Exhibit 5.2
October 3, 2011
Host Hotels & Resorts, L.P.
6903 Rockledge Drive
Suite 1500
Bethesda, Maryland 20817
City Center Hotel Limited Partnership
6903 Rockledge Drive
Suite 1500
Bethesda, Maryland 20817
Re: | Registration Statement on Form S-4 Relating to $500,000,000 Aggregate Principal Amount 5 7/8% Series X Senior Notes due 2019 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with the registration of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5 7/8% Series X Senior Notes due 2019 (the “Securities”) by Host Hotels & Resorts, 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 October 3, 2011 (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 Thirty-Ninth Supplemental Indenture (the “Supplemental Indenture”), dated May 11, 2011, among the Company, the Guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon, as successor 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 5 7/8% Series W Senior Notes due 2019 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 execution of the Supplemental Indenture pursuant to which the Securities and the Covered Guaranty will be issued and have reviewed a signed copy of the Supplemental Indenture bearing the signature of Larry K. Harvey on behalf of the Company and on behalf of each of the Guarantors, including the Covered Guarantor.
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City Center Hotel Limited Partnership
October 3, 2011
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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 Third Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of City Center Hotel Limited Partnership, dated as of December 31, 2009, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Third Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership, dated as of December 31, 2009, and Amendment No. 2 to the Third Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership, dated as of December 31, 2009 (as so amended, the “Partnership Agreement”), |
(ii) | the Resolutions of the Board of Managers of Host City Center GP LLC, the sole general partner of the Covered Guarantor, dated May 4, 2011, |
(iii) | the Resolutions of the Board of Directors of Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., dated May 4, 2011, and |
(iv) | the Resolutions of the Pricing Committee of the Board of Directors of Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., dated May 5, 2011. |
The documents described in (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) 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 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
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(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 amendments to such Partnership Agreement that would have any effect on the opinion rendered herein.
This opinion is limited 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 Supplemental 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 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/CFS
Schedule A
Guarantors
Name | Jurisdiction of Formation | |
HMH Rivers, L.P | Delaware | |
HMH Marina LLC | Delaware | |
HMC PLP LLC | Delaware | |
HMH Pentagon LP | Delaware | |
Airport Hotels LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Capital Resources LP | Delaware | |
YBG Associates LP | Delaware | |
Host Park Ridge LLC | Delaware | |
Host of Boston, Ltd. | Massachusetts | |
Host of Houston, Ltd. | Texas | |
Host of Houston 1979 LP | Delaware | |
Philadelphia Airport Hotel LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Suites LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Suites Limited Partnership | Delaware | |
Wellsford-Park Ridge HMC Hotel Limited Partnership | Delaware | |
HMC Burlingame LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Grand LP | Delaware | |
HMC Hotel Development LP | Delaware | |
HMC Mexpark LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Polanco LLC | Delaware | |
HMC NGL L.P. | Delaware | |
HMC OLS I L.P | Delaware | |
HMC Seattle LLC | Delaware | |
Host Swiss GP LLC | Delaware | |
HMH Restaurants LP | 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 Desert LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Diversified LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Properties I LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Potomac LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Manhattan Beach LLC | Delaware | |
Chesapeake Hotel Limited Partnership | Delaware | |
HMH General Partner Holdings LLC | Delaware | |
S.D. Hotels LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Gateway LP | Delaware |
HMC Market Street LLC | Delaware | |
New Market Street LP | Delaware | |
Times Square GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Times Square LP | Delaware | |
HMC Atlanta LLC | Delaware | |
Ivy Street LLC | Delaware | |
HMC SFO LP | Delaware | |
Market Street Host LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Property Leasing LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Host Restaurants LLC | Delaware | |
HMC HT LP | Delaware | |
HMC OLS I LLC | Delaware | |
HMC OLS II L.P. | Delaware | |
HMC/Interstate Manhattan Beach, L.P. | Delaware | |
Ameliatel LP | Delaware | |
HMC Amelia II LLC | Delaware | |
Rockledge Hotel LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Copley LP | 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 LP | Delaware | |
Calgary Charlotte Partnership | Alberta | |
HMC Chicago Lakefront LLC | Delaware | |
HMC East Side LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Kea Lani LP | Delaware | |
East Side Hotel Associates, L.P. | Delaware | |
HMC O’Hare Suites Ground LP | Delaware | |
HMC Toronto Air Company | Nova Scotia | |
HMC Toronto EC Company | Nova Scotia | |
HMC Lenox LP | Delaware | |
Cincinnati Plaza LLC | Delaware | |
Host Cincinnati II LLC | Delaware | |
Host Cincinnati Hotel LLC | Delaware | |
Host Fourth Avenue LLC | Delaware | |
Host Indianapolis I LP | Delaware |
Host Los Angeles LP | Delaware | |
Host Mission Hills II LLC | Delaware | |
Host Mission Hills Hotel LP | Delaware | |
Host Needham II LLC | Delaware | |
Host Needham Hotel LP | Delaware | |
HST LT LLC | Delaware | |
HST I LLC | Delaware | |
South Coast Host Hotel LP | Delaware | |
Starlex LP | Delaware | |
Airport Hotels Houston LLC | Delaware | |
BRE/Swiss LP | Delaware | |
HHR Assets LLC | Delaware | |
HHR Harbor Beach LLC | Delaware | |
HHR Holdings Cooperatief U.A. | Netherlands | |
HHR Lauderdale Beach Limited Partnership | Delaware | |
HHR Singer Island GP LLC | Delaware | |
HHR Singer Island Limited Partnership | Delaware | |
HMC Cambridge LP | Delaware | |
HMC McDowell LP | Delaware | |
HMC Reston LP | Delaware | |
Host Atlanta Perimeter Ground GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Atlanta Perimeter Ground LP | Delaware | |
Host Cambridge GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Capitol Hill LLC | Delaware | |
Host City Center GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Copley GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Dallas Quorum Ground GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Dallas Quorum Ground LP | Delaware | |
Host GH Atlanta GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Grand GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Indianapolis GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Indianapolis Hotel Member LLC | Delaware | |
Host Indianapolis LP | Delaware | |
Host Kea Lani GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Kierland GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Kierland LP | Delaware | |
Host Lenox Land GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Los Angeles GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Maui GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host McDowell GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Moscone GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host NY Downtown GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host O’Hare Suites Ground GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host OP BN GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Pentagon GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Restaurants GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Reston GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host SFO GP LLC | Delaware |
Host South Coast GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Tampa GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host Times Square GP LLC | Delaware | |
Host WNY GP LLC | Delaware | |
IHP Holdings Partnership LP | Pennsylvania | |
Pacific Gateway, Ltd. | California | |
HHR Rio Holdings LLC | Delaware | |
Harbor-Cal, S.D. | California | |
Harbor-Cal S.D. Partner LLC | Delaware | |
HMC Burlingame Hotel L.P. | California | |
Host San Diego Hotel LLC | Delaware | |
Host San Diego LLC | Delaware | |
HHR 42 Associates GP LLC | Delaware | |
HHR 42 Associates, L.P. | Delaware |