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): August 17, 2018 (August 17, 2018)
Global
Medical REIT Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Maryland | 001-37815 | 46-4757266 |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
2 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 440
Bethesda, MD
20814
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
(202) 524-6851
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
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:
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).
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| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Sales Agreement
On August 17, 2018, Global Medical REIT Inc. (the “Company”), Inter-American Management LLC, the Company’s external advisor, and Global Medical REIT L.P., the Company’s operating partnership, entered into a Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”) with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (“Cantor”), B. Riley FBR, Inc. (f/k/a FBR Capital Markets & Co.) (“FBR”), BMO Capital Markets Corp., D.A. Davidson & Co., H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, The Huntington Investment Company and Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated (the “Agents”), pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell, from time to time, through the Agents, shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share, with gross proceeds up to an aggregate dollar amount of $50,000,000 (the “Shares”). This aggregate offering amount of shares of the Company’s common stock includes any shares that have already been sold by Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and B. Riley FBR, Inc. through August 17, 2018 pursuant to existing sales agreements with the Company that were terminated concurrently with the execution of the Sales Agreement.
Pursuant to the Sales Agreement, the Shares may be offered and sold through the Agents in transactions deemed to be an “at the market offering” as defined in Rule 415(a)(4) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including sales made directly on or through the New York Stock Exchange or any other existing trading market for the Company’s common stock. Under the Sales Agreement, the Agents will be entitled to compensation of up to 3.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the Shares that are sold through the Agents. The Company has no obligation to sell any of the Shares under the Sales Agreement and may at any time suspend solicitations of offers to buy the Shares and offers to sell the Shares under the Sales Agreement.
The Shares will be issued pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-217360). The Company filed a prospectus supplement, dated August 17, 2018, to the prospectus, dated June 19, 2017, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares from time to time in the future. This Current Report on Form 8-K shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the Shares in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.
The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Sales Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated in this Item 1.01 by reference.
In connection with the filing of the Sales Agreement, Venable LLP has provided the Company with an opinion regarding the legality of the Shares. A copy of the opinion is attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 5.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
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Item 1.02 |
Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On August 17, 2018, the parties to those certain sales agreements between the Company, Inter-American Management LLC and Global Medical REIT L.P., on the one hand, and each of Cantor and FBR, on the other hand, each dated as of August 25, 2017 (the “Prior Sales Agreements”) executed a notice terminating the Prior Sales Agreements by mutual consent of the parties pursuant to Section 11(e) of the Prior Sales Agreements, effective as of the close of business on August 17, 2018.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statement and Exhibits. |
| (d) | Exhibits |
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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.
| Global Medical REIT Inc. | ||
| By: | /s/ Jamie A. Barber | |
| Jamie A. Barber | ||
| Secretary and General Counsel | ||
| Dated: August 17, 2018 | ||
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Exhibit 1.1
GLOBAL MEDICAL REIT INC.
UP TO $50,000,000
SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
CONTROLLED EQUITY OFFERINGSM
SALES AGREEMENT
August 17, 2018
| CANTOR FITZGERALD & CO. 499 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 |
H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC 430 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 |
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B. RILEY FBR, INC. 299 Park Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10171 |
The Huntington Investment Company 41 S. High Street HC0520 Columbus, OH 43287 |
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BMO CAPITAL MARKETS CORP. 3 Times Square, 25th Floor New York, NY 10036 |
Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated 777 E. Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53202 |
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D.A. Davidson & Co. 8 Third Street North Great Falls, MT 59401 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Global Medical REIT Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), Global Medical REIT L.P., a Delaware limited partnership and the Company’s operating partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), and Inter-American Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the manager of the Company (the “Manager”), confirm their agreement (this “Agreement”) with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., B. Riley FBR, Inc., BMO Capital Markets Corp., D.A. Davidson & Co., H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, The Huntington Investment Company and Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated (each individually an “Agent” and collectively, the “Agents”), as follows:
1. Issuance and Sale of Shares. The Company agrees that, from time to time during the term of this Agreement, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, it may issue and sell through the Agents, acting as agents and/or principals, up to $50,000,000 of shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”); provided, however, that in no event shall the Company issue or sell through or to the Agents such number or dollar amount of Shares that would (a) exceed the number or dollar amount of Shares registered on the Registration Statement (defined below) pursuant to which the offering is being made, (b) exceed the number of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock less any shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise, conversion or exchange of any outstanding securities of the Company or otherwise reserved from the Company’s authorized share capital or (c) exceed the number or dollar amount of shares of Common Stock for which the Company has filed a Prospectus Supplement (defined below) (the lesser of (a), (b) and (c), the “Maximum Amount”). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the parties hereto agree that compliance with the limitation set forth in this Section 1 on the number of Shares issued and sold under this Agreement shall be the sole responsibility of the Company, and the Agents shall have no obligation in connection with such compliance. The offer and sale of Shares through the Agents will be effected pursuant to the Registration Statement (as defined below) filed by the Company and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on June 19, 2017, although nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as requiring the Company to use the Registration Statement to issue Shares.
The Company has filed, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Securities Act”), with the Commission a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-217360), including a base prospectus, relating to certain securities, including the Shares to be issued from time to time by the Company, and which incorporates by reference documents that the Company has filed or will file in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”). The Company has prepared a prospectus supplement specifically relating to the Shares (the “Prospectus Supplement”) to the base prospectus included as part of such registration statement. The Company will furnish to the Agents, for use by the Agents, copies of the prospectus included as part of such registration statement, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, relating to the Shares. Except where the context otherwise requires, such registration statement, on each date and time that such registration statement and any post-effective amendment thereto became or becomes effective, including all documents filed as part thereof or incorporated by reference therein, and including any information contained in a Prospectus (as defined below) subsequently filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act or deemed to be a part of such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B or 462(b) of the Securities Act, is herein called the “Registration Statement.” The base prospectus, including all documents incorporated therein by reference, included in the Registration Statement, as it may be supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, in the form in which such prospectus and/or Prospectus Supplement have most recently been filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, together with any “issuer free writing prospectus” (a “Free Writing Prospectus”), as defined in Rule 433 of the Securities Act (“Rule 433”), relating to the Shares that (i) is required to be filed with the Commission by the Company or (ii) is exempt from filing pursuant to Rule 433(d)(5)(i) in each case in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g), is herein called the “Prospectus.” The Company may file one or more additional registration statements (which shall be the Registration Statement) from time to time that will contain a base prospectus and related prospectus or prospectus supplement, if applicable (which shall be the Prospectus Supplement), with respect to the Shares. Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein, and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing after the execution hereof of any document with the Commission deemed to be incorporated by reference therein. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or to any amendment or supplement thereto shall be deemed to include any copy filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system (“EDGAR”).
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2. Placements. Each time that the Company wishes to issue and sell Shares hereunder (each, a “Placement”), it will notify an Agent (the “Designated Agent”) by email notice (or other method mutually agreed to in writing by the parties) containing the parameters in accordance with which it desires the Shares to be sold, which shall at a minimum include the number of Shares requested to be sold (the “Placement Shares”), the time period during which sales are requested to be made, and any limitation on the number of Shares that may be sold in any one day and any minimum price below which sales may not be made (a “Placement Notice”), a form of which containing such minimum sales parameters is attached hereto as Schedule 1. The Placement Notice shall originate from any of the individuals from the Company set forth on Schedule 2 attached hereto (with a copy to each of the other individuals from the Company listed on such schedule), and shall be addressed to each of the individuals from the Designated Agent set forth on Schedule 2, as such Schedule 2 may be amended from time to time. The Placement Notice shall be effective upon receipt by the Designated Agent unless and until (i) in accordance with the notice requirements set forth in Section 4, the Designated Agent declines to accept the terms contained therein for any reason, in its sole discretion, (ii) the entire amount of the Placement Shares have been sold, (iii) in accordance with the notice requirements set forth in Section 4, the Company suspends or terminates the Placement Notice, (iv) the Company issues a subsequent Placement Notice with parameters superseding those on the earlier dated Placement Notice, or (v) this Agreement has been terminated under the provisions of Section 11. The amount of compensation to be paid by the Company to the Designated Agent in connection with the sale of the Placement Shares shall be calculated in accordance with the terms set forth in Schedule 3 attached hereto. It is expressly acknowledged and agreed that neither the Company nor the Designated Agent will have any obligation whatsoever with respect to a Placement or any Placement Shares unless and until the Company delivers a Placement Notice to the Designated Agent and the Designated Agent does not decline such Placement Notice pursuant to the terms set forth above, and then only upon the terms specified therein and herein. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the terms of a Placement Notice, the terms of the Placement Notice will control.
3. Sale of Placement Shares by the Designated Agent. Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, upon the Company’s issuance of a Placement Notice, and unless the sale of the Placement Shares described therein has been declined, suspended, or otherwise terminated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Designated Agent, for the period specified in the Placement Notice, will use its commercially reasonable efforts consistent with its normal trading and sales practices and applicable state and federal laws, rules and regulations and the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”), to sell such Placement Shares up to the amount specified, and otherwise in accordance with the terms of such Placement Notice. The Designated Agent will provide written confirmation to the Company no later than the opening of the Trading Day (as defined below) immediately following the Trading Day on which it has made sales of Placement Shares hereunder setting forth the number of Placement Shares sold on such day, the prices at which such Placement Shares were sold, the gross proceeds from such sales, the compensation payable by the Company to the Designated Agent pursuant to Section 2 with respect to such sales, and the Net Proceeds (as defined below) payable to the Company, with an itemization of the deductions made by the Designated Agent (as set forth in Section 5(a)) from the gross proceeds that it receives from such sales. Subject to the terms of the Placement Notice, the Designated Agent may sell Placement Shares by any method permitted by law deemed to be an “at the market offering” as defined in Rule 415(a)(4) of the Securities Act, including sales made directly on or through the Exchange or any other existing trading market for the shares of Common Stock, in negotiated transactions at market prices prevailing at the time of sale or at prices related to such prevailing market prices and/or any other method permitted by law. “Trading Day” means any day on which Common Stock is purchased and sold on the Exchange.
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4. Suspension of Sales. The Company or the Designated Agent may, upon notice to the other party in writing (including by email correspondence to each of the individuals of the other party set forth on Schedule 2, if receipt of such correspondence is actually acknowledged by any of the individuals to whom the notice is sent, other than via auto-reply) or by telephone (confirmed immediately by verifiable facsimile transmission or email correspondence to each of the individuals of the other party set forth on Schedule 2), suspend any sale of Placement Shares; provided however, that such suspension shall not affect or impair either party’s obligations with respect to any Placement Shares sold hereunder prior to the receipt of such notice. Each of the parties agrees that no such notice under this Section 4 shall be effective against any other party unless it is made to one of the individuals named on Schedule 2, as such Schedule may be amended from time to time.
5. Settlement.
(a) Settlement of Placement Shares. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Placement Notice, settlement for sales of Placement Shares will occur on the second (2nd) Trading Day (or such earlier day as is required by Rule 15c6-1(a) of the Exchange Act or as required by industry practice for regular-way trading) following the date on which such sales are made (each, a “Settlement Date”). The amount of proceeds to be delivered to the Company on a Settlement Date against receipt of the Placement Shares sold (the “Net Proceeds”) will be equal to the aggregate sales price tendered to the Designated Agent for the sale of Placement Shares, after deduction for (i) the Designated Agent’s compensation for such sales payable by the Company pursuant to Section 2 hereof, (ii) any other amounts due and payable by the Company to the Designated Agent hereunder pursuant to Section 7(h) (Expenses) hereof, and (iii) any transaction fees imposed in respect of such sales by any Governmental Authority.
