EX-5.1 5 d796367dex51.htm EX-5.1 EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

[Letterhead of]

CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP

[New York Office]

September 12, 2019

Toll Brothers, Inc.

$400,000,000 3.800% Senior Notes due 2029

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to Toll Brothers, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Toll Brothers Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), in connection with the public offering and sale by the Issuer of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.800% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Senior Notes”) to be issued under the Indenture dated as of February 7, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), among the Issuer, the Company, the Guarantors (as defined below) and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Authorizing Resolution dated September 12, 2019 (the “Authorizing Resolution” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”). The Senior Notes will be on the date hereof guaranteed (the “Guarantees”) by the entities set forth on Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “Delaware Guarantors”), by the entities set forth on Schedule II hereto (collectively, the “New York Guarantors” and, together with the Delaware Guarantors, the “Covered Guarantors”) and by the entities set forth on Schedule III hereto (the “Other Guarantors” and, together with the Covered Guarantors, the “Guarantors”).

In that connection, we have examined originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records and other instruments as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion, including: (a) the Certificate of Incorporation of the Issuer and the Company, as amended; (b) the By-laws of the Issuer and the Company, as amended; (c) the Certificate of Incorporation, By-laws or other comparable organizational documents, as the case may be, of each other Covered Guarantor; (d) the Omnibus Written Consent of (i) all of the members of the boards of directors of the corporations listed on Schedule I thereto and (ii) the person or persons authorized to act (whether directly or indirectly through a Guarantor) with regard thereto on behalf of one or more of the entities listed on Schedule II thereto, in each case duly adopted by unanimous consent on September 6, 2019; the Action Taken by Unanimous Written Consent of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, duly adopted on September 6, 2019; the Public Debt and Equity Securities Committee Charter of the


Board of Directors of the Company, duly adopted on June 7, 2009; the resolutions of the Public Debt and Equity Securities Committee of the Company, duly adopted on September 6, 2019; the Pricing Resolutions of the Committee Appointed by the Public Debt and Equity Securities Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company, duly adopted on September 9, 2019; the Pricing Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, duly adopted on September 9, 2019; and the Joint Action of the Persons Authorized to Act on Behalf of each of the Issuer, the Company and the Guarantors, duly adopted on September 12, 2019, pursuant to which the Authorizing Resolution was adopted; (e) the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-222996) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on February 12, 2018, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto on September 9, 2019 (the “Registration Statement”), for registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of an unlimited aggregate amount of various securities of the Company, the Issuer or certain other subsidiaries of the Company, to be issued from time to time by the Company, the Issuer or such subsidiaries; (f) the related Prospectus dated February 12, 2018 (together with the documents incorporated therein by reference, the “Basic Prospectus”); (g) the Prospectus Supplement dated September 9, 2019, filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act (together with the Basic Prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference therein, the “Prospectus”); (h) the Pricing Term Sheet dated September 9, 2019, filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act; (i) the Underwriting Agreement dated September 9, 2019 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Issuer, the Company and BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, PNC Capital Markets LLC, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters names therein; and (j) the Indenture (including the First through Twentieth Supplemental Indentures thereof) and the forms of the Senior Notes and Guarantees.

As to various questions of fact material to this opinion, we have relied upon representations of officers or directors of the Issuer and the Company and documents furnished to us by the Issuer and the Company without independent verification of their accuracy. We have also assumed (a) with your consent and without independent investigation or verification, the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity and competency of all natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as duplicates or copies, (b) that the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by, and represents a legal, valid and binding obligation of, the Trustee and (c) that the Guarantees have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Other Guarantors.

Based on the foregoing and subject to the qualifications set forth herein, we are of opinion that, when the Senior Notes are authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered and paid for, (i) the Senior Notes will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Issuer, enforceable against the Issuer in accordance with their terms and entitled to the benefits of the Indenture (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other similar

 

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laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and (ii) the Guarantees will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Guarantors entitled to the benefits of the Guarantees and enforceable against the Guarantors in accordance with their terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

We are admitted to practice in the State of New York, and we express no opinion as to matters governed by any laws other than the laws of the State of New York, the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act and the Federal laws of the United States of America.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus supplement forming a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are included in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Toll Brothers, Inc.

