EX-99.77Q1 OTHR EXHB 4 77Q1.txt AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF REDOMESTICATION THIS AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF REDOMESTICATION ("Agreement") is adopted as of this 13th day of April, 2017 by and between RMR Real Estate Income Fund, a Delaware statutory trust and a registered closed-end investment company (the "Merging Fund") and RMR Real Estate Income Fund, a Maryland statutory trust and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Merging Fund (the "Surviving Fund"). The Merging Fund and the Surviving Fund are together referred to herein as the "Funds." WHEREAS, each of the Merging Fund and the Surviving Fund is a closed-end, registered investment company of the management type; and WHEREAS, it is intended that (i) the Redomestication (as defined below) will qualify as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a)(1)(F) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), (ii) this Agreement will be, and is hereby adopted as, a "plan of reorganization" with respect to the Redomestication within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code, and Treasury Regulations Sections 1.368-2(g) and 1.368-3(a), and (iii) the parties to this Agreement will each be a party to such reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(b) of the Code; and WHEREAS, the merger will consist of the merger of the Merging Fund into the Surviving Fund, pursuant to the provisions of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (the "DSTA") and the Maryland Statutory Trust Act (the "MSTA"), and will have the consequences described in Section 1.1 below (such transaction, the "Redomestication"); and WHEREAS, the Boards of Trustees of the Surviving Fund and of the Merging Fund have determined that the Redomestication is in the best interests of the Surviving Fund and the Merging Fund, respectively, and the interests of the shareholders of the Merging Fund will not be diluted as a result of the Redomestication; NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, and intending to be legally bound, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows: 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE REDOMESTICATION 1.1. Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth and on the basis of the representations and warranties contained herein, with respect to the Merging Fund and the Surviving Fund, at the Closing Time (as defined below), the Merging Fund shall be merged with and into the Surviving Fund, the separate existence of the Merging Fund as a Delaware Statutory Trust and registered investment company shall cease, and the Surviving Fund will be the surviving entity for all purposes, including for purposes of succeeding to the Merging Fund's registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "Investment Company Act"), and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and, if applicable, the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), except that the Merging Fund will be the surviving entity for accounting purposes and for purposes of presenting investment performance history. 1.2. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, on the Closing Date (as defined below), the parties shall cause the Redomestication to be consummated by (i) filing a certificate of merger (the "Certificate of Merger") with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with Section 3815 of the DSTA and (ii) filing articles of merger ("Articles of Merger") with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland (the "SDAT") in accordance with Section 12-604 of the MSTA. The Redomestication shall become effective at [?] Eastern Time, as shall be specified in the Certificate of Merger duly filed with the Secretary of the State of Delaware and in the Articles of Merger duly filed with the SDAT, or at such later date or time as the parties shall agree and specify in the Certificate of Merger and Articles of Merger (the "Closing Time"). 1.3. As a result of the operation of the applicable provisions of the DSTA and the MSTA, the following events occur simultaneously at the Closing Time, except as otherwise provided herein: (a) all of the assets, property, goodwill, rights, privileges, powers and franchises of the Merging Fund, including, without limitation, all cash, securities, commodities and futures interests, claims (whether absolute or contingent, known or unknown, accrued or unaccrued and including, without limitation, any interest in pending or future legal claims in connection with past or present portfolio holdings, whether in the form of class action claims, opt-out or other direct litigation claims, or regulator or government-established investor recovery fund claims, and any and all resulting recoveries), dividends or interest receivable, deferred or prepaid expenses shown as an