(b) Delivery of Placement Shares. On or before each Settlement Date, the Company will, or will cause its transfer agent to, electronically transfer the Placement Shares being sold by crediting the Designated Agent’s or its designee’s account (provided the Designated Agent shall have given the Company written notice of such designee prior to the Settlement Date) at The Depository Trust Company through its Deposit and Withdrawal at Custodian System or by such other means of delivery as may be mutually agreed upon by the parties hereto which in all cases shall be freely tradeable, transferable, registered shares in good deliverable form. On each Settlement Date, the Designated Agent will deliver the related Net Proceeds in same day funds to an account designated by the Company on, or prior to, the Settlement Date. The Company agrees that if the Company, or its transfer agent (if applicable), defaults in its obligation to deliver Placement Shares on a Settlement Date, in addition to and in no way limiting the rights and obligations set forth in Section 9 (Indemnification and Contribution) below, it will (i) hold the Designated Agent harmless against any loss, claim, damage, or expense (including reasonable legal fees and expenses), as incurred, arising out of or in connection with such default by the Company or its transfer agent (if applicable) and (ii) pay to the Designated Agent any commission, discount, or other compensation to which it would otherwise have been entitled absent such default.
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(c) Limitations on Offering Size. Under no circumstances shall the Company cause or request the offer or sale of any Placement Shares if, after giving effect to the sale of such Placement Shares, the aggregate number or amount of gross sales proceeds of Placement Shares sold pursuant to this Agreement would exceed the lesser of (A) together with all sales of Placement Shares under this Agreement, the Maximum Amount, (B) the amount available for offer and sale under the currently effective Registration Statement and (C) the amount authorized from time to time to be issued and sold under this Agreement by the Company’s board of trustees, a duly authorized committee thereof or a duly authorized pricing committee or officer, and notified to the Designated Agent in writing. Under no circumstances shall the Company cause or request the offer or sale of any Placement Shares pursuant to this Agreement at a price lower than the minimum price authorized from time to time by the Company’s board of trustees, a duly authorized committee thereof or a duly authorized pricing committee or officer, and notified to the Designated Agent in writing.
(d) Sales Through Agents. The Company agrees that any offer to sell Shares, any solicitation of an offer to buy Shares, or any sales of Shares shall only be effected by or through the Designated Agent, and only a single Designated Agent, on any single given day, and the Company shall in no event request that more than one Agent sell Shares on the same day.
6. Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Operating Partnership. The Company and the Operating Partnership jointly and severally represent and warrant to, and agree with, each of the Agents that as of the date of this Agreement and as of each Applicable Time (as defined in Section 22(a)):
(a) Registration Statement and Prospectus. The Company and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement meet the requirements for and comply with the applicable conditions set forth in Form S-3 (including General Instructions I.A and I.B) under the Securities Act. The Registration Statement has been filed with the Commission and has been declared effective by the Commission under the Securities Act. The Prospectus Supplement will name the Agents as the agents in the section entitled “Plan of Distribution.” The Company has not received, and has no notice of, any order of the Commission preventing or suspending the use of the Registration Statement, or threatening or instituting proceedings for that purpose. The Registration Statement and the offer and sale of Placement Shares as contemplated hereby meet the requirements of Rule 415 under the Securities Act and comply in all material respects with said Rule. Any statutes, regulations, contracts or other documents that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement have been so described or filed. Copies of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, and any such amendments or supplements and all documents incorporated by reference therein that were filed with the Commission on or prior to the date of this Agreement have been delivered, or are available through EDGAR, to Agents and their counsel. The Company has not distributed and, prior to the later to occur of each Settlement Date and completion of the distribution of the Placement Shares, will not distribute any offering material in connection with the offering or sale of the Placement Shares other than the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) to which the Agents have consented. The Common Stock is currently listed on the Exchange under the trading symbol “GMRE.” To the Company’s knowledge, it is in compliance with all applicable listing requirements of the Exchange.
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(b) No Misstatement or Omission. The Registration Statement, when it became or becomes effective, and the Prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto, on the date of such Prospectus or amendment or supplement, conformed and will conform in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act. At each Settlement Date, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, as of such date, will conform in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act. The Registration Statement, when it became or becomes effective, did not, and will not, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. The Prospectus and any amendment and supplement thereto, on the date thereof and at each Applicable Time (defined below), did not or will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or any Prospectus Supplement did not, and any further documents filed and incorporated by reference therein will not, when filed with the Commission, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated in such document or necessary to make the statements in such document, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The foregoing shall not apply to statements in, or omissions from, any such document made in reliance upon, and in conformity with, information furnished to the Company by the Agents specifically for use in the preparation thereof.
(c) Conformity with Securities Act and Exchange Act. The Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, and the documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, when such documents were or are filed with the Commission under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or became or become effective under the Securities Act, as the case may be, conformed or will conform in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable.
(d) Ineligible Issuer Status. The Company was not and is not an ineligible issuer as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act at the times specified in Rules 164 and 433 under the Securities Act in connection with the offering of the Placement Shares.
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(e) No Misstatement or Omission in an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus. Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its issue date and as of each Applicable Time (as defined in Section 22(a) below), did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, including any incorporated document deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Agents specifically for use therein.
(f) Good Standing of the Company and the Operating Partnership. The Company has been duly organized and is existing and in good standing under the corporate laws of the State of Maryland, with the full corporate power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, properties or prospects of the Company, the Operating Partnership and each of their respective Subsidiaries taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”). The Operating Partnership has been duly formed and is validly existing as a limited partnership in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; and the Operating Partnership is duly qualified to do business as a foreign organization in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(g) Subsidiaries. Each Subsidiary of the Company and the Operating Partnership has been duly organized and is existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, with power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus except where the failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; and each Subsidiary of the Company and the Operating Partnership is duly qualified to do business as a foreign organization in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect; all of the issued and outstanding membership interests of each Subsidiary of the Company and the Operating Partnership has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and nonassessable; and the membership interests of each Subsidiary of the Company or the Operating Partnership is owned by the Company or the Operating Partnership, directly or through Subsidiaries, free from liens, encumbrances and defects, except as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. Except for the shares of membership interests of each of the Subsidiaries owned by the Company, the Operating Partnership or such Subsidiaries, neither the Company, the Operating Partnership or such Subsidiaries owns any shares of stock or any other equity securities of any corporation or has any equity interest in any firm, partnership, association or other entity, except as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
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(h) Placement Shares. The Placement Shares and all outstanding shares of common stock of the Company have been duly authorized; the authorized equity capitalization of the Company is as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (except for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to this Agreement, pursuant to reservations, agreements or employee benefit or equity incentive plans described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus); all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are, and, when the Placement Shares have been delivered and paid for in accordance with this Agreement on each Settlement Date, such Placement Shares will have been, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, will conform to the information in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and to the description of such Placement Shares contained therein; the shareholders of the Company have no preemptive rights with respect to the Placement Shares; none of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company have been issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights of any security holder; the forms of certificates used to represent the Placement Shares comply in all material respects with all applicable statutory requirements and with any applicable requirements of the Organizational Documents of the Company, and, in the case of the Placement Shares, with any requirements of the Exchange; the shares of Common Stock have been registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and the Company has not received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration; and the Company has not received any notification that the Exchange is contemplating terminating the listing of the shares of Common Stock. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there are and, will be no outstanding (a) securities or obligations of the Company convertible into or exchangeable for any common stock of the Company, (b) warrants, rights or options to subscribe for or purchase from the Company any such common stock or any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations or (c) except for the Company’s obligation pursuant to that certain advisory agreement with Janney Montgomery Scott LLC pursuant to which the Company may issue shares of Common Stock, LTIP units or common stock equivalents (the “Advisory Payments”), obligations of the Company to issue or sell any shares of common stock, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations, or any such warrants, rights or options.
(i) OP Units. All outstanding common units of partnership interest of the Operating Partnership (the “OP Units”) are and, when the OP Units owned by the Company have been delivered and paid for in accordance with the OP Agreement (the “OP Agreement”), the OP Units will be validly issued and will conform to the description of such OP Units in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and all OP Units issued to the Company will be issued and sold in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities laws. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there are no outstanding (a) securities or obligations of the Operating Partnership convertible into or exchangeable or redeemable for any partnership interests of the Operating Partnership, (b) warrants, rights or options to subscribe for or purchase from the Operating Partnership any such partnership interests or any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations or (c) except for the Company’s obligation to make the Advisory Payments, obligations of the Operating Partnership to issue or sell any partnership interests, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations, or any such warrants, rights or options.
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(j) No Finder’s Fee. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company or any of its affiliates, including, but not limited to, ZH USA, LLC, ZH International Holdings, Ltd. and any of their respective direct or indirect Subsidiaries, and any person (other than as contemplated by this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or the Agents for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with this offering.
(k) Registration Rights. There are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company, the Operating Partnership or their respective Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any person, on the other hand, granting such person the right to require the Company, the Operating Partnership or such Subsidiaries to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any securities of the Company, the Operating Partnership or their respective Subsidiaries owned or to be owned by such person or to require the Company, the Operating Partnership or such Subsidiaries to include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or in any securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company, the Operating Partnership or such Subsidiaries under the Securities Act (collectively, “Registration Rights”) except for the registration rights granted pursuant to the OP Agreement.
(l) Listing. The Placement Shares have been approved for listing on the Exchange, subject to notice of issuance.
(m) Absence of Further Requirements. No consent, approval, authorization, or order of, or filing or registration with, any Governmental Authority is required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the OP Agreement or in connection with the offering, issuance and sale of the Placement Shares by the Company, other than (i) registration of the Placement Shares under the Securities Act, which has been effected, (ii) any necessary qualification under the Securities Act or blue sky laws of the various jurisdictions in which the Placement Shares are being offered by the Agents, (iii) such approvals as have been obtained in connection with the approval of the Placement Shares for listing on the Exchange, or (iv) under the rules of FINRA.
(n) Title to Property. (1) the Operating Partnership holds, directly or indirectly through its wholly-owned Subsidiaries, good and marketable fee simple title to all of the real property described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as wholly-owned by it and the improvements (exclusive of improvements owned by tenants, if applicable) located thereon (except that the Company’s ownership interest of the Omaha Acute Care hospital consists of a long-term ground lease as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus) (individually, a “Property” and collectively, the “Properties”), in each case, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims, security interests, restrictions and defects, except such as are disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, or do not materially affect the value of such Properties as a whole and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such Properties as a whole by the Company; (2) the Properties will not be subject to any mortgages or deeds of trust, except such as are set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; (3) each of the Properties will comply with all applicable codes, laws and regulations (including without limitation, building and zoning codes, laws and regulations and laws relating to access to the Properties), except as would not individually or in the aggregate materially affect the value of the Properties or interfere in any material respect with the use made and proposed to be made of the Properties by the Company; and (4) except with respect to the Properties identified in the Prospectus as “GMR East Orange,” “GMR Altoona,” “GMR Mechanicsburg,” “GMR Mesa,” “West Mifflin Facility” and “GMR Watertown,” no third party will have an option or a right of first refusal to purchase any Property or any portion thereof or interest therein, except as such is set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. Either the Operating Partnership or a Subsidiary of the Operating Partnership has obtained an owner’s title insurance policy, from a title insurance company licensed to issue such policy, on each Property that insures the Operating Partnership’s, such Subsidiary’s fee interest in such Property.
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(o) Casualty. The real property owned by the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of the Operating Partnership’s Subsidiaries has not sustained any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, except for such loss as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(p) Leases. The Operating Partnership or one of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries will hold the lessor’s interest under the leases with any tenants occupying each Property (collectively, the “Leases”). Other than the Leases, none of the Company, the Operating Partnership or their Subsidiaries has entered into any agreements that would materially affect the value of the Properties as a whole or would materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such Properties as a whole by the Company. Neither the Operating Partnership nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the Operating Partnership’s knowledge, any other party to any Lease, is in breach or default of any such Lease; to the Operating Partnership’s knowledge, no event has occurred or been threatened in writing, which with or without the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would, individually or together with all such other events, constitute a default under any Lease, or would, permit termination, modification or acceleration under such Lease; and each of the Leases is valid and binding and in full force and effect, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium or other similar Laws relating to creditors’ rights and general principles of equity.
