Document:

Exhibit 10.1

 

ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST, INC.

 

Up to

 

$100,000,000

 

of Common Stock

 

EQUITY DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

 

Dated: April 11, 2022

 

     

     

    

 

TABLE
OF CONTENTS

 

Page

 

	SECTION 1. Description of Securities	1
	 	 
	SECTION 2. Placements	2
	 	 
	SECTION 3. Sale of Placement Securities by the Agent	3
	 	 
	SECTION 4. Suspension of Sales	4
	 	 
	SECTION 5. Representations and Warranties	4
	 	 
	SECTION 6. Sale and Delivery to the Agent; Settlement	26
	 	 
	SECTION 7. Covenants of the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor	28
	 	 
	SECTION 8. Payment of Expenses	34
	 	 
	SECTION 9. Conditions of the Agent’s Obligations	35
	 	 
	SECTION 10. Indemnification and Contribution by the Company, the Operating Partnership, the Advisor and the Agent	37
	 	 
	SECTION 11. Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive Delivery	40
	 	 
	SECTION 12. Termination of Agreement	40
	 	 
	SECTION 13. Notices	41
	 	 
	SECTION 14. Parties	42
	 	 
	SECTION 15. Adjustments for Stock Splits	42
	 	 
	SECTION 16. Governing Law and Time	42
	 	 
	SECTION 17. Effect of Headings	42
	 	 
	SECTION 18. Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses	42
	 	 
	SECTION 19. Counterparts	43
	 	 
	SECTION 20. Absence of Fiduciary Relationship	43

 

	EXHIBIT A	FORM OF PLACEMENT NOTICE
	EXHIBIT B	AUTHORIZED INDIVIDUALS FOR PLACEMENT NOTICES AND ACCEPTANCES
	EXHIBIT C	COMPENSATION
	EXHIBIT D	FORM OF CORPORATE OPINION AND NEGATIVE ASSURANCE LETTER OF CADWALADER, WICKERSHAM & TAFT LLP
	EXHIBIT E	FORM OF TAX OPINION OF O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP
	EXHIBIT F	FORM OF OPINION OF HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP
	EXHIBIT G	OFFICERS’ CERTIFICATE OF COMPANY
	EXHIBIT H	OFFICERS’ CERTIFICATE OF ADVISOR
	EXHIBIT I	ISSUER FREE WRITING PROSPECTUSES
	EXHIBIT J	SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARIES

 

     

     

    

 

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.

 

Common Stock

 

EQUITY DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

 

	Virtu Americas LLC	 	 	April 11,
                                            2022
	One Liberty Plaza	 	 	 
	165 Broadway	 	 	 
	New York, NY 10006	 	 	 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Each of Ashford Hospitality
Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), and Ashford Hospitality Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited
partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), and Ashford Hospitality Advisors LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
(the “Advisor”) confirms its agreement (this “Agreement”) with Virtu Americas LLC (the “Agent”),
as follows:

 

SECTION 1.
Description of Securities. The Company agrees that, from time to time during the term of this Agreement, on the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth herein, it may issue and sell through the Agent, acting as agent and/or principal, shares (the “Securities”)
of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), having an aggregate offering price
of up to $100,000,000 (the “Maximum Amount”). The issuance and sale of the Securities through the Agent will be effected
pursuant to the Registration Statement (as defined below) that was filed by the Company and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”), although nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as requiring the Company to use
the Registration Statement to offer, sell or issue the Securities.

 

The
Company has filed, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder
(collectively, the “Securities Act”), with the Commission a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 
333-263150), including a base prospectus, relating to certain securities, including the Securities to be issued from time to time by the
Company, and which incorporates by reference documents that the Company has filed or will file in accordance with the provisions of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”).
The Company has prepared a prospectus supplement to the base prospectus included as part of such registration statement specifically relating
to the Securities (the “Prospectus Supplement”). The Company will furnish to the Agent, for use by the Agent, copies
of the base prospectus included as part of such registration statement, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, relating to the
Securities. Except where the context otherwise requires, such registration statement, as amended when it became effective, including all
documents filed as part thereof or incorporated by reference therein, and including any information contained in a Prospectus (as defined
below) subsequently filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act or deemed to be a part of such
registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B of the Securities Act, is herein called the “Registration Statement.”
The base prospectus, including all documents incorporated therein by reference, included in the Registration Statement, as it may be supplemented
by the Prospectus Supplement, in the form in which such base prospectus and/or Prospectus Supplement have most recently been filed by
the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act is herein called the “Prospectus.”
Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto shall be deemed to refer
to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein, and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment”
or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing
after the execution hereof of any document with the Commission deemed to be incorporated by reference therein. Any reference herein to
financial statements and schedules and other information that is “contained,” “included” or “stated”
in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (and all other references of like import) shall be deemed to mean and include all such
financial statements and schedules and other information that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus,
as the case may be. Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing
shall be deemed to include the copy filed with the Commission pursuant to the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and
Retrieval system (“EDGAR”); all references in this Agreement to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below)
(other than any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses that, pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act, are not required to be filed
with the Commission) shall be deemed to include the copy thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR.

 

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The Company, the Operating
Partnership and the Advisor may also in the future enter into additional equity distribution agreements (if any, the “Alternative
Distribution Agreements”) with one or more additional agents and/or principals (if any, the “Alternative Agents”).
The aggregate offering price of the Securities that may be sold pursuant to this Agreement and the Alternative Distribution Agreements
shall not exceed the Maximum Amount.

 

SECTION 2.
Placements. Each time that the Company wishes to issue and sell the Securities hereunder (each, a “Placement”),
it will notify the Agent by email notice (or other method mutually agreed to in writing by the parties) containing the parameters in accordance
with which it desires the Securities to be sold, which shall at a minimum include the number of Securities to be issued (the “Placement
Securities”), the time period during which sales are requested to be made, any limitation on the number of Securities that may
be sold in any one day and any minimum price below which sales may not be made or a formula pursuant to which such minimum price shall
be determined (a “Placement Notice”), a form of which containing such minimum sales parameters necessary is attached
hereto as Exhibit A. The Placement Notice shall originate from any of the individuals from the Company set forth on Exhibit B
(with a copy to each of the other individuals from the Company listed on such schedule), and shall be addressed to each of the individuals
from the Agent set forth on Exhibit B, as such Exhibit B may be amended from time to time. If the Agent wishes
to accept such proposed terms included in the Placement Notice (which it may decline to do for any reason in its sole discretion) or,
following discussion with the Company, wishes to accept amended terms, the Agent will, prior to 4:30 p.m.  (Eastern time) on the
Business Day (as defined below) following the Business Day on which such Placement Notice is delivered to the Agent, issue to the Company
a notice by email (or other method mutually agreed to in writing by the parties) addressed to all of the individuals from the Company
and the Agent set forth on Exhibit B setting forth the terms that the Agent is willing to accept. Where the terms provided
in the Placement Notice are amended as provided for in the immediately preceding sentence, such terms will not be binding on the Company
or the Agent until the Company delivers to the Agent an acceptance by email (or other method mutually agreed to in writing by the parties)
of all of the terms of such Placement Notice, as amended (the “Acceptance”), which email shall be addressed to all
of the individuals from the Company and the Agent set forth on Exhibit B. The Placement Notice (as amended by the corresponding
Acceptance, if applicable) shall be effective upon receipt by the Company of the Agent’s acceptance of the terms of the Placement
Notice or upon receipt by the Agent of the Company’s Acceptance, as the case may be, unless and until (i) the entire amount
of the Placement Securities has been sold, (ii) in accordance with the Placement Notice requirements set forth in the second sentence
of this paragraph, the Company terminates the Placement Notice, (iii) the Company issues a subsequent Placement Notice with parameters
superseding those on the earlier dated Placement Notice, (iv) this Agreement has been terminated under the provisions of Section 9
or Section 12 or (v) either party shall have suspended the sale of the Placement Securities in accordance with Section 4
below. The amount of any discount, commission or other compensation to be paid by the Company to the Agent, when the Agent is acting as
agent, in connection with the sale of the Placement Securities shall be determined in accordance with the terms set forth in Exhibit C.
The amount of any commission, discount or other compensation to be paid by the Company to the Agent, when the Agent is acting as principal,
in connection with the sale of the Placement Securities shall be as separately agreed among the parties hereto at the time of any such
sales. It is expressly acknowledged and agreed that neither the Company nor the Agent will have any obligation whatsoever with respect
to a Placement or any Placement Securities unless and until the Company delivers a Placement Notice to the Agent and either (i) the
Agent accepts the terms of such Placement Notice or (ii) where the terms of such Placement Notice are amended, the Company accepts
such amended terms by means of an Acceptance pursuant to the terms set forth above, and then only upon the terms specified in the Placement
Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance, if applicable) and herein. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this Agreement
and the terms of a Placement Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance, if applicable), the terms of the Placement Notice (as
amended by the corresponding Acceptance, if applicable) will control. The term “Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday or Friday that is not a day on which banking institutions in New York City are generally authorized or obligated by
law or executive order to close.

 

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SECTION 3. Sale
of Placement Securities by the Agent. Subject to the provisions of Section 6(a), the Agent, for the period specified in the
Placement Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance, if applicable), will use its commercially reasonable efforts
consistent with its normal trading and sales practices to sell the Placement Securities, at prevailing market prices, up to the
amount specified, and otherwise in accordance with the terms of such Placement Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance,
if applicable). The Agent will provide written confirmation to the Company no later than the opening of the Trading Day (as defined
below) immediately following the Trading Day on which it has made sales of Placement Securities hereunder setting forth the number
of Placement Securities sold on such day, the compensation payable by the Company to the Agent pursuant to Section 2 with
respect to such sales, and the Net Proceeds (as defined in Section 6(b)) payable to the Company, with an itemization of the
deductions made by the Agent (as set forth in Section 6(b)) from the Gross Proceeds (as defined in Section 6(b)) that the
Agent receives from such sales. Subject to the terms of the Placement Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance, if
applicable), the Agent may sell Placement Securities by any method permitted by law deemed to be an “at the market”
offering as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act, including, without limitation, sales made directly on the New York
Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”), on any other existing trading market for the Common Stock or to or through a market
maker. Subject to the terms of the Placement Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance, if applicable), the Agent may also
sell Placement Securities by any other method permitted by law, including but not limited to in privately negotiated transactions.
For the purposes hereof, “Trading Day” means any day on which shares of Common Stock are purchased and sold on
the principal market on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted and during which there has been no market disruption of,
unscheduled closing of or suspension of trading on such principal market.

 

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SECTION 4.
Suspension of Sales. The Company or the Agent may, upon notice to the other party in writing (including by email correspondence
to each of the individuals of the other party set forth on Exhibit B, if receipt of such correspondence is actually acknowledged
by any of the individuals to whom the notice is sent, other than via auto-reply) or by telephone (confirmed immediately by verifiable
facsimile transmission or email correspondence to each of the individuals of the other party set forth on Exhibit B), suspend
any sale of Placement Securities; provided, however, that such suspension shall not affect or impair either party’s obligations
with respect to any Placement Securities sold hereunder prior to the receipt of such notice or any Placement Securities sold under any
of the Alternative Distribution Agreements. Each of the parties agrees that no such notice under this Section 4 shall be effective
against the other unless it is made to one of the individuals named on Exhibit B hereto, as such Exhibit may be amended
from time to time.

 

SECTION 5.
Representations and Warranties.

 

(a)            By
the Company and the Operating Partnership. Each of the Company and the Operating Partnership, jointly and severally, represents and
warrants to the Agent as of the date hereof and as of each Representation Date (as defined in Section 7(o)) on which a certificate
is required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7(o) of this Agreement, as of the time of each sale of any Securities pursuant
to this Agreement (the “Applicable Time”) and as of each Settlement Date (as defined in Section 6(b)), and agrees
with the Agent, as follows:

 

(1)            Capitalization.
The authorized, issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company as of February 22, 2022 are as set forth in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus (except for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to this Agreement or the Alternative Distribution Agreements,
pursuant to reservations, agreements or employee benefit plans referred to in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, or pursuant
to the exercise, redemption, or exchange of convertible or exchangeable securities, options or warrants referred to in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus, including units of common limited partner interest in the Operating Partnership (the “Common Units”),
or unregistered issuances, or exchanges of the Company’s Common Stock for the Company’s preferred stock, not required to be
disclosed pursuant to the Exchange Act, the Securities Act or any regulation promulgated thereunder); the outstanding shares of capital
stock or partner or member interests, of the Company and each subsidiary of the Company, including the Operating Partnership and its subsidiaries
(each, a “Subsidiary” and collectively, the “Subsidiaries”), as applicable, have been duly and validly
authorized and issued and are fully paid and, with respect to shares of capital stock, member interests and limited partner interests,
non-assessable (except to the extent such non-assessability may be affected by Sections 17-303, 17-607 and 17-804 of the Delaware Revised
Uniform Limited Partnership Act or Sections 18-607 and 18-804 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act), and, except as disclosed
in Exhibit A to the Seventh Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of the Operating Partnership dated April 14,
2016, as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated July 12, 2016, by Amendment No. 2, dated October 18, 2016, Amendment No. 3,
dated August 25, 2017, Amendment No. 4, dated November 17, 2017, Amendment No. 5, dated December 13, 2017, Amendment
No. 6, dated February 26, 2019, Amendment No. 7, dated July 15, 2020, Amendment No. 8, dated December 15,
2020 and Amendment No. 9, dated July 16, 2021 (the “Partnership Agreement”), all of the outstanding shares
of capital stock or partner or member interests of the Subsidiaries are directly or indirectly owned of record and beneficially by the
Company, free and clear of any pledge, lien, encumbrance, security interest or other claim, except for security interests in favor of
lenders created pursuant to or in connection with loan documents disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and, except
as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there are no outstanding (A) securities or obligations of the Company
or any of the Subsidiaries convertible into or exchangeable or redeemable for any capital stock or other equity interests of the Company
or any Subsidiary, (B) warrants, rights or options to subscribe for or purchase from the Company or any Subsidiary any such capital
stock or other equity interests or any such convertible or exchangeable securities or obligations, or (C) obligations of the Company
or any Subsidiary to issue any shares of capital stock or other equity interests, any convertible or exchangeable or redeemable securities
or obligation, or any warrants, rights or options.

 

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(2)            Good
Standing of the Company and Subsidiaries. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has been duly incorporated or organized and is
validly existing as a corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, in good standing under the laws of
its respective jurisdiction of incorporation or organization with full corporate or other power and authority to own its respective properties
and to conduct its respective businesses as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and, in the case of each of the
Company and the Operating Partnership, to execute and deliver this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated herein. The
Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association or other entity that is a “significant subsidiary”
(within the meaning of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X) other than the entities listed on Exhibit J hereto.

 

(3)            Foreign
Good Standings. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified or licensed and is in good standing in each jurisdiction
in which the nature or conduct of its business requires such qualification or license and in which the failure, individually or in the
aggregate, to be so qualified or licensed could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the assets, business, operations,
earnings, properties, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole (a “Material
Adverse Effect”). Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, no Subsidiary is prohibited or restricted,
directly or indirectly, from paying dividends to the Company, or from making any other distribution with respect to such Subsidiary’s
capital stock or other equity interests or from repaying to the Company or any other Subsidiary any amounts that may from time to time
become due under any loans or advances to such Subsidiary from the Company or such other Subsidiary, or from transferring any such Subsidiary’s
property or assets to the Company or to any other Subsidiary. Other than as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus,
the Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any capital stock or other equity securities of any other corporation or any ownership
interest in any partnership, joint venture or other association.

