RAIT FINANCIAL TRUST (A Maryland real estate investment trust) Convertible Senior Notes due 2031 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • March 21st, 2011 • RAIT Financial Trust • Real estate investment trusts • New York
RAIT Financial Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Company”), confirms its agreement with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (“Merrill Lynch”) and each of the other Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters,” which term shall also include any underwriter substituted as hereinafter provided in Section 10 hereof), for whom Merrill Lynch is acting as representative (in such capacity, the “Representative”), with respect to (i) the sale by the Company and the purchase by the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of the respective principal amounts set forth in said Schedule A of $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s Convertible Senior Notes due 2031 (the “Initial Securities”) and (ii) the grant by the Company to the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of the option described in Section 2(b) hereof to purchase all or any part of an additional $15,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its