(q) Absence of Defaults and Conflicts Resulting from Transaction. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the issuance and sale of the Placement Shares by the Company and the use of net proceeds therefrom as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, will not result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default or, to the extent applicable, a Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below) under or result in the imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries pursuant to (A) the Organizational Documents (as defined below) of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries, (B) any statute, rule, regulation or order of any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of the Subsidiaries or any of their Properties, or (C) any agreement or instrument to which the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the Properties is subject (other than relating to the loans to be repaid with proceeds from the offering or as specifically described in the Use of Proceeds section of the Prospectus) and except in case of clause (B) only, for such defaults, violations, liens, charges or encumbrances that would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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A “Debt Repayment Triggering Event” means any event or condition that gives, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time would give, the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries.
“Organizational Documents” means (a) in the case of a trust, its declaration of trust and bylaws; (b) in the case of a corporation, its charter and by-laws; (c) in the case of a limited or general partnership, its partnership certificate, certificate of formation or similar organizational documents and its partnership agreement; (d) in the case of a limited liability company, its articles of organization, certificate of formation or similar organizational documents and its operating agreement, limited liability company agreement, membership agreement or other similar agreement; and (e) in the case of any other entity, the organizational and governing documents of such entity.
(r) Absence of Existing Defaults and Conflicts. None of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries is in violation of its respective Organizational Documents or in default (or with the giving of notice or lapse of time would be in default) under any existing obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, loan agreement, mortgage, lease or other agreement or instrument to which any of them is a party or by which any of them is bound or to which any of the properties of any of them is subject, except for such defaults that would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(s) Authorization of Sales Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Operating Partnership.
(t) Authorization and Enforceability of Management Agreement and OP Agreement. The Amended and Restated Management Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2016 (the “Management Agreement”), by and between the Company and the Manager, has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights or by general equitable principles; and the OP Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Company and the Operating Partnership and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of each of the Company and the Operating Partnership enforceable in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights or by general equitable principles.
(u) Possession of Licenses and Permits. The Company, the Operating Partnership and each of their respective Subsidiaries possess, and are in compliance with the terms of, all adequate certificates, authorizations, franchises, licenses and permits (“Licenses”) necessary or material to the conduct of the business now conducted or proposed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus to be conducted by them and neither the Company nor the Operating Partnership has received any notice and each is otherwise unaware of any claim to the contrary or challenge by any other person to the rights of the Company, the Operating Partnership and each of their respective Subsidiaries with respect to the Licenses that, if determined adversely to the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries, would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(v) Absence of Labor Dispute. None of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries is engaged in any unfair labor practice; and (i) there is (A) no unfair labor practice complaint pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries before the National Labor Relations Board, and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under collective bargaining agreements is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, (B) no strike, labor dispute, slowdown or stoppage pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries and (C) no union representation dispute currently existing concerning the employees of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries, (ii) to the knowledge of the Company, no union organizing activities are currently taking place concerning the employees of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries and (iii) there has been no violation of any federal, state or local law relating to discrimination in the hiring, promotion or pay of employees, any applicable wage or hour laws or any provision of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) concerning the employees of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries except for such violations as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(w) Possession of Intellectual Property. The Company, the Operating Partnership and its Subsidiaries have access to adequate patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks, trade names or other intellectual property necessary to conduct the business now operated by them.
(x) Environmental Laws. None of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries (and, to the knowledge of the Company and the Operating Partnership, no tenant or subtenant of any Property or portion thereof) is in violation of any Environmental Law (as defined below), including relating to the release of Hazardous Materials (as defined below), except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect either individually or in the aggregate, and there are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or the Operating Partnership, threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance, investigations or proceedings relating to any such violation or alleged violation. There are no past or present events, conditions, circumstances, activities, practices, actions, omissions or plans that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any material costs or liabilities to the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their Subsidiaries under, or to interfere with or prevent compliance by the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their Subsidiaries with, Environmental Laws except where such non-compliance would not have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) which would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
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“Environmental Law” means any federal, state or local law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, decree, judgment, injunction, permit, license, authorization or other binding requirement, or common law, relating to health, safety or the protection, cleanup or restoration of the environment or natural resources, including those relating to the distribution, processing, generation, treatment, storage, disposal, transportation, other handling or release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials.
“Hazardous Materials” means any material (including, without limitation, pollutants, contaminants, hazardous or toxic substances or wastes) that is regulated by or may give rise to liability under any Environmental Law.
(y) Employment; Noncompetition; Nondisclosure. Neither the Company nor the Operating Partnership has been notified that any employee of the Company or the Operating Partnership or its respective Subsidiaries plans to terminate his or her employment with the Company or the Operating Partnership or one of its respective Subsidiaries, as applicable. None of the Company, the Operating Partnership or their respective subsidiaries, and to the best knowledge of the Company, any employee of the Operating Partnership or any of its respective Subsidiaries, is subject to any noncompete, nondisclosure, confidentiality, employment, consulting or similar agreement that would be violated by the business activities of the Company or the Operating Partnership as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(z) Accurate Disclosure. The statements in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus under the captions “Description of Our Capital Stock,” “Certain Provisions of Maryland Law and of Our Charter and Bylaws,” “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations,” and “Plan of Distribution,” (but excluding the Agents’ Information (as defined below)) insofar as such statements summarize legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings discussed therein, are accurate and fair summaries of such legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings in all material respects and present the information required to be shown.
(aa) Absence of Manipulation. None of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries or, to the Company’s knowledge, any affiliates of the Company, has taken, directly or indirectly, any action that is designed to or that has constituted or that would reasonably be expected to cause or result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Placement Shares.
(bb) Statistical and Market-Related Data. Any third-party statistical and market-related data included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate.
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(cc) Internal Controls and Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, the Company, its Subsidiaries and the Company’s Board of Directors are in compliance with all applicable provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley and the Exchange Rules. The Company maintains a system of internal controls, including, but not limited to, disclosure controls and procedures, internal controls over accounting matters and financial reporting, an internal audit function and legal and regulatory compliance controls (collectively, “Internal Controls”) that complies with the applicable Securities Laws are sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“US GAAP”) and to maintain accountability for assets; (C) receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (D) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (E) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Internal Controls are overseen by the Audit Committee of the Board (the “Audit Committee”) in accordance with the Exchange Rules. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (i) no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (ii) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, since the date of the most recent balance sheet of the Company reviewed or audited by the Company’s accountants, (i) the Audit Committee has not been advised of (A) any significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls that could adversely affect the ability of the Company to record, process, summarize and report financial data, or any material weaknesses in internal controls and (B) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the internal controls of the Company, and (ii) there have been no significant changes in internal controls over financial reporting that has materially affected the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.
“Securities Laws” means, collectively, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Sarbanes-Oxley”), the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the Rules and Regulations, the auditing principles, rules, standards and practices applicable to auditors of “issuers” (as defined in Sarbanes-Oxley) promulgated or approved by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and, as applicable, the rules of the Exchange (“Exchange Rules”).
(dd) Disclosure Controls. The Company maintains an effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and that has been designed to provide reasonable assurances that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
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(ee) Litigation. There are no pending actions, suits or proceedings (including any inquiries or investigations by any Governmental Authority) against or affecting the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries or Properties that, if determined adversely to the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries or properties, would materially and adversely affect the ability of the Company or the Operating Partnership to perform their respective obligations under this Agreement, or which are otherwise material in the context of the sale of the Placement Shares; and neither the Company or the Operating Partnership has received any written notice or communication threatening such actions, suits or proceedings (including any inquiries or investigations by any Governmental Authority) or, to the Company’s or the Operating Partnership’s knowledge, none are contemplated.
(ff) Financial Statements; Non-GAAP Financial Measures. The financial statements incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, together with the related schedules and notes, present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the dates indicated, and the statements of operations, changes in members’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries for the periods specified; said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with US GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved and comply with the Commission’s rules and guidelines with respect thereto. The supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus relating to the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries present fairly in accordance with US GAAP the information required to be stated therein. The consolidated balance sheet of the Company included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, together with the related notes, present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company at the date indicated; said consolidated balance sheet has been prepared in conformity with US GAAP and complies with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act with respect thereto. The selected financial data and the summary financial information incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent with that of the audited, or unaudited as applicable, financial statements of the Company included therein and comply with the Commission’s rules and guidelines with respect thereto. The unaudited pro forma consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto, if any, incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus present fairly in all material respects the information shown therein, comply with the Commission’s rules and guidelines with respect to unaudited pro forma financial statements and have been properly compiled on the bases described therein, and the assumptions used in the preparation thereof are reasonable and the adjustments used therein are appropriate to give effect to the transactions and circumstances referred to therein. Except as included therein, no historical or unaudited pro forma financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus under the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations. All disclosures contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is defined by the Rules and Regulations) comply with Regulation G of the Exchange Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act to the extent applicable. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus fairly present the information called for in all material respects and have been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.
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(gg) No Material Adverse Change in Business. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, since the end of the period covered by the latest audited financial statements included therein, (A) there has been no change, nor any development or event involving a prospective change, in the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, properties or prospects of the Company, the Operating Partnership and their respective Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, that is material and adverse, (B) there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company, the Operating Partnership and their respective Subsidiaries, on any class of the capital stock, membership interest or other equity interest, as applicable, (C) there has not been any material transaction entered into or any material transaction that is probable of being entered into by the Company, the Operating Partnership and their respective Subsidiaries, other than transactions in the ordinary course of business and changes and transactions disclosed or described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and (D) there has not been any loan, debt or obligation, direct or contingent, which is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, incurred by the Company, the Operating Partnership and their respective Subsidiaries, except obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and changes and transactions disclosed or described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(hh) Investment Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is or, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Placement Shares, will be an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”).
(ii) Insurance. The Company, the Operating Partnership and each of their respective Subsidiaries is insured against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary for the businesses in which they are engaged; all policies of insurance and fidelity or surety bonds insuring the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries or their respective businesses, assets, employees, officers and directors are in full force and effect; none of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; none of the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; and the Company has obtained or will obtain directors’ and officers’ insurance in such amounts as is customary for companies engaged in the type of business to be conducted by the Company.
(jj) Tax Law Compliance. The Company, the Operating Partnership and their respective Subsidiaries have filed (A) all federal and state income tax returns, (B) all material franchise tax returns and (C) all other material tax returns in a timely manner, and all such tax returns are correct and complete in all material respects, and have paid all taxes required to be paid by any of them and, if due and payable, any related or similar assessment, fine or penalty levied against any of them, except for any taxes, assessments, fines or penalties that are not material and are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings. The Company, the Operating Partnership and each of their respective Subsidiaries have no knowledge of any tax deficiency which has been or is likely to be threatened or asserted against the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their respective Subsidiaries, as the case may be.
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(kk) Real Estate Investment Trust. Commencing with the Company’s taxable year ended December 31, 2016, the Company has been, and upon the sale of the Placement Shares, the Company will continue to be, organized and operated in a manner so as to qualify as a real estate investment trust (a “REIT”) under Section 856 through 860 of Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time (the “Code”). The proposed method of operation of the Company as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus will enable the Company to meet the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Code. All statements regarding the Company’s qualification and taxation as a REIT and descriptions of the Company’s organization and proposed method of operation set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus are true, complete and correct in all material respects.
(ll) No Restriction on Subsidiaries. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, no Subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such Subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such Subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such Subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company.
