Common use of Internalization Clause in Contracts

Internalization. (i) The Company shall have the right to internalize the services provided by Advisor hereunder (an “Internalization”) at any time during the term of this Agreement if: (A) more than 67% of the Independent Directors have approved such Internalization; (B) the Company has provided written notice to the Advisor of the approval described in clause (A) above (the “Internalization Notice” and the date the Internalization Notice is received by the Advisor, the “Notice Date”); provided, however, that the Notice Date shall not be earlier than January 1, 2018; (C) the effective date of Internalization is at least nine (9) months, but not more than fifteen (15) months, following the Notice Date; provided, that the Company shall have the option to extend the effective date of Internalization for an additional three (3) months if, fifteen (15) months following the Notice Date the Company is working in good faith to complete a transaction, Listing or Offering that the Company is undertaking in conjunction with the Internalization; provided, further, that in the event such three (3) month extension occurs, the Internalization Fee shall be calculated as if the Notice Date occurred in the fiscal quarter following the fiscal quarter in which the Notice Date actually occurred; and (D) the Company pays the Advisor the Internalization Fee in cash concurrently with the consummation of the Internalization; provided, however, that up to ten percent (10%) of the Internalization Fee may be payable in Shares of Common Stock (the Shares representing such ten percent (10%) portion, the “Internalization Stock” and the date such Internalization Stock is issued, the “Issuance Date”)); provided, further, that the Internalization Fee shall be paid entirely in cash unless all of the following conditions is met: 1. the Company is eligible to file a resale registration on Form S-3 covering the Internalization Stock (the “Registration Statement”) as of the effective date of Internalization; 2. as of the Issuance Date, the Company shall have an equity market cap of at least $1,600,000,000; 3. the Registration Statement shall be effective no later than the Issuance Date; and 4. the Issuance Date shall be not more than sixty (60) days following the effective date of Internalization (such date, the “Outside Date”). (ii) Any portion of the Internalization Fee payable in Internalization Stock shall instead be paid in cash within five (5) business days of the failure of any of the conditions set forth in Section 18(b)(i)(D) to be met (for the avoidance of doubt, the inability to determine the per-share price of the Internalization Stock by the Outside Date due to an insufficient average daily trading volume as contemplated by the following sentence shall be deemed to be a failure of the conditions set forth in Section 18(b)(i)(D) above. The Internalization Stock shall be issued at a per-share price equal to the volume weighted average price of a Share of Common Stock for the twenty (20) Trading Days ending with the last Trading Day prior to the Issuance Date; provided, however, that the average daily trading volume of Common Stock during such twenty (20) day period must be as least one hundred thousand (100,000) Shares. (iii) For the avoidance of doubt, an Internalization shall not be deemed to constitute Cause.

Appears in 3 contracts

Sources: Merger Agreement, Advisory Agreement (American Finance Trust, Inc), Merger Agreement (American Realty Capital - Retail Centers of America, Inc.)