 

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(4)            Due
Authorization of Partnership Agreement. The Partnership Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by
or on behalf of the partners of the Operating Partnership and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the parties thereto, enforceable
in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar
laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or by general principles of equity.

 

(5)            Capitalization
of Operating Partnership. (A) Ashford OP Limited Partner LLC (the “Limited Partner”) is a holder of Common
Units representing a majority limited partner ownership interest in the Operating Partnership and such units of preferred limited partner
interest in the Operating Partnership (the “Preferred Units”) as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus,
(B) Ashford OP General Partner LLC (the “General Partner”) is the holder of the sole general partner interest
in the Operating Partnership, and (C) the Company owns a 100% member interest in the General Partner and in the Limited Partner,
in each case free and clear of any pledge, lien, encumbrance, security interest or other claim, except for security interests in favor
of lenders created pursuant to or in connection with loan documents disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. The Common
Units to be issued by the Operating Partnership to the Company in connection with the contribution of the Net Proceeds from the sale of
the Securities from time to time pursuant to this Agreement have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered by the Operating
Partnership in accordance with the Partnership Agreement against payment therefor of the consideration set forth therein, will be validly
issued and non-assessable (except to the extent set forth in Section 17-303, 17-607 and 17-804 of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited
Partnership Act). The holders of outstanding Common Units are not entitled pursuant to the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership
Act or the Partnership Agreement to preemptive or other rights to subscribe for the Securities or the Common Units to be issued by the
Operating Partnership to the Company in connection with the contribution of the Net Proceeds from the sale of the Securities from time
to time pursuant to this Agreement.

 

(6)            Compliance
with Laws. The Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable federal, state, local or foreign laws, regulations,
rules, decrees, judgments and orders, including those relating to transactions with affiliates, except where any failures to be in compliance
could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(7)            No
Defaults. Other than as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in
breach of or in default under (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time, or both would constitute a breach of, or
default under) (A) its respective organizational documents, or (B) in the performance or observance of any obligation,
agreement, covenant or condition contained in any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement or other
agreement or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any of them or their respective properties is
bound, except in the case of clause (B), for such breaches or defaults that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(8)            No
Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will
not (i) conflict with, or result in any breach of, or constitute a default under (nor constitute any event which with notice, lapse
of time, or both would constitute a breach of, or default under), (A) any provision of the organizational documents of the Company
or any Subsidiary, or (B) any provision of any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement or other agreement
or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any of them or their respective assets or properties may be
bound or affected, or under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment or order applicable
to the Company or any Subsidiary, except in the case of this clause (B) for such breaches or defaults that, individually or in the
aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; or (ii) result in the creation or imposition of any
lien, charge, claim or encumbrance upon any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary.

 

(9)            Due
Authorization of Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Operating Partnership
and is a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company and the Operating Partnership.

 

(10)            No
Consents; No Approvals. No approval, authorization, consent or order of or filing with any federal, state, local or foreign governmental
or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency or any other third party is required in connection with the Company’s
or the Operating Partnership’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, their consummation of the transactions contemplated
herein or the Company’s sale and delivery of the Securities, other than (A) such as have been obtained, or will have been obtained
under the Securities Act, the Securities Act Regulations, the Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations, (B) such approvals as
have been obtained in connection with the approval of the listing of the Securities on the NYSE, (C) any necessary qualification
under the securities or blue sky laws of the various state jurisdictions in which the Securities are being offered by the Agent, and (D) such
approvals, authorizations, consents or orders or filings, the absence of which could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(11)            Licenses.
Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals and has made all necessary
filings required under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule, and has obtained all necessary authorizations, consents
and approvals from other persons, required in order to conduct their respective businesses as described in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus, except to the extent that any failure to have any such licenses, authorizations, consents or approvals, to make any
such filings or to obtain any such authorizations, consents or approvals could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in violation of, in default under, or has received
any notice regarding a possible violation, default or revocation of any such license, authorization, consent or approval or any federal,
state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment or order applicable to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries,
the effect of which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No such license, authorization, consent or approval
contains a materially burdensome restriction that is not adequately disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. Neither
the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is required by any applicable law to obtain accreditation or certification from any governmental
agency or authority in order to provide the products and services that it currently provides or that it proposes to provide as set forth
in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, except to the extent that any failure to have such accreditation or certification could
not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(12)            Registration
Statement; Form S-3 Eligibility. The Company and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement meet the requirements for the
use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act and the Securities have been and remain eligible for inclusion by the Company on such shelf
registration statement. Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto has been declared effective by the
Commission under the Securities Act. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment
thereto has been issued under the Securities Act, no order preventing or suspending the use of any base prospectus, the Prospectus Supplement,
the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) has been issued and no proceedings for any of those purposes
or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act have been instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened
by the Commission, and, to the knowledge of the Company, the Company has complied to the Commission’s satisfaction with any request
on the part of the Commission for additional information.

 

Each of the Registration Statement
and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the time of its effectiveness, as of the date hereof, at each deemed effective date with
respect to the Agent pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2) under the Securities Act and as of each Settlement Date, complied and will
comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations. The conditions for the
use of Form S-3, as set forth in the General Instructions thereto, have been complied with and the Registration Statement meets,
and the offering and sale of the Securities as contemplated hereby complies with, the requirements of Rule 415(a)(1)(x) under
the Securities Act (including without limitation, Rule 415(a)(5)). Each preliminary prospectus (including the prospectus filed as
part of the Registration Statement as originally filed or as part of any amendment or supplement thereto), any supplement thereto or any
prospectus wrapper prepared in connection therewith, and the Prospectus complied in all material respects at the time it was filed with
the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations. Each document incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus
heretofore filed, when it was filed (or, if any amendment with respect to any such document was filed, when such amendment was filed),
conformed in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act, and any further documents so filed and incorporated after
the date of this Agreement will, when they are filed, conform in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act.

 

(13)            Disclosure.
Neither the Registration Statement nor any amendment thereto, at its effective time, at each deemed effective date with respect to the
Agent pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2) under the Securities Act, at each Applicable Time and as of each Settlement Date, contained,
contains or will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. As of the Applicable Time, no individual Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, included, includes or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
Neither the Prospectus nor any amendment or supplement thereto (including any prospectus wrapper), as of its issue date, at the time of
any filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), at each Applicable Time and as of each Settlement Date, included, includes
or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

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The copies of the Registration
Statement and any amendments thereto, any other preliminary prospectus, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is required to be filed
with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto delivered
and to be delivered to the Agent (electronically or otherwise) in connection with the offering of the Securities were and will be identical
to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation
S-T. “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433
under the Securities Act, relating to the Securities that (i) is required to be filed with the Commission by the Company, (ii) is
a “road show” that is a “written communication” within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i) under the Securities
Act whether or not required to be filed with the Commission, or (iii) is exempt from filing pursuant to Rule 433(d)(5)(i) under
the Securities Act because it contains a description of the Securities or of the offering that does not reflect the final terms, and all
free writing prospectuses that are listed in Exhibit I hereto, in each case in the form furnished (electronically or otherwise)
to the Agent for use in connection with the offering of the Securities.

 

The representations and warranties
in this subsection shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), any Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto (including any prospectus wrapper)), made in reliance
upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Agent expressly for use therein

 

(14)            Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus. No Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein, and any preliminary or other prospectus deemed
to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified. Any offer of the Securities that was a written communication relating to
the Securities made prior to the initial filing of the Registration Statement by the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within
the meaning, for this paragraph only, of Rule 163(c) of the Securities Act Regulations) has been filed with the Commission in
accordance with the exemption provided by Rule 163 under the Securities Act Regulations (“Rule 163”) and
otherwise complied with the requirements of Rule 163, including without limitation the legending requirement, to qualify such offer
for the exemption from Section 5(c) of the Securities Act provided by Rule 163.

 

(15)            Ineligible
Issuer. At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, that the
Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) of the Securities Act
Regulations) of the Securities and at the date hereof, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” as defined
in Rule 405, without taking account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary
that the Company be considered an ineligible issuer.

 

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(16)            Certain
Documents. Each document incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, when it became effective or was
filed with the Commission, as the case may be, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities
Act Regulations or the Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations, as applicable.

 

(17)            No
Litigation. There are no actions, suits, proceedings, inquiries or investigations pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened
against the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their respective officers and directors or to which the properties, assets or rights of
any such entity are subject, at law or in equity, before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission,
board, body, authority, arbitral panel or agency, where in any such case (A) there is a reasonable possibility that such action,
suit or proceeding will be determined adversely to the Company or such Subsidiary and (B) if so determined adversely, could reasonably
be expected to result in a judgment, decree, award or order having a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(18)            Financial
Statements. The financial statements, including the related supporting schedules and notes thereto, included in (or incorporated by
reference into) the Registration Statement or the Prospectus present fairly the consolidated financial position of the entities to which
such financial statements relate (the “Covered Entities”) as of the dates indicated and the consolidated results of
operations and changes in financial position and cash flows of the Covered Entities for the periods specified. Such financial statements
have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States and on a consistent basis
during the periods involved and in accordance with Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission. Any summary or selected financial data
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus fairly present the information shown therein and
have been compiled on a basis consistent with the financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus. The pro forma financial statements and the related notes thereto included or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus, if any, present fairly the information shown therein, have been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s
rules and guidelines with respect to pro forma financial statements and have been properly compiled on the bases described therein,
and the assumptions used in the preparation thereof are reasonable and the adjustments used therein are appropriate to give effect to
the transactions and circumstances referred to therein. The pro forma financial statements in the Registration Statement comply as to
form in all material respects with the applicable requirements of Regulation S-X of the Securities Act. No other financial statements
or supporting schedules are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus. All
disclosures contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term
is defined by the rules and regulations of the Commission) comply in all material respects with Regulation G of the Exchange Act
and the Exchange Act Regulations and Item 10 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, to the extent applicable. The interactive data
in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus fairly presents the
information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines
applicable thereto.

 

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(19)            Independent
Public Accountants. The accountants who certified the financial statements and supporting schedules (including financial statements
of subsidiaries or acquired properties or businesses) included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
are, and were during the periods covered by their reports, registered independent public accountants as and to the extent required by
the Securities Act, the Securities Act Regulations, the Exchange Act, the Exchange Act Regulations and the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board (United States).

 

(20)            Testing-the-Waters
Materials. The Company (A) has not engaged in any oral or written communication with potential investors undertaken in reliance
on Section 5(d) of the Securities Act (“Testing-the-Waters Communication”) and (B) has not authorized
anyone to engage in Testing-the-Waters Communications. The Company has not distributed any Testing- the-Waters Communication that is a
written communication within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

 

(21)            No
Material Adverse Change. Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus, and except as may be otherwise stated in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there has not been
(A) any change, or any development or event that reasonably could be expected to result in a change, that has or reasonably
could be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (B) any
transaction that is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole entered into or agreed to be entered into by the
Company or any of the Subsidiaries, (C) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, directly or indirectly incurred by the Company
or any Subsidiary that is material to the Company and Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (D) except for regular quarterly
dividends on the Common Stock and shares of the Company’s preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, and regular quarterly
distributions on the Common Units and the Preferred Units, any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the
Company on any class of its capital stock or by the Operating Partnership on any of its partnership interests.

 

(22)            Description
of Securities. The Securities conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus.

 

(23)            No
Registration Rights. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there are no persons with registration
or other similar rights to have any equity or debt securities, including securities that are convertible into or exchangeable or redeemable
for equity securities, registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise registered by the Company or the Operating Partnership
under the Securities Act.

 

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(24)            Valid
Issuance of Securities. The Securities have been duly authorized for issuance and sale to the Agent pursuant to this Agreement and,
when issued and duly delivered against payment therefor as contemplated by this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-
assessable, free and clear of any pledge, lien, encumbrance, security interest or other claim, and the issuance and sale of the Securities
by the Company is not subject to preemptive or other similar rights arising by operation of law, under the organizational documents of
the Company or under any agreement to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or otherwise.

 

(25)            Registration
and Listing of Securities. As of each Settlement Date, the Securities to be sold by the Company from time to time hereunder will have
been registered under Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and approved for listing on the NYSE, subject to official notice of
issuance.

 

(26)            Absence
of Manipulation. Neither the Company nor any affiliate of the Company has taken, nor will the Company or any affiliate take, directly
or indirectly, any action which is designed, or would be expected, to cause or result in, or which constitutes, the stabilization or manipulation
of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities or to result in a violation of Regulation
M under the Exchange Act.

 

(27)            No
Registration as Broker. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates (i) is required to register as a “broker” or
 “dealer” in accordance with the provisions of the Exchange Act or the Exchange Act Regulations, or (ii) directly, or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or has any other association with (within the meaning of Article I of the
By-laws of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”)) any member firm of FINRA.

 

(28)            Certificates.
Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or any Subsidiary delivered to the Agent or to counsel for the Agent pursuant to
or in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Agent as to the matters covered
thereby.

 

(29)            No
Exempt Sales. Except as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has sold
or issued any securities during the six-month period preceding the date of the Prospectus, including any sales pursuant to Rule 144A
under, or Regulations D or S of, the Securities Act, other than shares issued pursuant to employee benefit plans, qualified stock options
plans or other employee compensation plans or pursuant to outstanding options, rights or warrants, that would not be required to be integrated
with the sale of the Securities.

 

(30)            Form of
Certificate. The form of certificate used to evidence the Common Stock complies in all material respects with all applicable statutory
requirements, with any applicable requirements of the organizational documents of the Company and the requirements of the NYSE.

 

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(31)            Property.
The Company and the Subsidiaries have good and indefeasible title in fee simple to, or a valid leasehold interest in, all real
property described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and good title to all personal property owned by them, in each
case free and clear of all liens, security interests, pledges, charges, encumbrances, encroachments, restrictions, mortgages and
defects, except such as are disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or such as do not materially and adversely
affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Company and
the Subsidiaries. Any real property, improvements, equipment and personal property held under lease by the Company or any Subsidiary
are held under valid, existing and enforceable leases, with such exceptions as are disclosed in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus or are not material and do not interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such real property, improvements,
equipment and personal property by the Company or such Subsidiary. The Company or a Subsidiary has obtained an owner’s or
leasehold title insurance policy, from a title insurance company licensed to issue such policy, on any real property owned in fee or
leased, as the case may be, by the Company or any Subsidiary, that insures the Company’s or the Subsidiary’s fee or
leasehold interest, as the case may be, in such real property, which policies include only commercially reasonable exceptions, and
with coverages in amounts at least equal to amounts that are generally deemed in the Company’s industry to be commercially
reasonable in the markets where the Company’s properties are located, or a lender’s title insurance policy insuring the
lien of its mortgage securing the real property with coverage equal to the maximum aggregate principal amount of any indebtedness
held by the Company or a Subsidiary and secured by the real property.

 

(32)            Condition
of Real Property. All real property owned or leased by the Company or a Subsidiary is free of material structural defects and all
building systems contained therein are in good working order in all material respects, subject to ordinary wear and tear or, in each instance,
the Company has created an adequate reserve to effect reasonably required repairs, maintenance and capital expenditures. To the knowledge
of the Company and the Operating Partnership, water, storm water, sanitary sewer, electricity and telephone service are all available
at the property lines of such property over duly dedicated streets or perpetual easements of record benefiting such property. Except as
described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, to the knowledge of the Company and the Operating Partnership, there is no
pending or threatened special assessment, tax reduction proceeding or other action that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably
be expected to increase or decrease the real property taxes or assessments of any of such property, that, individually or in the aggregate,
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(33)            Mortgages.
The mortgages and deeds of trust encumbering any real property owned in fee or leased by the Company or a Subsidiary (A) are not
convertible (in the absence of foreclosure) into an equity interest in the Real Property or in the Company, the Operating Partnership
or any Subsidiary, and none of the Company, the Operating Partnership or the Subsidiaries hold a participating interest therein, (B) except
as set forth in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, are not and will not be cross-defaulted to any indebtedness other than
indebtedness of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, and (C) are not and will not be cross- collateralized to any property not
owned by the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of the Subsidiaries.

