Relative Rights and Preferences Unless the establishing resolution or any other resolution adopted pursuant to Section 2.3 or the Registration Statement otherwise provides, Shares of each Portfolio or Class thereof established hereunder shall have the following relative rights and preferences:
(a) Except as set forth in paragraph (e) of this Section 2.5, each Share of a Portfolio, regardless of Class, shall represent an equal pro rata interest in the assets belonging to such Portfolio and shall have identical voting, dividend, liquidation and other rights, preferences, powers, restrictions, limitations, qualifications and designations and terms and conditions with each other Share of such Portfolio.
(b) Shareholders shall have no preemptive or other right to subscribe to any additional Shares or other securities issued by the Trust or the Trustees, whether of the same or other Portfolio (or Class).
(c) All consideration received by the Trust for the issue or sale of Shares of a particular Portfolio, together with all assets in which such consideration is invested or reinvested, all income, earnings, profits, and proceeds thereof, including any proceeds derived from the sale, exchange, or liquidation of such assets, and any funds or payments derived from any reinvestment of such proceeds in whatever form the same may be, shall be held in separate and distinct records and accounted for in such separate and distinct records separately from the other assets of the Trust and of every other Portfolio and may be referred to herein as “assets belonging to” that Portfolio. The assets belonging to a particular Portfolio shall belong to that Portfolio for all purposes, and to no other Portfolio, subject only to the rights of creditors of that Portfolio. In addition, any assets, income, earnings, profits or funds, or payments and proceeds with respect thereto, which are not readily identifiable as belonging to any particular Portfolio shall be allocated by the Trustees between and among one or more of the Portfolios in such manner as the Trustees, in their sole discretion, deem fair and equitable. Each such allocation shall be conclusive and binding upon the Shareholders of all Portfolios thereof for all purposes, and such assets, income, earnings, profits, or funds, or payments and proceeds with respect thereto shall be assets belonging to that Portfolio.
(d) Each Class of a Portfolio shall have a proportionate undivided interest (as determined by or at the direction of, or pursuant to authority granted by, the Trustees, consistent with industry practice) (“Proportionate Interest”) in the net assets belonging to that Portfolio. References herein to assets, expenses, charges, costs, and reserves “allocable” or “allocated” to a particular Class of a Portfolio shall mean the aggregate amount of such item(s) of the Portfolio multiplied by the Class’s Proportionate Interest.
(e) A particular Portfolio shall be charged with the liabilities of that Portfolio, and all expenses, costs, charges and reserves attributable to any particular Portfolio shall be borne by such Portfolio; provided that the Trustees may, in their sole discretion, allocate or authorize the allocation of particular expenses, costs, charges, and/or reserves of a Portfolio to fewer than all the Classes thereof. Class Expenses shall, in all cases, be allocated to the Class for which such Class Expenses were incurred. Any general liabilities, expenses, costs, charges or reserves of the Trust (or any Portfolio) that are not readily identifiable as chargeable to or bearable by any particular Portfolio (or any particular Class) shall be allocated and charged by the Trustees between or among any one or more of the Portfolios (or Classes) in such manner as the Trustees in their sole discretion deem fair and equitable. Each such allocation shall be conclusive and binding upon the Shareholders of all Portfolios (or Classes) for all purposes. Without limitation of the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.5(e), (i) the debts, liabilities, obligations and expenses incurred, contracted for or otherwise existing with respect to a particular Portfolio shall be enforceable against the assets of such Portfolio only, and not against the assets of the Trust generally or assets belonging to any other Portfolio, and (ii) none of the debts, liabilities, obligations and expenses incurred, contracted for or otherwise existing with respect to the Trust generally that have not been allocated to a specified Portfolio, or with respect to any other Portfolio, shall be enforceable against the assets of such specified Portfolio. Notice of this contractual limitation on inter-Portfolio liabilities is set forth in the Trust’s Certificate of Trust described in Section 1.4, and, accordingly, the statutory provisions of Section 3804 of the Delaware Act relating to limitations on inter-Portfolio liabilities (and the statutory effect under Section 3804 of setting forth such notice in the Certificate of Trust) are applicable to the Trust and each Portfolio.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, no dividend or distribution on the Shares of any Portfolio, including any distribution paid in connection with termination of the Trust or such Portfolio or any Class of such Portfolio, nor any redemption or repurchase of, the Shares of such Portfolio or Class shall be effected by the Trust other than from the assets held with respect to such Portfolio, nor shall any Shareholder of any particular Portfolio otherwise have any right or claim against the assets held with respect to any other Portfolio except to the extent that such Shareholder has such a right or claim hereunder as a Shareholder of such other Portfolio.
(g) Except as provided for in Section 2.9, Shares redeemed or repurchased by a Portfolio or the Trust shall be deemed to be canceled.
(h) Any Trustee, officer or other agent of the Trust, and any organization in which any such Person has an economic or other interest, may acquire, own, hold and dispose of Shares in the Trust, whether such Shares are authorized but unissued, or already outstanding, to the same extent as if such Person were not a Trustee, officer or other agent of the Trust; and the Trust may issue and sell and may purchase such Shares from any such Person or any such organization, subject to the limitations, restrictions or other provisions applicable to the sale or purchase of such shares herein, the 1940 Act and other applicable law.
(i) The Trust may issue Shares in fractional denominations of 1/1000th of a Share or integral multiples thereof to the same extent as its whole Shares, and Shares in fractional denominations shall be Shares having proportionately to the respective fractions represented thereby all the rights of whole Shares of the same Portfolio (or Class), including without limitation, the right to vote, the right to receive dividends and distributions and the right to participate upon termination of the Trust or any Portfolio.