      250 Gibraltar Road

            Horsham, Pennsylvania 19044

 

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Schedule I – Delaware Guarantors

 

134 Bay Street LLC    Toll MA Holdings LLC
Ashford Land Company, L.P.    Toll MA Land II GP LLC
Byers Commercial LLC    Toll Mid-Atlantic II LLC
Component Systems I LLC    Toll Mid-Atlantic LP Company, Inc.
Component Systems II LLC    Toll Mid-Atlantic V Corp.
Dominion III Corp.    Toll Midwest LLC
ESE Consultants, Inc.    Toll Morgan Street LLC
First Brandywine Investment Corp. II    Toll NJX-I Corp.
First Brandywine Investment Corp. IV    Toll Northeast II LLC
First Brandywine LLC I    Toll Northeast LP Company, Inc.
First Brandywine LLC II    Toll Northeast Services, Inc.
First Brandywine Partners, L.P.    Toll Northeast V Corp.
First Huntingdon Finance Corp.    Toll Northeast VIII LLC
Hoboken Land I LLC    Toll Realty Holdings Corp. I
Hockessin Chase, L.P.    Toll Realty Holdings Corp. II
Liseter, LLC    Toll Realty Holdings LP
Morgan Street JV LLC    Toll Southeast II LLC
Plum Canyon Master LLC    Toll Southeast Inc.
PRD Investors, Inc.    Toll Southeast LP Company, Inc.
PRD Investors, LLC    Toll Southwest II LLC
Rancho Costera LLC    Toll Southwest LLC
Shapell Hold Properties No. 1, LLC    Toll VA GP Corp.
Shapell Homes, Inc.    Toll VA LLC
Shapell Industries, Inc.    Toll VA Member Two, Inc.
Shapell Land Company, LLC    Toll West Coast II LLC
TB Kent Partners LLC    Toll West Coast LLC
TB Proprietary Corp.    Toll West Inc.
Toll Architecture I, P.A.    Upper K Investors, Inc.
Toll Architecture, Inc.    Upper K Investors, LLC
Toll Brothers Canada USA, Inc.    Upper K-Shapell, LLC
Toll Brothers, Inc.   
Toll CA Holdings, Inc.   
Toll Centennial Corp.   
Toll Corners LLC   
Toll Corp.   
Toll DE II LP   
Toll DE LP   
Toll Diamond Corp.   
Toll EB, LLC   
Toll Equipment, L.L.C.   
Toll Golden Corp.   
Toll Hoboken LLC   
Toll Holdings, Inc.   
Toll Land Corp. No. 50   


Schedule II – New York Guarantors

 

110-112 Third Ave. Realty Corp.

89 Park Avenue LLC

LL Parcel E, LLC
Toll at Whippoorwill, L.P.
Toll Brooklyn L.P.
Toll Land V Limited Partnership
Toll Land VI Limited Partnership
Toll Land VII LLC
Toll Lexington LLC
Toll NY II LLC
Toll NY III L.P.
Toll NY IV L.P.
Toll NY L.P.
Toll NY V L.P.
Toll Van Wyck, LLC

 

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Schedule III – Other Guarantors

 

Toll Bros. of Arizona, Inc.

  

Frenchman’s Reserve Realty, LLC

Toll Brothers AZ Construction Company

  

Jacksonville TBI Realty LLC

Toll Brothers AZ Limited Partnership

  

Mizner Realty, L.L.C.

Toll Prasada LLC

  

Naples TBI Realty, LLC

Arbors Porter Ranch, LLC

  

Orlando TBI Realty LLC

Placentia Development Company, LLC

  

Tampa TBI Realty LLC

Porter Ranch Development Co.

  

TBI/Palm Beach Limited Partnership

Sorrento at Dublin Ranch I LP

  

Toll Estero Limited Partnership

Sorrento at Dublin Ranch III LP

  

Toll FL I, LLC

Toll CA I LLC

  

Toll FL II Limited Partnership

Toll CA II, L.P.

  

Toll FL III Limited Partnership

Toll CA III LLC

  

Toll FL IV Limited Partnership

Toll CA III, L.P.

  

Toll FL IV LLC

Toll CA IV, L.P.

  

Toll FL Limited Partnership

Toll CA IX, L.P.

  

Toll FL V Limited Partnership

Toll CA Note II LLC

  

Toll FL V LLC

Toll CA V, L.P.

  

Toll FL VI Limited Partnership

Toll CA VI, L.P.

  

Toll FL VII Limited Partnership

Toll CA VII, L.P.