 

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(34)            Description
and Enforceability of Contracts. The descriptions in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus of the contracts, leases and other
legal documents therein described present fairly the information required to be shown, and there are no contracts, leases, or other documents
of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration
Statement that are not described or filed as required; all agreements between the Company or any of the Subsidiaries and third parties
expressly referenced in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus are legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company or one or
more of the Subsidiaries, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent enforceability may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable
principles and, to the knowledge of the Company and the Operating Partnership, no party is in breach or default under any such agreements.

 

(35)            Intellectual
Property. The Company and each Subsidiary owns or possesses adequate licenses or other rights to use all patents, trademarks, service
marks, trade names, copyrights, software and design licenses, trade secrets, manufacturing processes, other intangible property rights
and know-how (collectively, “Intangibles”) necessary to entitle the Company and each Subsidiary to conduct its business
as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received notice of infringement
of or conflict with (and the Company knows of no such infringement of or conflict with) asserted rights of others with respect to any
Intangibles that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(36)            Disclosure
Controls; Internal Controls. The Company, the Operating Partnership and the Subsidiaries have established and maintain
disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act). Such disclosure
controls and procedures are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company and its Subsidiaries is made known
to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer by others within those entities, and such disclosure
controls and procedures are effective to perform the functions for which they were established. The Company, the Operating
Partnership and the Subsidiaries have established and maintain internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in
Rule 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act). Such internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide
reasonable assurance that (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP
and to maintain accountability for assets; (C) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general
or specific authorization; (D) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable
intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (E) the interactive data in eXtensible Business
Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus fairly presents the information called
for in all material respects and are prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable
thereto. The Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company have been advised of:
(i) any significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely
affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial data; and (ii) any fraud, whether or not
material, that involves management or other employees who have a role in the Company’s internal controls. Since the date of
the most recent evaluation of such disclosure controls and procedures, there have been (A) no material weakness in the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (B) no significant changes in
internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls, including any corrective actions with
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(37)            Compliance
with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or any of the Company’s directors or
officers, in their capacities as such, to comply in all material respects with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the
rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), including Section 402
related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications.

 

(38)            Taxes.
Each of the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Subsidiaries has filed on a timely basis (including in accordance with any applicable
extensions) all necessary federal, state, local and foreign income and franchise tax returns required to be filed through the date hereof
or have properly requested extensions thereof, and have paid all taxes shown as due thereon, and if due and payable, any related or similar
assessment, fine or penalty levied against the Company, the Operating Partnership or any of the Subsidiaries. Except as disclosed in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, no tax deficiency has been asserted against any such entity, and the Company and the Subsidiaries
do not know of any tax deficiency that is likely to be asserted against any such entity that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined
adversely to any such entity, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. All tax liabilities are adequately provided
for on the respective books of the Company and the Subsidiaries.

 

(39)            Insurance.
Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries maintains insurance (issued by insurers of recognized financial responsibility) of the types
and in the amounts generally deemed adequate for their respective businesses and consistent with insurance coverage maintained by similar
companies in similar businesses, including, but not limited to, insurance covering real and personal property owned or leased by the Company
and the Subsidiaries against theft, damage, destruction, environmental liabilities, acts of vandalism, terrorism, earthquakes, flood and
all other risks customarily insured against, all of which insurance is in full force and effect.

 

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(40)            Environmental
Law Compliance. Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in violation, or has received notice of any violation with
respect to, any applicable environmental, safety or similar law, regulation or rule applicable to the business of the Company
or any of the Subsidiaries, except any such violation of law, regulation or rule that individually or in the aggregate, could
not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and the Subsidiaries have received all permits, licenses
or other approvals required of them under applicable federal and state occupational safety and health and environmental laws,
regulations and rules to conduct their respective businesses, and the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance with all
terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except any such violation of law, regulation or rule, failure to
receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses
or approvals that individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as
otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (A) none of the Operating Partnership, the Company, any
of the Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Operating Partnership and the Company, any other owners of the property at any time
or any other party has at any time, handled, stored, treated, transported, manufactured, spilled, leaked, or discharged, dumped,
transferred or otherwise disposed of or dealt with, Hazardous Materials (as hereinafter defined) on, in, under, to or from any real
property leased, owned or controlled, including any real property underlying any loan held or to be held by the Company or the
Subsidiaries (collectively, the “Real Property”), other than by any such action taken in compliance with all
applicable Environmental Statutes (hereinafter defined) or by the Operating Partnership, the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any
other party in connection with the ordinary use of residential, retail or commercial properties owned by the Operating Partnership;
(B) the Operating Partnership and the Company do not intend to use the Real Property or any subsequently acquired properties
for the purpose of using, handling, storing, treating, transporting, manufacturing, spilling, leaking, discharging, dumping,
transferring or otherwise disposing of or dealing with Hazardous Materials other than by any such action taken in compliance with
all applicable Environmental Statues or by the Operating Partnership, the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any other party in
connection with the ordinary use of residential, retail or commercial properties owned by the Operating Partnership; (C) none
of the Operating Partnership, the Company, nor any of the Subsidiaries knows of any seepage, leak, discharge, release, emission,
spill, or dumping of Hazardous Materials into waters on or adjacent to the Real Property or any other real property owned or
occupied by any such party, or onto lands from which Hazardous Materials might seep, flow or drain into such waters; (D) none
of the Operating Partnership, the Company, nor any of the Subsidiaries has received any notice of, or has any knowledge of any
occurrence or circumstance that, with notice or passage of time or both, would give rise to a claim under or pursuant to any
federal, state or local environmental statute, regulation or rule or under common law, pertaining to Hazardous Materials on or
originating from any of the Real Property or any assets described in the Prospectus or any other real property owned or occupied by
any such party or arising out of the conduct of any such party, including without limitation a claim under or pursuant to any
Environmental Statute; (E) the Real Property is not included or, to the Company’s and the Operating Partnership’s
knowledge, proposed for inclusion on the National Priorities List issued pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sections 9601-9675 (the “CERCLA”) by the United
States Environmental Protection Agency or, to the Operating Partnership’s and the Company’s knowledge, proposed for
inclusion on any similar list or inventory issued pursuant to any other Environmental Statute or issued by any other Governmental
Authority (as hereinafter defined); and (F) in the operation of the Company’s and the Operating Partnership’s
businesses, the Company acquires, before acquisition of any real property, an environmental assessment of the real property and, to
the extent they become aware of any condition that could reasonably be expected to result in liability associated with the presence
or release of a Hazardous Material, or any violation or potential violation of any Environmental Statute, the Company and the
Operating Partnership take all commercially reasonable action necessary or advisable (including any capital improvements) for
clean-up, closure or other compliance with such Environmental Statute. There are no costs or liabilities associated with the Real
Property pursuant to any Environmental Statute (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for
clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with any Environmental Statute or any permit, license or approval, any related
constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) that, individually or in the aggregate, could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the entities that prepared Phase I or other environmental
assessments with respect to the Real Property was employed for such purpose on a contingent basis or has any substantial interest in
the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, and none of their directors, officers or employees is connected with the Company or any of
the Subsidiaries as a promoter, selling agent, trustee, officer, director or employee. None of the Operating Partnership, the
Company nor any Subsidiary knows of any violation of any municipal, state or federal law, rule or regulation (including those
pertaining to environmental matters) concerning the Real Property or any part thereof that, individually or in the aggregate, could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Real Property complies with all applicable zoning laws, ordinances,
regulations and deed restrictions or other covenants in all material respects and, if and to the extent there is a failure to
comply, such failure does not materially impair the value of any of the Real Property and will not result in a forfeiture or
reversion of title. None of the Operating Partnership, the Company nor any Subsidiary has received from any governmental authority
any written notice of any condemnation of or zoning change affecting the Real Property or any part thereof, and none of the
Operating Partnership, the Company nor any Subsidiary knows of any such condemnation or zoning change which is threatened and which,
individually or in the aggregate, if consummated could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. All liens, charges,
encumbrances, claims, or restrictions on or affecting the properties and assets (including the Real Property) of the Operating
Partnership or any of the Subsidiaries that are required to be described in the Prospectus are disclosed therein. No lessee of any
portion of any of the Real Property is in default under any of the leases governing such properties and there is no event which, but
for the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would constitute a default under any of such leases, except such defaults
that individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No tenant under any lease
pursuant to which the Operating Partnership or any of the Subsidiaries leases any Real Property has an option or right of first
refusal to purchase the premises leased thereunder or the building of which such premises are a part, except as such options or
rights of first refusal that, individually or in the aggregate, if exercised, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
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As used herein,
 “Hazardous Material” includes, without limitation any flammable explosives, radioactive materials, hazardous
materials, hazardous wastes, toxic substances, or related materials, asbestos or any hazardous material as defined by any federal,
state or local environmental law, regulation or rule including, without limitation, the CERCLA, the Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act, as amended, 49 U.S.C. Sections 1801-1819, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C.
Sections 6901-6992K, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. Sections 11001-11050, the Toxic
Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. Sections 2601-2671, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. Sections
136-136y, the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. Sections 7401- 7642, the Clean Water Act (Federal Water Pollution Control Act), 33 U.S.C.
Sections 1251-1387, the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. Sections 300f-300j-26, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29
U.S.C. Sections 651-678, as any of the above statutes may be amended from time to time, and in the regulations promulgated pursuant
to each of the foregoing (individually, an “Environmental Statute” and collectively the “Environmental
Statutes”) or by any federal, state or local governmental authority having or claiming jurisdiction over the properties
and assets described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (a “Governmental Authority”).

 

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(41)            Labor
Laws; No Labor Disputes. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation of or has received notice of any violation with respect
to any federal or state law, regulation or rule relating to discrimination in the hiring, termination, promotion, employment or pay
of employees, nor any applicable federal or state wages and hours law, nor any state law, regulation or rule precluding the denial
of credit due to the neighborhood in which a property is situated, the violation of any of which, individually or in the aggregate, could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no existing or, to the knowledge of the Company or the Operating Partnership,
threatened labor disputes with the employees of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to have, individually
or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(42)            ERISA.
The Company and each of the Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with all presently applicable provisions of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (“ERISA”).
No “reportable event” (as defined in ERISA) has occurred with respect to any “pension plan” (as defined in ERISA)
for which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries would have any material liability. The Company and each of the Subsidiaries have not
incurred and do not expect to incur material liability under (A) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal
from, any “pension plan” or (B) Section 412 or 4971 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including
the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the “Code”). Each “pension plan” for which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries would have any material liability that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of
the Code is so qualified in all material respects and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, that would cause the
loss of such qualification.

 

(43)            Past
Issuances of Securities. All securities issued by the Company, any of the Subsidiaries or any trusts established by the Company or
any Subsidiary, have been issued and sold in compliance with (A) all applicable federal and state securities laws and the laws of
the applicable jurisdiction of incorporation of the issuing entity, except as, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (B) to the extent applicable to the issuing entity, the requirements of the NYSE.

 

(44)            Securities
Act Compliance. In connection with this offering, the Company has not offered and will not offer its Common Stock or any other securities
convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable or redeemable for Common Stock in a manner in violation of the Securities Act. The Company
has not distributed and will not distribute any prospectus or other offering material in connection with the offering of the Securities
other than the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

 

(45)            No
Broker. The Company has not incurred any liability for any finder’s fees or similar payments in connection with the transactions
herein contemplated.

 

(46)            No
Relationships. There is no relationship, direct or indirect, between or among the Company or any of the Subsidiaries on the one hand,
and the directors, officers, stockholders, customers or suppliers of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries on the other hand, that is
required by the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations to be described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and
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(47)            Investment
Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is required, or after giving effect to the offering and sale of the
Securities will be required, to register as an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment
company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”).

 

(48)            REIT
Status. Commencing with the taxable year ended December 31, 2003, the Company has been organized and operated in conformity with
the requirements for qualification as a real estate investment trust (a “REIT”) under the Code, and the current and
proposed method of operation of the Company and the Subsidiaries described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus will enable
the Company to meet the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Code, and the Operating Partnership is treated
as a partnership for federal income tax purposes and not as a corporation or association taxable as a corporation; the Company intends
to continue to qualify as a REIT for all subsequent years, and the Company does not know of any event that could reasonably be expected
to cause the Company to fail to qualify as a REIT at any time.

 

(49)            Braemar
REIT Status. Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc. is qualified to be taxed as a REIT commencing with its formation on April 5,
2013 through December 31, 2013.

 

(50)            Statistical
and Market Data. Any statistical and market-related data included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus are based on or
derived from sources that the Company believes, after reasonable inquiry, to be reliable and accurate and, to the extent required, the
Company has obtained the written consent to the use of such data from such sources.

 

(51)            Governmental
Oversight. The conduct of business by the Company and the Subsidiaries as presently and proposed to be conducted is not subject to
continuing oversight, supervision, regulation or examination by any governmental official or body of the United States or any other jurisdiction
wherein the Company or the Subsidiaries conduct or propose to conduct such business, except as described in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus and except such regulation as is applicable to commercial enterprises generally.

 

(52)            Authorization
of Advisory Agreement. The Second Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement, dated January 14, 2021, by and among the Company,
the Operating Partnership, the Advisor, Ashford TRS Corporation, Ashford Inc. and Ashford Hospitality Advisors LLC (as amended, the “Advisory
Agreement”) has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Operating Partnership and constitutes a
legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company and the Operating Partnership enforceable against the Company and the Operating Partnership
in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting
creditors’ rights generally, and by general principles of equity.

 

(53)            Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act. None of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent,
employee, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of such entity is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that
would result in a violation by such persons of either (i) the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and
regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”), including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means or instrumentality
of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or
other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such
term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention
of the FCPA, and (ii) the U.K. Bribery Act of 2010 (the “Bribery Act”), and the Company and, to the knowledge
of the Company, its affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA and the Bribery Act and have instituted and
maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.

 

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(54)            Money
Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable
financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money
laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines,
issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”); and no action,
suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any Subsidiary
with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

(55)            No
Conflict with OFAC Laws. None of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer,
agent, employee, affiliate or representatives of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is an individual or entity (“Person”)
currently the subject or target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the United States Government, including, without limitation,
the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union,
Her Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company
located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions; and the Company will not directly or indirectly
use the proceeds of the sale of the Placement Securities, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiaries,
joint venture partners or other Person, to fund any activities of or business with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at
the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions or in any other manner that will result in a violation by any Person (including
any Person participating in the transaction, whether as agent, underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions.

 

(56)            Actively
Traded Security. The Common Stock is an “actively traded security” excepted from the requirements of Rule 101 of
Regulation M under the Exchange Act by subsection (c)(1) of such rule.

