Certain information regarding each director and executive officer of BAM are set forth in Schedule C hereto. See “Item 7. Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions” in our Annual Report, for more information on the relationship and transactions between BAM and our Company.
During the last five years, none of BAM, or to the best knowledge of BAM, Partners Limited or any of the persons listed in Schedule C hereto (i) has been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors) or (ii) was a party to any judicial or administrative proceeding (except for matters that were dismissed without sanction or settlement) that resulted in a judgment, decree or final order enjoining the person from future violations of, or prohibiting activities subject to, federal or state securities laws, or a finding of any violation of such laws.
Except as set forth elsewhere or incorporated by reference in the Offer to Purchase and this Circular, (a) none of BAM and, to BAM’s knowledge after reasonable inquiry, Partners Limited and the persons listed in Schedule C here, has effected any transaction in Units or any other equity securities of our Company during the past 60 days; (b) during the two years before the date of the Offer to Purchase and this Circular, there have been no transactions between BAM or, to BAM’s knowledge after reasonable inquiry, Partners Limited or any of the persons listed in Schedule C hereto, on the one hand, and our Company or any of its executive officers, directors or affiliates, on the other hand, that would require reporting under SEC rules and regulations; (c) during the two years before the date of the Offer to Purchase and this Circular, there have been no material contacts, negotiations or transactions between BAM or, to BAM’s knowledge after reasonable inquiry, Partners Limited or any of the persons listed in Schedule C hereto, on the one hand, and our Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, on the other hand, concerning a merger, consolidation or acquisition, a tender offer or other acquisition of securities, an election of directors or a sale or other transfer of a material amount of assets.
BPY’s authorized capital consists of an unlimited number of Units, an unlimited number of preferred limited partnership units and an unlimited number of general partnership units. As at June 26, 2020, 437,639,870 Units (and 943,171,967 Units on a fully exchanged basis), 7,360,000 Class A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units, Series 1, 10,000,000 Class A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units, Series 2, 11,500,000 Class A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units, Series 3, and 138,875 general partnership units (all held by our General Partner) were issued and outstanding. For the avoidance of doubt, the Offer is not for any series of Class A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units of our Company. As of June 26, 2020, 2,831,968 issued and outstanding Exchange LP Units were exchangeable at the option of their holders on a one-for-one basis into Units.
Description of Units
The following is a description of the material terms of the Units and is qualified in its entirety by reference to all of the provisions of our limited partnership agreement. Because this description is only a summary of the terms of the Units, it does not contain all of the information that you may find useful. For more complete information, you should read our limited partnership agreement, which is available electronically on our SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com and our SEC profile at www.sec.gov.
Units are non-voting limited partnership interests in our Company. The rights of holders of Units are based on our limited partnership agreement, amendments to which may be proposed only by or with the consent of our General Partner as described in our Annual Report.
Units represent a fractional limited partnership interest in our Company and do not represent a direct investment in our Company’s assets and should not be viewed by investors as direct securities of our Company’s assets. Holders of Units are not entitled to the withdrawal or return of capital contributions in respect of Units, except to the extent, if any, that distributions are made to such holders pursuant to our limited partnership agreement or upon the liquidation of our Company as described in our Annual Report or as otherwise required by applicable law. Except to the extent expressly provided in our limited partnership agreement, a holder of Units will not have priority over any other holder of Units, either as to the return of capital contributions or as to profits, losses or distributions. Holders of Units do not have the ability to call meetings of unitholders, and holders of Units are not entitled to vote on matters relating to our Company except as described in our Annual Report.
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