asset on the books of the Merging Fund on the Closing Date, goodwill, contractual rights, originals or copies of all books and records of the Merging Fund and all intangible property that is owned by the Merging Fund (collectively, the "Merging Fund Assets") shall vest in the Surviving Fund, and all of the liabilities, debts, obligations, restrictions and duties of the Merging Fund (whether known or unknown, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued and including, without limitation, any liabilities of the Merging Fund to indemnify the trustees or officers of the Merging Fund or any other persons under the Merging Fund's Declaration of Trust or otherwise) (collectively, the "Merging Fund Liabilities") shall become the liabilities, debts, obligations, restrictions and duties of the Surviving Fund; (b) (i) Each Merging Fund common share of beneficial interest (each, a "Merging Fund Common Share") shall be converted into a Surviving Fund common share of beneficial interest (each, a "Surviving Fund Common Share"), (ii) each Merging Fund Series F preferred share of beneficial interest (each, a "Series F Merging Fund Preferred Share") shall be converted into a Surviving Fund Series F preferred share of beneficial interest (each, a "Series F Surviving Fund Preferred Share"), (iii) each Merging Fund Series M preferred share of beneficial interest (each, a "Series M Merging Fund Preferred Share") shall be converted into a Surviving Fund Series M preferred share of beneficial interest (each, a "Series M Surviving Fund Preferred Share"), (iv) each Merging Fund Series T preferred share of beneficial interest (each, a "Series T Merging Fund Preferred Share") shall be converted into a Surviving Fund Series T preferred share of beneficial interest (each, a "Series T Surviving Fund Preferred Share"), (v) each Merging Fund Series W preferred share of beneficial interest (each, a "Series W Merging Fund Preferred Share" shall be converted into a Surviving Fund Series W preferred share of beneficial interest (each, a "Series W Surviving Fund Preferred Share"), (vi) each Merging Fund Series Th preferred share of beneficial interest (each, a "Series Th Merging Fund Preferred Share" and, collectively with the Series F Merging Fund Preferred Shares, Series M Merging Fund Preferred Shares, Series T Merging Fund Preferred Shares and Series W Merging Fund Preferred Shares, the "Merging Fund Preferred Shares") shall be converted into a Surviving Fund Series Th preferred share of beneficial interest (each, a "Series Th Surviving Fund Preferred Share" and, collectively with the Series F Surviving Fund Preferred Shares, Series M Surviving Fund Preferred Shares, Series T Surviving Fund Preferred Shares and Series W Surviving Fund Preferred Shares, the "Surviving Fund Preferred Shares"), and (vii) any Surviving Fund Common Shares owned by the Merging Fund at the Closing Time shall be deemed cancelled without consideration. Prior to the Closing Time or as soon as practicable thereafter, the Surviving Fund will open shareholder accounts on the share ledger records of the Surviving Fund in the names of and in the amounts due to the shareholders of the Merging Fund Common Shares and Merging Fund Preferred Shares based on their respective holdings in the Merging Fund as of the close of business on the Valuation Date, as more fully described in Section 3 below; (c) At the Closing Time, the Agreement and Declaration of Trust and Bylaws of the Surviving Fund in effect immediately prior to the Closing Time shall continue to be the Agreement and Declaration of Trust and Bylaws of the Surviving Fund, until and unless thereafter amended in accordance with their respective terms; (d) From and after the Closing Time, the trustees and officers of the Surviving Fund shall continue to be the trustees and officers of the Surviving Fund, and such trustees and officers shall serve for such terms as are provided in the Agreement and Declaration of Trust and the Bylaws of the Surviving Fund; and (e) From and after the Closing Time, the Merging Fund's investment objective, strategies, policies and restrictions shall continue to be the investment objective, strategies, policies and restrictions of the combined Merging Fund and Surviving Fund. 2. VALUATION 2.1. Computations of value in connection with the Closing (as defined below) of the Redomestication shall be as of immediately after the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange, which shall reflect the declaration of any dividends, on the business day immediately preceding the Closing Date (the "Valuation Date"). 