[Letterhead of Dorsey & Whitney LLP]
Exhibit 5.2
January 24, 2005
Host Marriott, L.P. | ||
6903 Rockledge Drive Suite 1500 Bethesda, Maryland 20817 | Latham & Watkins LLP 555 Eleventh Street, N.W. Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20004 | |
City Center Hotel Limited Partnership 10400 Fernwood Road Bethesda, Maryland 20817 |
Re: | Registration Statement on Form S-4 Relating to $350,000,000 Aggregate Principal Amount 7% Series M Senior Notes due 2012 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with the registration of $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 7% Series M Senior Notes due 2012 (the “Securities”) by Host Marriott, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Company”) and each of the co-registrants, the guarantees of the Securities (the “Guarantees”) by each of the entities listed on Schedule A hereto (the “Guarantors”), and specifically that certain guaranty of the Securities (the “Covered Guaranty”) by City Center Hotel Limited Partnership, a Minnesota limited partnership (the “Covered Guarantor”), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), on Form S-4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on December 9, 2004 as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated January 24, 2005 (the “Registration Statement”), you have requested our opinion with respect to the matters set forth below. The Securities and the Guarantees will be issued pursuant to a Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated August 3, 2004, among the Company, the Guarantors and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the “Trustee”), which supplements the Amended and Restated Indenture, dated as of August 5, 1998 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), originally among HMH Properties, Inc. (now, the Company), the guarantors named therein and HSBC Bank USA (f/k/a Marine Midland Bank), as trustee. The Securities and the Guarantees will be issued in exchange for the Company’s outstanding 7% Series L Senior Notes due 2012 on the terms set forth in the prospectus contained in the Registration Statement and the Letter of Transmittal filed as an exhibit thereto. The Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantees are sometimes referred to herein collectively as the “Operative Documents.” Capitalized terms used herein without definition have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
In our capacity as special counsel to the Covered Guarantor, in connection with such registration, we are familiar with the proceedings taken by the Covered Guarantor in connection with the authorization and issuance of the Indenture pursuant to which the Securities and the Covered Guaranty will be issued and have reviewed a signed copy of the Indenture bearing the signature of W. Edward Walter on behalf of the Company and John A. Carnella on behalf of each of the Guarantors, including the Covered Guarantor.
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In addition, we have examined originals or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction of the following documents:
(i) | the Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement of City Center Hotel Limited Partnership, dated as of June 18, 1987, as amended by an Amendment of Partnership Agreement, dated as of December 29, 1995, a Second Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement, dated as of December 23, 1998, an Amendment to Agreement of Limited Partnership, dated as of December 27, 1998 and an Amendment to Agreement of Limited Partnership, dated as of December 28, 1998 (as so amended, the “Partnership Agreement”); |
(ii) | the Resolutions of the Board of Managers of Host LaJolla LLC, dated July 27, 2004; and |
(iii) | the Resolutions of the Board of Directors of Host Marriott Corporation, dated July 13, 2004. |
The documents described in (i), (ii) and (iii) above are collectively referred to herein as the “Corporate Documents.” With respect to all factual matters, we have relied solely upon, and have assumed the accuracy, completeness and genuineness of, the representations, warranties and certificates contained in and made pursuant to, the Operative Documents and the Corporate Documents.
We have not served as general counsel for any of the parties to, nor have we been involved in the transactions contemplated in, the Operative Documents. We have represented the Covered Guarantor only with respect to the rendering of this opinion.
In rendering the opinions set forth below, we have relied, with your permission, upon the following specific assumptions, the accuracy of which we have not independently verified:
(i) Except for the Operative Documents, there are no other documents or agreements executed by or between any of the parties that would expand or otherwise modify the obligations of the Covered Guarantor under the Covered Guaranty or that would have any effect on the opinion rendered herein;
(ii) In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies and that the duly elected officers as identified and signed the Officer’s Certificate are the only parties which executed documents on behalf of the Covered Guarantor; and
(iii) The Partnership Agreement of the Covered Guarantor that has been provided to us is the current Partnership Agreement of the Covered Guarantor, and there have been no
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amendments to such Partnership Agreement that would have any effect on the opinion rendered herein.
We are members of the Bar of the State of Minnesota, and this opinion relates only to the laws of the State of Minnesota. We are not opining on the laws of any other jurisdiction or federal law, including federal securities law, or any state securities law, including Minnesota securities laws, and we express no opinion with respect to the applicability thereto, or the effect thereon, of the laws of any other jurisdiction, including the federal laws of the United States, or as to any matters of municipal law or the laws of any local agencies within any state.
Subject to the foregoing and the other matters set forth herein, it is our opinion that as of the date hereof:
(1) The Indenture has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Covered Guarantor and has been duly executed and delivered by the Covered Guarantor.
(2) The notation of Covered Guaranty to be endorsed on the Securities has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Covered Guarantor.
