(s) No Consents Required. No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or filing with any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency, or of or with any self-regulatory organization or other non-governmental regulatory authority, or approval of the stockholders of MPT, is required in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities, compliance by the Issuers and MPT with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications (i) as may be required by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) or under applicable state securities laws or blue sky laws of the various jurisdictions in which the Securities are being offered by the Underwriters, (ii) as may be required for registration of the Securities under the Securities Act, which has been effected, (iii) that have been obtained or will be obtained or completed by the time of purchase of the Securities on the Closing Date and (iv) with respect to the consummation of the transactions, which have been referenced in the Transaction Documents and described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, or the failure of which to obtain would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(t) Legal Proceedings. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no actions, suits, claims, investigations or proceedings pending or, to the Issuers’ or MPT’s knowledge, threatened or contemplated to which the Issuers, MPT or any of their respective subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or officers is or would be a party or of which any of their respective properties is or would be subject at law or in equity, before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency, or before or by any self-regulatory organization or other non-governmental regulatory authority, except any such action, suit, claim, investigation or proceeding which, if resolved adversely to the Issuers, MPT or any of their respective subsidiaries, would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(u) Independent Accountants. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP with respect to MPT and its subsidiaries, which has expressed its opinion on the audited financial statements and related schedules included in, or incorporated by reference into, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to MPT and its subsidiaries within the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and as required by the Securities Act.
(v) Title to Real and Personal Property.
(i) The Issuers, MPT and their respective subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property, and good title to all personal property, owned by them, in each case free and clear of all liens, claims, security interests, pledges, charges, encumbrances, encroachments, restrictions, mortgages and other defects, except such as are disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or listed as an exception to any owner’s or leasehold title insurance policy with respect to such real property and personal property made available by the Issuers or MPT to the Underwriters or their counsel or such as do not materially and adversely affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Issuers, MPT and their respective
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