 

(57)            Miscellaneous.
To the knowledge of the Company and the Operating Partnership, and except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus:

 

(i)            no
material agreement to which any Subsidiary is a party prohibits or restricts any Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, from paying
dividends to the Company, or from making any other distribution with respect to such Subsidiary’s capital stock, partnership
interests, membership interests or other equity interests, as applicable, or from repaying to the Company or any other Subsidiary
any amounts which may from time to time become due under any loans or advances to such Subsidiary from the Company or such other
Subsidiary, or from transferring any such Subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company or to any other
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(ii)            neither
the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in violation of any term or provision of its organizational documents, is in breach of, or
in default under (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time, or both would constitute a breach of, or default under)
any material agreement of such entity or under any law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment or order applicable to the Company
or any of the Subsidiaries, except such breaches or defaults that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected
to have a material adverse effect on the assets, business, operations, earnings, properties or condition (financial or otherwise) of the
Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole;

 

(iii)            there
are no actions, suits or proceedings, inquiries, or investigations pending or threatened against the Company or any of the Subsidiaries
or any of their respective officers and directors or to which the properties, assets or rights of any such entity are subject, at law
or in equity, before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority, arbitral
panel or agency that are required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus but are not so disclosed or that would
reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the ability of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries to carry out the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement;

 

(iv)            no
individual or entity has the right, which has not been waived, to require the registration under the Securities Act of any sale of securities
issued by the Company, by reason of the filing or effectiveness of the Registration Statement;

 

(v)            the
execution, delivery and performance of the Equity Distribution Agreement by the Company and the Operating Partnership and the consummation
by the Company and the Operating Partnership of the transactions contemplated by the Equity Distribution Agreement do not and will not
conflict with, or result in any breach of, or constitute a default under (nor constitute any event which with notice, lapse of time, or
both would constitute a breach of or default under), any material agreement to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is a party;

 

(vi)            the
issuance and sale of the Securities and the issuance of the Common Units underlying the Securities are not subject to preemptive or other
similar rights arising under any agreement known to such counsel to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is a party;

 

(vii)            none
of the issued and outstanding common units representing limited partner interests in the Operating Partnership or Preferred Units representing
limited partner interests in the Operating Partnership have been issued or sold in violation of preemptive or similar rights arising under
any material agreement of the Operating Partnership, and the issuance of the Common Units representing limited partner interests in the
Operating Partnership to the Company in connection with the Company’s sale of the Securities is not subject to preemptive or similar
rights arising under any material agreement of the Operating Partnership; and

 

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(viii)            all
descriptions in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus of contracts and other documents that constitute material agreements of the
Company or any Subsidiary (including the Operating Partnership) are accurate in all material respects.

 

(b)              Representations
and Warranties of the Advisor. The Advisor represents and warrants to the Agent as of the date hereof and as of each Representation
Date on which a certificate is required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7(o) of this Agreement, as of each Applicable Time
and as of each Settlement Date, and agrees with the Agent, as follows:

 

(1)              Advisor.
The Advisor has been duly formed and is validly existing as a limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, with full limited liability company power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as described in the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus and in the reports filed or furnished by the Advisor pursuant to the Exchange Act (the “Advisor’s
Public Disclosures”) and to execute and deliver this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated herein. The Advisor
has no subsidiaries.

 

(2)              Foreign
Good Standings. The Advisor is duly qualified or licensed and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the nature or conduct
of its business requires such qualification or license and in which the failure, individually or in the aggregate, to be so qualified
or licensed could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the assets, business, operations, earnings, management,
properties, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Advisor (an “Advisor Material Adverse Effect”).

 

(3)              Compliance
with Laws. The Advisor is in compliance with all applicable federal, state, local or foreign laws, regulations, rules, decrees, judgments
and orders, including those relating to transactions with affiliates, except where any failures to be in compliance could not, individually
or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have an Advisor Material Adverse Effect.

 

(4)              No
Defaults. The Advisor is not in breach of or in default under (nor has any event occurred which with notice, lapse of time, or both
would constitute a breach of, or default under) (A) its organizational documents, or (B) in the performance or observance of
any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement
or other agreement or instrument to which the Advisor is a party or by which it or its properties is bound, except in the case of clause
(B), for such breaches or defaults that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have an Advisor Material
Adverse Effect.

 

(5)              No
Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will
not (i) conflict with, or result in any breach of, or constitute a default under (nor constitute any event which with notice, lapse
of time, or both would constitute a breach of, or default under), (A) any provision of the certificate of formation or limited liability
company agreement of the Advisor, or (B) any provision of any license, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement
or other agreement or instrument to which the Advisor is a party or by which the Advisor or its assets or properties may be bound or affected,
or under any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment or order applicable to the Advisor,
except in the case of this clause (B) for such breaches or defaults that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably
be expected to have an Advisor Material Adverse Effect; or (ii) result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge, claim or
encumbrance upon any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary.

 

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(6)              Due
Authorization of Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Advisor and is a legal, valid and
binding agreement of the Advisor.

 

(7)              Licenses.
The Advisor has all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals and has made all necessary filings required under any federal,
state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule, and has obtained all necessary authorizations, consents and approvals from other persons,
required in order to conduct the portion of its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or the Advisor’s
Public Disclosures, except to the extent that any failure to have any such licenses, authorizations, consents or approvals, to make any
such filings or to obtain any such authorizations, consents or approvals could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected
to have an Advisor Material Adverse Effect. The Advisor is not in violation of, in default under, and has not received any written notice
regarding a possible violation, default or revocation of any such license, authorization, consent or approval or any federal, state, local
or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, judgment or order applicable to the Advisor, the effect of which could reasonably
be expected to result in an Advisor Material Adverse Effect. No such license, authorization, consent or approval contains a materially
burdensome restriction that is not adequately disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or the Advisor’s Public
Disclosures. The Advisor is not required by any applicable law to obtain accreditation or certification from any governmental agency or
authority in order to provide the products and services that it currently provides or that it proposes to provide as set forth in the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus or the Advisor’s Public Disclosures, except to the extent that any failure to have such
accreditation or certification could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have an Advisor Material Adverse
Effect.

 

(8)              Securities
Act Compliance. The Advisor has not distributed and will not distribute any prospectus or other offering material in connection with
the offering of the Securities other than the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

 

(9)              No
Litigation. There are no actions, suits, proceedings, inquiries or investigations pending or, to the knowledge of the Advisor,
threatened against the Company, any Subsidiary or the Advisor or any of their respective officers and directors or to which the
properties, assets or rights of any such entity are subject, at law or in equity, before or by any federal, state, local or foreign
governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority, arbitral panel or agency, which is required to be disclosed in the
Registration Statement, or where in any such case (A) there is a reasonable possibility that such action, suit or proceeding
will be determined adversely to the Advisor and (B) if so determined adversely, could reasonably be expected to result in a
judgment, decree, award or order having a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(10)            No
Material Adverse Change. Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus or the Advisor’s Public Disclosures, and except as may be otherwise stated in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
or the Advisor’s Public Disclosures, there has not been (A) any change, or any development or event that reasonably could be
expected to result in a change, that has or reasonably could be expected to have an Advisor Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising
in the ordinary course of business, and (B) any transaction that is material to the Advisor entered into or agreed to be entered
into by the Advisor.

 

(11)            Absence
of Manipulation. Neither the Advisor nor any affiliate of the Advisor has taken, nor will the Advisor or any affiliate of the Advisor
take, directly or indirectly, any action which is designed, or would be expected, to cause or result in, or which constitutes, the stabilization
or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities or to result in a violation
of Regulation M under the Exchange Act.

 

(12)            Internal
Controls. The Advisor maintains a system of internal control in place sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (A) transactions
that may be effectuated by the Advisor under the Advisory Agreement are executed in accordance with its management’s general or
specific authorization and (B) access to the Company’s assets is permitted only in accordance with the internal policies, controls
and procedures of the Advisor.

 

(13)            Insurance.
The Advisor maintains insurance (issued by insurers of recognized financial responsibility) of the types and in the amounts generally
deemed adequate for its businesses and consistent with insurance coverage maintained by similar companies in similar businesses, including,
but not limited to, insurance covering real and personal property owned or leased by the Advisor against theft, damage, destruction, environmental
liabilities, acts of vandalism, terrorism, earthquakes, flood and all other risks customarily insured against, all of which insurance
is in full force and effect.

 

(14)            Labor
Laws; Absence of Labor Dispute. Except as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or the Advisor’s Public
Disclosures, the Advisor has not been notified that any officer or other key person of the Company, or a significant number of employees
of the Advisor and its affiliates, plan to terminate his, her or their employment. Neither the Advisor nor, to the Advisor’s knowledge,
any officer or other key person of the Company, is subject to any noncompete, nondisclosure, confidentiality, employment, consulting or
similar agreement that would be violated by the present or proposed business activities of the Company or the Advisor as described in
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or the Advisor’s Public Disclosures. The Advisor is not in violation of and has not
received written notice of any violation with respect to any federal or state law, regulation or rule relating to discrimination
in the hiring, termination, promotion, employment or pay of employees, nor any applicable federal or state wages and hours law, nor any
state law, regulation or rule precluding the denial of credit due to the neighborhood in which a property is situated, the violation
of any of which, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have an Advisor Material Adverse Effect. There are
no existing or, to the knowledge of the Advisor, threatened labor disputes with the employees of the Advisor that could reasonably be
expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, an Advisor Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(15)            Absence
of Certain Relationships. No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Advisor, on the one hand, and the directors,
officers, stockholders, customers or suppliers of the Advisor, on the other, that is required by the Securities Act or the Securities
Act Regulations to be described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or the Advisor’s Public Disclosures that is not
so described in such documents.

 

(16)            Investment
Advisers Act. The Advisor is not prohibited by the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, or the rules and regulations
thereunder, from performing its obligations under the Advisory Agreement, as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
or the Advisor’s Public Disclosures.

 

(17)            No
Consents; No Approvals. No approval, authorization, consent or order of or filing with any federal, state, local or foreign governmental
or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency or any other third party is required in connection with the Advisor’s
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and its consummation of the transactions contemplated herein.

 

(18)            Access
to Resources. The Advisor has access to the personnel and other resources necessary for the performance of the duties of the Advisor
set forth in the Advisory Agreement to which the Advisor is a party and as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
or the Advisor’s Public Disclosures.

 

(19)            No
Finder’s Fee. Except for the Agent’s discounts and commissions payable by the Company to the Agent in connection with
the offering of the Securities contemplated herein or as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or the Advisor’s
Public Disclosures, the Advisor has not incurred any liability for any brokerage commission, finder’s fees or similar payments in
connection with the offering of the Securities contemplated hereby.

 

(20)            Statistical
and Market Data. Any statistical and market-related data included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or the Advisor’s
Public Disclosures are based on or derived from sources that the Advisor believes, after reasonable inquiry, to be reliable and accurate.

 

(21)            Advisory
Agreement. The Advisory Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Advisor and constitutes a legal, valid and
binding agreement of the Advisor enforceable against the Advisor in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, and by general principles of equity.

 

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SECTION 6.
Sale and Delivery to the Agent; Settlement.

 

(a)            Sale
of Placement Securities. On the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions
herein set forth, upon the Agent’s acceptance of the terms of a Placement Notice or upon receipt by the Agent of an Acceptance,
as the case may be, and unless the sale of the Placement Securities described therein has been declined, suspended, or otherwise terminated
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Agent, for the period specified in the Placement Notice (as amended by the corresponding
Acceptance, if applicable), will use its commercially reasonable efforts consistent with its normal trading and sales practices to sell
such Placement Securities at prevailing market prices up to the amount specified, and otherwise in accordance with the terms of such Placement
Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance, if applicable). Each of the Company and the Operating Partnership acknowledges and
agrees that (i) there can be no assurance that the Agent will be successful in selling Placement Securities, (ii) the Agent
will incur no liability or obligation to the Company, the Operating Partnership or any other person or entity if it does not sell Placement
Securities for any reason other than a failure by the Agent to use its commercially reasonable efforts consistent with its normal trading
and sales practices to sell such Placement Securities as required under this Section 6, and (iii) the Agent shall be under no
obligation to purchase Securities on a principal basis pursuant to this Agreement, except as otherwise agreed by the Agent in the Placement
Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance, if applicable).

 

(b)            Settlement
of Placement Securities. Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Placement Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance,
if applicable), settlement for sales of Placement Securities will occur on the second (2nd) Trading Day (or such earlier day
as is industry practice for regular-way trading) following the date on which such sales are made (each, a “Settlement Date”).
The amount of proceeds to be delivered to the Company on a Settlement Date against receipt of the Placement Securities sold will be equal
to (i) the aggregate offering price received by the Agent at which such Placement Securities were sold (the “Gross Proceeds”),
after deduction for (A) the Agent’s commission, discount or other compensation for such sales payable by the Company pursuant
to Section 2 hereof, (B) any other amounts due and payable by the Company to the Agent hereunder pursuant to Section 8
hereof, and (C) any transaction fees imposed by any governmental or self-regulatory organization in respect of such sales (the “Net
Proceeds”), or (ii) the Gross Proceeds. In the event that the Agent delivers the Gross Proceeds to the Company at a Settlement
Date, the amounts set forth in clauses (i)(A), (B) and (C) of the preceding sentence shall be set forth and invoiced in a periodic
statement from the Agent to the Company and payment of such amounts shall be made promptly by the Company after its receipt thereof.

 

(c)            Delivery
of Placement Securities. On or before each Settlement Date, the Company will, or will cause its transfer agent to,
electronically transfer the Placement Securities being sold by crediting the Agent’s or its designee’s account (provided
the Agent shall have given the Company written notice of such designee prior to the Settlement Date) at The Depository Trust
Company, through its Deposit and Withdrawal at Custodian System or by such other means of delivery as may be mutually agreed upon by
the parties hereto, which in all cases shall be freely tradable, transferable, registered shares in good deliverable form. On each
Settlement Date, the Agent will deliver the related Net Proceeds or Gross Proceeds, as applicable, in same day funds to an account
designated by the Company on, or prior to, the Settlement Date. The Company agrees that if the Company, or its transfer agent (if
applicable), defaults in its obligation to deliver Placement Securities on a Settlement Date, the Company agrees that, in addition
to and in no way limiting the rights and obligations set forth in Sections 10(a) and (e) hereto, it will (i) hold the
Agent harmless against any loss, liability, claim, damage, or expense (including reasonable legal fees and expenses and the
reasonable costs and expense of enforcing this Section 6(c)), as incurred, arising out of or in connection with such default by
the Company or its transfer agent (if applicable) and (ii) pay to the Agent any commission, discount, or other compensation to
which it would otherwise have been entitled absent such default.

 

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(d)            Denominations;
Registration. The Securities shall be in such denominations and registered in such names as the Agent may request in writing at least
one full Business Day before the Settlement Date. The Company shall deliver the Securities, if any, through the facilities of The Depository
Trust Company unless the Agent shall otherwise instruct.

 

(e)            Limitations
on Offering Size. Under no circumstances shall the Company cause or request the offer or sale of any Securities, if after giving effect
to the sale of such Securities, the aggregate offering price of the Securities sold pursuant to this Agreement would exceed the lesser
of (A) together with all sales of Securities under this Agreement and each of the Alternative Distribution Agreements, including
any separate underwriting or similar agreement covering principal transactions described in Section 1 of this Agreement and the Alternative
Distribution Agreements, the Maximum Amount, (B) the amount available for offer and sale under the Prospectus and the then currently
effective Registration Statement, and (C) the amount authorized from time to time to be issued and sold under this Agreement and
each of the Alternative Distribution Agreements by the Company and notified to the Agent in writing. In addition, under no circumstances
shall the Company cause or request the offer or sale of any Securities pursuant to this Agreement at a price lower than the minimum price
authorized from time to time by the Company and notified to the Agent in writing.

