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Item 1.01. | Entry into a Material Agreement. |
• | include the Harrah’s Philadelphia Property in the Non-CPLV Lease, provide for the initial total annual rent with respect to the Harrah’s Philadelphia Property of $21.0 million (subject to annual escalation in accordance with the Non-CPLV Lease) and allocate responsibility among the parties for certain obligations related to the Harrah’s Philadelphia Property; |
• | include all of the land and real estate assets associated with Octavius Tower at CPLV, previously purchased by the Company and leased to a subsidiary of CEC pursuant to the terms of an existing lease, in the CPLV Lease; |
• | with respect to the Non-CPLV Lease and the Joliet Lease, add a base rent escalation of 1.5% per year for lease years two through five; |
• | commencing on the eighth lease year under the Formation Leases, reduce variable rent increases (or decreases, as applicable) to 4.0% of revenue growth (or decline, as applicable), and with respect to the Non-CPLV Lease and the Joliet Lease, make such variable rent calculations under the Non-CPLV Lease and the Joliet Lease on a combined basis; |
• | implement, from the commencement of the eighth lease year under the Formation Leases, a 1.7x (under the CPLV Lease) and a 1.2x (under each of the Non-CPLV Lease and the Joliet Lease) EBITDAR rent coverage test that would act to cap base rent escalations under the Formation Leases, as applicable, whereby the EBITDAR rent coverage tests under each of the Non-CPLV Lease and the Joliet Lease take into consideration the EBITDAR generated and the rent payable under each of the Non-CPLV Lease, the Joliet Lease and those certain leases entered into by the Company and CEC pursuant to certain call rights agreements between the Company and CEC, if applicable; |
• | with respect to the Non-CPLV Lease and the Joliet Lease, provide the tenants thereunder, subject to the satisfaction of certain terms and conditions, (a) an ability to transfer and sell the operating business at certain properties to replacement tenant(s) meeting certain criteria set forth in the Non-CPLV Lease or Joliet Lease, as the case may be, (b) an ability to sublease certain leased properties subject to the Non-CPLV Lease or the Joliet Lease, as the case may be, and (c) a credit for certain capital expenditures, to be fully applied against the capital expenditure requirements; |
• | upon the expiration of the Formation Leases, allow the tenants thereunder to transfer their personalty and certain other investments to replacement tenants meeting certain criteria; |
• | amend the HLV Lease and the Formation Leases to, among other things, provide additional protections to ensure that rent received thereunder satisfies federal tax requirements; |
• | change the definition of “Change of Control” under the Formation Leases to allow CEC to insert an intervening entity into its organizational structure, provided that CEC continues to indirectly own and control the relevant tenant under the relevant Lease and certain other conditions are satisfied; |
• | provide that the tenant under the CPLV Lease shall only be required to make deposits into an FF&E reserve account in connection with our existing financing but shall not be required to do so when such financing is refinanced or repaid; |
• | provide that the tenants under the Non-CPLV Lease and the Joliet Lease shall no longer be required to fund and maintain fee mortgage reserve accounts; |
• | grant the tenant under the Non-CPLV Lease the option to elect, in its sole discretion, to purchase from the Company any one or more of the six parcels of the portion of the leased property known as the “Las Vegas land assemblage” for a price determined pursuant to, and on the terms and conditions set forth in, the Non-CPLV Lease, and, if any such parcel is so purchased, provide the Company the right of first offer to enter into a sale - leaseback transaction with the purchaser with respect to such parcel, in the circumstances and on the terms and conditions set forth in the Amended and Restated ROFR; |
• | with respect to the Formation Leases, remove the Company’s lien on, and security interests in, certain of the respective tenants’ furniture, fixtures, equipment, intellectual property and other personal property; and |
• | grant additional flexibility to use of certain of the trademarks, including system-wide intellectual property and property-specific intellectual property by affiliates of the tenants under the Formation Leases. |
Item 2.03. | Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant. |
Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
Exhibit No. | Description | |
10.1 | First Amendment to Lease (CPLV), dated as of December 26, 2018, by and among CPLV Property Owner LLC, Desert Palace LLC and CEOC, LLC. | |
10.2* | Fourth Amendment to Lease (Non-CPLV), dated as of December 26, 2018, by and among the entities listed on Schedules A and B thereto and CEOC, LLC. | |
10.3* | First Amendment to Lease (Joliet), dated as of December 26, 2018, by and between Harrah’s Joliet Landco LLC and Des Plaines Development Limited Partnership. | |
10.4 | First Amendment to Amended and Restated Lease, dated as of December 26, 2018, by and between Claudine Propco, LLC and Harrah’s Las Vegas, LLC. | |
10.5 | First Amendment to Management and Lease Support Agreement (CPLV), dated as of December 26, 2018, by and among Desert Palace LLC, CEOC, LLC, CPLV Manager, LLC, Caesars Entertainment Corporation, CPLV Property Owner LLC, and solely for certain articles and sections named therein, Caesars License Company, LLC and Caesars Enterprise Services, LLC. | |
10.6 | First Amendment to Management and Lease Support Agreement (Non-CPLV), dated as of December 26, 2018, by and among CEOC, LLC, the entities listed on Schedule A and Schedule B thereto, Chester Downs and Marina, LLC, Non-CPLV Manager, LLC, Caesars Entertainment Corporation, Philadelphia Propco LLC, and solely for certain articles and sections named therein, Caesars License Company, LLC and Caesars Enterprise Services, LLC. | |
10.7 | First Amendment to Management and Lease Support Agreement (Joliet), dated as of December 26, 2018, by and among Des Plaines Development Limited Partnership, Joliet Manager, LLC, Caesars Entertainment Corporation, Harrah’s Joliet Landco LLC and solely for certain articles and sections named therein, Caesars License Company, LLC and Caesars Enterprise Services, LLC. | |
10.8 | Omnibus Amendment to Loan Documents, dated as of December 26, 2018, by and among Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee for the Benefit of Holders of Caesars Palace Las Vegas Trust 2017-Vici, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2017-VICI, CPLV Property Owner LLC and VICI Properties L.P, relating to, among other things, the CPLV CMBS Loan. | |
10.9 | Consent and Omnibus Amendment to Loan Documents, dated as of December 26, 2018, by and among CPLV Mezz 1 LLC, VICI Properties L.P. and Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as administrative and collateral agent for the lenders under the Mezzanine A Loan Agreement, dated October 6, 2017, relating to the loan with respect thereto. | |
10.10 | Consent and Omnibus Amendment to Loan Documents, dated as of December 26, 2018, by and among CPLV Mezz 2 LLC, VICI Properties L.P. and Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as administrative and collateral agent for the lenders under the Mezzanine B Loan Agreement, dated October 6, 2017, relating to the loan with respect thereto. | |
10.11 | Second Amended and Restated Right of First Refusal Agreement, dated as of December 26, 2018, by and between Caesars Entertainment Corporation and VICI Properties L.P. |
VICI PROPERTIES INC. | ||
Date: December 26, 2018 | By: | /s/ SAMANTHA S. GALLAGHER |
Samantha S. Gallagher | ||
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary |