EXHIBIT 10.14
FOURTH AMENDMENT TO LEASE
      This Fourth Amendment to Lease (the “Amendment”) is entered into this 7thday of February, 2002 by and between HUB PROPERTIES TRUST, a Maryland real estate investment trust(“Landlord”) and BRIGHAM OIL AND GAS, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership(“Tenant”).
WITNESSETH:
      WHEREAS, Investors Life Insurance Company of North America (“Original Lessor”) andTenant entered into that certain Two Bridgepoint Lease Agreement dated September 20, 1996 (the“Original Agreement”) as amended by First Amendment to Two Bridgepoint Lease Agreementdated April 11, 1997 (the “First Amendment”), Second Amendment to Two Bridgepoint LeaseAgreement dated October 13, 1997 (the “Second Amendment”), and Commencement DateDeclaration dated November 26, 1997 (the “Declaration”), with respect to certain premiseslocated at Two Bridgepoint, located at 6300 Bridgepoint Parkway, Austin, Travis County, Texas, asmore particularly described in the Lease; and
      WHEREAS, Landlord, as successor to Original Lessor, and Tenant entered into that certain ThirdAmendment to Two Bridgepoint Lease Agreement dated November, 1998 (the “Third Amendment”);and
      WHEREAS, the Original Agreement, the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Declaration,and the Third Amendment are hereinafter referred to the “Lease”; and
      WHEREAS, Landlord and Tenant desire to amend the Lease, subject to and upon the terms andconditions hereinafter provided;
      NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other consideration, the receipt andsufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Landlord and Tenant agree as follows:
      1. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed tosuch terms in the Lease.
      2. Section 15.19 of the Lease is hereby amended by inserting the following at the end of thethird sentence thereof; and
Furthermore, for the period commencing January 1, 2002, and thereafter, so long as Tenantis leasing all four (4) of the initially provided executive parking spaces (the“Initial Spaces”) Landlord shall, following reasonable prior notice from Tenant toLandlord, provide as many as four (4) additional executive parking spaces (the“Additional Spaces”) beneath the Building at a cost of $100.00 per space per month.The Initial Spaces and the Additional Spaces are hereinafter collectively referred to asthe “Executive Spaces”. Tenant shall notify Landlord in writing (“Tenant’sParking Notice”) of Tenant’s election to lease some or all of
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the Initial Spaces (and if all of the Initial Spaces are leased, some or all of theAdditional Spaces), from time to time as required (but not more often than monthly).Tenant’s Parking Notice shall include the number of Executive Spaces Tenant requests andthe date (not less than thirty (30) days after the date of any Tenant’s Parking Notice) onwhich the lease of such Executive Spaces will commence.
      3. Section 15.08 of the lease is hereby amended to reflect the address of Landlord to be asfollows:
Hub Properties Trust, c/o REIT Management & Research, LLC Austin Area Office, 800 West34th Street, Suite 220, Austin, Texas 78705, Attn. Area Manager, with a copy toHub Properties Trust, 400 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02458, Attn. Jennifer Clark.
      4. Tenant warrants and represents that it has dealt with no broker in connection with theexecution of this Amendments and agrees to indemnify and hold Landlord harmless from and againstany and all brokerage claims.
      5. Tenant, its successors and assigns, shall not assert nor seek to enforce any claim forbreach of the Lease (as amended) against any of Landlord’s assets other than Landlord’s interest inthe Property, and Tenant agrees to look solely to such interest for the satisfaction of anyliability or claim against Landlord under the Lease (as amended), it being specifically agreed thatin no event whatsoever shall Landlord ever be personally liable for any such liability. Tenantfurther acknowledges that the Declaration of Trust of Hub Properties Trust provides, and Tenantagrees, that no trustee, officer, director, general or limited partner, member, shareholder,beneficiary, employee or agent (including any person or entity from time to time engaged tosupervise and/or manage the operation of Landlord) shall be held to any liability, jointly orseverally, for any debt, claim, demand, judgment, decree, liability or obligation of any kind (intort, contract or otherwise) of, against or with respect to Landlord or arising out of any actiontaken or omitted for or on behalf of Landlord.
      6. As amended hereby, the Lease is hereby ratified and confirmed.
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      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Landlord and Tenant have executed this Amendment as of the date abovefirst written.      LANDLORD: