Item 8.01 Other Events.
OnMarch 16, 2021 ,Boston Properties Limited Partnership (the "Partnership"), the operating partnership ofBoston Properties, Inc. (the "Company"), completed the issuance and sale of$850.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Partnership's 2.550% Senior Notes due 2032 (the "Notes") pursuant to an underwriting agreement datedMarch 2, 2021 (the "Underwriting Agreement"), by and among the Partnership andBofA Securities, Inc. ,Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. ,J.P. Morgan Securities LLC ,Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC andT.D. Securities (USA) LLC , as managers of the several underwriters named in Schedule II thereto (the "Underwriters"), whereby the Partnership agreed to sell and the Underwriters agreed to purchase from the Partnership, subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Underwriting Agreement, the Notes. The net proceeds to the Partnership from the sale of the Notes, after deducting underwriting discounts and estimated transaction expenses, are estimated to be approximately$839.2 million . The Partnership intends to allocate an amount equal to the net proceeds from the offering to the financing and refinancing of recently completed and future eligible green projects (as such term is defined in the Prospectus Supplement, defined below) inthe United States . Pending such allocation, the Partnership may use the net proceeds from the offering to repay all amounts outstanding under its$500.0 million delayed draw term loan facility, to redeem all of its outstanding Series B Preferred Units (the "Series B Preferred Units") that are held by the Company, and are equal in number to and have substantially identical economic terms as the Company's outstanding 5.25% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series B Preferred Stock"), and for other uses. Pending such uses, the Partnership may invest the net proceeds in short-term, interest-bearing deposit accounts. The Company intends to use the amounts received from the Partnership upon redemption of the Series B Preferred Units to redeem all of its outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock. Net proceeds allocated to previously incurred costs associated with eligible green projects will be available for repayment of debt or other uses. The Notes were issued under the indenture, dated as ofDecember 13, 2002 , between the Partnership andThe Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor toThe Bank of New York Mellon , formerly known asThe Bank of New York ), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 22 ("Supplemental Indenture No. 22") dated as ofMarch 16, 2021 . The offer and sale of the Notes were registered with theSecurities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-238607-01) (the "Registration Statement") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The material terms of the Notes are described in a prospectus supplement filed by the Partnership with the Commission onMarch 3, 2021 (the "Prospectus Supplement") pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) under the Securities Act. Copies of the Underwriting Agreement, Supplemental Indenture No. 22 and the form of the Notes are attached hereto as Exhibit 1.1, Exhibit 4.1 and Exhibit 4.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing summaries do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Underwriting Agreement, Supplemental Indenture No. 22 and the form of the Notes. Additionally, in connection with the filing of the Underwriting Agreement, the Partnership is filing the opinion and consent of its counsel,Goodwin Procter LLP , regarding the legality of the securities being registered as Exhibits 5.1 and 23.1 hereto, respectively, which are incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits . Exhibit No. Exhibit +1.1 Underwriting Agreement, datedMarch 2, 2021 , by and amongBoston Properties Limited Partnership andBofA Securities, Inc. ,Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. ,J.P. Morgan Securities LLC ,Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC andT.D. Securities (USA) LLC , as managers of the several underwriters named in Schedule II thereto. +4.1 Supplemental Indenture No. 22, dated as ofMarch 16, 2021 , betweenBoston Properties Limited Partnership andThe Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. , as Trustee. +4.2 Form of 2.550% Senior Notes due 2032 (attached as Exhibit A to Supplemental Indenture No. 22 filed as Exhibit 4.1 hereto). +5.1 Opinion ofGoodwin Procter LLP as to the legality of the securities being registered. +23.1 Consent ofGoodwin Procter LLP (contained in its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 and incorporated herein by reference). +101.SCH Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document. +101.CAL Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document. +101.LAB Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document. +101.PRE Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document. +101.DEF Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document. +104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL with applicable taxonomy extension information contained in Exhibits 101.*). + Filed herewith.
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