8-K

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): February 12, 2016

Walker & Dunlop, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Maryland	001-35000	80-0629925
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

7501 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 1200E Bethesda, MD	20814
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (301) 215-5500

Not applicable

(Former name or former address if changed since last report.)

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

o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

o Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On February 12, 2016, Walker & Dunlop, Inc. (the “Company”) and Walker & Dunlop, LLC, the operating subsidiary of the Company, entered into a Seventh Amendment to Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement (the “Amendment”) with PNC Bank, National Association, as administrative agent (“PNC”), and the lenders party thereto. The Amendment amends that certain Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of June 25, 2013 (as amended from time to time, the “Warehousing Agreement”), by and among Walker & Dunlop, LLC, the Company, PNC and the lenders party thereto to, among other things, extend the temporary increase of the warehousing credit limit thereunder of $1,250,000,000 (for a total amount of $1,900,000,000) until February 29, 2016, when the warehousing credit limit will return to $650,000,000. The Company continues to guarantee Walker & Dunlop, LLC’s obligations under the Warehousing Agreement, as amended by the Amendment.

The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amendment, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Some of the lenders under the Amendment and their affiliates have various relationships with the Company involving the provision of financial services, including other credit facilities with the Company and its affiliates, cash management, investment banking, trust and other services. In addition, affiliates of the Company have entered into forward delivery commitments, interest rate swaps and other derivative arrangements in the ordinary course of business with some of the lenders and their affiliates.

Item 2.03. Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

The information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

Exhibit Number	Description
10.1	Seventh Amendment to Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of February 12, 2016, by and among Walker & Dunlop, LLC, Walker & Dunlop, Inc., the lenders party thereto and PNC Bank, National Association, as administrative agent.

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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.

	WALKER & DUNLOP, INC. (Registrant)
Date: February 18, 2016	By:	/s/ Stephen P. Theobald
		Name: Stephen P. Theobald Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit Number	Description
10.1	Seventh Amendment to Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of February 12, 2016, by and among Walker & Dunlop, LLC, Walker & Dunlop, Inc., the lenders party thereto and PNC Bank, National Association, as administrative agent.

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EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO

AMENDED AND RESTATED $650,000,000 WAREHOUSING CREDIT

AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

among

WALKER & DUNLOP, LLC

as Borrower,

WALKER & DUNLOP, INC.

as Parent,

and

THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO,

PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Administrative Agent

and

PNC CAPITAL MARKETS LLC,

as Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner

Effective as of February 12, 2016

SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED WAREHOUSING CREDIT

AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

THIS SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED WAREHOUSING CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “Seventh Amendment”) is made effective as of the 12th day of February, 2016, by and among WALKER & DUNLOP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Borrower”), WALKER & DUNLOP, INC., a Maryland corporation (“Parent”), the lenders party to the Credit Facility Agreement defined below (the “Lenders”) and PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, in its capacity as Administrative Agent for the Lenders under the Credit Facility Agreement (hereinafter referred to in such capacity as the “Administrative Agent”).

R E C I T A L S

WHEREAS, the Lenders and Borrower are parties to that certain Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of June 25, 2013, by and among Borrower, Parent, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (the “Original Credit Facility Agreement”), as amended by that certain First Amendment to Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of December 20, 2013 (the “First Amendment”), that certain Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement, effective as of June 17, 2014 (the “Second Amendment”), that certain Third Amendment to Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement, effective as of August 26, 2014 (the “Third Amendment”), that certain Fourth Amendment to Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement, effective as of June 17, 2015 (the “Fourth Amendment”), and that certain Fifth Amendment to Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement, effective as of October 26, 2015 (the “Fifth Amendment”, and that certain Sixth Amendment to Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement, effective as of December 24, 2015 (the “Sixth Amendment” and the Original Credit Facility Agreement, as amended by the First Amendment, Second Amendment, Third Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment, is herein referred to as the “Credit Facility Agreement”), whereby upon the satisfaction of certain terms and conditions set forth therein, the Lenders agreed to make Warehousing Advances from time to time, up to the Warehousing Credit Limit (each such term as defined in the Credit Facility Agreement).

WHEREAS, Borrower has requested, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have agreed, pursuant to the terms hereof, to modify certain terms of the Credit Facility Agreement as set forth in this Seventh Amendment.

NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises, the mutual entry of this Seventh Amendment by the parties hereto and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereby agree as follows:

Section 1.              Recitals.  The Recitals are hereby incorporated into this Seventh Amendment as a substantive part hereof.

Section 2.              Definitions.  Terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Facility Agreement.

