SEVENTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of January 2, 2024 among Kimco Realty OP, LLC (as successor by assumption to RPT Realty, L.P.), a Delaware limited liability company (“Kimco” or the “Borrower”), the several banks, financial institutions and other entities from time to time parties to this Agreement (collectively, the “Lenders”), BMO Bank, N.A., as Syndication Agent (in such capacity, collectively, the “Syndication Agent”), Truist Bank and Regions Bank, as Documentation Agents (in such capacity, collectively, the “Documentation Agents”), J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, as Sustainability Structuring Agent, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., a national banking association, as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”).
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WHEREAS, pursuant to a Sixth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of August 18, 2022 (as amended and in effect immediately before giving effect to the amendment and restatement contemplated hereby, the “Existing Credit Agreement”) by and among RPT Realty, L.P., Keybank National Association, as administrative agent and the other parties thereto, the lenders party thereto made loans and other extensions of credit available to RPT Realty, L.P. for the purposes set forth therein;
WHEREAS, on August 28, 2023, Kimco Realty Corporation, a Maryland corporation (“Ultimate Parent”) and Kimco Realty OP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct wholly owned subsidiary of Kimco (“Kimco”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) by and among Ultimate Parent, Kimco, Tarpon Acquisition Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct wholly owned subsidiary of Kimco (“Merger Sub”), Tarpon OP Acquisition Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct wholly owned subsidiary of Kimco (“OP Merger Sub” and, together with Ultimate Parent, Kimco and Merger Sub, the “Kimco Parties”), RPT Realty, a Maryland real estate investment trust (“RPT”) and RPT Realty, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“RPT OP” and, together with RPT, the “RPT Parties”);
WHEREAS, the Merger Agreement provides that, among other things, and on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, (i) RPT will be merged with and into Merger Sub, with Merger Sub continuing as the surviving entity (the “Company Merger”), (ii) immediately following the Company Merger, Ultimate Parent will contribute to Kimco all of the membership interests of Merger Sub and (iii) immediately prior to the Company Merger, OP Merger Sub will be merged with and into RPT OP, with RPT OP continuing as the surviving entity and as a subsidiary of Kimco (the “Partnership Merger” and, together with the Company Merger, the “Mergers”), all as more fully described in the Form 8-k filed by Ultimate Parent and Kimco with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 28, 2023;
WHEREAS, since the consummation of the Mergers and the transactions to be effected in connection with the consummation thereof (collectively with the Mergers, the “Transactions”) are not permitted under the terms of the Existing Credit Agreement and would result in an Event of Default under Section 7.13 and other provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement if not consented to by the Lenders in advance, the RPT Parties and the Kimco Parties have requested that the Lenders consent to the Transactions;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 8.2 of the Existing Credit Agreement, the undersigned Lenders are willing to consent to and permit the Transactions including permitting the Mergers under Section 6.12 of the Existing Credit Agreement and agree that no Event of Default shall occur under Section 7.13 of the Existing Credit Agreement as a result of the consummation of the Transactions, so long as the Existing Credit Agreement is amended and restated in its entirety as set forth herein, including