Exhibit 10.1
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO REVOLVING CREDIT AND TERM LOAN AGREEMENT
This AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO REVOLVING CREDIT AND TERM LOAN AGREEMENT, dated as of
March 7, 2013 (this “Amendment No. 1”), is by and among HEALTHCARE TRUST OF
AMERICA, INC., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), HEALTHCARE TRUST OF
AMERICA HOLDINGS, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Borrower”), BANK OF
MONTREAL (the “New Lender”) and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as administrative
agent for the Lenders (the “Administrative Agent”). Reference is made to that
certain Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement, dated as of March 29, 2012
(the “Credit Agreement”), by and among the Company, the Borrower, the Lenders
referenced therein and the Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used herein
without definition shall have the same meanings as set forth in the Credit
Agreement, as amended hereby.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2.4 of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower has
requested, and the New Lender has agreed to provide, New Revolving Commitments
under the Credit Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the New Lender wishes to be added as a “Lender” under the Credit
Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements, provisions
and covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1.     AMENDMENTS TO CREDIT AGREEMENT. As of the Amendment Effective
Date (as defined in Section 4 hereof), the Credit Agreement is hereby amended as
follows:
1.1    New Commitments. The New Lender shall have a New Revolving Commitment in
the amount of $75,000,000. On the Amendment Effective Date, and so long as the
conditions set forth in Section 4.2 are satisfied, (a) the New Lender shall
purchase from each of the Revolving Lenders, at the principal amount thereof,
such interests in the Revolving Loans outstanding on such date as shall be
necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and
purchases, such Revolving Loans will be held by existing Revolving Loan Lenders
and the New Lender ratably in accordance with their Revolving Commitments after
giving effect to the addition of such New Revolving Commitments to the Revolving
Commitments, (b) the New Revolving Commitment of the New Lender shall be deemed
for all purposes a Revolving Commitment and each Loan made under such New
Revolving Commitment shall be deemed, for all purposes, a Revolving Loan, and
(c) the New Lender shall become a Revolving Lender with respect to its New
Revolving Commitment and all matters relating thereto.
1.2    Schedule 2.1. Schedule 2.1 to the Credit Agreement is hereby deleted in
its entirety and Schedule 2.1 to this Amendment No. 1 is substituted in place
thereof.

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1.3    New Lender. From and after the date hereof, the New Lender shall be
deemed to be a Lender for all purposes of the Credit Agreement, and each
reference to the Lenders in the Credit Agreement shall be deemed to include the
New Lender. The New Lender hereby covenants and agrees to become a party to the
Credit Agreement and any of the other Loan Documents as the Administrative Agent
may reasonably request. The New Lender appoints JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as the
Administrative Agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action
on its behalf and to exercise such powers under the Credit Agreement and the
other Loan Documents as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms
thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
1.4    Request under Section 2.4 of Credit Agreement. This Amendment No. 1 is
and shall be deemed to be for all purposes of the Credit Agreement the first
exercise by the Borrower of its rights under Section 2.4 of the Credit Agreement
to request an increase of the Commitments.
1.5    Representations, Warranties and Agreements of New Lender. The New Lender
(a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and authority, and has
taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Amendment No. 1 and to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the
Credit Agreement, (ii) it meets all the requirements to be an assignee under
Section 9.4 of the Credit Agreement (subject to such consents, if any, as may be
required thereunder), (iii) from and after the Amendment Effective Date, it
shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Lender thereunder
and, to the extent of its Commitments, shall have the obligations of a Lender
thereunder, (iv) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, and has
received or has been accorded the opportunity to receive copies of the most
recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Credit
Agreement, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it deems
appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this
Amendment No. 1, (v) it has, independently and without reliance upon the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and
information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into this Amendment No. 1, and (vi) if it is a Foreign Lender,
any documentation required to be delivered by it pursuant to the terms of the
Credit Agreement has been delivered to the Administrative Agent; and (b) agrees
that (i) it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative
Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it
shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in
taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents, and (ii) it will perform
in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the
Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender.
SECTION 2.     REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE BORROWER AND THE COMPANY
In order to induce the New Lender and Administrative Agent to enter into this
Amendment No. 1, the Borrower and the Company each represents and warrants to
the New Lender and Administrative Agent that the following statements are true,
correct and complete:
(i) each of the Borrower and the Company has the requisite power and authority
to make, deliver and perform its obligations under the Credit Agreement as
amended by this Amendment No. 1 (the “Amended Agreement”);

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(ii) each of the Borrower and the Company has taken all necessary organizational
action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment
No. 1;
(iii) no consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other
action by any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required in
connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability
of this Amendment No. 1, except consents, approvals, registrations, and filings
which have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect;
(iv) the execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment No. 1 (a) will
not violate any applicable law or regulation or the charter, by-laws or other
organizational documents of any Group Member or any order of any Governmental
Authority, (b) will not violate any indenture, agreement or other instrument
binding on any Group Member, except for any such violation which could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) will not
result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of any Group
Member other than Permitted Encumbrances.
(v) this Amendment No. 1 and the Amended Agreement have been duly executed and
delivered by the Borrower and the Company and are the legal, valid and binding
obligations of Borrower and the Company, enforceable against the Borrower and
the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability
may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium
or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by
general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings in
equity or at law);
(vi) the representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Company
contained in Section 3 of the Credit Agreement are and will be true and correct
in all material respects on and as of the date hereof and the Amendment
Effective Date to the same extent as though made on and as of such dates, except
to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to an
earlier date, in which case they were true and correct in all material respects
on and as of such earlier date; and
(vii) no event has occurred and is continuing or will result from the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Amendment No. 1 that would
constitute a Default or Event of Default.
SECTION 3.     ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND CONSENT OF THE GUARANTOR
The Company has read this Amendment No. 1 and consents to the terms hereof and
further hereby confirms and agrees that, notwithstanding the effectiveness of
this Amendment No. 1, the obligations of the Company under each of the Loan
Documents to which the Company is a party shall not be impaired and each of the
Loan Documents to which the Company is a party is, and shall continue to be, in
full force and effect and is hereby confirmed and ratified in all respects.

