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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 3, 2017
ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Maryland | 1-12993 | 95-4502084 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | ||
385 East Colorado Boulevard, Suite 299 | ||
Pasadena, California | 91101 | |
(Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) | |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (626) 578-0777
N/A
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On and effective July 3, 2017, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), entered into a Letter Amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement, dated April 6, 2015 (the “Employment Agreement”), between the Company and Joel S. Marcus, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (the “Executive”).
The Amendment provides that the Executive will serve as the Company’s Executive Chairman beginning on April 1, 2018 until December 31, 2019 and extended for additional one-year periods thereafter (the “Executive Chairman Period”) unless and until the Company or the Executive provides notice of non-renewal. For each fiscal year ending during the Executive Chairman Period, the Executive shall be eligible to receive an annual long-term incentive compensation award in the form of restricted stock on the same terms provided in the Employment Agreement for fiscal year 2017 except that the target value for each year shall be reduced from $5,500,000 to $2,750,000. In addition, the Amendment provides that from April 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019, the Severance Payment (as defined in the last sentence of Section 4.4(a) of the Employment Agreement) shall be multiplied by two.
The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) | Exhibits |
10.1 | Letter Amendment to Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement, dated July 3, 2017. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC. | |||
Date: | July 3, 2017 | By: | /s/ Dean A. Shigenaga |
Dean A. Shigenaga | |||
Chief Financial Officer | |||