To the extent that the obligations of the Company and each Guarantor under the Operative Documents may be dependent upon such matters, we assume for purposes of this opinion that the Trustee, Company and each Guarantor other than the Covered Guarantor: (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization; (b) has the requisite organizational and legal power and authority to perform its obligations under each of the Operative Documents to which it is a party; (c) is duly qualified to engage in the activities contemplated by each such Operative Document; and (d) has duly authorized, executed and delivered each such Operative Document.
This opinion is for the benefit of the addressees hereof and we consent to your filing this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm contained under the heading “Validity of the Securities” contained in the prospectus contained therein. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, this letter may not be quoted for any other purpose without our prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Dorsey & Whitney LLP
RAK
Schedule A
Guarantors
Name | Jurisdiction of Formation | |
HMH Rivers, L.P. | Delaware | |
HMH Marina LLC | Delaware | |
HMC SBM Two LLC | Delaware | |
HMC PLP LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Retirement Properties, L.P. | Delaware | |
HMH Pentagon LLC | Delaware | |
Airport Hotels LLC | Delaware | |
Chesapeake Financial Services LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Capital Resources LLC | Delaware | |
YBG Associates LLC | Delaware | |
PRM LLC | Delaware | |
Host Park Ridge LLC | Delaware | |
Host of Boston, Ltd. | Massachusetts | |
Host of Houston, Ltd. | Texas | |
Host of Houston 1979 | Texas | |
Philadelphia Airport Hotel LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Hartford LLC | Delaware | |
HMH Norfolk LLC | Delaware | |
HMH Norfolk, L.P | Delaware | |
HMC Park Ridge LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Suites LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Suites Limited Partnership | Delaware | |
Wellsford-Park Ridge HMC Hotel Limited Partnership | Delaware | |
Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor Restaurants LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Burlingame LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Capital LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Grand LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Hotel Development LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Mexpark LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Polanco LLC | Delaware | |
HMC NGL LLC | Delaware | |
HMC OLS I L.P. | Delaware | |
HMC Seattle LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Swiss Holdings LLC | Delaware | |
HMH Restaurants LLC | Delaware | |
HMH Rivers LLC | Delaware | |
HMH WTC LLC | Delaware | |
Host La Jolla LLC | Delaware | |
City Center Hotel Limited Partnership | Minnesota | |
PM Financial LLC | Delaware |
PM Financial LP | Delaware | |
HMC Chicago LLC | Delaware | |
HMC HPP LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Desert LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Hanover LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Diversified LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Properties I LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Potomac LLC | Delaware | |
HMC East Side II LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Manhattan Beach LLC | Delaware | |
Chesapeake Hotel Limited Partnership | Delaware | |
HMH General Partner Holdings LLC | Delaware | |
HMC IHP Holdings LLC | Delaware | |
HMC OP BN LLC | Delaware | |
S.D. Hotels LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Gateway LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Pacific Gateway LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Market Street LLC | Delaware | |
New Market Street LP | Delaware | |
Times Square LLC | Delaware | |
Times Square GP LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Atlanta LLC | Delaware | |
Ivy Street LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Properties II LLC | Delaware | |
Santa Clara HMC LLC | Delaware | |
HMC BCR Holdings LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Palm Desert LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Georgia LLC | Delaware | |
HMC SFO LLC | Delaware | |
Market Street Host LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Property Leasing LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Host Restaurants LLC | Delaware | |
Durbin LLC | Delaware | |
HMC HT LLC | Delaware | |
HMC JWDC LLC | Delaware | |
HMC OLS I LLC | Delaware | |
HMC OLS II L.P. | Delaware | |
HMT Lessee Parent LLC | Delaware | |
HMC/Interstate Manhattan Beach, L.P. | Delaware | |
Ameliatel | Florida | |
HMC Amelia I LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Amelia II LLC | Delaware | |
Rockledge Hotel LLC | Delaware | |
Fernwood Hotel LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Copley LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Headhouse Funding LLC | Delaware |
Ivy Street Hopewell LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Diversified American Hotels, L.P. | Delaware | |
Potomac Hotel Limited Partnership | Delaware | |
HMC AP GP LLC | Delaware | |
HMC AP LP | Delaware | |
HMC AP Canada Company | Nova Scotia | |
HMC Toronto Airport GP LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Toronto Airport LP | Delaware | |
HMC Toronto EC GP LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Toronto EC LP | Delaware | |
HMC Charlotte GP LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Charlotte LP | Delaware | |
HMC Charlotte (Calgary) Company | Nova Scotia | |
Calgary Charlotte Holdings Company | Nova Scotia | |
HMC Grace (Calgary) Company | Nova Scotia | |
HMC Maui LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Lenox LLC | Delaware | |
Calgary Charlotte Partnership | Alberta | |
HMC Chicago Lakefront LLC | Delaware | |
HMC East Side LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Kea Lani LLC | Delaware | |
HMC East Side Hotel Associates, L.P. | Delaware |