(mm) No Improper Practices. (i) Neither the Company nor the Subsidiaries, nor any director, officer, or employee of the Company or any Subsidiary nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any agent, affiliate, or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary has, in the past five years, made any unlawful contributions to any candidate for any political office (or failed fully to disclose any contribution in violation of applicable law) or made any contribution or other payment to any official of, or candidate for, any federal, state, municipal, or foreign office or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duty in violation of any applicable law or of the character required to be disclosed in the Prospectus; (ii) except as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there are no material outstanding loans or advances or material guarantees of indebtedness by the Company or any Subsidiary to or for the benefit of any of their respective officers or directors or any of the members of the families of any of them; (iii) the Company has not offered, or caused any placement agent to offer, Common Stock to any person with the intent to influence unlawfully (A) a customer or supplier of the Company or any Subsidiary to alter the customer’s or supplier’s level or type of business with the Company or any Subsidiary or (B) a trade journalist or publication to write or publish favorable information about the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their respective products or services, and (vi) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary nor any director, officer, or employee of the Company or any Subsidiary nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any agent, affiliate, or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary has (A) violated or is in violation of any applicable provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law (collectively, “Anti-Corruption Laws”), (B) promised, offered, provided, attempted to provide, or authorized the provision of anything of value, directly or indirectly, to any person for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business, influencing any act or decision of the recipient, or securing any improper advantage; or (C) made any payment of funds of the Company or any Subsidiary or received or retained any funds in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws.
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(nn) Sanctions. (i) None of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries (collectively, the “Entity”), or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, employee, agent, affiliate or representative of the Entity, is a government, individual, or entity (in this paragraph, “Person”) that is, or is owned or controlled by a Person that is:
(A) the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authorities, including, without limitation, designation on OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List or OFAC’s Foreign Sanctions Evaders List (as amended, collectively, “Sanctions”), nor
(B) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions that broadly prohibit dealings with that country or territory (including, without limitation, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea Region of the Ukraine) (the “Sanctioned Countries”).
(ii) The Entity will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person:
(A) to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any Person or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject of Sanctions or is a Sanctioned Country; or
(B) in any other manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise).
(iii) Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, for the past 5 years, the Entity has not engaged in, is not now engaging in, and will not engage in, any dealings or transactions with any Person, or in any country or territory, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions or is or was a Sanctioned Country.
(oo) Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial record keeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the anti-money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions in which the Company or its Subsidiaries conduct business or whose Anti-Money Laundering Laws (as defined below) apply to the Company, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any Governmental Authority (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”); and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any Governmental Authority involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
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(pp) Emerging Growth Company Status. The Company is an “emerging growth company” as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Securities Act (an “Emerging Growth Company”).
(qq) Independent Public Accounting Firm. MaloneBailey, LLP (the “Accountant”), whose report on the consolidated financial statements of the Company is filed with the Commission as part of the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, are and, during the periods covered by their report, were an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). To the Company’s knowledge, the Accountant is not in violation of the auditor independence requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley with respect to the Company.
(rr) ERISA Matters. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with all presently applicable provisions of ERISA; no “reportable event” (as defined in ERISA) has occurred with respect to any “pension plan” (as defined in ERISA) for which the Company and each Subsidiary would have any liability; the Company and each Subsidiary has not incurred and does not expect to incur liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “pension plan” or (ii) Sections 412 or 4971 of the Code; and each “pension plan” for which the Company or any Subsidiary would have any liability that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified in all material respects and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification except as where failure to be so qualified would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(ss) Related-Party Transactions. There are no relationships or related-party transactions involving the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of their Subsidiaries or any other person required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus that have not been described as required.
(tt) Investment Strategy. The Company’s investment strategy described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus accurately reflect in all material respects the current intentions of the Company with respect to the operation of the Company’s business, and no material deviation from such investment strategy is currently contemplated.
(uu) Market Capitalization. At the time the Registration Statement was originally declared effective, and at the time the Company’s most current Annual Report on Form 10-K is filed after the Registration Statement was originally declared effective, the Company met and will meet the then-applicable requirements for the use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act, including, but not limited to, General Instruction I.B.1 of Form S-3. The Company is not a shell company (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) and has not been a shell company for at least 12 calendar months previously and if it has been a shell company at any time previously, has filed current Form 10 information (as defined in Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3) with the Commission at least 12 calendar months previously reflecting its status as an entity that is not a shell company.
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(vv) Certain Market Activities. Neither the Company, any of the Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any of their respective directors, officers or controlling persons has taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed, or that has constituted or might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Placement Shares.
(ww) Broker/Dealer Relationships. Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries (i) is required to register as a “broker” or “dealer” in accordance with the provisions of the Exchange Act or (ii) directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is a “person associated with a member” or “associated person of a member” (within the meaning set forth in the FINRA Manual).
(xx) No Reliance. The Company has not relied upon the Agents or legal counsel for the Agents for any legal, tax or accounting advice in connection with the offering and sale of the Placement Shares.
(yy) Sarbanes-Oxley. There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply in all material respects with any applicable provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Each of the principal executive officer and the principal financial officer of the Company (or each former principal executive officer of the Company and each former principal financial officer of the Company as applicable) has made all certifications required by Sections 302 and 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley with respect to all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by it or furnished by it to the Commission. For purposes of the preceding sentence, “principal executive officer” and “principal financial officer” shall have the meanings given to such terms in Sarbanes-Oxley.
(zz) Underwriter Agreements. The Company is not a party to any agreement with an agent or underwriter for any other “at the market” or continuous equity transaction.
(aaa) Forward-Looking Statements. No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.
(bbb) Agent Purchases. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Agent has informed the Company that such Agent may, to the extent permitted under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, purchase and sell Common Stock for its own account while this Agreement is in effect, provided, that the Company shall not be deemed to have authorized or consented to any such purchases or sales by such Agent.
(ccc) Margin Rules. Neither the issuance, sale and delivery of the Placement Shares nor the application of the proceeds thereof by the Company as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus will violate Regulation T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any other regulation of such Board of Governors.
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(ddd) Stock Transfer Taxes. On each Settlement Date, all stock transfer or other taxes (other than income taxes) which are required to be paid in connection with the sale and transfer of the Placement Shares to be sold hereunder will be, or will have been, fully paid or provided for by the Company and all laws imposing such taxes will be or will have been fully complied with.
Any certificate signed by an officer of the Company or the Operating Partnership and delivered to the Agents or to counsel for the Agents pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company or the Operating Partnership, as applicable, to the Agents as to the matters set forth therein.
6a. The Manager represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Agents that:
(a) Good Standing of the Manager. The Manager has been duly formed and is validly existing as a limited liability company and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; and the Manager is duly qualified to do business as a foreign organization in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which the conduct of business requires such qualification, except were the failure to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Authorization of Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Manager.
(c) Authorization of the Management Agreement. The Management Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Manager. The Management Agreement constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Manager enforceable in accordance with its terms, except to the extent limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally, and subject, as to enforceability, to general principles of equity and, with respect to equitable relief, the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding at law or in equity).
(d) Consents. No consent, approval, authorization, or order of, or filing or registration with, any Governmental Authority is necessary or required for the performance by the Manager of its obligations under this Agreement and the Management Agreement, except such as have been already obtained or as may be required under the Securities Laws.
(e) Organization and Agreements. The Manager is not in violation of its organizational documents or in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Manager is a party or will be a party in connection with this Agreement (including the Management Agreement) or by which it may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the Manager is subject (collectively, “Manager’s Agreements and Instruments”), except for such violations or defaults that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement do not and will not, and in the case of the performance of the Management Agreement, will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or repayment event under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Manager pursuant to, the Manager’s Agreements and Instruments (except for such conflicts, breaches, defaults or repayment events or liens, charges or encumbrances that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect), nor will such action result in any violation of (A) the provisions of the organizational and governing documents of the Manager or (B) any statute, law, rule, regulation, or order of any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Manager or any of its assets, properties or operations, except in the case of clause (B) only, for any such violation that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(f) Licenses. The Manager possesses, and is in compliance with the terms of, all licenses necessary or material to the conduct of the business of the Manager now conducted or proposed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus to be conducted by the Manager, except where the failure to possess such licenses would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect, and has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any licenses that, if determined adversely to the Manager would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(g) Employees of Manager. The Manager has not been notified in writing that any of its executive officers or key employees named in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (each, a “Company-Focused Professional”) plans to terminate his or her employment with the Manager. Neither the Manager nor, to the knowledge of the Manager, any Company-Focused Professional is subject to any noncompete, nondisclosure, confidentiality, employment, consulting or similar agreement that would be materially violated by the present or proposed business activities of the Company or the Manager as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(h) Accurate Disclosure. The statements and other information regarding the Manager in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, including, but not limited to those made under the caption “Global Medical REIT Inc.”, insofar as such statements summarize legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings discussed therein, are accurate and fair summaries of such legal matters, agreements, documents or proceedings in all material respects.
(i) No Market Manipulation. The Manager has not taken, and will not take, directly or indirectly, any action that is designed to or that has constituted or that would be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Placement Shares.
(j) Litigation. There are no actions, suits or proceedings (including any inquiries or investigations by any Governmental Authority now pending, or, to the knowledge of the Manager, threatened against or affecting the Manager that, if determined adversely to the Manager, would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(k) Insurance. The Manager and its Subsidiaries are insured by insurers with appropriately rated claims paying abilities against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary for the businesses in which they are engaged; all policies of insurance and fidelity or surety bonds insuring the Manager or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses, assets, employees, officers and directors are in full force and effect; and neither the Manager nor any such Subsidiary has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for.
(l) Investment Advisors Act. The Manager is not prohibited by the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”), or the rules and regulations thereunder, from performing its obligations under the Management Agreement as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; and the Manager is not registered and is not required to be registered as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act.
(m) Offers or Sales. The Manager (including its agents and representatives, other than the Agents in their capacity as such) has not prepared, used, authorized, approved or referred to and will not prepare, use, authorize, approve or refer to any “written communication” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Placement Shares.
(n) Internal Controls. The Manager operates under the Company’s system of internal accounting controls in order to provide reasonable assurances that (A) transactions effectuated by it on behalf of the Company pursuant to its duties set forth in the Management Agreement are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (B) access to the Company’s assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization.
(o) Financial Resources. The Manager has the financial, personnel and other resources available to it necessary for the performance of its services and obligations as contemplated hereby and in the Management Agreement, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
7. Covenants of the Company. The Company and the Operating Partnership, jointly and severally, covenant and agree with the Agents that:
(a) Registration Statement Amendments; Payment of Fees. After the date of this Agreement and during any period in which a Prospectus relating to any Placement Shares is required to be delivered by the Agents under the Securities Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172 under the Securities Act or similar rule), (i) the Company will notify the Agents promptly of the time when any subsequent amendment to the Registration Statement, has been filed with the Commission and/or has become effective or any subsequent supplement to the Prospectus has been filed and of any request by the Commission for any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information (in all cases, except for documents incorporated by reference or any amendment, supplement or comment letter relating solely to the issuance or offering of securities other than the Placement Shares), (ii) the Company will prepare and file with the Commission, promptly upon the Agents’ request, any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or Prospectus that, in the Agents’ reasonable opinion, may be necessary or advisable in connection with the distribution of the Placement Shares by an Agent (provided however, that the failure of the Agents to make such request shall not relieve the Company of any obligation or liability hereunder, or affect the Agents’ right to rely on the representations and warranties made by the Company in this Agreement (provided further that the only remedy the Agents have with respect to the failure to make such filing will be to cease making sales under this Agreement)); (iii) the Company will not file any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus, other than documents incorporated by reference, relating to the Placement Shares or a security convertible into the Placement Shares unless a copy thereof has been submitted to the Agents within a reasonable period of time before the filing and the Agents have not reasonably objected in writing thereto (provided however, that (i) the failure of the Agents to make such objection shall not relieve the Company of any obligation or liability hereunder, or affect the Agents’ right to rely on the representations and warranties made by the Company in this Agreement (provided that the only remedy the Agents have with respect to the failure by the Company to so submit such proposed filing to the Agents will be to cease making sales under this Agreement), and (ii) the Company has no obligation to provide the Agents any advance copy of such filing or to provide the Agents an opportunity to object to such filing if such filing does not name the Agents or specifically discuss the Placement Shares as contemplated hereby) and the Company will furnish to the Agents at the time of filing thereof a copy of any document that upon filing is deemed to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement or Prospectus, except for those documents available via EDGAR; and (iv) the Company will cause each amendment or supplement to the Prospectus, other than documents incorporated by reference, to be filed with the Commission as required pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act (without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8) of the Securities Act).
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(b) Notice of Commission Stop Orders. Promptly after it receives notice or obtains knowledge thereof, the Company will advise the Agents of the issuance or threatened issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any other order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the Placement Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose or any examination pursuant to Section 8(e) of the Securities Act, or if the Company becomes the subject of a proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act in connection with the offering of the Shares; and it will promptly use its commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop or other order or to obtain its withdrawal if such a stop or other order should be issued.
(c) Delivery of Prospectus; Subsequent Changes. During any period in which a Prospectus relating to the Placement Shares is required to be delivered by the Agents under the Securities Act with respect to a pending sale of the Placement Shares, (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172 under the Securities Act or similar rule), the Company will comply in all material respects with the requirements imposed upon it by the Securities Act, as from time to time in force, and to file on or before their respective due dates all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, 15(d) or any other provision of or under the Exchange Act. If during such period any event occurs as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then existing, not misleading, or if during such period it is necessary to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act, the Company will promptly notify the Designated Agent to suspend the offering of Placement Shares during such period and the Company will promptly amend or supplement, or file a free writing prospectus applicable to, the Registration Statement or Prospectus (at the expense of the Company) so as to correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance.
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(d) Listing of Placement Shares. During any period in which the Prospectus relating to the Placement Shares is required to be delivered by the Agents under the Securities Act with respect to a pending sale of the Placement Shares (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172 under the Securities Act or similar rule), the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Placement Shares to be listed on the Exchange and will cooperate with the Agents to qualify the Placement Shares for sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Agents reasonably designate and to continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Placement Shares; provided however, that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith to qualify as a foreign entity or dealer in securities or file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction.
(e) Filings with the Exchange. The Company will timely file with the Exchange all material documents and notices required by the Exchange of companies that have or will issue securities that are traded on the Exchange.
(f) Delivery of Registration Statement and Prospectus. The Company will furnish to the Agents and their counsel (at the expense of the Company) copies of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus (including all documents incorporated by reference therein) and all amendments and supplements to the Registration Statement or Prospectus that are filed with the Commission during any period in which a Prospectus relating to the Placement Shares is required to be delivered under the Securities Act (including all documents filed with the Commission during such period that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein), in each case as soon as reasonably practicable and in such quantities as the Agents may from time to time reasonably request and, at the Agents’ request, will also furnish copies of the Prospectus to each exchange or market on which sales of the Placement Shares may be made; provided however, that the Company shall not be required to furnish any document (other than the Prospectus) to the Agents to the extent such document is available to the Agents or the public on EDGAR.
(g) Earnings Statement. The Company will make generally available to its security holders as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event not later than 15 months after the end of the Company’s current fiscal quarter, an earnings statement covering a 12-month period that satisfies the provisions of Section 11(a) and Rule 158 of the Securities Act. “Earnings statement” and “make generally available” will have the meanings contained in Rule 158 under the Securities Act.
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(h) Expenses. The Company will pay all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including (i) the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement, including any fees required by the Commission, and the electronic delivery of the Prospectus as originally filed and of each amendment and supplement thereto, (ii) the printing and delivery to the Agents of this Agreement and such other documents as may be required in connection with the offering, purchase, sale, issuance or delivery of the Placement Shares, (iii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of the certificates, if any, for the Placement Shares to the Agents, including any stock or other transfer taxes and any capital duties, stamp duties or other duties or taxes payable upon the sale, issuance or delivery of the Placement Shares to the Agents, (iv) the fees and disbursements of the counsel, accountants and other advisors to the Company, (v) the fees and expenses of the Agents including but not limited to the fees and expenses of the counsel to the Agents, payable upon the execution of this Agreement, in an amount up to $50,000 in the aggregate for all Agents, (vi) the qualification or exemption of the Placement Shares under state securities laws in accordance with the provisions of Section 7(d) hereof, including filing fees, but excluding fees of the Agents’ counsel, (vii) the printing and delivery to the Agents of copies of any Permitted Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto in such number as the Agents shall deem necessary, (viii) the preparation, printing and delivery to the Agents of copies of the blue sky survey, (ix) the fees and expenses of the transfer agent and registrar for the Common Stock, (x) the filing and other fees incident to any review by FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Placement Shares, including the fees of the Agents’ counsel (subject to the cap, set forth in clause (v) above, and (xi) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the Placement Shares on the Exchange.
(i) Use of Proceeds. The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Shares to be sold by the Agents hereunder in accordance in all material respects with the statements under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus.
(j) Notice of Other Sales. During the pendency of any Placement Notice given hereunder, the Company shall provide the Agents notice as promptly as reasonably practicable before it offers to sell, contracts to sell, sells, grants any option to sell or otherwise disposes of any shares of Common Stock (other than Placement Shares offered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement) or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock, warrants or any rights to purchase or acquire shares of Common Stock; provided, that such notice shall not be required in connection with (i) the issuance, grant or sale of shares of Common Stock, options to purchase shares of Common Stock or shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of options or other equity awards pursuant to any stock option, stock bonus or other stock or compensatory plan or arrangement described in the Prospectus, (ii) the issuance of securities in connection with an acquisition, merger or other business combination or sale or purchase of assets, (iii) the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock pursuant to any dividend reinvestment plan whether now in effect or hereafter implemented, (iv) the issuance of any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of securities or the exercise of warrants, options or other rights in effect or outstanding and disclosed in filings by the Company with the Commission or otherwise in writing to the Agents, (v) the redemption of outstanding OP Units in accordance with the OP Agreement and (vi) the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock pursuant to an underwritten public offering.
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(k) Change of Circumstances. The Company will, at any time during the pendency of a Placement Notice, advise the Agents promptly after it has received notice or obtained knowledge thereof of any information or fact that would alter or affect in any material respect any opinion, certificate, letter or other document provided to the Agents pursuant to this Agreement.
(l) Due Diligence Cooperation. The Company and the Operating Partnership will cooperate with any commercially reasonable due diligence review conducted by the Agents or their representatives in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, providing information and making available documents and senior officers, upon reasonable notice during regular business hours and at the Company’s principal offices, as the Agents may reasonably request.
(m) Required Filings Relating to Placement of Placement Shares. The Company agrees that on such dates as the Securities Act shall require, the Company will (i) file a prospectus supplement with the Commission under the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, which prospectus supplement will set forth, within the relevant period, the amount of Placement Shares sold through the Agents, the Net Proceeds to the Company and the compensation payable by the Company to the Agents with respect to such Placement Shares, and (ii) deliver such number of copies of each such prospectus supplement to each exchange or market on which such sales were effected as may be required by the rules or regulations of such exchange or market.
(n) Representation Dates; Certificate. On or prior to the date that the first Shares are sold pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and each time the Company (i) files the Prospectus relating to the Placement Shares or amends or supplements (other than by means of a prospectus supplement relating solely to an offering of securities other than the Placement Shares) the Registration Statement or the Prospectus relating to the Placement Shares by means of a post-effective amendment, sticker, or supplement but not by means of incorporation of documents by reference into the Registration Statement or the Prospectus relating to the Placement Shares; (ii) files an annual report on Form 10-K under the Exchange Act; (iii) files its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act; or (iv) files a report on Form 8-K containing amended financial information (other than information furnished pursuant to Items 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K or to provide disclosure pursuant to Item 8.01 of Form 8-K relating to the reclassifications of certain properties as discontinued operations in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 144) under the Exchange Act (each date of filing of one or more of the documents referred to in clauses (i) through (iv) shall be a “Representation Date”); the Company and the Operating Partnership shall furnish the Agents (but in the case of clause (iv) above only if an Agent reasonably determines that the information contained in such Form 8-K is material) with a certificate, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 7(n) within five Trading Days of any Representation Date if requested by the Agent. The requirement to provide a certificate under this Section 7(n) is hereby waived for any Representation Date occurring at a time at which no Placement Notice is pending, which waiver shall continue until the earlier to occur of the date the Company delivers a Placement Notice hereunder (which for such calendar quarter shall be considered a Representation Date) and the next occurring Representation Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company subsequently decides to sell Placement Shares following a Representation Date when the Company relied on such waiver and did not provide the Agents with a certificate under this Section 7(n), then before the Company delivers the Placement Notice or the Agents sell any Placement Shares, the Company and the Operating Partnership shall provide the Agents with a certificate, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 7(n), dated the date of the Placement Notice.
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(o) Legal Opinion. On or prior to the date that the first Shares are sold pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and within three (3) Trading Days of each Representation Date with respect to which the Company and the Operating Partnership are obligated to deliver a certificate in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 7(n) for which no waiver is applicable, the Company shall cause to be furnished to the Agents written opinions of Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. and Venable LLP (together, in such capacity, “Company Counsel”) and of Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. as to certain tax matters (in such capacity, “Tax Counsel”), or other counsel satisfactory to the Agents, in substantially the forms attached hereto in Exhibit 7(o), dated the date that the opinions are required to be delivered, modified, as necessary, to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented; provided however, that (i) the Company shall not be required to furnish to the Agents such opinions or Reliance Letters (as defined below) more than once per calendar quarter and (ii) in lieu of such opinions for subsequent Representation Dates, counsel may furnish the Agents with a letter (a “Reliance Letter”) to the effect that the Agents may rely on a prior opinion delivered under this Section 7(o) to the same extent as if it were dated the date of such letter (except that statements in such prior opinion shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented at such Representation Date).
(p) Comfort Letter. On or prior to the date that the first Shares are sold pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and within three (3) Trading Days of each Representation Date with respect to which the Company and the Operating Partnership are obligated to deliver a certificate in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 7(n) for which no waiver is applicable, the Company shall cause its independent accountants (and any other independent accountants whose report is included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus) to furnish the Agents letters (the “Comfort Letters”), dated the date of the Comfort Letter is delivered, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agents, (i) confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm within the meaning of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the PCAOB, (ii) stating, as of such date, the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters in connection with registered public offerings (the first such letter, the “Initial Comfort Letter”) and (iii) updating the Initial Comfort Letter with any information that would have been included in the Initial Comfort Letter had it been given on such date and modified as necessary to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, as amended and supplemented to the date of such letter.
(q) Market Activities. The Company will not, directly or indirectly, violate the provisions of Regulation M of the Securities Act that are applicable to it.
(r) Insurance. The Company and the Subsidiaries shall maintain, or caused to be maintained, insurance in such amounts and covering such risks as is commercially reasonable and customary for companies engaged in similar businesses in similar industries, except where the failure to maintain such insurance would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(s) Compliance with Laws. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries shall maintain, or cause to be maintained, all material environmental permits, licenses and other authorizations required by federal, state and local law in order to conduct their businesses as described in the Prospectus, and the Company and each of its Subsidiaries shall conduct their businesses, or cause their businesses to be conducted, in substantial compliance with such permits, licenses and authorizations and with applicable environmental laws, except where the failure to maintain or be in compliance with such permits, licenses and authorizations would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(t) REIT Treatment. The Company currently intends to continue to qualify as a real estate investment trust under the Code and will use commercially reasonable efforts to enable the Company to continue to meet the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Code for subsequent tax years that include any portion of the term of this Agreement.