  

Toll FL VIII Limited Partnership

Toll CA VIII, L.P.

  

Toll FL X Limited Partnership

Toll CA X, L.P.

  

Toll FL XII Limited Partnership

Toll CA XI, L.P.

  

Toll FL XIII Limited Partnership

Toll CA XII, L.P.

  

Toll Ft. Myers Limited Partnership

Toll CA XIX, L.P.

  

Toll Jacksonville Limited Partnership

Toll CA XX, L.P.

  

Toll Jupiter LLC

Toll CA, L.P.

  

Toll Orlando Limited Partnership

Toll Land XIX Limited Partnership

  

Toll GA LP

Toll Land XX Limited Partnership

  

Toll ID I LLC

Toll Land XXII Limited Partnership

  

Toll IL HWCC, L.P.

Toll Land XXIII Limited Partnership

  

Toll IL II, L.P.

Toll Stonebrae LP

  

Toll IL III, L.P.

Toll YL II, L.P.

  

Toll IL IV, L.P.

Toll-Dublin, L.P.

  

Toll IL WSB, L.P.

Toll-Dublin, LLC

  

Toll IL, L.P.

Toll CO I LLC

  

Toll IN LLC

Toll CO II, L.P.

  

CC Estates Limited Partnership

Toll CO III, L.P.

  

The Bird Estate Limited Partnership

Toll CO, L.P.

  

Toll MA Development LLC

Southport Landing Limited Partnership

  

Toll MA I LLC

Toll CT II Limited Partnership

  

Toll MA II LLC

Toll CT III Limited Partnership

  

Toll MA III LLC

Toll CT IV Limited Partnership

  

Toll MA IV LLC

Toll CT Limited Partnership

  

Toll MA Land III Limited Partnership

Toll Glastonbury LLC

  

Toll MA Land Limited Partnership

Toll Land XVIII Limited Partnership

  

Toll MA Management LLC

Binks Estates Limited Partnership

  

Long Meadows TBI, LLC

 

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Toll MD AF Limited Partnership

  

Block 255 LLC

Toll MD I, L.L.C.

  

Block 268 LLC

Toll MD II Limited Partnership

  

CWG Construction Company LLC

Toll MD II LLC

  

Enclave at Long Valley I LLC

Toll MD III Limited Partnership

  

Enclave at Long Valley II LLC

Toll MD III LLC

  

Estates at Princeton Junction, L.P.

Toll MD IV Limited Partnership

  

Hoboken Cove LLC

Toll MD IV LLC

  

Hoboken Land LP

Toll MD IX Limited Partnership

  

Laurel Creek, L.P.

Toll MD Limited Partnership

  

PT Maxwell Holdings, LLC

Toll MD V Limited Partnership

  

PT Maxwell, L.L.C.

Toll MD VI Limited Partnership

  

Regency at Denville, LLC

Toll MD VII Limited Partnership

  

Regency at Washington I LLC

Toll MD VIII Limited Partnership

  

Regency at Washington II LLC

Toll MD X Limited Partnership

  

Toll at Westlake, L.P.

Toll MD XI Limited Partnership

  

Toll Grove LP

Arbor Hills Development LLC

  

Toll Hudson LP

HQZ Acquisitions, Inc.

  

Toll Land IV Limited Partnership

Silverman-Toll Limited Partnership

  

Toll Land XI Limited Partnership

The Silverman Building Companies, Inc.

  

Toll Land XVI Limited Partnership

Toll MI II Limited Partnership

  

Toll Land XXV Limited Partnership

Toll MI III Limited Partnership

  

Toll NJ I, L.L.C.

Toll MI IV Limited Partnership

  

Toll NJ II, L.L.C.

Toll MI Limited Partnership

  

Toll NJ II, L.P.

Toll MI V Limited Partnership

  

Toll NJ III, L.P.

Toll MI VI Limited Partnership

  

Toll NJ III, LLC

Toll MI VII Corp.

  

Toll NJ IV LLC

Toll MN II, L.P.

  

Toll NJ IV, L.P.

Toll MN, L.P.

  

Toll NJ VI, L.P.

Brier Creek Country Club I LLC

  

Toll NJ VII, L.P.

Brier Creek Country Club II LLC

  

Toll NJ VIII, L.P.

NC Country Club Estates Limited Partnership

  

Toll NJ XI, L.P.