 

(f)            Limitation
on Agents. The Company agrees that any offer to sell, any solicitation of an offer to buy or any sales of Securities shall only be
effected by or through only one of the Agent or an Alternative Agent on any single given day, but in no event more than one, and the Company
shall in no event request that the Agent and one or more of the Alternative Agents sell Securities on the same day; provided, however,
that (i) the foregoing limitation shall not apply to (A) exercise of any option, warrant, right or any conversion privilege
set forth in the instrument governing such security or (B) sales solely to employees or security holders of the Company or its Subsidiaries,
or to a trustee or other person acquiring such securities for the accounts of such persons, and (ii) such limitation shall not apply
on any day during which no sales are made pursuant to this Agreement.

 

(g)            Limitations
on Sales. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company shall not offer, sell or deliver, or request the offer
or sale of, any Securities and, by notice to the Agent given by telephone (confirmed promptly by facsimile transmission or email), shall
cancel any instructions for the offer or sale of any Securities, and the Agent shall not be obligated to offer or sell any Securities
during any other period in which the Company is in possession of material non-public information.

 

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SECTION 7.
Covenants of the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor. Each of the Company, the Operating Partnership and
the Advisor hereby, jointly and severally, agrees with the Agent as follows:

 

(a)        Registration
Statement Amendments. After the date of this Agreement and during any period in which a Prospectus relating to any Placement Securities
is required to be delivered by the Agent under the Securities Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied
pursuant to Rule 172 under the Securities Act), (i) the Company will notify the Agent promptly of the time when any subsequent
amendment to the Registration Statement, other than documents incorporated by reference, has been filed with the Commission and/or has
become effective or any subsequent supplement to the Prospectus has been filed and of any comment letter from the Commission or any request
by the Commission for any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information; (ii) the
Company will prepare and file with the Commission, promptly upon the Agent’s request, any amendments or supplements to the Registration
Statement or Prospectus that, in the Agent’s reasonable opinion, may be necessary or advisable in connection with the distribution
of the Placement Securities by the Agent (provided, however, that the failure of the Agent to make such request shall not relieve the
Company of any obligation or liability hereunder, or affect the Agent’s right to rely on the representations and warranties made
by the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor in this Agreement); (iii) the Company will not file any amendment or supplement
to the Registration Statement or Prospectus, other than documents incorporated by reference, relating to the Placement Securities or
a security convertible into the Placement Securities unless a copy thereof has been submitted to the Agent within a reasonable period
of time before the filing and the Agent has not reasonably objected thereto (provided, however, that the failure of the Agent to make
such objection shall not relieve the Company of any obligation or liability hereunder, or affect the Agent’s right to rely on the
representations and warranties made by the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor in this Agreement) and the Company will
furnish to the Agent at the time of filing thereof a copy of any document that upon filing is deemed to be incorporated by reference
into the Registration Statement or Prospectus, except for those documents available via EDGAR; and (iv) the Company will cause each
amendment or supplement to the Prospectus, other than documents incorporated by reference, to be filed with the Commission as
required pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act (without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8) under
the Securities Act).

 

(b)        Notice
of Commission Stop Orders. The Company will advise the Agent, promptly after it receives notice or obtains knowledge thereof, of
the issuance or threatened issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or
of any other order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or of the suspension of
the qualification of the Placement Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction or of the loss or suspension of any exemption
from any such qualification, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes, or of any examination pursuant
to Section 8(e) of the Securities Act concerning the Registration Statement or if the Company becomes the subject of a proceeding
under Section 8A of the Securities Act in connection with the offering of the Securities. The Company will make commercially reasonable
efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order, the suspension of any qualification of the Securities for offering or sale and any
loss or suspension of any exemption from any such qualification, and if any such stop order is issued or any such suspension or loss
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(c)        Delivery
of Registration Statement and Prospectus. Except to the extent such documents have been publicly filed with the Commission pursuant
to EDGAR, the Company will furnish to the Agent and its counsel (at the expense of the Company) copies of the Registration Statement,
the Prospectus (including all documents incorporated by reference therein) and all amendments and supplements to the Registration Statement
or Prospectus, and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, that are filed with the Commission during any period in which a Prospectus relating
to the Placement Securities is required to be delivered under the Securities Act (including all documents filed with the Commission during
such period that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein), in each case as soon as reasonably practicable and in such quantities
and at such locations as the Agent may from time to time reasonably request.

 

(d)        Continued
Compliance with Securities Laws. If at any time when a Prospectus is required by the Securities Act or the Exchange Act to be delivered
in connection with a pending sale of the Placement Securities (including, without limitation, pursuant to Rule 172 under the Securities
Act), any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the opinion of counsel for the Agent or
for the Company, to (i) amend the Registration Statement in order that the Registration Statement will not include an untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading,
(ii) amend or supplement the Prospectus in order that the Prospectus will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing
at the time it is delivered to a purchaser, or (iii) amend the Registration Statement or amend or supplement the Prospectus in order
to comply with the requirements of the Securities Act, the Company will promptly notify the Agent to suspend the offering of Placement
Securities during such period until the Company has prepared and filed with the Commission such amendment or supplement as may be necessary
to correct such statement or omission or to make the Registration Statement or the Prospectus comply with such requirements, and the
Company will furnish to the Agent such number of copies of such amendment or supplement as the Agent may reasonably request. If at any
time following the issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which
such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted, conflicts or would conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement
or the Prospectus or included, includes or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or together with the Prospectus omitted,
omits or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they were made, prevailing at that subsequent time, not misleading, the Company will promptly notify the Agent to suspend the offering
of Placement Securities during such period and the Company will, subject to Section 7(a) hereof, promptly amend or supplement
such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission.

 

(e)        Blue
Sky and Other Qualifications. The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts, in cooperation with the Agent, to
qualify the Placement Securities for offering and sale, or to obtain an exemption for the Securities to be offered and sold, under
the applicable securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Agent may designate and to
maintain such qualifications and exemptions in effect for so long as required for the distribution of the Placement Securities (but
in no event for less than one year from the date of this Agreement); provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to
file any general consent to service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any
jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in any jurisdiction in
which it is not otherwise so subject. In each jurisdiction in which the Placement Securities have been so qualified or exempt, the
Company will file such statements and reports as may be required by the laws of such jurisdiction to continue such
qualification or exemption, as the case may be, in effect for so long as required for the distribution of the Placement Securities
(but in no event for less than one year from the date of this Agreement).

 

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(f)         Rule 158.
The Company will timely file such reports pursuant to the Exchange Act as are necessary in order to make generally available to its securityholders
as soon as practicable an earnings statement for the purposes of, and to provide to the Agent the benefits contemplated by, the last
paragraph of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act.

 

(g)        Use
of Proceeds. The Company and the Operating Partnership will use the Net Proceeds received by them from the sale of the Securities
in the manner specified in the Prospectus under “Use of Proceeds.”

 

(h)        Listing.
During any period in which the Prospectus relating to the Placement Securities is required to be delivered by the Agent under the Securities
Act with respect to a pending sale of the Placement Securities (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant
to Rule 172 under the Securities Act), the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Placement Securities
to be listed on the NYSE.

 

(i)         Filings
with the NYSE. The Company will timely seek to file with the NYSE all material documents and notices required by the NYSE of companies
that have or will issue securities traded on the NYSE.

 

(j)         Reporting
Requirements. The Company, during any period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the Securities Act and the Exchange
Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172 under the Securities Act), will file
all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act within the time periods required by the Exchange
Act.

 

(k)        Notice
of Other Sales. During the pendency of any Placement Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance, if applicable) given hereunder,
the Company shall provide the Agent notice as promptly as reasonably possible (and, in any event, at least one (1) Business Day)
before it offers to sell, contracts to sell, sells, grants any option to sell or otherwise disposes of any shares of Common Stock (other
than Placement Securities offered pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement or the Alternative Distribution Agreements) or securities
convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock, warrants or any rights to purchase or acquire Common Stock; provided, that such notice
shall not be required in connection with the (i) issuance, grant or sale of restricted stock, Common Stock, LTIP units, options
to purchase Common Stock, or Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of options or other equity awards pursuant to any stock option,
stock bonus or other stock or compensatory plan or arrangement described in the Prospectus, including Common Stock issuable upon redemption
of Common Units, (ii) the issuance of securities in connection with an acquisition, merger or sale or purchase of assets described
in the Prospectus, or (iii) the issuance or sale of Common Stock pursuant to any dividend reinvestment plan that the Company may
adopt from time to time, provided the implementation of such plan is disclosed to the Agent in advance.

 

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(l)         Change
of Circumstances. The Company will, at any time during a fiscal quarter in which the Company intends to tender a Placement Notice
or sell Placement Securities, advise the Agent promptly after it shall have received notice or obtained knowledge thereof, of any information
or fact that would alter or affect in any material respect any opinion, certificate, letter or other document provided to the Agent pursuant
to this Agreement during such fiscal quarter.

 

(m)        Due
Diligence Cooperation. The Company will cooperate with any reasonable due diligence review conducted by the Agent or its agents in
connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, providing information and making available documents
and senior officers, during regular business hours and at the Company’s principal offices, as the Agent may reasonably request.

 

(n)        Disclosure
of Sales. The Company will disclose in its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, in its Annual Reports on Form 10-K and/or, at
the Company’s option, in a Current Report on Form 8-K, the number of Placement Securities sold through the Agent during the
most recent fiscal quarter, the Net Proceeds to the Company and the compensation paid or payable by the Company to the Agent with respect
to such Placement Securities. The Company will prepare and file with the Commission, promptly upon the Agent’s reasonable request,
any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or Prospectus that, in the Agent’s reasonable opinion, may be necessary
or advisable in connection with the sale of the Common Stock pursuant to this Agreement.

 

(o)        Representation
Dates; Certificates. On or prior to the date that the first Securities are sold pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and as promptly
as possible and in no event later than two (2) Trading Days after each of the following:

 

(1)         each
time the Company:

 

(i)         files
the Prospectus relating to the Securities or amends or supplements the Registration Statement or the Prospectus relating to the Securities
by means of a post-effective amendment, sticker, or supplement but not by means of incorporation of documents by reference into the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus relating to the Securities;

 

(ii)         files
an Annual Report on Form 10-K under the Exchange Act;

 

(iii)        files
a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act; or

 

(iv)        files
a Current Report on Form 8-K containing amended financial information (other than information “furnished” pursuant to
Item 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K or to provide disclosure pursuant to Item 8.01 of Form 8-K relating to the reclassifications of
certain properties as discontinued operations in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No.  144) under the
Exchange Act; and

 

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(2)        at
any other time reasonably requested by the Agent (each such date of filing of one or more of the documents referred to in clauses (1)(i) through
(iv) and any time of request pursuant to this Section 7(o) shall be a “Representation Date”), the Company
shall furnish the Agent with a certificate, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G and the Advisor shall furnish the Agent
with a certificate, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H. The requirement to provide a certificate under this Section 7(o) shall
be waived for any Representation Date occurring at a time at which no Placement Notice (as amended by the corresponding Acceptance, if
applicable) is pending, which waiver shall continue until the earlier to occur of the date the Company delivers a Placement Notice hereunder
(which for such calendar quarter shall be considered a Representation Date) and the next occurring Representation Date. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if the Company subsequently decides to sell Placement Securities following a Representation Date when the Company relied
on such waiver and did not provide the Agent with a certificate under this Section 7(o), then before the Company delivers the Placement
Notice or the Agent sells any Placement Securities, the Company shall provide the Agent with a certificate, in the form attached hereto
as Exhibit G and the Advisor shall furnish the Agent with a certificate, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H,
each dated the date of the Placement Notice.

 

(p)        Opinion
of Counsel for Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor. On or prior to the date that the first Securities are sold pursuant
to the terms of this Agreement, and as promptly as practicable after the Company files a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q under the
Exchange Act, the Company shall cause to be furnished to the Agent a written opinion of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, counsel
for the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor, dated the date that the opinion is required to be delivered, in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit D, modified, as necessary, to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as then
amended or supplemented; provided, however, that in lieu of such opinions, such counsel may furnish the Agent with a letter to
the effect that the Agent may rely on a prior opinion delivered under this Section 7(p) to the same extent as if it were dated
the date of such letter (except that statements in such prior opinion shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus as amended or supplemented at such time).

 

(q)        Opinion
of Tax Counsel for Company and the Operating Partnership. On or prior to the date that the first Securities are sold pursuant to the
terms of this Agreement, and as promptly as possible after the Company files a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act,
the Company shall cause to be furnished to the Agent a written opinion of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, tax counsel for the Company
and the Operating Partnership, dated the date that the opinion is required to be delivered, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E,
modified, as necessary, to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented; provided, however,
that in lieu of such opinions, such counsel may furnish the Agent with a letter to the effect that the Agent may rely on a prior opinion
delivered under this Section 7(q) to the same extent as if it were dated the date of such letter (except that statements in
such prior opinion shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented at such time).

 

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(r)        Opinion
of Maryland Counsel for the Company. On or prior to the date that the first Securities are sold pursuant to the terms of this Agreement,
and as promptly as possible after the Company files a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act, the Company shall cause
to be furnished to the Agent a written opinion of Hogan Lovells US LLP, Maryland counsel for the Company, dated the date that the opinion
is required to be delivered, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F, modified, as necessary, to relate to the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented; provided, however, that in lieu of such opinions, such counsel
may furnish the Agent with a letter to the effect that the Agent may rely on a prior opinion delivered under this Section 7(r) to
the same extent as if it were dated the date of such letter (except that statements in such prior opinion shall be deemed to relate to
the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented at such time).

 

(s)        Comfort
Letters. As promptly as practicable after the Company files an Annual Report on Form 10-K under the Exchange Act, the Company
shall cause its independent accountants (and any other independent accountants whose report is included in the Prospectus) to furnish
the Agent letters (the “Comfort Letters”), dated the date of the Comfort Letters are delivered, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent, (i) confirming that they are independent registered public accounting firms within the meaning of the
Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the PCAOB, (ii) stating, as of such date, the conclusions and findings of such firms with respect
to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters
in connection with registered public offerings.

 

(t)         Chief
Financial Officer’s Certificate. On or prior to the date that the first Securities are sold pursuant to the terms of this Agreement,
and as promptly as possible and in no event later than two (2) Trading Days of each Representation Date with respect to which the
Company is obligated to deliver a certificate in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G for which no waiver is applicable,
the Company shall cause to be furnished to the Agent a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent and its counsel, dated the date that the certificate is required to be delivered.

 

(u)        Market
Activities. Neither the Company nor the Operating Partnership will, directly or indirectly, (i) take any action designed to
cause or result in, or that constitutes or might reasonably be expected to constitute, the stabilization or manipulation of the price
of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Placement Securities or (ii) sell, bid for, or purchase the
Securities to be issued and sold pursuant to this Agreement, or pay anyone any compensation for soliciting purchases of the Placement
Securities to be issued and sold pursuant to this Agreement other than the Agent.

 

(v)        Investment
Company Act. The Company will conduct its affairs in such a manner so as to reasonably ensure that neither it nor its Subsidiaries
will be or become, at any time prior to the termination of this Agreement, an “investment company,” as such term is defined
in the Investment Company Act, assuming no change in the Commission’s current interpretation as to entities that are not considered
an investment company.

 

(w)       Securities
Act and Exchange Act. The Company will use its best efforts to comply with all requirements imposed upon it by the Securities Act
and the Exchange Act as from time to time in force, so far as necessary to permit the continuance of sales of, or dealings in, the Placement
Securities as contemplated by the provisions hereof and the Prospectus.