(u) Investment Company Act. The Company is familiar with the Investment Company Act and will in the future use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Company and the Operating Partnership will not be an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act.
(v) Securities Act and Exchange Act. The Company will use its best efforts to comply with all requirements imposed upon it by the Securities Act and the Exchange Act as from time to time in force, so far as necessary to permit the continuance of sales of, or dealings in, the Placement Shares as contemplated by the provisions hereof and the Prospectus.
(w) No Offer to Sell. Other than a free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) approved in advance in writing by the Company and the Agents in their capacity as principals or agents hereunder, neither the Agents nor the Company (including its agents and representatives, other than the Agents in their capacity as such) will, directly or indirectly, make, use, prepare, authorize, approve or refer to any free writing prospectus relating to the Shares to be sold by the Agents as principals or agents hereunder unless such free writing prospectus is used by the Agents and is not required to be filed with the Commission.
(x) Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Company and the Subsidiaries will maintain and keep accurate books and records reflecting their assets and maintain internal accounting controls in a manner designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with US GAAP and including those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company, (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP, (iii) that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with management’s and the Company’s directors’ authorization, and (iv) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on its financial statements. The Company and the Subsidiaries will maintain such controls and other procedures, including, without limitation, those required by Sections 302 and 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the applicable regulations thereunder that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its Chief Executive Officer and principal financial officer, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure and to ensure that material information relating to the Company or the Subsidiaries is made known to them by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which such periodic reports are being prepared.
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(y) Transfer Agent. The Company shall maintain, at its expense, a registrar and transfer agent for the Common Stock.
(z) Emerging Growth Company Status. The Company will promptly notify the Agents if the Company ceases to be an Emerging Growth Company at any time during the term of this Agreement.
8. Conditions to the Agents’ Obligations. The obligations of the Agents hereunder with respect to a Placement will be subject to the continuing accuracy and completeness of the representations and warranties made by the Company and the Operating Partnership herein, to the due performance by the Company and the Operating Partnership of their respective obligations hereunder, to the completion by the Agents of a due diligence review satisfactory to the Agents in its reasonable judgment, and to the continuing satisfaction (or waiver by each of the Agents in its sole discretion) of the following additional conditions:
(a) Registration Statement Effective. The Registration Statement shall be effective and shall be available for the sale of all Placement Shares contemplated to be issued by any Placement Notice.
(b) No Material Notices. None of the following events shall have occurred and be continuing: (i) receipt by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any request for additional information from the Commission or any other Governmental Authority during the period of effectiveness of the Registration Statement, the response to which would require any post-effective amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus; (ii) the issuance by the Commission or any other Governmental Authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; (iii) receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Placement Shares for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; (iv) the occurrence of any event that makes any statement made in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in the Registration Statement, related Prospectus or such documents so that, in the case of the Registration Statement, it will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and, that in the case of the Prospectus, it will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
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(c) No Misstatement or Material Omission. The Registration Statement and Prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto, shall not contain any untrue statement of a material fact, or omit to state a material fact that is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(d) Material Changes. Except as contemplated in the Prospectus, or disclosed in the Company’s reports filed with the Commission, there shall not have been any material adverse change, on a consolidated basis, in the authorized capital stock of the Company or the Operating Partnership or result in a Material Adverse Effect, or any development that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or any downgrading in or withdrawal of the rating assigned to any of the Company’s or the Operating Partnership’s securities (other than asset backed securities) by any rating organization or a public announcement by any rating organization that it has under surveillance or review its rating of any of the Company’s or the Operating Partnership’s securities (other than asset backed securities), the effect of which, in the case of any such action by a rating organization described above, in the judgment of the Agents (without relieving the Company or the Operating Partnership of any obligation or liability it may otherwise have), is so material as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering of the Placement Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.
(e) Company Counsel Legal Opinions. The Agents shall have received the opinions of Company Counsel and Tax Counsel required to be delivered pursuant Section 7(o) on or before the date on which such delivery of such opinions is required pursuant to Section 7(o).
(f) Agents Legal Counsel Opinion. The Agents shall have received from Cooley LLP, counsel for the Agents, such opinion or opinions, on or before the date on which the delivery of the opinions of Company Counsel and Tax Counsel is required pursuant to Section 7(o), with respect to such matters as the Agents may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they reasonably request for enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(g) Comfort Letter. The Agents shall have received the Comfort Letter required to be delivered pursuant Section 7(p) on or before the date on which such delivery of such letter is required pursuant to Section 7(p).
(h) Representation Certificate. The Agents shall have received the certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7(n) on or before the date on which delivery of such certificate is required pursuant to Section 7(n).
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(i) No Suspension. Trading in the Shares shall not have been suspended on the Exchange.
(j) Other Materials. On each date on which the Company and the Operating Partnership are required to deliver a certificate pursuant to Section 7(n), the Company and the Operating Partnership shall have furnished to the Agents such appropriate further information, certificates and documents as the Agents may have reasonably requested. All such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents shall have been in compliance with the provisions hereof. The Company and the Operating Partnership shall have furnished the Agents with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as the Agents shall have reasonably requested.
(k) Securities Act Filings Made. All filings with the Commission required by Rule 424 under the Securities Act to have been filed prior to the issuance of any Placement Notice hereunder shall have been made within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by Rule 424.
(l) Approval for Listing. The Placement Shares shall either have been (i) approved for listing on the Exchange, subject only to notice of issuance, or (ii) the Company shall have filed an application for listing of the Placement Shares on the Exchange at, or prior to, the issuance of any Placement Notice.
(m) No Termination Event. There shall not have occurred any event that would permit the Agents to terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 11(a).
9. Indemnification and Contribution.
(a) Company and Operating Partnership Indemnification. The Company and the Operating Partnership, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Agents, their respective affiliates and their respective partners, members, directors, officers, employees and agents and each person, if any, who controls the applicable Agent or any affiliate within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act as follows: (i) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, joint or several, arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact included in any related Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
(ii) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, joint or several, to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any Governmental Authority, commenced or threatened, or of any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission; provided, that (subject to Section 9(d) below) any such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be delayed or withheld; and
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(iii) against any and all expense whatsoever, as incurred (including the fees and disbursements of counsel), reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any Governmental Authority, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission (whether or not a party), to the extent that any such expense is not paid under (i) or (ii) above, provided, however, that this indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense to the extent arising out of any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made solely in reliance upon and in conformity with the Agents’ Information (as defined below).
(b) Indemnification by the Agents. Each Agent, severally but not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and the Operating Partnership and their respective directors and each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the Operating Partnership within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in Section 9(a), as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in the Registration Statement (or any amendments thereto), the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to the Agent and furnished to the Company in writing by the Agent expressly for use therein. The Company hereby acknowledges that the only information that the Agent has furnished to the Company expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) are the statements set forth in the seventh and tenth paragraphs under the caption “Plan of Distribution” in the Prospectus (the “Agents’ Information”).
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(c) Procedure. Any party that proposes to assert the right to be indemnified under this Section 9 will, promptly after receipt of notice of commencement of any action against such party in respect of which a claim is to be made against an indemnifying party or parties under this Section 9, notify each such indemnifying party of the commencement of such action, enclosing a copy of all papers served, but the omission so to notify such indemnifying party will not relieve the indemnifying party from (i) any liability that it might have to any indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 9 and (ii) any liability that it may have to any indemnified party under the foregoing provision of this Section 9 unless, and only to the extent that, such omission results in the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses by the indemnifying party. If any such action is brought against any indemnified party and it notifies the indemnifying party of its commencement, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate in and, to the extent that it elects by delivering written notice to the indemnified party promptly after receiving notice of the commencement of the action from the indemnified party, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense of the action, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party, and after notice from the indemnifying party to the indemnified party of its election to assume the defense, the indemnifying party will not be liable to the indemnified party for any other legal expenses except as provided below and except for the reasonable costs of investigation subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection with the defense. The indemnified party will have the right to employ its own counsel in any such action, but the fees, expenses and other charges of such counsel will be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (1) the engagement of counsel by the indemnified party has been authorized in writing by the indemnifying party, (2) the indemnified party has reasonably concluded (based on advice of counsel) that there may be legal defenses available to it or other indemnified parties that are different from or in addition to those available to the indemnifying party, (3) a conflict or potential conflict exists (based on advice of counsel to the indemnified party) between the indemnified party and the indemnifying party that prohibits counsel from representing both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party (in which case the indemnifying party will not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party) or (4) the indemnifying party has not in fact employed counsel to assume the defense of such action or counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party, in each case, within a reasonable time after receiving notice of the commencement of the action; in each of which cases the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel will be at the expense of the indemnifying party or parties. It is understood that the indemnifying party or parties shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of more than one separate firm (plus local counsel). All such fees, disbursements and other charges will be reimbursed by the indemnifying party promptly as they are incurred. An indemnifying party will not, in any event, be liable for any settlement of any action or claim effected without its written consent. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of each indemnified party, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment in any pending or threatened claim, action or proceeding relating to the matters contemplated by this Section 9 (whether or not any indemnified party is a party thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (1) includes an express and unconditional release of each indemnified party, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party, from all liability arising out of such litigation, investigation, proceeding or claim and (2) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.
(d) Settlement Without Consent if Failure to Reimburse. If an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for reasonable fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated by Section 9(a)(ii) effected without its written consent if (1) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (2) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into and (3) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.
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(e) Contribution. In order to provide for just and equitable contribution in circumstances in which the indemnification provided for in the foregoing paragraphs of this Section 9 is applicable in accordance with its terms but for any reason is held to be unavailable or insufficient from the Company, the Operating Partnership or an Agent, the Company, the Operating Partnership and such Agent will contribute to the total losses, claims, liabilities, expenses and damages (including any investigative, legal and other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with, and any amount paid in settlement of, any action, suit or proceeding or any claim asserted) to which the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Agents may be subject in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Operating Partnership on the one hand and the Agents on the other hand. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Operating Partnership on the one hand and the Agents on the other hand shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the sale of the Placement Shares (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total compensation received by the Agents from the sale of Placement Shares on behalf of the Company. If, but only if, the allocation provided by the foregoing sentence is not permitted by applicable law, the allocation of contribution shall be made in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in the foregoing sentence but also the relative fault of the Company and the Operating Partnership, on the one hand, and such Agent, on the other hand, with respect to the statements or omission that resulted in such loss, claim, liability, expense or damage, or action in respect thereof, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations with respect to such offering. Such relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company, the Operating Partnership or such Agent, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company, the Operating Partnership and each Agent agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 9(e) were to be determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to herein. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the loss, claim, liability, expense, or damage, or action in respect thereof, referred to above in this Section 9(e) shall be deemed to include, for the purpose of this Section 9(e), any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim to the extent consistent with Section 9(c) hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 9(e), the Agents shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the commissions received by it under this Agreement and no person found guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) will be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 9(e), any person who controls a party to this Agreement within the meaning of the Securities Act, any affiliates of an Agent and any officers, directors, partners, employees or agents of an Agents or any of its affiliates, will have the same rights to contribution as that party, and each director of the Company and each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement will have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the provisions hereof. Any party entitled to contribution, promptly after receipt of notice of commencement of any action against such party in respect of which a claim for contribution may be made under this Section 9(e), will notify any such party or parties from whom contribution may be sought, but the omission to so notify will not relieve that party or parties from whom contribution may be sought from any other obligation it or they may have under this Section 9(e) except to the extent that the failure to so notify such other party materially prejudiced the substantive rights or defenses of the party from whom contribution is sought. Except for a settlement entered into pursuant to the last sentence of Section 9(c) hereof, no party will be liable for contribution with respect to any action or claim settled without its written consent if such consent is required pursuant to Section 9(c) hereof. The Agents’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 9(e) are several in proportion to the respective number of Placement Shares they have sold hereunder, and not joint.
