Item 8.01. Other Events. Issuance of Senior Notes due 2033 OnSeptember 29, 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 2.450% Senior Notes due 2033 (the "Notes") pursuant to an underwriting agreement datedSeptember 15, 2021 (the "Underwriting Agreement"), by and among the Partnership andBNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC ,BofA Securities, Inc. ,J.P. Morgan Securities LLC ,Truist Securities, Inc. andWells Fargo Securities, 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$842.5 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 intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund the redemption of the$1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of its 3.85% senior notes due 2023 that are scheduled to mature onFebruary 1, 2023 (the "2023 Notes"). The Partnership intends to use available cash and/or borrowings under its$1.5 billion unsecured revolving credit facility to fund the remaining portion of the funds needed to redeem the 2023 Notes in full. Pending the use of the net proceeds from the offering to redeem the 2023 Notes, the Partnership may invest the net proceeds in short-term, interest-bearing deposit accounts. 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. 23 ("Supplemental Indenture No. 23") dated as ofSeptember 29, 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 onSeptember 16, 2021 (the "Prospectus Supplement") pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) under the Securities Act. Copies of the Underwriting Agreement, Supplemental Indenture No. 23 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. 23 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Redemption of Senior Notes due 2023 The Company has elected to redeem the 2023 Notes onOctober 15, 2021 (the "Redemption Date"). The redemption price for the 2023 Notes will equal the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the 2023 Notes to be redeemed or (ii) the sum of (A) the present values as of the Redemption Date of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon from the Redemption Date to the date of maturity (except for currently accrued but unpaid interest) discounted to the Redemption Date, on a semi-annual basis at a rate equal to the yield to maturity of a comparable United States Treasury security plus 35 basis points, plus (B) accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the Redemption Date. The redemption price will be calculated three business days prior to the Redemption Date and will be payable on the Redemption Date in accordance with the terms of the 2023 Notes. In connection with the redemption of the 2023 Notes, the Company expects that it will record a loss from early extinguishment of debt in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits. Exhibit No. Description *1.1 Underwriting Agreement, datedSeptember 15 ,
2021, by and among
Properties Limited Partnership and BNY Mellon
Securities, Inc. ,J.P. Morgan Securities LLC ,
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC , as managers of the
several underwriters named
in Schedule II thereto. *4.1 Supplemental Indenture No. 23, dated as of
Boston Properties Limited Partnership and The
Company, N.A. , as Trustee. *4.2 Form of 2.450% Senior Notes due 2033 (attached as Exhibit A to Supplemental Indenture No. 23 filed as Exhibit 4.1 hereto). Opinion ofGoodwin Procter LLP as to the legality of the securities being *5.1 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.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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