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Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement |
On April 3, 2024, Brandywine Realty Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Company”), and its operating partnership, Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), entered into an Underwriting Agreement (together with the Pricing Agreement (as defined below), the “Underwriting Agreement”) and a related Pricing Agreement (the “Pricing Agreement”) with BofA Securities, Inc. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named in the Pricing Agreement (the “Underwriters”), in connection with the public offering by the Operating Partnership of $400 million in aggregate principal amount of its 8.875% Guaranteed Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”). The Company will fully and unconditionally guarantee the payment of principal and of premium, if any, and interest on the Notes. The offering is expected to close on April 12, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. Under the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company and the Operating Partnership have agreed to indemnify the Underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or to contribute payments that the Underwriters may be required to make because of any of those liabilities. The Underwriting Agreement contains customary representations and covenants. The offer and sale of the Notes were registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to a registration statement on Form
S-3
(File
No. 333-270133),
under the Securities Act.
Copies of each of the Underwriting Agreement and the Pricing Agreement are filed as Exhibit 1.1 and Exhibit 1.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form
8-K.
The foregoing is not a complete discussion of the Underwriting Agreement and the Pricing Agreement and is qualified in its entirety by reference to these agreements, and the information in the Underwriting Agreement and the Pricing Agreement is incorporated into this Item 1.01 by this reference.
The Operating Partnership intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repurchase or redeem the $340 million outstanding principal amount of its 4.10% Guaranteed Notes due October 1, 2024 and for general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment, repurchase or other retirement of other indebtedness.
The Notes will be issued under the Indenture, dated as of October 22, 2004 (the “Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 25, 2005 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), and the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 5, 2011 (the “Third Supplemental Indenture”), among the Company, the Operating Partnership and The Bank of New York Mellon (formerly, The Bank of New York), as trustee. The Indenture was previously filed with the Commission on October 22, 2004, as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form
8-K,
and is incorporated into this Item 1.01 by this reference. The First Supplemental Indenture was previously filed with the Commission on May 26, 2005, as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form
8-K,
and is incorporated into this Item 1.01 by this reference. The Third Supplemental Indenture was previously filed with the Commission on April 5, 2011, as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form
8-K,
and is incorporated into this Item 1.01 by this reference.
In connection with the foregoing, the Company and the Operating Partnership are filing as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on
Form 8-K
the opinion of their counsel with respect to the validity of the Notes and the Guarantee.
On April 4, 2024, the Company issued a press release announcing the pricing of the offering of Notes. A copy of the press release is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form
8-K.
The information included in this Current Report on Form
8-K
under this Item 7.01 (including Exhibit 99.1) shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing made by the Company under the Exchange Act or Securities Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.