASS A UNITS, LIMITED PARTNERS UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED) ---------------- --------------------------- The Nichols Company 2,742 Brian F. Belcher 7,245 Jack R. Loew 1,245 Craig C. Hough 1,245 Werner A. Fricker 6,830 Randle Scarborough 59,578 Sean Scarborough 60,576 Steven L. Shapiro 1,902 Robert K. Scarborough 215,384 Raymond J. Perkins 2,536 Brandywine Holdings I, Inc. 5 Brandywine Realty Trust 467,220 Brookstone Investors, L.L.C. 57,126 Brookstone Holdings of Del.-4, L.L.C. 7,579 Brookstone Holdings of Del.-5, L.L.C. 80,445 Brookstone Holdings of Del.-6, L.L.C. 7,886 John S. Trogner, Sr. 89,801.232 John S. Trogner, Jr. 73,048.310 Blair S. Trogner, Sr. 138,126.471 Emma B. Trogner 27,087.416 Ronalee Trogner 21,669.933 Candis C. Trogner 40,631.123 Arthur and Marion Eberstein 7,513 Calvin Axinn 40,927 Estate Irving Hirshman 1,488 Trust UTW of Theodore Geffner 485 Gloria Kantor 21,647 Helen Geffner 1,488 Howard Kantor 31,505 Leo Guthart 876 Morris Green 50,233 Richard Bernhard 40,927 Lennard Axinn 2,156 Donald E. Axinn 928,651 William H. Goodwin, Jr. 41,734 Bryson Powell 41,734 Brandywine Realty Trust 750,000 Series A Preferred Mirror Units
NUMBER OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS (ALL CLASS A UNITS, LIMITED PARTNERS UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED) ---------------- --------------------------- Commonwealth Atlantic Operating Properties Inc. 1,140,527 Series B Preferred Units Commonwealth Atlantic Land II Inc. 283,731 Series B Preferred Units Commonwealth Atlantic Development Inc. 43,725 Series B Preferred Units Commonwealth Atlantic Land Company 82,017 Series B Preferred Units Brandywine Realty Trust 1,041,667 Series C Preferred Mirror Units
GENERAL PARTNER NUMBER OF PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS --------------- ------------------------------- Brandywine Realty Trust 37,544,430 GP Units
EXHIBIT "1" IRREVOCABLE PROXY COUPLED WITH AN INTEREST KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the General Partner, any Liquidating Trustee, and authorized officers and attorneys-in-fact of each, and each of those acting singly, in each case with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful agent and attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority in its name, place and stead to: execute, swear to, acknowledge, deliver, file and record in the appropriate public offices (i) all certificates, documents and other instruments (including, without limitation, this Agreement and the Certificate and all amendments or restatements thereof) that the General Partner or the Liquidating Trustee deems appropriate or necessary to form, qualify or continue the existence or qualification of the Partnership as a limited partnership (or a partnership in which the limited partners have limited liability) in the State of Delaware and in all other jurisdictions in which the Partnership may conduct business or own property; (ii) all instruments that the General Partner deems appropriate or necessary to reflect any amendment, change, modification or restatement of this Agreement in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (iii) all conveyances and other instruments or documents that the General Partner deems appropriate or necessary to reflect the dissolution and liquidation of the Partnership pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, including, without limitation, a certificate of cancellation; and (iv) all instruments relating to the admission, withdrawal, removal or substitution of any Partner pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, or the Capital Contribution of any Partner. The foregoing power of attorney is irrevocable and a power coupled with an interest, in recognition of the fact that each of the Partners will be relying upon the power of the General Partner to act as contemplated by this Agreement in any filing or other action by it on behalf of the Partnership, and it shall survive the death, incapacity or incompetency of a Limited Partner to the effect and extent permitted by law and the Transfer of all or any portion of such Limited Partner's Partnership Units and shall extend to such Limited Partner's heirs, distributees, successors, assigns and personal representatives. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed and delivered this Proxy on this 7th day of May, 1999. --------------------------------- Donald E. Axinn, individually