As of June 30, 2005, we had approximately $1.4 billion of outstanding indebtedness. The table below summarizes our mortgage notes payable, our unsecured notes and our revolving credit facility at June 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004:
The Partnership utilizes credit facility borrowings for general business purposes, including the acquisition, development and redevelopment of properties and the repayment of other debt. The Partnership maintains a $450 million unsecured credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) that matures in May 2007, subject to a one year extension option upon payment of a fee and absence any defaults at the time of the extension. Borrowings under the Credit Facility generally bear interest at LIBOR plus a spread over LIBOR ranging from 0.65% to 1.20% based on the Partnership’s unsecured senior debt rating. The Partnership has an option to increase its maximum borrowings under the Credit Facility to $600 million subject to the absence of any defaults and our ability to acquire additional commitments from our existing lenders or new lenders. The Credit Facility contains various financial and non-financial covenants. As of June 30, 2005, the Partnership was in compliance with all such covenants.
The Partnership utilizes unsecured notes as a long-term financing alternative. The indentures and note purchase agreements contain various financial restrictions and requirements, including (1) a leverage ratio not to exceed 60%, (2) a secured debt leverage ratio not to exceed 40%, (3) a debt service coverage ratio of greater than 1.5 to 1.0, and (4)
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an unencumbered asset value of not less than 150% of unsecured debt. In addition, the note purchase agreement relating to the 2008 Notes contains covenants that are similar to the above covenants. At June 30, 2005, the Partnership was in compliance with each of these financial restrictions and requirements.
The Partnership has mortgages, loans payable and other obligations which consist of various loans collateralized by certain of the Partnership’s Properties. Payments on mortgages, loans payable and other obligations are generally due in monthly installments of principal and interest, or interest only.
The Partnership intends to refinance its mortgage indebtedness as they become due primarily through the use of unsecured debt or equity.
Partner’s Equity
On June 15, 2005, the Partnership declared a distribution of $0.44 per Common Partnership Unit, totaling $24.7 million, which was paid on July 15, 2005 to unit holders of record as of July 6, 2005. On this same date, the Partnership declared a $0.44 per unit cash distribution to holders of Class A Units totaling $0.9 million.
On June 15, 2005, the Partnership declared distributions to holders of its Series D Preferred Mirror Units and Series E Preferred Mirror Units to holders of record on June 30, 2005. These units are currently entitled to a cumulative preferential return of 7.50% and 7.375%, respectively. Distributions paid on July 15, 2005 to holders of Series D Preferred Mirror Units and Series E Preferred Mirror Units totaled $0.9 million and $1.1 million, respectively.
The Board of Trustees of the Company approved a share repurchase program authorizing it to repurchase up to of its outstanding Common Shares. Through June 30, 2005, the Company had repurchased 3.2 million of its Common Shares at an average price of $17.75 per share. Concurrent with share repurchases by the Company, the Partnership has repurchased 3.2 million of Partnership Units from the Company at an average price of $17.75 per unit. Under the share repurchase program, the Company has the authority to repurchase an additional 762,000 shares, and, in exchange for the funds required to repurchase these shares, the Partnership will repurchase an equivalent number of Common Partnership Units from the Company. No time limit has been placed on the duration of the share repurchase program.
Shelf Registration Statement
The Company and Partnership have an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that registered $750 million in common shares, preferred shares, depositary shares, warrants, and $750 million in debt securities. As of June 30, 2005, the registration statement had the entire $750 million of capacity for future issuances of common shares, preferred shares, depositary shares and warrants and had the entire $750 million of capacity for future issuances of debt securities.
Short- and Long-Term Liquidity
The Partnership believes that its cash flow from operations is adequate to fund its short-term liquidity requirements. Cash flow from operations is generated primarily from rental revenues and operating expense reimbursements from tenants and management services income from providing services to third parties. The Partnership intends to use these funds to meet short-term liquidity needs, which are to fund operating expenses, debt service requirements, recurring capital expenditures, tenant allowances, leasing commissions and the minimum distributions required to maintain the Company’s REIT qualification under the Internal Revenue Code.
The Partnership expects to meet its long-term liquidity requirements, such as for property acquisitions, development, investments in real estate ventures, scheduled debt maturities, major renovations, expansions and other significant capital improvements, through cash from operations, borrowings under its Credit Facility, other long-term secured and unsecured indebtedness, the issuance of equity securities and the proceeds from the disposition of selected assets.
Inflation
A majority of the Partnership’s leases provide for separate escalations of real estate taxes and operating expenses either on a triple net basis or over a base amount. In addition, many of the office leases provide for fixed base rent increases.
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The Partnership believes that inflationary increases in expenses will be significantly offset by expense reimbursement and contractual rent increases.
Commitments and Contingencies
The following table outlines the timing of payment requirements related to the Partnership’s contractual commitments as of June 30, 2005:
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Mortgage notes payable (a) | $ | 501,429 | | $ | 14,888 | | $ | 35,768 | | $ | 104,207 | | $ | 346,566 | |
Revolving credit facility | | 265,000 | | | — | | | 265,000 | | | — | | | — | |
Unsecured debt (a) | | 638,000 | | | — | | | — | | | 388,000 | | | 250,000 | |
Ground leases (b) | | 259,990 | | | 1,435 | | | 2,869 | | | 2,993 | | | 252,693 | |
Other liabilities | | 1,525 | | | 837 | | | — | | | — | | | 688 | |
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| $ | 1,665,944 | | $ | 17,160 | | $ | 303,637 | | $ | 495,200 | | $ | 849,947 | |
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(a) | Amounts do not include unamortized discounts and/or premiums. |
(b) | Future minimum rental payments under the terms of all non-cancelable ground leases under which the Partnership is the lessee are accounted for on a straight-line basis regardless of when payments are due. |
The Partnership intends to refinance its mortgage notes payable as they become due or repay those that are secured by properties being sold. The Partnership expects to renegotiate its Credit Facility prior to maturity or extend its term.
