EX-10.26



 Exhibit 10.26 
 FIRST MODIFICATION AND LENDER JOINDER AGREEMENT 
  

					
	DATE:	  		  	March 8, 2013
			
	PARTIES:	  	Borrower:	  	COLE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP IV, LP, a Delaware limited partnership
			
		  	Administrative Agent	  	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., a national
		  	for the Lenders:	  	banking association
			
		  	Lenders:	  	
			
		  	 Existing Lender:
	  	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., a national banking association
			
		  	 New Lender:
	  	BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., a national banking association

 RECITALS 
 A. Existing Lender has extended to Borrower a revolving line of credit (“Loan”) in a maximum principal amount not to exceed $75,000,000.00 at any time pursuant to that Credit Agreement dated
December 14, 2012, among Borrower, Administrative Agent and the Lenders defined therein (the “Loan Agreement”). The unpaid principal of the Loan as of March 6, 2013 was $37,026,066.00. All undefined capitalized terms used herein
shall have the meaning given them in the Loan Agreement. 
 B. The Loan is unsecured. 

C. The following Continuing Guaranty and Counterpart Agreements (severally and collectively, the “Guaranty”) were executed and
delivered by the Guarantors a party thereto to Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders: (i) Continuing Guaranty dated as of December 14, 2012; (ii) Counterpart Agreement Re: Continuing Guaranty dated December 20,
2012; (iii) Counterpart Agreement Re: Continuing Guaranty dated December 21, 2012; (iv) Counterpart Agreement Re: Continuing Guaranty dated January 11, 2013; (v) Counterpart Agreement Re: Continuing Guaranty dated
January 18, 2013; (vi) Counterpart Agreement Re: Continuing Guaranty dated February 6, 2013; and (vii) Counterpart Agreement Re: Continuing Guaranty dated March 8, 2013. 

D. Borrower has requested that Administrative Agent and the Lenders modify the Loan and the Loan Documents, as provided herein. New
Lender has agreed to provide a Revolving Commitment under the Loan Agreement, as provided herein. Administrative Agent and the Lenders are willing to so modify the Loan and the Loan Documents, subject to the terms and conditions herein. 







 AGREEMENT 
 For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Borrower, Administrative Agent and Lenders agree as follows: 

SECTION 1. ACCURACY OF RECITALS. 
 Borrower acknowledges the accuracy of the Recitals. 
 SECTION 2. MODIFICATION OF LOAN
DOCUMENTS. 
 2.1 The following definition set forth in Section 1.01 of the Loan Agreement is hereby amended
in its entirety to read as follows: 
 “Aggregate Revolving Commitments” means the Revolving
Commitments of all the Revolving Lenders. The aggregate principal amount of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments in effect on March 8, 2013 is ONE HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($150,000,000.00). 

2.2 Schedule 2.01 attached to the Loan Agreement is hereby amended and replaced in its entirety with Schedule 2.01 attached hereto as
Exhibit A (“Revised Schedule 2.01”) and by this reference incorporated herein and therein. 
 2.3 This First
Modification and Lender Joinder Agreement (this “Agreement”) shall constitute one of the Loan Documents as that term is defined in the Loan Agreement. 
 2.4 Each reference in the Loan Documents to any of the Loan Documents is hereby amended to be a reference to such document as modified herein. 
 SECTION 3. JOINDER OF NEW LENDER. 
 3.1 New Lender agrees that
as of the date hereof, New Lender will have a Revolving Commitment in the amount set forth opposite its name on Revised Schedule 2.01. The parties acknowledge, agree and confirm that New Lender shall from and after the date hereof be deemed to be a
party to the Loan Agreement and a “Lender” for all purposes under the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and shall have all the rights and obligations of a Lender under the Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents as if New
Lender had executed the Loan Agreement. 
 SECTION 4. RATIFICATION OF LOAN DOCUMENTS. 

The Loan Documents are ratified and affirmed by Borrower and shall remain in full force and effect as modified herein. 

SECTION 5. BORROWER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. 
 Borrower represents and warrants to Administrative Agent and the Lenders: 
 5.1 No
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. 
 5.2 There has been no material adverse change in the financial
condition of Borrower or any other person whose financial statement has been delivered to Administrative Agent in connection with the Loan from the most recent financial statement received by Administrative Agent. 