 

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(x)        No
Offer to Sell. Other than a free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) approved in advance in
writing by the Company and the Agent in its capacity as principal or agent hereunder, the Company (including its agents and representatives,
other than the Agent in its capacity as such) will not, directly or indirectly, make, use, prepare, authorize, approve or refer to any
free writing prospectus relating to the Securities to be sold by the Agent as principal or agent hereunder.

 

(y)        Sarbanes-Oxley
Act. The Company and its Subsidiaries will use their best efforts to comply with all effective applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act.

 

(z)        Regulation
M. If the Company has reason to believe that the exemptive provisions set forth in Rule 101(c)(1) of Regulation M under
the Exchange Act are not satisfied with respect to the Company or the Common Stock, it shall promptly notify the Agent and sales of the
Placement Securities under this Agreement shall be suspended until that or other exemptive provisions have been satisfied in the judgment
of each party.

 

(aa)      REIT
Qualification. The Company and the Operating Partnership will use their best efforts to enable the Company to continue to qualify
for taxation as a REIT under the Code and will not take any action to revoke or otherwise terminate the Company’s REIT election,
unless the Company’s board of directors determines in good faith that it is no longer in the best interests of the Company and
its stockholders to be so qualified.

 

(bb)      [Reserved].

 

(cc)      Renewal
of Registration Statement. The date of this Agreement is not more than three years subsequent to the initial effective date of the
Registration Statement (the “Renewal Date”). If, immediately prior to the Renewal Date, this Agreement has not terminated
and a prospectus is required to be delivered or made available by the Agent under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act in connection
with the sale of such Securities, the Company will, prior to the Renewal Date, file, if it has not already done so, a new shelf registration
statement or, if applicable, an automatic shelf registration statement relating to such Securities, and, if such registration
statement is not an automatic shelf registration statement, will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement
to be declared effective within 180 days after the Renewal Date, and will take all other reasonable actions necessary or appropriate
to permit the public offer and sale of such Securities to continue as contemplated in the expired registration statement relating to
such Securities. References herein to the “Registration Statement” shall include such new shelf registration statement or
automatic shelf registration statement, as the case may be, and each new or additional shelf registration statement or automatic shelf
registration statement filed by the Company for the purpose of registering the Securities to be sold pursuant to this Agreement.

 

SECTION 8.
Payment of Expenses.

 

The Company agrees to pay
all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, whether or not the transactions contemplated
hereunder are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, including expenses, fees and taxes in connection with: (i) the preparation
and filing of the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Prospectus, and any amendments
or supplements thereto, and the printing and furnishing of copies of each thereof to the Agent and to dealers (including costs of mailing
and shipment); (ii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of the certificates for the Placement Securities to the Agent, including
any stock or other transfer taxes or duties payable upon the sale of the Placement Securities to the Agent; (iii) the printing of
this Agreement and any dealer agreements and furnishing copies of each to the Agent and to dealers (including costs of mailing and shipment);
(iv) the qualification of the Securities for offering and sale under state laws that the Company and the Agent have mutually agreed
are appropriate and the determination of their eligibility for investment under state law as aforesaid, and the printing and furnishing
of copies of any blue sky surveys or legal investment surveys to the Agent and to dealers; (v) the filing for review of the public
offering of the Securities by FINRA; (vi) the fees and expenses of any transfer agent or registrar for the Securities and miscellaneous
expenses referred to in the Registration Statement; (vii) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the Securities
on the NYSE; (viii) the fees and disbursements of the counsel, accountants and other advisors to the Company; and (ix) any other
transactional fees, charges or taxes imposed by any governmental body or self-regulatory organization.

 

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SECTION 9.
Conditions of the Agent’s Obligations. The obligations of the Agent hereunder with respect to a Placement will be
subject to the continuing accuracy and completeness of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement or
in certificates of any officer of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company delivered pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance
by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to the following further conditions:

 

(a)       Opinion
of Counsel for Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor. The Agent shall have received the favorable opinions of Cadwalader,
Wickersham & Taft LLP, counsel for the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor, required to be delivered pursuant
to Section 7(p) on or before the date on which such delivery of such opinion is required pursuant to Section 7(p).

 

(b)        Opinion
of Tax Counsel for Company and the Operating Partnership. The Agent shall have received the favorable opinions of O’Melveny &
Myers LLP, counsel for the Company and the Operating Partnership, required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7(q) on or before
the date on which such delivery of such opinion is required pursuant to Section 7(q).

 

(c)        Opinion
of Maryland Counsel for the Company. The Agent shall have received the favorable opinions of Hogan Lovells US LLP, counsel for the
Company, required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7(r) on or before the date on which such delivery of such opinion is required
pursuant to Section 7(r).

 

(d)        No
Material Notices. None of the following events shall have occurred and be continuing: (i) receipt by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries of any request for additional information from the Commission during the period of effectiveness of the
Registration Statement, the response to which would require any post-effective amendments or supplements to the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus; (ii) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose; (iii) receipt by the Company of any notification
with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Placement Securities for sale in
any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; or (iv) the occurrence of any event that
makes any material statement made in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any
material document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or that requires the
making of any changes in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or such documents so
that, in the case of the Registration Statement, it will not contain any materially untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and, that in the
case of the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, it will not contain any materially untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

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(e)        No
Misstatement or Material Omission. The Agent shall not have advised the Company that the Registration Statement or Prospectus, or
any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, contains an untrue statement of fact that in the Agent’s
reasonable opinion is material, or omits to state a fact that in the Agent’s opinion is material and is required to be stated therein
or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.

 

(f)         Material
Changes. Except as contemplated in the Prospectus, or disclosed in the Company’s reports filed with the Commission, there shall
not have been any material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) or in the assets, business, operations, earnings,
properties or prospects of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business.

 

(g)       Company
and Advisor Representation Certificates. The Agent shall have received the certificates required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7(o) on
or before the date on which delivery of such certificates is required pursuant to Section 7(o).

 

(h)        Accountant’s
Comfort Letters. The Agent shall have received the Comfort Letters required to be delivered pursuant Section 7(s) on or
before the date on which such delivery of such opinion is required pursuant to Section 7(s).

 

(i)         Chief
Financial Officer’s Certificate. The Agent shall have received the certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the Company
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7(t) on or before the date on which delivery of such certificate is required pursuant
to Section 7(t).

 

(j)         Approval
for Listing. The Placement Securities shall have been approved for listing on the NYSE, subject only to official notice of issuance.

 

(k)        No
Suspension. Trading in the Securities shall not have been suspended on the NYSE.

 

(l)         Additional
Documents. On each date on which the Company is required to deliver a certificate pursuant to Section 7(o), counsel for the
Agent shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as they may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to pass
upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations
or warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, contained in this Agreement.

 

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(m)       Securities
Act Filings Made. All filings with the Commission required by Rule 424 under the Securities Act to have been filed prior to
the issuance of any Placement Notice hereunder shall have been made within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by Rule 424
under the Securities Act.

 

(n)        Termination
of Agreement. If any condition specified in this Section 9 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required to be fulfilled,
this Agreement may be terminated by the Agent by notice to the Company, and such termination shall be without liability of any party
to any other party except as provided in Section 8 hereof and except that, in the case of any termination of this Agreement, Sections
5, 10, 11 and 20 hereof shall survive such termination and remain in full force and effect.

 

(o)        Effectiveness
of Registration Statement; Payment of Filing Fee. The Registration Statement shall be effective and shall be available for (i) all
sales of Placement Securities issued pursuant to all prior Placement Notices (each as amended by a corresponding Acceptance, if applicable)
and (ii) the sale of all Placement Securities contemplated to be issued by any Placement Notice. The Company shall have paid the
required Commission filing fees relating to the Securities within the applicable time required under the Securities Act.

 

SECTION 10.
Indemnification and Contribution by the Company, the Operating Partnership, the Advisor and the Agent.

 

(a)        Indemnification
by the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor. The Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor, jointly and severally,
agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Agent, its affiliates, as such term is defined in Rule 501(b) under the Securities
Act (each an “Affiliate”), its selling agents and each person, if any, who controls the Agent within the meaning of
Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act as follows:

 

(1)        against
any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), or the omission or alleged omission therefrom
of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or arising out of any untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact included in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment
or supplement thereto), or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein,
in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

 

(2)        against
any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement
of any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or of any claim whatsoever
based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission; provided, that, (subject to Section 10(e) below)
any such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company, which written consent shall not be unreasonably withheld; and

 

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(3)        against
any and all expense whatsoever, as incurred (including the fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by the Agent) reasonably incurred
in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body,
commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement
or omission, to the extent that any such expense is not paid under (i) or (ii) above;

 

provided,
however, that this indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense to the extent arising out
of any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto)
or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the
Company by the Agent expressly for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), or in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus
or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto).

 

(b)        Indemnification
by the Agent. The Agent agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor, each of their
respective directors, each of the Company’s officers who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls
the Company or the Advisor within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against
any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in subsection (a) of this Section 10,
as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in the Registration
Statement (or any amendment thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Agent expressly for use therein.

 

(c)        Actions
against Parties; Notification. Each indemnified party shall give notice as promptly as reasonably practicable to each indemnifying
party of any action commenced against it in respect of which indemnity may be sought hereunder, but failure to so notify an indemnifying
party shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability hereunder to the extent it is not materially prejudiced as a result
thereof and in any event shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement.
In the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 10(a) above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be selected by
the Agent, and, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 10(b) above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall
be selected by the Company. An indemnifying party may participate at its own expense in the defense of any such action; provided,
however, that counsel to the indemnifying party shall not (except with the consent of the indemnified party) also be counsel to
the indemnified party. In no event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in addition
to any local counsel) separate from their own counsel for all indemnified parties in connection with any one action or separate but similar
or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances. No indemnifying party shall,
without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect
to any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever
in respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section 10 hereof (whether or not the indemnified
parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release
of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such litigation, investigation, proceeding or claim and (ii) does not
include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

 

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(d)        Settlement
without Consent if Failure to Reimburse. If at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to
reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any
settlement of the nature contemplated by Section 10(a)(2) effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement
is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such indemnifying
party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into and
(iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the
date of such settlement.

 

(e)        Contribution.
If the indemnification provided for in this Section 10 is for any reason unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified
party in respect of any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute
to the aggregate amount of such losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by such indemnified party, as incurred, (i) in
such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor,
on the one hand, and the Agent, on the other hand, from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) if the
allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the
relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor,
on the one hand, and of the Agent, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, liabilities,
claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.

 

The relative benefits received
by the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor, on the one hand, and the Agent, on the other hand, in connection with the offering
of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from the
offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company (which, for purposes of this
subsection, account for the relative benefits received by the Operating Partnership), on the one hand, and the total commissions received
by the Agent, on the other hand, bear to the aggregate public offering price of the Securities.

 

The relative fault of the
Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor, on the one hand, and the Agent, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference
to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state
a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company, the Operating Partnership or the Advisor or by the Agent and the parties’
relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

 

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The Company, the Operating
Partnership, the Advisor and the Agent agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 10
were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations
referred to above in this Section 10. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified
party and referred to above in this Section 10 shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such
indemnified party in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental
agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or
alleged omission.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions
of this Section 10, the Agent shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total underwriting
discounts and commissions with respect to the offering of the Securities received by it under this Agreement exceeds the amount of any
damages that the Agent has otherwise been required to pay by reason of any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged
omission.

 

No person guilty of fraudulent
misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person
who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

 

For purposes of this Section 10,
each person, if any who controls the Agent within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange
Act and the Agent’s Affiliates and selling agents shall have the same rights to contribution as the Agent, and each director of
the Company, each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within
the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution
as the Company.

 

SECTION 11. Representations,
Warranties and Agreements to Survive Delivery. All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement or in
certificates of officers of the Company, the Operating Partnership, the Advisor or any of their respective subsidiaries submitted
pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the
Agent or its Affiliates or selling agents, any person controlling the Agent or its officers or directors, or by or on behalf of the
Company, the Operating Partnership or the Advisor or any person controlling the Company, the Operating Partnership or the Advisor,
and shall survive delivery of the Securities to the Agent.

 

SECTION 12.
Termination of Agreement.

 

(a)        Termination;
General. The Agent may terminate this Agreement, by notice to the Company, as hereinafter specified at any time (i) if there
has been, since the time of execution of this Agreement or since the date as of which information is given in the Prospectus, any material
adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) or in the assets, business, operations, earnings, properties or prospects of
the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (ii) if there has
occurred any material adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or the international financial markets, any outbreak
of hostilities or escalation thereof or other calamity or crisis or any change or development involving a prospective change in national
or international political, financial or economic conditions, in each case the effect of which is such as to make it, in the judgment
of the Agent, impracticable or inadvisable to market the Securities or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Securities, (iii) if
trading in the Placement Securities has been suspended or limited by the Commission or the NYSE, (iv) if trading generally on the
NYSE, the NYSE American LLC or the Nasdaq Global Market has been suspended or limited, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have
been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices have been required, by any of said exchanges or by order of the Commission, the FINRA or any
other governmental authority, or a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services
in the United States or in Europe, or (v) if a banking moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities.

 

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(b)       Termination
by the Company. Subject to Section 12(f) hereof, the Company shall have the right to terminate this Agreement in its sole
discretion at any time after the date of this Agreement.

 

(c)        Termination
by the Agent. Subject to Section 12(f) hereof, the Agent shall have the right to terminate this Agreement in its sole discretion
at any time after the date of this Agreement.

 

(d)        Automatic
Termination. Unless earlier terminated pursuant to this Section 12, this Agreement shall automatically terminate upon the issuance
and sale of Placement Securities through the Agent on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein with an aggregate sale
price equal to the Maximum Amount.

 

(e)        Continued
Force and Effect. This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect unless terminated pursuant to Sections 12(a), (b), (c), or
(d) above or otherwise by mutual agreement of the parties.

 

(f)        Effectiveness
of Termination. Any termination of this Agreement shall be effective on the date specified in such notice of termination; provided,
however, that such termination shall not be effective until the close of business on the date of receipt of such notice by the Agent or
the Company, as the case may be. If such termination shall occur prior to the Settlement Date for any sale of Placement Securities, such
Placement Securities shall settle in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

 

(g)        Liabilities.
If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Section 12, such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other
party except as provided in Section 8 hereof, and except that, in the case of any termination of this Agreement, Sections 5, 10,
11 and 20 hereof shall survive such termination and remain in full force and effect.

 

SECTION 13.
Notices. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing
and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices to the Agent shall
be directed to the Agent at Virtu Americas LLC, Prospectus Department, One Liberty Plaza, 165 Broadway, New York, NY 10006, with a copy
to (which shall not constitute notice) Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Riverfront Plaza, 951 E Byrd Street, Richmond, VA 23219 Attention: James
Davidson, Esq. and notices to the Company, the Operating Partnership or the Advisor shall be directed to the offices of the Company
at 14185 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 75254, fax no. (972) 490-9605, Attention of General Counsel, with a copy to (which
shall not constitute notice) Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, 200 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281, Attention: Gregory P.
Patti, Jr.

 

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SECTION 14. Parties.
This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Agent, the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor
and their respective successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any
person, firm or corporation, other than the Agent, the Company, the Operating Partnership, the Advisor and their respective
successors and the controlling persons and officers and directors referred to in Section 10 and their heirs and legal
representatives, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein
contained. This Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof are intended to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the
Agent, the Company, the Operating Partnership, the Advisor and their respective successors, and said controlling persons and
officers and directors and their heirs and legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No
purchaser of Securities from the Agent shall be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such purchase.