2.2. All computations of value of the Merging Fund, the Merging Fund Common Shares, the Merging Fund Preferred Shares, the Merging Fund Assets and the Merging Fund Liabilities shall be made using the Merging Fund's valuation procedures established by the Merging Fund's Board of Trustees. All computations of value of the Surviving Fund, the Surviving Fund Common Shares and the Surviving Fund's assets and liabilities shall be made using the Surviving Fund's valuation procedures established by the Surviving Fund's Board of Trustees. 3. CLOSING AND CLOSING DATE 3.1. The Redomestication shall close on April 18, 2017 or such other date as the parties may agree (the "Closing Date"). All acts taking place at the closing of the Redomestication (the "Closing") shall be deemed to take place simultaneously as of the Closing Time unless otherwise agreed to by the parties. In the event that on the Valuation Date or the Closing Date (a) the NYSE MKT or another primary trading market for portfolio securities of the Merging Fund (each, an "Exchange") shall be closed to trading or trading thereupon shall be restricted, or (b) trading or the reporting of trading on such Exchange or elsewhere shall be disrupted so that, in the judgment of the Board of Trustees of the Merging Fund or the Surviving Fund or the authorized officers of either of such entities, accurate appraisal of the value of the net assets of the Surviving Fund or the Merging Fund, respectively, is impracticable, the Closing Date shall be postponed until the first business day after the day when trading shall have been fully resumed and reporting shall have been restored. 3.2. With respect to the Redomestication: (a) The Merging Fund's portfolio securities, investments or other assets that are represented by a certificate or other written instrument shall be transferred and delivered by the Merging Fund as of the Closing Date, or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, to the Surviving Fund's custodian for the account of the Surviving Fund, duly endorsed in proper form for transfer and in such condition as to constitute good delivery thereof. (b) No later than the Closing, the Merging Fund shall provide the Surviving Fund or its transfer agent with the names, addresses, dividend reinvestment elections and tax withholding status of the Merging Fund shareholders as of the Valuation Date and the information and documentation maintained by the Merging Fund or its agents relating to the identification and verification of the Merging Fund shareholders under the USA PATRIOT Act and other applicable anti-money laundering laws, rules and regulations and such other information as the Surviving Fund may reasonably request. The Surviving Fund and its transfer agent shall have no obligation to inquire as to the validity, propriety or correctness of any such instruction, information or documentation, but shall, in each case, assume that such instruction, information or documentation is valid, proper, correct and complete. (c) The Surviving Fund shall issue and deliver to the Merging Fund a confirmation evidencing the Surviving Fund Common Shares and Surviving Fund Preferred Shares to be issued on the Closing Date, or provide other evidence satisfactory to the Merging Fund that such shares have been credited to the Merging Fund shareholders' accounts on the books of the Surviving Fund. (d) One Surviving Fund Common Share of a net asset value per share equal to the net asset value per share of each Merging Fund Common Share shall be issued by the Surviving Fund to each holder of Merging Fund Common Shares in exchange for each Merging Fund Common Share held by such holder. The net asset value per share of such shares shall be determined as set forth in Section 2 above. (e) One Surviving Fund Preferred Share of a liquidation preference per share equal to the liquidation preference per share of each Merging Fund Preferred Share shall be issued by the Surviving Fund to each holder of Merging Fund Preferred Shares in exchange for each Merging Fund Preferred Share held by such holder. The terms of the Surviving Fund Preferred Shares shall be substantially the same as the terms of the Merging Fund Preferred Shares. (f) The Surviving Fund shall not issue certificates representing Surviving Fund Common Shares in connection with the Redomestication. Any certificates representing ownership of Merging Fund Common Shares that remain outstanding at the Closing Time shall be deemed to be cancelled by operation of law and shall no longer evidence ownership of the Merging Fund or its shares. 4. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO OBLIGATIONS OF THE SURVIVING FUND AND THE MERGING FUND With respect to the Redomestication, if any of the conditions set forth below have not been satisfied on or before the Closing Date with respect to the Merging Fund or the Surviving Fund, the Merging Fund or the Surviving Fund, respectively, shall, at its option, not be required to consummate the transactions contemplated for such Redomestication by this Agreement: 4.1. The Agreement shall have been approved by the requisite vote of the holders of the outstanding Merging Fund Common Shares and Merging Fund Preferred Shares. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither the Merging Fund nor the Surviving Fund may waive the condition set forth in this Section 4.1; and 4.2. The Merging Fund and the Surviving Fund shall have received on or before the Closing Date an opinion of Skadden in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Merging Fund and the Surviving Fund, to the effect that the Redomestication will qualify as a reorganization described in Section 368(a)(1)(F) of the Code. In rendering such opinions, Skadden may request and rely upon representations contained in certificates of officers of the Merging Fund, the Surviving Fund, the Advisor and others, and the officers of the Merging Fund, the Surviving Fund and the Advisor shall use their best efforts to make available such truthful certificates. 5. FEES AND EXPENSES The Merging Fund will bear all expenses relating to the Redomestication. The Merging Fund will bear these expenses regardless of whether the Redomestication is consummated. 6. TERMINATION This Agreement may be terminated and the transactions contemplated hereby may be abandoned (i) by mutual agreement of the Merging Fund and the Surviving Fund, (ii) by the Merging Fund if any condition of the Surviving Fund's obligations set forth in this Agreement has not been fulfilled or waived by the Merging Fund, or (iii) by the Surviving Fund if any condition of the Merging Fund's obligations set forth in this Agreement has not been fulfilled or waived by the Surviving Fund, notwithstanding approval thereof by the Merging Fund's shareholders, if circumstances should develop that, in such parties judgment, make proceeding with this Agreement inadvisable. 7. AMENDMENTS This Agreement may be amended, modified or supplemented in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon in writing by the parties; provided, however, that following the approval of this Agreement by shareholders of a Merging Fund and/or the Surviving Fund, no such amendment may have the effect of changing the provisions for determining the number of Surviving Fund shares to be paid to the Merging Fund's shareholders under this Agreement to the detriment of such Merging Fund shareholders or shall otherwise materially amend the terms of this agreement without their further approval. 8. HEADINGS; GOVERNING LAW; COUNTERPARTS; ASSIGNMENT; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY 8.1. The Article and Section headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. 8.2. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland and applicable federal law, without regard to its principles of conflicts of laws. 8.3. This Agreement shall bind and inure with respect to the Redomestication to the benefit of the parties to the Redomestication and their respective successors and assigns, but no assignment or transfer hereof or of any rights or obligations hereunder shall be made by any such party without the written consent of the other parties to such Redomestication. Nothing herein expressed or implied is intended or shall be construed to confer upon or give any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties with respect to such Redomestication and their respective successors and assigns, any rights or remedies under or by reason of this Agreement. 8.4. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be considered an original. 8.5. It is expressly agreed that the obligations of the parties hereunder shall not be binding upon any of their respective directors or trustees, shareholders, nominees, officers, agents, or employees personally, but shall bind only the property of the Merging Fund or the Surviving Fund as provided in the DE Governing Documents or the MD Governing Documents, respectively. The execution and delivery by such officers shall not be deemed to have been made by any of them individually or to impose any liability on any of them personally, but shall bind only the property of such party. 8.6. Any notice, report, statement or demand required or permitted by any provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be given by fax or certified mail addressed to the Merging Fund and the Surviving Fund, each at Two Newton Place, 255 Washington Street, Suite 300, Newton, Massachusetts 02458, Attention: Secretary. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be approved on behalf of the Surviving Fund and Merging Fund. RMR REAL ESTATE INCOME FUND, a Maryland statutory trust By: /s/ Fernando Diaz _____________ Name: Fernando Diaz Title: President RMR REAL ESTATE INCOME FUND, a Delaware statutory trust By: /s/ Mark L. Kleifges ___________ Name: Mark L. Kleifges Title: Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer Schedule 4.2 Tax Opinion 2