  
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 5.3 All representations and warranties made by Borrower and set forth in the Loan Documents
are true and correct in all material respects on the date hereof, except to the extent such representations and warranties refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct, in all material respects, as of such earlier date.

 5.4 As of the date hereof, Borrower knows of no claims, counterclaims, defenses, or set-offs with respect to the Loan or the
Loan Documents as modified herein. 
 5.5 The Loan Documents as modified herein are the legal, valid, and binding obligation of
Borrower, enforceable against Borrower in accordance with their terms, subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium, or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally and by
equitable principles of general application. 
 5.6 Borrower is validly existing under the laws of the State of its formation or
organization and has the requisite power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform the Loan Documents as modified herein. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the performance of the Loan Documents as modified
herein have been duly authorized by all requisite action by or on behalf of Borrower. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of Borrower. 
 SECTION 6. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. 
 The agreements of
Administrative Agent and the Lenders and the modifications contained herein shall not be binding upon Administrative Agent or the Lenders until Administrative Agent and Lenders have executed and delivered this Agreement, and Administrative Agent (or
New Lender, where applicable), has received, at Borrower’s expense (except with respect to sections 6.4 and 6.8 below), all of the following, all of which shall be in form and content satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and shall be
subject to approval by the Administrative Agent (whose signature hereto shall be conclusive approval thereof): 
 6.1 An
original of this Agreement fully executed by Borrower; 
 6.2 An original of the attached Consent and Agreement of Guarantor
fully executed by Guarantors; 
 6.3 An original of the attached Consent and Agreement of Subordinated Creditor fully executed
by Advisor (defined in the Advisor Fee Subordination Agreement) and by Subordinated Creditor (defined in the Subordination Agreement); 
 6.4 An original of the Administrative Questionnaire fully executed by New Lender; 

6.5 An opinion of counsel to the Loan Parties acceptable to Administrative Agent; 

6.6 Such certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of each
Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which
such Loan Party is a party; 
 6.7 Payment by Borrower of any fees due New Lender in accordance with any separate agreement
between New Lender and Borrower; 
 6.8 Payment by New Lender to Administrative Agent for the benefit of Existing Lender fifty
percent (50%) of the outstanding principal amount of the Committed Revolving Loans; 
 6.9 Payment by Borrower of all
reasonable out-of-pocket external costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with this Agreement (including, without limitation, outside attorneys costs, expenses, and fees). 

  
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 SECTION 7. INTEGRATION, ENTIRE AGREEMENT, CHANGE, DISCHARGE, TERMINATION, OR WAIVER.

 The Loan Documents as modified herein contain the complete understanding and agreement of Borrower, Administrative Agent
and the Lenders in respect of the Loan and supersede all prior representations, warranties, agreements, arrangements, understandings, and negotiations. No provision of the Loan Documents as modified herein may be changed, discharged, supplemented,
terminated, or waived except as provided in the Loan Agreement. The terms of this Agreement shall control with respect to any inconsistencies, conflicts or ambiguities between or among the Agreement and the other Loan Documents. 

SECTION 8. BINDING EFFECT. 
 The Loan Documents as modified herein shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of Borrower, Administrative Agent and the Lenders and their permitted successors and assigns. 

SECTION 9. CHOICE OF LAW. 
 THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
 SECTION 10. COUNTERPART EXECUTION. 
 This Agreement may be
executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same document. Signature pages may be detached from the counterparts and attached to a single copy of this
Agreement to physically form one document. 
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 DATED as of the date first above stated. 

 

					
	BORROWER:
	
	COLE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP IV, LP, a Delaware limited partnership
		
	By:    	 	Cole Credit Property Trust IV, Inc., a Maryland corporation, its general partner
			
		 	By:	 	 /s/ D. Kirk McAllaster, Jr.

		 	Name:  	 	D. Kirk McAllaster, Jr.
		 	Title:	 	Executive Vice President



 

			
	ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:
	
	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., a national banking association
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Ryan M. Dempsey

	Name:	 	Ryan M. Dempsey
	Title:	 	Authorized Officer
	
	EXISTING LENDER:
	
	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., a national banking association
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Ryan M. Dempsey

	Name:	 	Ryan M. Dempsey
	Title:	 	Authorized Officer
	
	NEW LENDER:
	
	BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., a national banking association
		
	By:	 	 /s/ James P. Johnson

	Name:	 	James P. Johnson
	Title:	 	Senior Vice President



  
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