 

SECTION 15.
Adjustments for Stock Splits. The parties acknowledge and agree that all stock- related numbers contained in this Agreement
shall be adjusted to take into account any stock split, stock dividend or similar event effected with respect to the Securities.

 

SECTION 16.
Governing Law and Time. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK WITHOUT REGARD FOR CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES. SPECIFIED TIMES OF DAY REFER TO NEW YORK CITY TIME.

 

SECTION 17.
Effect of Headings. The Section and Exhibit headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the
construction hereof.

 

SECTION 18.
Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses. Each of the Company and the Operating Partnership represents, warrants and agrees that,
unless it obtains the prior consent of the Agent, and the Agent represents, warrants and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent
of the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus,
or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, required
to be filed with the Commission. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Agent or by the Company, as the case may be, is
hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company represents and warrants that it has treated
and agrees that it will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in
Rule 433 under the Securities Act, and has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 433 under the Securities Act
applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission where required, legending and record
keeping. For the purposes of clarity, the parties hereto agree that all free writing prospectuses, if any, listed in Exhibit I
hereto are Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses.

 

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SECTION 19.
Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original,
but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same Agreement.

 

SECTION 20.
Absence of Fiduciary Relationship. Each of the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor, severally and not jointly,
acknowledges and agrees that:

 

(a)        The
Agent is acting solely as agent and/or principal in connection with the public offering of the Securities and in connection with each
transaction contemplated by this Agreement and the process leading to such transactions, and no fiduciary or advisory relationship between
the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor or any of their respective affiliates, stockholders (or other equity holders),
creditors or employees or any other party, on the one hand, and the Agent, on the other hand, has been or will be created in respect
of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether or not the Agent has advised or is advising the Company,
the Operating Partnership and/or the Advisor on other matters, and the Agent has no obligation to the Company, the Operating Partnership
or the Advisor with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement;

 

(b)        the
public offering price of the Securities was not established by the Agent;

 

(c)        it
is capable of evaluating and understanding, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement;

 

(d)        the
Agent has not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
and it has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate;

 

(e)        it
is aware that the Agent and its respective affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ
from those of the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor and the Agent has no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions
to the Company, the Operating Partnership or the Advisor by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship or otherwise;

 

(f)         the
Agent and its respective affiliates may engage in trading in the Common Stock for their own account or for the account of its clients
at the same time as sales of the Placement Securities occur pursuant to this Agreement; and

 

(g)        it
waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against the Agent for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach
of fiduciary duty and agrees that the Agent shall not have any liability (whether direct or indirect, in contract, tort or otherwise)
to it in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on its behalf or in right of it or the
Company, the Operating Partnership, the Advisor or their respective employees or creditors.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance
with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to the Company a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument , along
with all counterparts, will become a binding agreement by and among the Agent, the Company, the Operating Partnership and the Advisor
in accordance with its terms.

 

	 	Very truly yours,
	 	 
	 	ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST, INC.
	 	 
	 	By: 	/s/ J. Robison Hays, III 
	 	Name:	J. Robison Hays, III 
	 	Title:	President and Chief Executive Officer
	 	 
	 	ASHFORD HOSPITALITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
	 	 
	 	By:     Ashford
    OP General Partner LLC, its sole general partner 
	 	By:     Ashford
    Hospitality Trust, Inc., its sole managing member
	 	 
	 	By: 	/s/ J. Robison Hays, III 
	 	Name: 	J. Robison Hays, III 
	 	Title: 	President and Chief Executive Officer
	 	 
	 	ASHFORD HOSPITALITY ADVISORS
    LLC
	 	 
	 	By: 	/s/ Deric S. Eubanks
	 	Name: 	Deric S. Eubanks
	 	Title:	Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

     

     

    

 

CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED, as of the date first
above written:

 

	VIRTU AMERICAS LLC	 
	 	 
	By: 	/s/ Joshua R. Feldman 	 
	Name:	Joshua R. Feldman 	 
	Title:	Managing Director	 

 

[Signature Page to Equity Distribution
Agreement]

 

     

     

    

 

EXHIBIT A

 

FORM OF
PLACEMENT NOTICE

 

From: [ ] 

Cc: [ ] 

To: [ ]

 

Subject: Equity Distribution—Placement
Notice

 

Gentlemen:

 

Pursuant to the terms and
subject to the conditions contained in the Equity Distribution Agreement among Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (the “Company”),
Ashford Hospitality Limited Partnership, Ashford Hospitality Advisors LLC, and Virtu Americas LLC (the “Agent”) dated
April [   ], 2022 (the “Agreement”), I hereby request on behalf of the Company that the Agent sell up to [
] shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, at a minimum market price of $[ ] per share.

 

The Company hereby confirms
that, as of the date of this Placement Notice, neither the Prospectus, nor any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, when taken together with
the Prospectus, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading

 

[ADDITIONAL SALES PARAMETERS
MAY BE ADDED, SUCH AS THE MAXIMUM AGGREGATE OFFERING PRICE, THE TIME PERIOD IN WHICH SALES ARE REQUESTED TO BE MADE, SPECIFIC DATES
THE SHARES MAY NOT BE SOLD ON, THE MANNER IN WHICH SALES ARE TO BE MADE BY THE AGENT, AND/OR THE CAPACITY IN WHICH THE AGENT MAY ACT
IN SELLING SHARES (AS PRINCIPAL, AGENT, OR BOTH).]

 

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EXHIBIT B

 

AUTHORIZED
INDIVIDUALS FOR PLACEMENT NOTICES AND ACCEPTANCES

 

Virtu Americas LLC*

 

	Name	E-mail
	Jeffrey
    Lumby	JLumby@Virtu.com
	Joshua
    R. Feldman	JFeldman@Virtu.com
	Conor
    Lumby	CLumby@virtu.com

*With
copies to ATM@Virtu.com

 

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.

 

J. Robison Hays, III, President and Chief
Executive Officer (rhays@ashfordinc.com) 

Alex Rose, Executive Vice President, General
Counsel and Secretary (arose@ashfordinc.com) 

Deric S. Eubanks, Chief Financial Officer and
Treasurer (deubanks@ashfordinc.com)

 

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EXHIBIT C

 

COMPENSATION

 

The Agent shall be paid compensation at a mutually
agreed rate, not to exceed 1.00% of the Gross Proceeds pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

 

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EXHIBIT D

 

FORM OF
CORPORATE OPINION AND NEGATIVE ASSURANCE LETTER OF 

CADWALADER, WICKERSHAM & TAFT LLP

 

		1.	The Common Units underlying the Securities
                                            have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered by the Operating Partnership in
                                            accordance with the OP Partnership Agreement against payment therefor of the consideration
                                            set forth therein, will be validly issued and non-assessable (except to the extent set forth
                                            in Section 17-303, 17-607 and 17-804 of the DRULPA). The holders of outstanding Common
                                            Units are not entitled pursuant to the DRULPA
or the OP Partnership Agreement to preemptive or other rights to subscribe for (i) the Securities, or (ii) the Common Units
underlying the Securities.

 

		2.	Each of the Operating Partnership and
                                            the Advisor is validly existing and of good standing as a limited partnership under the laws
                                            of the State of Delaware, and has full limited partnership power and authority, as applicable,
                                            to own its respective properties and to conduct its respective businesses as described in
                                            the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and to consummate the transactions described in
                                            the Equity Distribution Agreement.

 

		3.	The Equity Distribution Agreement has
                                            been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Operating Partnership and the Advisor.

 

		4.	The Equity Distribution Agreement (assuming
                                            the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Equity Distribution Agreement by the
                                            underwriters) constitutes a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable
                                            against the Company in accordance with its terms, (i) subject to (A) applicable
                                            bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium, receivership or
                                            other laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and (B) general
                                            principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding at law
                                            or in equity), and (ii) except that the enforcement of rights with respect to indemnification
                                            and contribution obligations and provisions (a) purporting to waive or limit rights
                                            to trial by jury, oral amendments to written agreements or rights of set-off and (b) relating
                                            to submission to jurisdiction, venue or service of process may be limited by applicable law
                                            or considerations of public policy.

 

		5.	None of the execution, delivery and performance
                                            by the Company of the Equity Distribution Agreement to which it is a party, including the
                                            (i) execution and delivery by the Company, the Operating Partnership or the Advisor
                                            of the Equity Distribution Agreement, (ii) consummation by the Company of the issuance
                                            and sale of the Securities pursuant to the Equity Distribution Agreement, or (iii) issuance
                                            of the Common Units underlying the Securities, will (a) require any notice to or any
                                            filing, consent, approval, authorization, registration or qualification of or with any federal
                                            governmental authority of the United States of America or any state governmental authority
                                            of the State of New York that in our experience is normally applicable to general business
                                            entities with respect to such consummation or sale, (b) result in a breach or violation
                                            of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, the Certificate of
                                            Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company, as amended, or (c) result in a violation of
                                            any United States federal or New York State law or published rule or regulation that
                                            in our experience is normally applicable to general business entities with respect to such
                                            consummation or sale.

 

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		6.	The Company is not or, assuming the net
                                            proceeds of the offering of the Securities are applied as described in the Prospectus, will
                                            not be an “investment company” within the meaning of said term as used in the
                                            Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

		7.	The statements under the captions “Partnership
                                            Agreement” in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, insofar as such statements
                                            purport to summarize certain provisions of documents and legal matters referred to therein
                                            and reviewed by us as described above, fairly summarize such provisions and legal matters
                                            in all material respects, subject to the qualifications and assumptions stated therein.

 

In addition, we hereby advise
you that, in the course of our participation and review as discussed above, considered in light of our understanding of applicable United
States federal securities laws and the experience we have gained through our practice, no facts came to our attention that cause us to
believe that:

 

(1)       As
of the date hereof, the Registration Statement contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or

 

(2)       As
of the date hereof, the Prospectus contained or contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

 

provided,
however, that we express no view or belief as to (a) any financial, accounting, statistical, market or computational
information (including without limitation any related description of methodology and assumptions) included in or omitted from the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus or (b) any information contained in or omitted from any electronic media accompanying the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus.

 

Furthermore, we advise you
that according to the effectiveness order of the SEC (regarding the Registration Statement) appearing in the SEC’s Electronic Data
Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, the Registration Statement was declared effective under the Securities Act on April 14,
2021.

 

In
addition, based solely on our review of the information made available by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov/litigation/stoporders.shtml,
we confirm that the SEC has not issued any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement. To our knowledge, based
solely on our participation in the conferences mentioned above regarding the Registration Statement and our review of the information
made available by the SEC at https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin.shtml, no proceedings for that purpose are pending or have been instituted
or threatened by the SEC.

 

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EXHIBIT E

 

FORM OF
TAX OPINION OF O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP

 

		1.	commencing with the Company’s taxable
                                            year ended December 31, 2003 through its taxable year ended December 31, 2021,
                                            the Company has been organized and operated in conformity with the requirements for qualification
                                            as a REIT under the Code, and the Company’s organization and current and proposed method
                                            of operation will enable it to continue to meet the requirements for qualification and taxation
                                            as a REIT under the Code for its taxable year ending December 31, 2022 and thereafter;

 

		2.	the Operating Partnership is classified
                                            as a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes and not as an association
                                            taxable as a corporation or a “publicly traded partnership” taxable as a corporation
                                            under the Code; and

 

		3.	the statements under the caption “Material
                                            U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations” in the Prospectus, insofar as such statements
                                            purport to summarize certain provisions of documents and legal matters referred to therein
                                            and reviewed by us as described above, are correct and fairly summarize such provisions and
                                            legal matters in all material respects, subject to the qualifications and assumptions stated
                                            therein.

 

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EXHIBIT F

 

FORM OF
OPINION OF HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP

 

		1.	The Company is validly existing as a
                                            corporation and in good standing under the MGCL as of the date of the Good Standing Certificate.

 

		2.	The Company has the corporate power to
                                            own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the General
                                            Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and to enter into and perform its obligations under
                                            the Equity Distribution Agreement.

 

		3.	The authorized capital stock of the Company
                                            as of the date hereof consists of 400,000,000 shares of Common Stock, 9,666,797 shares of
                                            8.45% Series D Cumulative Preferred Stock, 4,800,000 shares of 7.375% Series F
                                            Cumulative Preferred Stock, 6,900,000 shares of 7.375% Series G Cumulative Preferred
                                            Stock, 3,910,000 shares of 7.50% Series H Cumulative Preferred Stock, 6,210,000 shares
                                            of 7.50% Series I Cumulative Preferred Stock, and 18,513,203 shares of unclassified
                                            preferred stock.

 

		4.	The execution and delivery by the Company,
                                            and the performance on the date hereof by the Company of its obligations under, the Equity
                                            Distribution Agreement have been duly authorized by the Company.

 

		5.	The Equity Distribution Agreement has
                                            been duly executed and delivered by the Company.

 

		6.	Following (i) issuance and delivery
                                            of the Securities in the manner contemplated by the Equity Distribution Agreement and (ii) receipt
                                            by the Company of the consideration for the Securities specified in the Equity Distribution
                                            Agreement and the resolutions of the Board of Directors and the Pricing Committee of the
                                            Board of Directors, the Securities will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

 

		7.	No holder of outstanding shares of capital
                                            stock of the Company has any statutory preemptive right under the MGCL, or any similar right
                                            under the Charter or the By-Laws of the Company to subscribe for any of the Securities.

 

		8.	No holder of shares of Common Stock is
                                            subject to personal liability as such under the laws of the State of Maryland, which is the
                                            jurisdiction in which the Company is organized.

 

		9.	The execution, delivery and performance
                                            on the date hereof by the Company of the Equity Distribution Agreement and the consummation
                                            of the transactions contemplated thereunder do not violate (i) Applicable Maryland Law
                                            or the Charter or the By-Laws of the Company or (ii) violate any Maryland court or administrative order, judgment
or decree listed on Schedule 2 hereto that names the Company and is specifically directed to it or any of its property.

 

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		10.	No approval or consent of, or registration
                                            or filing with, any Maryland court, governmental authority or regulatory agency is required
                                            to be obtained or made by the Company under the MGCL in connection with the execution, delivery
                                            and performance on the date hereof by the Company of the Equity Distribution Agreement and
                                            the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereunder.

 

		11.	The Advisory Agreement has been duly
                                            authorized by the Company and, solely to the extent the MGCL applies thereto, duly executed
                                            and delivered by the Company.

 

		12.	The form of certificate evidencing the
                                            Securities complies with the requirements of Section 2-211 of the MGCL and the Charter
                                            and By-Laws of the Company.

 

		13.	The information set forth in the Prospectus
                                            under the captions: “Description of Common Stock,” “Restrictions on Ownership
                                            and Transfer,” “Material Provisions of Maryland Law and our Charter and Bylaws,”
                                            “Risks Related to our Organization and Structure—Our charter contains provisions
                                            that may delay or prevent a change of control transaction,” “Risks Related to
                                            our Organization and Structure—Our board of directors may create and issue a class
                                            or series of preferred stock without stockholder approval,” “Risks Related to
                                            our Organization and Structure—Certain provisions of Maryland law could inhibit changes
                                            in control,” “Risks Related to our Organization and Structure— Our board
                                            of directors can take many actions without stockholder approval,” and “Risks
                                            Related to our Organization and Structure—Our rights and the rights of our stockholders
                                            to take action against our directors and officers are limited,” to the extent that
                                            such information constitutes matters of law or legal conclusions, has been reviewed by us
                                            and is accurate and complete in all material respects. The Securities conform as to legal
                                            matters in all material respects to the description thereof set forth in the Prospectus under
                                            the caption “Description of Common Stock.”