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10. Representations and Agreements to Survive Delivery. The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in Section 9 of this Agreement and all representations and warranties of the Company and the Operating Partnership herein or in certificates delivered pursuant hereto shall survive, as of their respective dates, regardless of (i) any investigation made by or on behalf of the Agents (or any of its directors, officers, partners, employees, agents, controlling persons or affiliates), or the Company, the Operating Partnership or the Manager (or any of their respective officers, directors or controlling persons), (ii) delivery and acceptance of the Placement Shares and payment therefor or (iii) any termination of this Agreement.
11. Termination.
(a) An Agent may terminate this Agreement, by notice to the Company, as hereinafter specified at any time (1) if there has been, since the time of execution of this Agreement or since the date as of which information is given in the Prospectus, any change, or any development or event involving a prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the business, properties, earnings, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, which individually or in the aggregate, in the sole judgment of such Agent is material and adverse and makes it impractical or inadvisable to market the Placement Shares or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Placement Shares, (2) if there has occurred any material adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or the international financial markets, any outbreak of hostilities or escalation thereof or other calamity or crisis or any change or development involving a prospective change in national or international political, financial or economic conditions, in each case the effect of which is such as to make it, in the judgment of such Agent, impracticable or inadvisable to market the Placement Shares or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Placement Shares, (3) if trading in the Common Stock has been suspended or limited by the Commission or the Exchange, or if trading generally on the Exchange has been suspended or limited, or minimum prices for trading have been fixed on the Exchange, (4) if any suspension of trading of any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market shall have occurred and be continuing, (5) if a major disruption of securities settlements or clearance services in the United States shall have occurred and be continuing, or (6) if a banking moratorium has been declared by either U.S. Federal or New York authorities. Any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except that the provisions of Section 7(h) (Expenses), Section 9 (Indemnification and Contribution), Section 10 (Representations and Agreements to Survive Delivery), Section 16 (Governing Law and Time; Waiver of Jury Trial) and Section 17 (Consent to Jurisdiction) hereof shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding such termination.
(b) The Company and the Operating Partnership shall have the right, by giving ten (10) days’ notice as hereinafter specified to terminate this Agreement in their sole discretion at any time after the date of this Agreement. Any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except that the provisions of Section 7(h), Section 9, Section 10, Section 16 and Section 17 hereof shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding such termination.
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(c) Each of the Agents shall have the right, by giving ten (10) days’ notice as hereinafter specified to terminate this Agreement in its sole discretion at any time after the date of this Agreement. Any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except that the provisions of Section 7(h), Section 9, Section 10, Section 16 and Section 17 hereof shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding such termination.
(d) This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect unless terminated pursuant to Sections 11(a), (b), or (c) above or otherwise by mutual agreement of the parties; provided however, that any such termination by mutual agreement shall in all cases be deemed to provide that Section 7(h), Section 9, Section 10, Section 16 and Section 17 shall remain in full force and effect.
(e) Any termination of this Agreement shall be effective on the date specified in such notice of termination; provided however, that such termination shall not be effective until the close of business on the date of receipt of such notice by an Agent or the Company, as the case may be. If such termination shall occur prior to the Settlement Date for any sale of Placement Shares, such Placement Shares shall settle in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
12. Notices. All notices or other communications required or permitted to be given by any party to any other party pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be in writing, unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, and if sent to the Agents, shall be delivered to:
| Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. | ||
| 499 Park Avenue | ||
| New York, NY 10022 | ||
| Attention: | Capital Markets | |
| Facsimile: | (212) 307-3730 | |
| and: | ||
| Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. | ||
| 499 Park Avenue | ||
| New York, NY 10022 | ||
| Attention: | General Counsel | |
| Facsimile: | (212) 829-4708 | |
| B. Riley FBR, Inc. | ||
| 299 Park Avenue, 7th Floor | ||
| New York, NY 10171 | ||
| Attention: | Larry Goldsmith Jr. (lgoldsmith@brileyfbr.com) | |
| Patrice McNicoll (pmcnicoll@brileyfbr.com) | ||
| Ryan Loforte (rloforte@brileyfbr.com) | ||
| Keith Pompliano (kpompliano@brileyfbr.com) | ||
| Scott Ammaturo (sammaturo@brileyfbr.com) | ||
| with a copy to: | ||
| atmdesk@brileyfbr.com | ||
| atmadmin@brileyfbr.com | ||
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| BMO Capital Markets Corp. | ||
| 3 Times Square, 25th Floor | ||
| New York, NY 10036 | ||
| Attention: | Legal Department | |
| Facsimile: | (212) 702-1205 | |
| D.A. Davidson & Co. | ||
| 8 Third Street North | ||
| Great Falls, MT 59401 | ||
| Attention: | Equity Syndicate Department | |
| Facsimile: | (406) 791-7357 | |
| H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC | ||
| 430 Park Avenue | ||
| New York, NY 10022 | ||
| Attention: | Peter Fry | |
| Email: | ATM@HCWCO.com | |
| The Huntington Investment Company | ||
| 41 S. High Street | ||
| HC0520 | ||
| Columbus, OH 43287 | ||
| Attention: | Peter Dippolito | |
| Facsimile: | (888) 452-1839 | |
| Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated | ||
| 777 E. Wisconsin Avenue | ||
| Milwaukee, WI 53202 | ||
| Attention: | Syndicate Department and Legal Department | |
| Facsimile: | (414) 298-7474 | |
| with a copy to: | ||
| Cooley LLP | ||
| 1114 Avenue of the Americas | ||
| New York, NY 10036 | ||
| Attention: | Daniel I. Goldberg, Esq. | |
| Facsimile: | (212) 479-6275 | |
| and if to the Company or the Operating Partnership, shall be delivered to: | ||
| Global Medical REIT Inc. | ||
| 2 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 440 | ||
| Bethesda, MD 20814 | ||
| Attention: | Robert Kiernan | |
| Facsimile: | 202-380-0891 | |
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with a copy to:
Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.
901 East Byrd Street, Suite 1500
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Attention: Daniel LeBey
Facsimile: 804-327-6301
and if to the Manager, shall be delivered to:
Inter-American Management, LLC
2 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 440
Bethesda, MD 20814
Attention: Jeffrey Busch
Facsimile: 202-380-0891
with a copy to:
Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.
901 East Byrd Street, Suite 1500
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Attention: Daniel LeBey
Facsimile: 804-327-6301
Each party to this Agreement may change such address for notices by sending to the parties to this Agreement written notice of a new address for such purpose. Each such notice or other communication shall be deemed given (i) when delivered personally or by verifiable facsimile transmission (with an original to follow) on or before 4:30 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day, (ii) on the next Business Day after timely delivery to a nationally-recognized overnight courier and (iii) on the Business Day actually received if deposited in the U.S. mail (certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid). For purposes of this Agreement, “Business Day” shall mean any day on which the Exchange and commercial banks in the City of New York are open for business.
13. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Company, the Operating Partnership and each Agent and their respective successors and the affiliates, controlling persons, officers, directors, partners, employees and agents referred to in Section 9 hereof. References to any of the parties contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to include the successors and permitted assigns of such party. Nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to confer upon any party other than the parties hereto or their respective successors and permitted assigns any rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities under or by reason of this Agreement, except as expressly provided in this Agreement. Neither party may assign its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other party; provided however, that each Agent may assign its rights and obligations hereunder to an affiliate of such Agent without obtaining the Company’s consent.
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14. Adjustments for Stock Splits. The parties acknowledge and agree that all stock-related numbers contained in this Agreement shall be adjusted to take into account any stock split, stock dividend or similar event effected with respect to the Shares.
15. Entire Agreement; Amendment; Severability; Waiver. This Agreement (including all schedules and exhibits attached hereto and Placement Notices issued pursuant hereto) constitutes the entire agreement and supersedes all other prior and contemporaneous agreements and undertakings, both written and oral, among the parties hereto with regard to the subject matter hereof. Neither this Agreement nor any term hereof may be amended except pursuant to a written instrument executed by the Company and each of the Agents. In the event that any one or more of the provisions contained herein, or the application thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable as written by a court of competent jurisdiction, then such provision shall be given full force and effect to the fullest possible extent that it is valid, legal and enforceable, and the remainder of the terms and provisions herein shall be construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable term or provision was not contained herein, but only to the extent that giving effect to such provision and the remainder of the terms and provisions hereof shall be in accordance with the intent of the parties as reflected in this Agreement. No implied waiver by a party shall arise in the absence of a waiver in writing signed by such party. No failure or delay in exercising any right, power, or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any right, power, or privilege hereunder.
16. GOVERNING LAW AND TIME; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS. SPECIFIED TIMES OF DAY REFER TO NEW YORK CITY TIME. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
17. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS SITTING IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, AND HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, AND AGREES NOT TO ASSERT IN ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING, ANY CLAIM THAT IT IS NOT PERSONALLY SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY SUCH COURT, THAT SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING IS BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM OR THAT THE VENUE OF SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING IS IMPROPER. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF PROCESS AND CONSENTS TO PROCESS BEING SERVED IN ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY MAILING A COPY THEREOF (CERTIFIED OR REGISTERED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED) TO SUCH PARTY AT THE ADDRESS IN EFFECT FOR NOTICES TO IT UNDER THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREES THAT SUCH SERVICE SHALL CONSTITUTE GOOD AND SUFFICIENT SERVICE OF PROCESS AND NOTICE THEREOF. NOTHING CONTAINED HEREIN SHALL BE DEEMED TO LIMIT IN ANY WAY ANY RIGHT TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW.
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18. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed Agreement by one party to the other may be made by facsimile or electronic transmission.
19. Construction. The section and exhibit headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof. References herein to any law, statute, ordinance, code, regulation, rule or other requirement of any Governmental Authority shall be deemed to refer to such law, statute, ordinance, code, regulation, rule or other requirement of any Governmental Authority as amended, reenacted, supplemented or superseded in whole or in part and in effect from time to time and also to all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
20. Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company represents, warrants and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior written consent of each of the Agents, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, and each of the Agents represents, warrants and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Placement Shares that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405, required to be filed with the Commission. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Agents or by the Company, as the case may be, is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company represents and warrants that it has treated and agrees that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, and has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission where required, legending and record keeping. For the purposes of clarity, the parties hereto agree that all free writing prospectuses, if any, listed in Exhibit 2 hereto are Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses.
21. Absence of Fiduciary Relationship. The Company acknowledges and agrees that:
(a) each Agent is acting solely as agent in connection with the public offering of the Placement Shares and in connection with each transaction contemplated by this Agreement and the process leading to such transactions, and no fiduciary or advisory relationship between the Company or any of its affiliates, stockholders (or other equity holders), creditors or employees or any other party, on the one hand, and the Agents, on the other hand, has been or will be created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether or not such Agent has advised or is advising the Company on other matters, and no Agent has any obligation to the Company with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement;
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(b) it is capable of evaluating and understanding, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(c) neither the Agents nor their respective affiliates have provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and it has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate;
(d) it is aware that each Agent and its respective affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and such Agent and its affiliates have no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship or otherwise; and
(e) it waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against an Agent or its affiliates for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the sale of Placement Shares under this Agreement and agrees that such Agent and its affiliates shall not have any liability (whether direct or indirect, in contract, tort or otherwise) to it in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on its behalf or in right of it or the Company, employees or creditors of the Company.
22. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the respective meanings set forth below:
(a) “Applicable Time” means the date of this Agreement, each Representation Date, the date on which a Placement Notice is given, any date on which Placement Shares are sold hereunder and each Settlement Date, or such other time as agreed to by the Company and the applicable Agent.
(b) “Governmental Authority” means (i) any federal, provincial, state, local, municipal, national or international government or governmental authority, regulatory or administrative agency, governmental commission, department, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, court, tribunal, arbitrator or arbitral body (public or private); (ii) any self-regulatory organization; or (iii) any political subdivision of any of the foregoing.
(c) “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, relating to the Placement Shares that (1) is required to be filed with the Commission by the Company, (2) is a “road show” that is a “written communication” within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i) whether or not required to be filed with the Commission, or (3) is exempt from filing pursuant to Rule 433(d)(5)(i) because it contains a description of the Placement Shares or of the offering that does not reflect the final terms, in each case in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) under the Securities Act.
(d) “Subsidiary” means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity, which is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Company, the Operating Partnership or one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company or the Operating Partnership.
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“Rule 164,” “Rule 172,” “Rule 405,” “Rule 415,” “Rule 424,” “Rule 424(b),” “Rule 430B,” and “Rule 433” refer to such rules under the Securities Act.
All references in this Agreement to financial statements and schedules and other information that is “contained,” “included” or “stated” in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (and all other references of like import) shall be deemed to mean and include all such financial statements and schedules and other information that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, as the case may be.
All references in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing shall be deemed to include the copy filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR; all references in this Agreement to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (other than any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses that, pursuant to Rule 433, are not required to be filed with the Commission) shall be deemed to include the copy thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR; and all references in this Agreement to “supplements” to the Prospectus shall include, without limitation, any supplements, “wrappers” or similar materials prepared in connection with any offering, sale or private placement of any Placement Shares by the Agents outside of the United States.
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If the foregoing correctly sets forth the understanding among the Company, the Operating Partnership, the Manager and each Agent, please so indicate in the space provided below for that purpose, whereupon this letter shall constitute a binding agreement among the Company, the Operating Partnership, the Manager and each of the Agents.
| Very truly yours, | ||
| GLOBAL MEDICAL REIT INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Jeff Busch | |
| Name: | Jeff Busch | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer and President | |
| GLOBAL MEDICAL REIT L.P. | ||
| By: | Global Medical REIT GP LLC | |
| Its: | General Partner | |
| By: | Global Medical REIT Inc. | |
| Its: | Sole Member | |
| By: | /s/ Jeff Busch | |
| Name: | Jeff Busch | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer and President | |
| INTER-AMERICAN MANAGEMENT, LLC | ||
| By: | /s/ Jeff Busch | |
| Name: | Jeff Busch | |
| Title: | President | |
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Global Medical Reit inc. – Sales Agreement
ACCEPTED as of the date first-above written:
| CANTOR FITZGERALD & CO. | H.C. WAINWRIGHT & CO., LLC | |||
| By: | /s/ Mark Kaplan | By: | /s/ Edward D. Silvera | |
| Name: | Mark Kaplan | Name: | Edward D. Silvera | |
| Title: | Global COO | Title: | Chief Operating Officer | |
| B. RILEY FBR, INC. | The Huntington Investment Company | |||
| By: | /s/ Patrice McNicoll | By: | /s/ Peter Dippolito | |
| Name: | Patrice McNicoll |
Name: | Peter Dippolito | |
| Title: | Co-Head Investment Banking | Title: | SVP, Sr. Managing Director | |
| BMO CAPITAL MARKETS CORP. | ROBERT W. BAIRD & CO. INCORPORATED | |||
| By: | /s/ David Raff | By: | /s/ B. William Bartlett | |
| Name: | David Raff | Name: | B. William Bartlett | |
| Title: | Managing Director | Title: | Vice President | |
| D.A. DAVIDSON & CO. | ||||
| By: | /s/ Brit Stephens | |||
| Name: | Brit Stephens | |||
| Title: | Managing Director | |||
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Global Medical Reit inc. – Sales Agreement
SCHEDULE 1
FORM OF PLACEMENT NOTICE
| From: | Global Medical REIT Inc. |
| To: | [Designated Agent] (the “Designated Agent”) |
| Attention: [•] | |
| Subject: | Controlled Equity OfferingSM – Placement Notice |
| Date: | [•], 201[8] |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the Controlled Equity OfferingSM Sales Agreement among Global Medical REIT Inc. (the “Company”), Global Medical REIT L.P., Inter-American Management, LLC and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., B. Riley FBR, Inc., BMO Capital Markets Corp., D.A. Davidson & Co., H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, The Huntington Investment Company and Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, dated August 17, 2018, I hereby request on behalf of the Company that the Designated Agent sell up to [●] shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, at a minimum market price of $[●] per share, during the time period beginning [month, day, time] and ending [month, day, time].
SCHEDULE 2
NOTICE PARTIES
The Company
Jeffrey Busch (jeffb@interamc.com)
Robert J. Kiernan (bobk@interamc.com)
Jamie A. Barber (jamieb@globalmedicalreit.com)
The Agents
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
Sameer Vasudev (svasudev@cantor.com)
with copies to:
CFCEO@cantor.com
B. Riley FBR, Inc.
Larry Goldsmith Jr. (lgoldsmith@brileyfbr.com)
Patrice McNicoll (pmcnicoll@brileyfbr.com)
Ryan Loforte (rloforte@brileyfbr.com)
Keith Pompliano (kpompliano@brileyfbr.com)
Scott Ammaturo (sammaturo@brileyfbr.com)
with copies to:
atmdesk@brileyfbr.com
atmadmin@brileyfbr.com
BMO Capital Markets Corp.
David Raff (david.raff@bmo.com)
Eric Benedict (eric.benedict@bmo.com)
Jaryd Banach (jaryd.banach@bmo.com)
Alexander Watson (alexander.watson@bmo.com)
D.A. Davidson & Co.
Brit Stephens (bstephens@dadco.com)
Marge Sitzmann (msitzmann@dadco.com)
Michelle Eldridge (meldridge@dadco.com)
Isaac Bamer (ibamer@dadco.com)
Tim Bricker (tbricker@dadco.com)
H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC
ATM@HCWCO.com
The Huntington Investment Company
Peter Dippolito (peter.dippolito@huntington.com)
Barry Fredrickson (barry.fredrickson@huntington.com)
Jon Novak (jon.novak@huntington.com)
Jay Clutter (jay.clutter@huntington.com)
with copies to:
ATMOfferings@huntington.com
Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated
John Roesner (jroesner@rwbaird.com)
Barbara Nelson (banelson@rwbaird.com)
SCHEDULE 3
COMPENSATION
The Company shall pay to the Designated Agent in cash, upon each sale of Placement Shares pursuant to this Agreement, an amount equal to up to three percent (3.0%) of the gross proceeds from each sale of Placement Shares.
SCHEDULE 4
FREE WRITING PROSPECTUS
None.
Exhibit 5.1
[LETTERHEAD OF VENABLE LLP]
August 17, 2018
Global Medical REIT Inc.
2 Bethesda Metro Center
Suite 440
Bethesda, MD 20814
Re: Registration Statement on Form S-3
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have served as Maryland counsel to Global Medical REIT Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), in connection with certain matters of Maryland law arising out of the registration and issuance by the Company of shares (the “Shares”) of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”), having an aggregate offering price of up to $50,000,000. The Shares are covered by the Registration Statement on Form S-3, and all amendments thereto (the “Registration Statement”), as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”).
In connection with our representation of the Company, and as a basis for the opinion hereinafter set forth, we have examined originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of the following documents (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Documents”):
1. The Registration Statement, and the related form of prospectus contained therein, in the form in which it was transmitted to the Commission under the 1933 Act;
2. The Prospectus Supplement, dated as of the date hereof;
3. The charter of the Company (the “Charter”), certified by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland (the “SDAT”);
4. The Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “Bylaws”), certified as of the date hereof by an officer of the Company;
5. A certificate of the SDAT as to the good standing of the Company, dated as of a recent date;
6. Resolutions (the “Resolutions”) adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”), relating to, among other matters, the sale and issuance of the Shares (the “Resolutions”), certified as of the date hereof by an officer of the Company;
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7. A certificate executed by an officer of the Company, dated as of the date hereof;
8. The Sales Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company, Global Medical REIT, L.P., Inter-American Management, LLC, and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., B. Riley FBR, Inc., BMO Capital Markets Corp., D.A. Davidson & Co., H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, The Huntington Investment Company and Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporation; and
9. Such other documents and matters as we have deemed necessary or appropriate to express the opinion set forth in this letter, subject to the assumptions, limitations and qualifications stated herein.
In expressing the opinion set forth below, we have assumed the following:
1. Each individual executing any of the Documents, whether on behalf of such individual or another person, is legally competent to do so.
2. Each individual executing any of the Documents on behalf of a party (other than the Company) is duly authorized to do so.
3. Each of the parties (other than the Company) executing any of the Documents has duly and validly executed and delivered each of the Documents to which such party is a signatory, and such party’s obligations set forth therein are legal, valid and binding and are enforceable in accordance with all stated terms.
4. All Documents submitted to us as originals are authentic. The form and content of all Documents submitted to us as unexecuted drafts do not differ in any respect relevant to this opinion from the form and content of such Documents as executed and delivered. All Documents submitted to us as certified or photostatic copies conform to the original documents. All signatures on all Documents are genuine. All public records reviewed or relied upon by us or on our behalf are true and complete. All representations, warranties, statements and information contained in the Documents are true and complete. There has been no oral or written modification of or amendment to any of the Documents, and there has been no waiver of any provision of any of the Documents, by action or omission of the parties or otherwise.
5. Upon the issuance of any of the Shares, the total number of shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding will not exceed the total number of shares of Common Stock that the Company is then authorized to issue under the Charter.
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6. Prior to the issuance of any of the Shares, the Board, a duly authorized pricing committee of the Board or a duly authorized officer of the Company will determine the price and certain other terms of issuance of such Shares in accordance with and not in violation of the Maryland General Corporation Law, the Charter, the Bylaws, the Registration Statement and the Resolutions (the “Corporate Proceedings”).
7. None of the Shares will be issued, sold or transferred in violation of the restrictions on ownership and transfer set forth in Article VII of the Charter.
8. The aggregate offering price of the Shares, together with the aggregate offering price of any shares of Common Stock sold pursuant to the Prospectus Supplement, dated August 25, 2017, will not exceed $50,000,000.
Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions, limitations and qualifications stated herein, it is our opinion that:
1. The Company is a corporation duly incorporated and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Maryland and is in good standing with the SDAT.
2. The issuance of the Shares has been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered by the Company in accordance with the Resolutions, the Corporate Proceedings and the Registration Statement against payment of the consideration set forth therein, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
The foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the State of Maryland and we do not express any opinion herein concerning any other law. We express no opinion as to the applicability or effect of federal or state securities laws, including the securities laws of the State of Maryland, or as to federal or state laws regarding fraudulent transfers. To the extent that any matter as to which our opinion is expressed herein would be governed by any jurisdiction other than the State of Maryland, we do not express any opinion on such matter. The opinion expressed herein is subject to the effect of any judicial decision which may permit the introduction of parol evidence to modify the terms or the interpretation of agreements.
The opinion expressed herein is limited to the matters specifically set forth herein and no other opinion shall be inferred beyond the matters expressly stated. We assume no obligation to supplement this opinion if any applicable law changes after the date hereof or if we become aware of any fact that might change the opinion expressed herein after the date hereof.
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This opinion is being furnished to you for submission to the Commission as an exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (the “Current Report”), which is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement. We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Current Report and to the use of the name of our firm therein. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required by Section 7 of the 1933 Act.
| Very truly yours, | |
| /s/ Venable LLP |