UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): September 13, 2016
Liberty Property Trust
Liberty Property Limited Partnership
(Exact Name of Registrant Specified in Charter)
Maryland
Pennsylvania
(State or Other
Jurisdiction of
Incorporation) | | 1-13130
1-13132
(Commission File
Number) | | 23-7768996
23-2766549
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.) |
500 Chesterfield Parkway, | | |
Malvern, PA | | 19355 |
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) | | (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (610) 648-1700
Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
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Item 8.01. Other Events
On September 13, 2016, Liberty Property Trust (the “Trust”), through its limited partnership subsidiary, Liberty Property Limited Partnership (the “Operating Partnership”, and together with the Trust, the “Transaction Entities”), priced a public offering (the “Offering”) of $400,000,000 principal amount of the Operating Partnership’s 3.250% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”). In connection with the Offering, the Transaction Entities entered into an Underwriting Agreement with Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as representatives for the several underwriters named therein, that provides for the issuance and sale of the Notes by the Operating Partnership. The Notes are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to the Automatic Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-195572-01), filed by the Transaction Entities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on April 29, 2014 (the “Registration Statement”). The terms of the Notes are governed by a senior indenture, dated September 22, 2010, between the Operating Partnership and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented and amended by a supplemental indenture thereto, to be dated September 20, 2016 (the “Sixth Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”).
A copy of the Base Indenture was previously filed as Exhibit 4.3 to the Post Effective Amendment No. 1 (“Amendment No. 1”) to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Commission File No. 333-150737-01), filed by the Transaction Entities with the Commission on September 22, 2010. Copies of the Underwriting Agreement, the form of Global Note and the form of Supplemental Indenture are filed as Exhibits 1.1, 4.1 and 4.2 hereto, respectively, and are incorporated by reference herein. The summaries of the Underwriting Agreement, the Notes and the Indenture in this Current Report on Form 8-K do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to Exhibits 1.1, 4.1 and 4.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and to Exhibit 4.3 to Amendment No. 1.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit Number | | Exhibit Title |
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1.1 | | Underwriting Agreement, dated September 13, 2016, by and among Liberty Property Trust, Liberty Property Limited Partnership and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein |
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4.1 | | Form of Global Note Representing $400,000,000 Principal Amount of 3.250% Senior Notes due 2026 |
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4.2 | | Form of Sixth Supplemental Indenture between Liberty Property Limited Partnership and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee |
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5.1 | | Opinion of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP regarding the validity of the Notes |
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8.1 | | Opinion of Cozen O’Connor |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| LIBERTY PROPERTY TRUST |
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| By: | /s/ Christopher J. Papa |
| | Name: | Christopher J. Papa |
| | Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
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| LIBERTY PROPERTY |
| LIMITED PARTNERSHIP |
| | | |
| By: | Liberty Property Trust, its sole |
| | General Partner |
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| By: | /s/ Christopher J. Papa |
| | Name: | Christopher J. Papa |
| | Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Dated: September 19, 2016
[Form 8-K]
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Number | | Exhibit Title |
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1.1 | | Underwriting Agreement, dated September 13, 2016, by and among Liberty Property Trust, Liberty Property Limited Partnership and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein |
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4.1 | | Form of Global Note Representing $400,000,000 Principal Amount of 3.250% Senior Notes due 2026 |
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4.2 | | Form of Sixth Supplemental Indenture between Liberty Property Limited Partnership and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee |
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5.1 | | Opinion of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP regarding the validity of the Notes |
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8.1 | | Opinion of Cozen O’Connor |
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