paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of any such Partnership Units) by the Partnership (except (i) by conversion into or exchange for Common Units or Junior Preferred Units of the Partnership, (ii) in connection with the redemption, purchase or acquisition of Partnership Units under incentive, benefit or share purchase plans of the General Partner for officers, trustees or employees or others performing or providing similar services, or (iii) by other redemption, purchase or acquisition of such Partnership Units by the General Partner for the purpose of preserving the General Partner’s status as a REIT). Holders of Series A Preferred Units shall not be entitled to any distribution, whether payable in cash, property or stock, in excess of full cumulative distributions on the Series A Preferred Units as provided above. Any distribution made on the Series A Preferred Units shall first be credited against the earliest accrued but unpaid distribution due with respect to such Partnership Units which remains payable.
(e) In determining whether a distribution (other than upon voluntary or involuntary liquidation), redemption or other acquisition of the Partnership Units or otherwise is permitted under Delaware law, no effect shall be given to the amounts that would be needed, if the Partnership were to be dissolved at the time of the distribution, to satisfy the preferential rights upon distribution of holders of Partnership Units whose preferential rights are superior to those receiving the distribution.
6. Liquidation Preference.
(a) Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Partnership, the holders of the Series A Preferred Units are entitled to be paid out of the assets of the Partnership legally available for distribution to its Partners a liquidation preference of (x) $25 per Series A Preferred Unit (the “Base Liquidation Preference”), plus an amount equal to all accumulated and unpaid distributions to, but not including, the date of payment, in cash before any distribution of assets is made to Common Units or Junior Preferred Units.
(b) If upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, the assets of the Partnership, or proceeds thereof, distributable among the holders of Series A Preferred Units shall be insufficient to pay in full the above described preferential amount and liquidating payments on any other class or series of Parity Preferred Units, if any, then such assets, or the proceeds thereof, shall be distributed among the holders of Series A Preferred Units and any such other Parity Preferred Units ratably in the same proportion as the respective amounts that would be payable on such Series A Preferred Units and any such other Parity Preferred Units if all amounts payable thereon were paid in full.
(c) Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Partnership, after payment shall have been made in full to the holders of the Series A Preferred Units and any Parity Preferred Units, any other series or class or classes of Junior Preferred Units shall be entitled to receive any and all assets remaining to be paid or distributed, and the holders of the Series A Preferred Units and any Parity Preferred Units shall not be entitled to share therein.
(d) None of a consolidation, merger or conversion of the Partnership with or into another entity, a merger of another entity with or into the Partnership, or a sale, lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of the Partnership’s property or business shall be considered a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Partnership.
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