EQUITY

Preferred Stock

On March 21, 2013, the Company completed an underwritten public offering of 5.8 million shares of 7.125% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series A Preferred Stock") at a price of $25.00 per share, pursuant to an effective registration statement. The Company received net proceeds of $138.3 million from the offering, after deducting underwriting discounts and other offering expenses.

The holders of the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock rank senior to the Company’s common stock with respect to dividend rights and rights upon the Company’s liquidation, dissolution or winding up of its affairs. Holders of shares of the Series A Preferred Stock will generally have no voting rights. However, if dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock are in arrears for six or more quarterly periods, whether or not consecutive, holders of shares of the Series A Preferred Stock will be entitled to vote for the election of two additional directors to serve on the Company’s board of directors until all accrued dividends for past dividend periods with respect to the Series A Preferred Stock have been paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for payment. The holders of Series A Preferred Stock also have voting rights with respect to the Company in certain other circumstances. At September 30, 2013, there were no dividends in arrears.

Generally, the Company is not permitted to redeem the Series A Preferred Stock prior to March 21, 2018, except in limited circumstances to preserve its status as a REIT and pursuant to the special optional redemption provision described below. On or after March 21, 2018, the Company may, at its option, redeem the Series A Preferred Stock, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, for cash at a redemption price of $25.00 per share, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends on such Series A Preferred Stock up to, but not including, the redemption date. In addition, upon the occurrence of a specified change of control (as described in the Articles Supplementary governing the Series A Preferred Stock), the Company may, at its option, redeem the Series A Preferred Stock, in whole or in part, within 120 days after the first date on which such change of control occurred, by paying $25.00 per share, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends to, but not including, the date of redemption. If the Company exercises any of its redemption rights relating to the Series A Preferred Stock, the holders of Series A Preferred Stock will not have the conversion right described below. The Series A Preferred Stock has no stated maturity and is not subject to mandatory redemption or any sinking fund.

Upon the occurrence of a specified change of control, each holder of Series A Preferred Stock will have the right (unless, prior to the change of control conversion date specified in the Articles Supplementary governing the Series A Preferred Stock, the Company has provided or provides notice of its election to redeem the Series A Preferred Stock) to convert some or all of the shares of Series A Preferred Stock held by such holder into a number of shares of the Company’s common stock per share of Series A Preferred Stock to be converted equal to the lesser of:

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the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the $25.00 liquidation preference plus the amount of any accrued and unpaid dividends to, but not including, the change of control conversion date (unless the change of control conversion date is after a record date for a Series A Preferred Stock dividend payment and prior to the corresponding Series A Preferred Stock dividend payment date, in which case no additional amount for any accrued and unpaid dividend that will be paid on such dividend payment date will be included in this sum) by (ii) the common stock price (as defined in the Articles Supplementary); and


•	1.7864 (the share cap), subject to certain adjustments;

subject, in each case, to provisions for the receipt of alternative consideration as described in the Articles Supplementary governing the Series A Preferred Stock.

Upon issuance of the Series A Preferred Stock, the Company classified the par value as preferred equity on its condensed consolidated balance sheets with the balance of the liquidation preference, net of any issuance costs, recorded as a reduction to paid-in capital.

Common Stock

The following table lists the cash dividends on common stock declared and paid by the Company during the nine months ended September 30, 2013:



Declaration Date	Record Date	Amount Per Share		Dividend Payable Date
January 7, 2013	February 15, 2013	$	0.34	February 28, 2013
May 1, 2013	May 15, 2013	0.34		May 31, 2013
July 31, 2013	August 15, 2013	0.34		August 30, 2013

During the nine months ended September 30, 2013, the Company issued 200,799 shares of common stock as a result of restricted stock unit vestings and in connection with amounts payable under the Company's 2012 Bonus Plan pursuant to an election by certain participants to receive the bonus payment in shares of the Company's common stock. During the nine months ended September 30, 2013, the Company issued 33,935 shares of common stock as a result of stock options exercised.

At-The-Market Common Stock Offering Program (“ATM Program”)

On March 18, 2013, the Company entered into a sales agreement (each, a “Sales Agreement”) with each of Barclays Capital Inc., Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., RBC Capital Markets, LLC, RBS Securities Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (individually, a “Sales Agent” and together, the “Sales Agents”) to sell shares of its common stock having aggregate gross proceeds of up to $100.0 million (the “ATM Shares”) from time to time through the Sales Agents.

Pursuant to the terms of the Sales Agreements, the ATM Shares may be sold by any method permitted by law deemed to be an “at-the-market” offering, including, without limitation, sales made directly on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, on any other existing trading market for the Company's common stock or to or through a market maker. In addition, with the Company's prior consent, the Sales Agents may also sell the ATM Shares in privately negotiated transactions. The Company will pay each Sales Agent a commission equal to 2% of the gross proceeds from the sales of ATM Shares sold pursuant to the applicable Sales Agreement.

No ATM Shares were sold under the ATM Program during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013.