Toll at Brier Creek Limited Partnership

  

Toll NJ XII LP

Toll Bros. of North Carolina II, Inc.

  

Toll NJ, L.P.

Toll Bros. of North Carolina, Inc.

  

Toll Port Imperial LLC

Toll NC I LLC

  

Coleman-Toll Limited Partnership

Toll NC II LP

  

Toll Henderson LLC

Toll NC III LP

  

Toll North LV LLC

Toll NC IV LLC

  

Toll North Reno LLC

Toll NC Note II LLC

  

Toll NV GP Corp.

Toll NC Note LLC

  

Toll NV GP I LLC

Toll NC, L.P.

  

Toll NV Holdings LLC

126-142 Morgan Street Urban Renewal LLC

  

Toll NV Limited Partnership

1400 Hudson LLC

  

Toll South LV LLC

1450 Washington LLC

  

Toll South Reno LLC

1451 Hudson LLC

  

Toll Sparks LLC

1500 Garden St. LLC

  

Toll SW Holding I Corp.

700 Grove Street Urban Renewal LLC

  

Toll SW Holding LLC

 

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Audubon Ridge, L.P.

  

Toll Dallas TX LLC

Broad Run Associates, L.P.

  

Toll Houston Land LLC

Byers Commercial LP

  

Toll Houston TX LLC

Cold Spring Hunt, L.P.

  

Toll San Antonio TX LLC

Goshen Road Land Company LLC

  

Toll TX Note LLC

Greens at Waynesborough, L.P.

  

Belmont Country Club I LLC

Hatboro Road Associates LLC

  

Belmont Country Club II LLC

Liseter Land Company LLC

  

Belmont Land, L.P.

Springton Pointe, L.P.

  

Dominion Country Club, L.P.

Stone Mill Estates, L.P.

  

Dominion Valley Country Club I LLC

Swedesford Chase, L.P.

  

Dominion Valley Country Club II LLC

Toll Bros., Inc.

  

Fairfax Investment, L.P.

Toll Brothers Real Estate, Inc.

  

Loudoun Valley Associates, L.P.

Toll Naval Associates

  

Martinsburg Ventures, L.L.C.

Toll PA Development LP

  

Regency at Dominion Valley LLC

Toll PA II, L.P.

  

South Riding Amberlea LP

Toll PA III, L.P.

  

South Riding Partners Amberlea LP

Toll PA IV, L.P.

  

South Riding Partners, L.P.

Toll PA IX, L.P.

  

South Riding Realty LLC

Toll PA Management LP

  

South Riding, L.P.

Toll PA Twin Lakes LLC

  

SR Amberlea LLC

Toll PA V, L.P.

  

SRLP II LLC

Toll PA VI, L.P.

  

The Regency Golf Club I LLC

Toll PA VIII, L.P.

  

The Regency Golf Club II LLC

Toll PA X, L.P.

  

Toll Cedar Hunt LLC

Toll PA XI, L.P.

  

Toll Land IX Limited Partnership

Toll PA XII, L.P.

  

Toll Land X Limited Partnership

Toll PA XIII, L.P.

  

Toll Land XV Limited Partnership

Toll PA XIV, L.P.

  

Toll Land XXI Limited Partnership

Toll PA XIX, L.P.

  

Toll Stratford LLC

Toll PA XV, L.P.

  

Toll VA II, L.P.

Toll PA XVI, L.P.

  

Toll VA III, L.L.C.

Toll PA XVII, L.P.

  

Toll VA III, L.P.

Toll PA XVIII, L.P.

  

Toll VA IV, L.P.

Toll PA, L.P.

  

Toll VA V, L.P.

Toll RI II, L.P.

  

Toll VA VI, L.P.

Toll RI, L.P.

  

Toll VA VII, L.P.

Toll Vanderbilt II LLC

  

Toll VA VIII, L.P.

Vanderbilt Capital, LLC

  

Toll VA, L.P.

Toll SC II, L.P.

  

Virginia Construction Co. I, LLC

Toll SC III, L.P.

  

Virginia Construction Co. II, LLC

Toll SC IV, L.P.

  

Toll WV GP Corp.

Toll SC, L.P.

  

Toll WV LP

Toll Austin TX II LLC

  

Toll Austin TX III LLC

  

Toll Austin TX LLC

  

Toll BBC II LLC

  

Toll BBC LLC

  

 

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