We are a party to an agreement with one of our Trustees (Donald E. Axinn) in which we agreed to fund $5.5 million in September 2010 to acquire a fifty percent interest in an approximately 141,725 square foot office building located at 101 Paragon Drive, Montvale, New Jersey. Our agreement provides for proceeds of our $5.5 million payment to be used (together with funds provided by Mr. Axinn) to repay in full the third party loan that encumbers this property.
As part of our purchase of the TRC Properties in September 2004, the Partnership agreed to issue to the sellers up to a maximum of $9.7 million of Class A Units of the Partnership if certain of the acquired properties achieve at least 95% occupancy prior to September 21, 2007. At June 30, 2005, the maximum amount payable under this arrangement was $6.7 million.
As part of the TRC acquisition, we acquired our interest in Two Logan Square, a 696,477 square foot office building in Philadelphia, primarily through a second and third mortgage secured by this property. We currently do not expect to take title to Two Logan Square until, at the earliest, September 2019. In the event that we take title to Two Logan Square upon a foreclosure of our mortgage, we have agreed to make a payment to an unaffiliated third party with a residual interest in the fee owner of this property. The amount of the payment would be $0.6 million if we must pay a state and local transfer upon taking title, and $2.9 million if no transfer tax is payable upon the transfer.
In our acquisition of the TRC Properties and several of our other acquisitions, we agreed not to sell the acquired properties. In the case of the TRC Properties, we agreed not to sell the acquired properties for periods ranging from three to 15 years from the acquisition date as follows: 201 Radnor Financial Center, 555 Radnor Financial Center and 300 Delaware Avenue (three years); One Rodney Square and 130/150/170 Radnor Financial Center (10 years); and One Logan Square, Two Logan Square and Radnor Corporate Center (15 years). We also own 14 properties that aggregate 1.0 million square feet and have agreed not to sell these properties for periods that expire through 2008. These agreements generally provide that we may dispose of the subject Properties only in transactions that qualify as tax-free exchanges under Section 1031 of the Code or in other tax deferred transactions. In the event that we sell any of the properties within the applicable restricted period in non-exempt transactions, we have agreed to pay significant tax liabilities that would be incurred by the parties who sold us the applicable property.
We invest in our Properties and regularly incur capital expenditures in the ordinary course to maintain the Properties. We believe that such expenditures enhance the competitiveness of the Properties. We also enter into construction,
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utility and service contracts in the ordinary course of business which may extend beyond one year. These contracts include terms that provide for cancellation with insignificant or no cancellation penalties.Item 3.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
Market risk is the exposure to loss resulting from changes in interest rates, commodity prices and equity prices. In pursuing its business plan, the primary market risk to which the Partnership is exposed is interest rate risk. Changes in the general level of interest rates prevailing in the financial markets may affect the spread between the Partnership’s yield on invested assets and cost of funds and, in turn, the Partnership’s ability to make distributions or payments to its shareholders. While the Partnership has not experienced any significant credit losses, in the event of a significant rising interest rate environment and/or economic downturn, defaults could increase and result in losses to the Partnership which adversely affect its operating results and liquidity.
There have been no material changes in Quantitative and Qualitative disclosures in 2004 from the disclosures included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004. Reference is made to Item 7 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 and the caption “Liquidity and Capital Resources” under Item 2 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
| (a) | Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures.The Company’s Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer, after evaluating the effectiveness of the Partnership’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report, have concluded that the Partnership’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Partnership in the reports that it files under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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| (b) | Changes in internal controls over financial reporting.There was no change in the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this quarterly report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting. |
Part II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
Not applicable.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
The following table summarizes the unit repurchases during the three-month period ended June 30, 2005:
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| | | | | | Total | | | |
Number of | Maximum |
Units | Number of |
Total | Purchased as | Units that May |
Number of | Average | Part of Publicly | Yet Be Purchased |
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April | — | | $ | — | | — | | 762,000 | |
May | — | | $ | — | | — | | 762,000 | |
June | — | | $ | — | | — | | 762,000 | |
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(A) | Represent Common Partnership Units that relate to Common Shares cancelled by the Company upon vesting of restricted Common Shares previously awarded to Company employees, in satisfaction of tax withholding obligations. |
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Item 5.Other Information
Item 6.Exhibits
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SIGNATURES OF REGISTRANT
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 thereunto duly authorized.
BRANDYWINE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, L.P.
By: Brandywine Realty Trust, its General Partner
Date: August 12, 2005 | By:/s/ Gerard H. Sweeney |
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| Gerard H. Sweeney, President and Chief Executive Officer |
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Date: August 12, 2005 | By:/s/ Christopher P. Marr |
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| Christopher P. Marr, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
| (Principal Financial Officer) |
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Date: August 12, 2005 | By:/s/ Timothy M. Martin |
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| Timothy M. Martin, Vice President-Finance and Chief Accounting Officer |
| (Principal Accounting Officer) |
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