(j) The Trustees shall have the authority to provide that the Shareholders of any Portfolio or Class shall have the right to exchange such Shares for Shares of one or more other Portfolio or Class of Shares or for interests in one or more trusts, corporations or other business entities (or a portfolio or series or class of any of the foregoing) in accordance with such requirements and procedures as may be established by the Trustees. All references to Shares in this Agreement shall be deemed to be shares of any or all Portfolios, or Classes thereof, as the context may require. All provisions herein relating to the Trust shall apply equally to each Portfolio of the Trust, and each Class thereof, except as the context otherwise requires.
Liquidation Preference (a) Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Partnership (“Liquidation Event”), in each case, that is not a Market Capitalization Liquidation Event (as defined below) or substantially concurrent with the liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of BPY, including a BPY Specified Event, whether voluntary or involuntary (a “BPY Liquidation Event”), subject to the prior rights of holders of any class or series of Preferred Units issued by the Partnership that ranks senior to the Series K Preferred Units at the time outstanding having prior rights upon liquidation, but before any dividend or other distribution transfer or payment (payable in securities, cash, assets, property or any partnership interests in the Partnership or Units or otherwise) shall be made to the holders of the Common Units and the Series L Preferred Units or any other partnership interests in the Partnership or Units ranking junior to the Series K Preferred Units as to the distribution of assets upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Partnership, the holders of the Series K Preferred Units shall be entitled to receive, out of the assets of the Partnership legally available for distribution for each Series K Preferred Unit then held by them, an amount in cash per Series K Unit equal to the BPY Unit Value on the date immediately preceding the public announcement of said Liquidation Event plus all declared and unpaid dividends on such Series K Preferred Unit. If, upon any such Liquidation Event, the assets of the Partnership shall be insufficient to make payment in full to all holders of Series K Preferred Units of the foregoing amounts set forth in this subsection 6(a) with respect to the Liquidation Event, then such assets (or consideration) shall be distributed among the holders of Series K Preferred Units at the time outstanding, ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled to receive under this subsection 6(a). Upon any BPY Liquidation Event, before any distribution or payment shall be made to the holders of the Common Units and the Series L Preferred Units or any other partnership interests in the Partnership or Units ranking junior to the Series K Preferred Units as to the distribution of assets upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Partnership, the holders of Series K Preferred Units shall be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Partnership legally available for distribution for each Series K Unit then held by them, an amount in cash per Series K Preferred Unit equal to the same amount as the liquidating distributions in respect of a BPY Unit as and when such distributions are made in respect of the BPY Units plus all declared and unpaid dividends on such Series K Preferred Unit. If, upon any such BPY Liquidation Event, the assets of the Partnership shall be insufficient to make payment in full to all holders of Series K Preferred Units of the foregoing amounts set forth in this subsection 6(a) with respect to the BPY Liquidation Event, then such assets (or consideration) shall be distributed among the holders of Series K Preferred Unit at the time outstanding, ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled to receive under this subsection 6(a). If the Public REIT’s Average Market Capitalization over any period of 30 consecutive Trading Days is less than one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000), the General Partner may begin an orderly liquidation of the Partnership’s assets and winding up of the Partnership’s operations (a “Market Capitalization Liquidation Event”). Subject to the prior rights of holders of any class or series of Preferred Units issued by the Partnership that ranks senior to the Series K Preferred Units at the time outstanding having prior rights upon liquidation, but before any dividend or other distribution, transfer or payment (payable in securities, cash, assets, property or any partnership interests in the Partnership or Units or otherwise) shall be made to the holders of the Common Units and the Series L Preferred Units or any other partnership interests in the Partnership or Units ranking junior to the Series K Preferred Units as to the distribution of assets upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Partnership, the holders of the Series K Preferred Units shall be entitled to be paid out of the assets of the Partnership legally available for distribution for each Series K Preferred Unit then held by them, an amount in cash per Series K Preferred Unit equal to the VWAP of a BPY Unit for the 10 Trading Day period immediately following the public announcement of said Market Capitalization Liquidation Event plus all declared and unpaid distributions on such Series K Preferred Unit. If, upon any such Market Capitalization Liquidation Event, the assets of the Partnership shall be insufficient to make payment in full to all holders of Series K Preferred Unit of the amounts set forth in this subsection 6(a) with respect to the Market Capitalization Liquidation Event, such assets (or consideration) shall be distributed among the holders of Series K Preferred Unit at the time outstanding, ratably in proportion to the full amounts to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled to receive under this subsection 6(a). The holders of Series K Preferred Units shall not be entitled to any distribution or payment upon a Liquidation Event, BPY Liquidation Event or Market Capitalization Liquidation Event other than as set forth in this subsection 6(a).
(b) Written notice of such Liquidation Event, BPY Liquidation Event or Market Capitalization Liquidation Event, stating the payment date or dates when, and the place or places where, the amounts distributable in such circumstances shall be payable, shall be given by first class mail, postage pre-paid, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the payment date stated therein, to each record holder of the Series K Preferred Units at the respective addresses of such holders as the same shall appear on the transfer records of the Partnership.
(c) After payment of the full amount of liquidating distributions to which they are entitled as provided in Section 6(a) of this Schedule J, the holders of Series K Preferred Units shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Partnership.
(d) For the purposes of this Section 6, none of (i) a consolidation or merger of the Partnership with or into another entity, (ii) a merger of another entity with or into the Partnership or (iii) a sale, lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of the Partnership’s assets, properties or business shall be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Partnership, unless (A) all or substantially all of the proceeds thereof are distributed by the Partnership or (B) as a result of such event, the right of the holders of Series K Preferred Units to distribution as set forth in Section 5 hereof will be adversely affected or otherwise modified in which case a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Partnership shall be deemed to have occurred).