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Each of the Company and the Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that the
Guarantied Obligations under, and as defined in, the Guaranty, dated as of March
29, 2012, by and among the Company, Borrower, and the Administrative Agent (the
“Guaranty”) will include all Obligations under, and as defined in, the Credit
Agreement (as amended hereby).
The Company acknowledges and agrees that (i) notwithstanding the conditions to
effectiveness set forth in this Amendment No. 1, the Company is not required by
the terms of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document to consent to the
amendments to the Credit Agreement effected pursuant to this Amendment No. 1 and
(ii) nothing in the Credit Agreement, this Amendment No. 1 or any other Loan
Document shall be deemed to require the consent of the Company to any future
amendments to the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 4.     CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS
Except as set forth below, Section 1 of this Amendment No. 1 shall become
effective only upon the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent (the
date of satisfaction of such conditions being referred to as the “Amendment
Effective Date”):
A. The Borrower, the Company, the Administrative Agent and the New Lender shall
have indicated their consent hereto by the execution and delivery of the
signature pages hereof to the Administrative Agent.
B. The Administrative Agent shall have received a secretary’s certificate of the
Company and the Borrower (i) either confirming that there have been no changes
to its organizational documents since March 29, 2012, or if there have been
changes to the Company’s or the Borrower’s organizational documents since such
date, certifying as to such changes, and (ii) certifying as to resolutions and
incumbency of officers with respect to this Amendment No. 1 and the transactions
contemplated hereby.
C. The New Lender and the Administrative Agent shall have received all
reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses for which invoices have been
presented (including the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel for which
the Borrower agrees it is responsible pursuant to Section 9.3 of the Credit
Agreement), incurred in connection with this Amendment No. 1.
D. Execution and delivery to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower of a Note
in favor of the New Lender, in each case in the amounts of its Commitments set
forth on Schedule 2.1 attached hereto.
E. Delivery to the Administrative Agent by O’Melveny & Myers LLP, as counsel to
the Borrower, of an opinion addressed to the New Lender and the Administrative
Agent in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
F. Payment by the Borrower of any agreed upon compensation to the New Lender
[and the Administrative Agent] as provided in Section 2.4 of the Credit
Agreement arising out of the addition of the New Lender as a “Lender” under the
Credit Agreement.

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G. The conditions set forth in Section 4.2 of the Credit Agreement shall have
been satisfied and the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate
dated the Amendment Effective Date and executed by a Financial Officer of the
Borrower that such conditions have been satisfied and that the Borrower shall be
in pro forma compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 6.13 of the
Credit Agreement as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter
for which a compliance certificate has been delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(c)
of the Credit Agreement after giving effect to the New Revolving Commitments and
the Loans to be made thereunder on the Amendment Effective Date.
SECTION 5.     MISCELLANEOUS
A. Reference to and Effect on the Credit Agreement and the Other Loan Documents.
(i) On and after the effective date of this Amendment No. 1, each reference in
the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “hereof”, “herein” or
words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement and each reference in the
other Loan Documents to the “Credit Agreement”, “thereunder”, “thereof” or words
of like import referring to the Credit Agreement shall mean and be a reference
to the Credit Agreement as amended hereby.
(ii) Except as specifically amended by this Amendment No. 1, the Credit
Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall remain in full force and effect and
are hereby ratified and confirmed.
(iii) The execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment No. 1 shall not,
except as expressly provided herein, constitute a waiver of any provision of, or
operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Administrative Agent or
any Lender under the Credit Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.
B. Headings. Section and subsection headings in this Amendment No. 1 are
included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a
part of this Amendment No. 1 for any other purpose or be given any substantive
effect.
C. Applicable Law. THIS AMENDMENT NO. 1 AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
D. Counterparts; Effectiveness. This Amendment No. 1 may be executed in any
number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts,
each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but
all such counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument;
signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached
to a single counterpart so that all signature pages are physically attached to
the same document. This Amendment No. 1 (other than the provisions of Section 1
hereof, the effectiveness of which is governed by Section 4 hereof) shall become
effective upon the execution of a counterpart hereof by the Company, Borrower
and the New Lender and receipt by Borrower and Administrative Agent of written
or telephonic notification of such execution and authorization of delivery
thereof.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment No. 1 to be
duly executed and delivered by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized as of the date first written above.
COMPANY:    HEALTHCARE TRUST OF AMERICA, INC.

By: /s/ Kellie S. Pruitt
Name: Kellie S. Pruitt
Title: Chief Financial Officer and Secretary

BORROWER:
HEALTHCARE TRUST OF AMERICA HOLDINGS, LP

By:
Healthcare Trust of America, Inc., its General Partner

By: /s/ Kellie S. Pruitt
Name: Kellie S. Pruitt
Title: Chief Financial Officer and Secretary

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LENDERS:
J.P. MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
By: /s/ Brendan M. Poe
Name: Brendan M. Poe
Title: Executive Director

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BANK OF MONTREAL, as New Lender

By: /s/ Lloyd Baron
Name: Lloyd Baron
Title: Vice President