Section 3.              Amendments to Credit Facility Agreement.  The Credit Facility Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

(a)           Section 7.16 of the Credit Facility is hereby amended by adding the following provision to the end thereof:

“Notwithstanding the previous sentence to the contrary, as it relates solely to that certain portfolio of 78 seniors housing Mortgage Loans in the aggregate principal amount of $1,270,335,000.00 originated by Borrower and to be sold by Borrower to Freddie Mac (collectively, the “Holiday Portfolio Mortgage Loans”), if Freddie Mac has not purchased the Holiday Portfolio Mortgage Loans, and Borrower has not repaid the Warehousing Advance relating to the Holiday Portfolio Mortgage Loans on or before February 29, 2016, Borrower shall immediately cause the Administrative Agent to be named as an additional insured under the property insurance policy covering the property which is collateral for the Holiday Portfolio Mortgage Loans.”

(b)           From and after the date of this Seventh Amendment, Schedule I to the Credit Facility Agreement shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the new Schedule I attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

(c)           The following defined term set forth in Section 13.1 of the Credit Facility Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

‘“Daily LIBO Rate” for any day shall mean, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent by dividing (a) the Published Rate by (b) a number equal to 1.00 minus the LIBOR Reserve Percentage, provided, however, if the Daily LIBO Rate determined as provided above would be less than zero, then such rate shall be deemed to be zero.’

‘“Warehousing Credit Limit” means Six Hundred Fifty Million Dollars ($650,000,000); provided, however, that from and after the date of the Sixth Amendment, it shall be temporarily increased to One Billion Nine Hundred Million Dollars ($1,900,000,000) and such increase shall remain in effect until February 29th, 2016.’

Section 4.              Ratification, No Novation, Effect of Modifications.  Except as may be amended or modified hereby, the terms of the Credit Facility Agreement are hereby ratified, affirmed and confirmed and shall otherwise remain in full force and effect.  Nothing in this Seventh Amendment shall be construed to extinguish, release, or discharge or constitute, create or effect a novation of, or an agreement to extinguish, release or discharge, any of the obligations, indebtedness and liabilities of Borrower or any other party under the provisions of the Credit Facility Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, unless specifically herein provided.

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Section 5.              Amendments.  This Seventh Amendment may be amended or supplemented by and only by an instrument executed and delivered by each party hereto.

Section 6.              Waiver.  The Lenders shall not be deemed to have waived the exercise of any right which they hold under the Credit Facility Agreement unless such waiver is made expressly and in writing (and no delay or omission by any Lender in exercising any such right shall be deemed a waiver of its future exercise).  No such waiver made as to any instance involving the exercise of any such right shall be deemed a waiver as to any other such instance, or any other such right.  Without limiting the operation and effect of the foregoing provisions hereof, no act done or omitted by any Lender pursuant to the powers and rights granted to it hereunder shall be deemed a waiver by any Lender of any of its rights and remedies under any of the provisions of the Credit Facility Agreement, and this Seventh Amendment is made and accepted without prejudice to any of such rights and remedies.

Section 7.              Governing Law.  This Seventh Amendment shall be given effect and construed by application of the law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Section 8.              Headings.  The headings of the sections, subsections, paragraphs and subparagraphs hereof are provided herein for and only for convenience of reference, and shall not be considered in construing their contents.

Section 9.              Severability.  No determination by any court, governmental body or otherwise that any provision of this Seventh Amendment or any amendment hereof is invalid or unenforceable in any instance shall affect the validity or enforceability of (i) any other such provision or (ii) such provision in any circumstance not controlled by such determination.  Each such provision shall be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent allowed by, and shall be construed wherever possible as being consistent with, applicable law.

Section 10.            Binding Effect.  This Seventh Amendment shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, the Parent, the Lenders, and their respective permitted successors and assigns.

Section 11.            Counterparts.  This Seventh Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and all of which shall constitute one and the same instrument.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Seventh Amendment under their respective seals as of the day and year first written above.

WALKER & DUNLOP, LLC, as Borrower
By:	/s/ Stephen P. Theobald
Name:	Stephen P. Theobald
Title:	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
WALKER & DUNLOP, INC., as Parent
By:	/s/ Stephen P. Theobald
Name:	Stephen P. Theobald
Title:	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent and Lender
By:	/s/ Donald Thomas
Name:	Donald Thomas
Title:	AVP
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Lender
By:	/s/ Michael Genay
Name:	Michael Genay
Title:	Director

Signature Page  -  Seventh Amendment to Amended and Restated Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement

Schedule I

List of Lenders and Lenders’ Warehousing Commitments

Lender	Warehousing Commitment
PNC Bank, National Association	$	450,000,000.00
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association	$	200,000,000.00

Notwithstanding the foregoing, from and after the date of the Sixth Amendment and remaining in effect until February 29, 2016, the Warehousing Commitment Amount for each Lender (and the corresponding percentages of each Lender to such Warehousing Commitment Amounts) shall be temporarily increased to the dollar amount designated opposite such Lender’s name below.

Temporary Increase of Warehousing Commitment

List of Lenders and Lenders’ Temporary Increased Warehousing Commitments

Lender	Temporary Increased Warehousing Commitment
PNC Bank, National Association	$	1,300,000,000.00
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association	$	600,000,000.00