 

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EXHIBIT G

 

OFFICERS’
CERTIFICATE OF COMPANY

 

We, J. Robison Hays, III,
the duly elected, qualified and acting President and Chief Executive Officer, and Deric S. Eubanks, the duly elected, qualified and acting
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, of Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”),
are familiar with the facts herein certified and are authorized to execute this Officers’ Certificate on behalf of the Company
and on behalf of Ashford Trust OP General Partner LLC, in its capacity as general partner of Ashford Hospitality Limited Partnership,
a Delaware limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), pursuant to Section 7(o) of that certain
Equity Distribution Agreement, dated April [ ], 2022 (the “Agreement”), by and among the Company, the
Operating Partnership, Ashford Hospitality Advisors LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Virtu Americas LLC (the “Agent”).
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Agreement.

 

We do hereby certify in our
capacities as officers of the Company that:

 

(i)       The
representations and warranties of the Company and the Operating Partnership in Agreements are true and correct, as if made on and as
of the date hereof, and the Company and the Operating Partnership have complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions
on their part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the date hereof.

 

(ii)       No
stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post- effective amendment thereto or order suspending or
preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or threatened
under the Securities Act.

 

(iii)       Subsequent
to the respective dates as of which information was given in the Prospectus, there has not been (a) any change, or any
development or event that reasonably could be expected to result in a change, that has or reasonably could be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (b) any transaction that is material to the
Company and the Subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, (c) any obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the
Company and the Subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, incurred by the Company or the Subsidiaries, (d) any change in the
capital stock or outstanding indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary that is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries
considered as one enterprise, (e) any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock or other
equity interests of the Company or any Subsidiary, or (f) any loss or damage (whether or not insured) to the property of
the Company or any Subsidiary that has been sustained or will have been sustained that has or may reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.

 

(iv)       We
have specific knowledge of the Company’s financial matters, and, based on our examination of the Company’s financial records
and schedules undertaken by ourselves or members of our staff who are responsible for the Company’s financial accounting matters
and such other procedures as we have determined are necessary to make this certification, we hereby certify to the Agent, in our capacities
as executive officers of the Company and without personal liability, that: A) we have read the Company’s most recent Annual Report
on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q that are incorporated by reference in the Prospectus (the “Incorporated
Reports”) , B) nothing has come to our attention subsequent to the respective dates of the Incorporated Reports that cause
us to believe that the audited or unaudited pro forma financial statements, as applicable, contained in the Incorporate Reports and thereby
incorporated by reference into the Prospectus (the “Incorporated Financial Statements”) do not comply as to
form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Securities Act and the related rules and regulations
adopted by the Commission, and C) we are unaware of changes in the Company’s capital stock, and increases in long-term indebtedness
subsequent to the date of the most recent Incorporated Financial Statements other than what has been disclosed to the Agent.

 

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EXHIBIT H

 

OFFICERS’
CERTIFICATE OF ADVISOR

 

We, Alex Rose, the duly elected,
qualified Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and Deric S. Eubanks, the duly elected, qualified and acting Chief
Financial Officer and Treasurer, of Ashford Hospitality Advisors LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Advisor”),
are familiar with the facts herein certified and are authorized to execute this Officers’ Certificate on behalf of the Advisor,
pursuant to Section 7(o) of that certain Equity Distribution Agreement, dated April [ ], 2022 (the “Agreement”),
by and among Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation, Ashford Hospitality Advisors LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (the “Advisor”), Ashford Hospitality Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership and Virtu
Americas LLC. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Agreement.

 

We do hereby certify in our
capacities as officers of the Advisor that:

 

(i)       The
representations and warranties of the Advisor in the Agreement are true and correct, as if made on and as of the date hereof, and the
Advisor has complied with the Agreement and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the
date hereof.

 

(ii)       No
stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post- effective amendment thereto or order suspending or
preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or threatened
under the Securities Act.

 

(ii) Subsequent to the
respective dates as of which information was given in the Prospectus, there has not been (a) any change, or any development or event
that reasonably could be expected to result in a change, that has or reasonably could be expected to have an Advisor Material Adverse
Effect, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (b) any transaction that is material to the Advisor.

 

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EXHIBIT I

 

ISSUER
FREE WRITING PROSPECTUSES

 

None.

 

    I-1 

     

    

 

EXHIBIT J

 

SIGNIFICANT
SUBSIDIARIES

 

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. 

Ashford OP Limited Partner LLC 

Ashford OP General Partner LLC 

Ashford Hospitality Limited Partnership 

Ashford TRS Corporation 

PIM Highland Holding LLC 

HH Mezz Borrower A-4 LLC 

Ashford A-3 Mezz LLC 

HH Mezz Borrower A-2 LLC 

HH Swap A LLC

 

    J-1EX-4.1

  Exhibit 4.1

   

  LINKBANCORP, INC.

   

  4.50% FIXED-TO-FLOATING RATE SUBORDINATED NOTE DUE 

  April 15, 2032

    

  THE INDEBTEDNESS EVIDENCED BY THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE IS NOT A DEPOSIT AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OR ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCY OR FUND.

   

  THE INDEBTEDNESS EVIDENCED BY THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE IS SUBORDINATED AND JUNIOR IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3 (SUBORDINATION) OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE) OF LINKBANCORP, INC. (THE “COMPANY”), INCLUDING OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY TO ITS GENERAL AND SECURED CREDITORS AND IS UNSECURED.  IT IS INELIGIBLE AS COLLATERAL FOR ANY EXTENSION OF CREDIT BY THE COMPANY OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES. 

   

  IN THE EVENT OF LIQUIDATION ALL HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE ENTITLED TO BE PAID IN FULL WITH SUCH INTEREST AS MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW BEFORE ANY PAYMENT SHALL BE MADE ON ACCOUNT OF PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST ON THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE.  AFTER PAYMENT IN FULL OF ALL SUMS OWING TO SUCH HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS, THE HOLDER OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE, TOGETHER WITH THE HOLDERS OF ANY OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY RANKING ON A PARITY WITH THE SUBORDINATED NOTES, SHALL BE ENTITLED TO BE PAID FROM THE REMAINING ASSETS OF THE COMPANY THE UNPAID PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE PLUS ACCRUED AND UNPAID INTEREST THEREON BEFORE ANY PAYMENT OR OTHER DISTRIBUTION, WHETHER IN CASH, PROPERTY OR OTHERWISE, SHALL BE MADE (i) with respect to any obligation that by its terms expressly is junior in the right of payment to the Subordinated Notes, (ii) WITH RESPECT TO any indebtedness between the Company and any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or (iII) on account OF ANY SHARES OF CAPITAL STOCK OF THE COMPANY.

   

  THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN MINIMUM DENOMINATIONS OF $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE IN A DENOMINATION OF LESS THAN $100,000 SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. ANY SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF PAYMENTS ON THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE, AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE.

   

  THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE MAY BE SOLD ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE FEDERAL AND STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.

   

  CERTAIN ERISA CONSIDERATIONS:

   

  THE HOLDER OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE, OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”) (EACH, A “PLAN”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN, UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF AVAILABLE UNDER U.S.  DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION OR ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE, OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN, ARE NOT PROHIBITED BY SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PURCHASE AND HOLDING.  ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT EITHER: (I) IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER PLAN TO WHICH TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF ANY 

  

  SUCH EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY SUCH PLAN OR OTHER PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE OR (II) SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE FOR WHICH FULL EXEMPTIVE RELIEF IS NOT AVAILABLE UNDER APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION.

   

  ANY FIDUCIARY OF ANY PLAN WHO IS CONSIDERING THE ACQUISITION OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN SHOULD CONSULT WITH HIS OR HER LEGAL COUNSEL PRIOR TO ACQUIRING THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN.

   

  

  
 

  No. 2032-[•]                                                                                                                           CUSIP: [•]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                         

  LINKBANCORP, INC.

  4.50% FIXED-TO-FLOATING RATE SUBORDINATED NOTE DUE APRIL 15, 2032

  1.Subordinated Notes. This Subordinated Note is one of an issue of notes of LINKBANCORP, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation (the “Company”), designated as the “4.50% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due 2032” (the “Subordinated Notes”) issued pursuant to that Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement dated as of the date upon which this Subordinated Note was originally issued (the “Issue Date”) between the Company and the several purchasers of the Subordinated Notes identified in the signature pages thereto (the “Purchase Agreement”).

  2.Payment. The Company, for value received, promises to pay to [•] the principal sum of [•] Dollars (U.S.) ($[•]), plus accrued but unpaid interest on April 15, 2032 (the “Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon (i) from and including the original issue date of the Subordinated Notes to but excluding April 15, 2027 or the earlier redemption date contemplated by Section 4 (Redemption) of this Subordinated Note (the “Fixed Rate Period”), at the rate of 4.50% per annum, computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and payable semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year (each payment date, a “Fixed Interest Payment Date”), beginning October 15, 2022, and (ii) from and including April 15, 2027 to but excluding the Maturity Date or earlier redemption date contemplated by Section 4 (Redemption) of this Subordinated Note (the “Floating Rate Period”), at the rate per annum, reset quarterly, equal to the Floating Interest Rate (as defined below) determined on the Floating Interest Determination Date (as defined below) of the applicable interest period plus 203 basis points, computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed and payable quarterly in arrears (each quarterly period a “Floating Interest Period”) on January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year (each payment date, a “Floating Interest Payment Date”). Dollar amounts resulting from this calculation shall be rounded to the nearest cent, with one-half cent being rounded up.  The term “Floating Interest Determination Date” means the date upon which the Floating Interest Rate is determined by the Calculation Agent pursuant to the Three-Month Term SOFR Conventions (as defined below).  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, (i) in the event the Three-Month Term SOFR (as defined below) is less than zero, the Three-Month Term SOFR shall be deemed to be zero, and (ii) if a Benchmark Transition Event (as defined below) and its related Benchmark Replacement Date (as defined below) have occurred and the Benchmark Replacement (as defined below) is less than zero, then the Benchmark Replacement shall be deemed to be zero. 

  a)An “Interest Payment Date” is either a Fixed Interest Payment Date or a Floating Interest Payment Date, as applicable. 

  b)The “Floating Interest Rate” means:

  i.initially Three-Month Term SOFR (as defined below).

  ii.Notwithstanding the foregoing clause (i) of thisSection 2(b):

  1.If the Calculation Agent, determines prior to the relevant Floating Interest Determination Date that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date (each of such terms as defined below) have occurred with respect to Three-Month Term SOFR, then the Company shall promptly provide notice of such determination to the Noteholders and Section 2(c) (Effect of Benchmark Transition Event) will thereafter apply to all determinations, calculations and quotations made or obtained for the purposes of calculating the Floating Interest Rate payable on the Subordinated Notes during a relevant Floating Interest Period. 

  2.However, if the Calculation Agent, determines that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to Three-Month Term SOFR, but for any reason the Benchmark Replacement has not been determined as of the relevant Floating Interest Determination Date, the Floating Interest Rate for the applicable Floating Interest Period will be equal to the Floating Interest Rate on the last Floating Interest Determination Date for the Subordinated Notes, as determined by the Calculation Agent (as defined below).

  iii.If the then-current Benchmark (as defined below) is Three-Month Term SOFR and any of the foregoing provisions concerning the calculation of the interest rate and the payment of interest during the Floating Rate Period are inconsistent with any of the Three-Month Term SOFR Conventions (as defined below) determined by the Company, then the relevant Three-Month Term SOFR Conventions will apply.

  c)Effect of Benchmark Transition Event.

  i.If the Calculation Agent determines that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time (as defined below) in respect of any determination of the Benchmark (as defined below) on any date, the Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current 

  

  Benchmark for all purposes relating to the Subordinated Notes during the relevant Floating Interest Period in respect of such determination on such date and all determinations on all subsequent dates.

  ii.In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Calculation Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time, and such changes shall become effective without consent from the relevant Noteholders (as defined below) or any other party.

  iii.Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Calculation Agent pursuant to the benchmark transition provisions set forth herein, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date, and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection:

  1.will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error;

  2.if made by the Company as the Calculation Agent, will be made in the Company’s sole discretion; 

  3.if made by a Calculation Agent other than the Company, will be made after consultation with the Company, and the Calculation Agent will not make any such determination, decision or election to which the Company reasonably objects; and

  4.notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Subordinated Note or the Purchase Agreement, shall become effective without consent from the relevant Noteholders (as defined below) or any other party.

  iv.For the avoidance of doubt, after a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred, interest payable on this Subordinated Note for the Floating Rate Period will be an annual rate equal to the sum of the applicable Benchmark Replacement and the spread specified on the face hereof.

  v.As used in this Subordinated Note:

  1.“Benchmark” means, initially, Three-Month Term SOFR; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to Three-Month Term SOFR or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement.

  2.“Benchmark Replacement” means the Interpolated Benchmark with respect to the then-current Benchmark; provided that if (a) the Calculation Agent cannot determine the Interpolated Benchmark as of the Benchmark Replacement Date or (b) the then-current Benchmark is Three-Month Term SOFR and a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to Three-Month Term SOFR (in which event no Interpolated Benchmark with respect to Three-Month Term SOFR shall be determined), then “Benchmark Replacement” means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the  Calculation Agent, as of the Benchmark Replacement Date:

  a.The sum of (i) Compounded SOFR and (ii) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

  b.the sum of: (i) the alternate rate of interest that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor and (ii) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

  c.the sum of: (i) the ISDA Fallback Rate and (ii) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; or

  d.the sum of: (i) the alternate rate of interest that has been selected by the Company as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to any industry-accepted rate of interest as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar denominated floating rate notes at such time and (ii) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

  3.“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Calculation Agent, as of the Benchmark Replacement Date:

  a.the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement;

  b.if the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is equivalent to the ISDA Fallback Rate, then the ISDA Fallback Adjustment;

  c.the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Company giving due consideration to any industry-accepted spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the then-current Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar denominated floating rate notes at such time.

  

  4.“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Floating Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates with respect to each Floating Interest Period and making payments of interest, rounding of amounts or tenors and other administrative matters) that the Company decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption of such Benchmark Replacement in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Company decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Company determines that no market practice for use of the Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner as the Company determines is reasonably necessary).

  5.“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

  a.in the case of clause (a) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the relevant Reference Time in respect of any determination;

  b.in the case of clause (b) or (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of the Benchmark permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide the Benchmark; or

  c.in the case of clause (d) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of such public statement or publication of information referenced therein.

   

  For the avoidance of doubt, if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for purposes of such determination.

  6.“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

  a.if the Benchmark is Three-Month Term SOFR, (i) the Relevant Governmental Body has not selected or recommended a forward-looking term rate for a tenor of three months based on SOFR, (ii) the development of a forward-looking term rate for a tenor of three months based on SOFR that has been recommended or selected by the Relevant Governmental Body is not complete or (iii) the Company determines that the use of a forward-looking rate for a tenor of three months based on SOFR is not administratively feasible;

  b.a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the Benchmark announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide the Benchmark, permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Benchmark;

  c.a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the Benchmark, the central bank for the currency of the Benchmark, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Benchmark, a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Benchmark or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for the Benchmark, which states that the administrator of the Benchmark has ceased or will cease to provide the Benchmark permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Benchmark; or

  d.a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the Benchmark announcing that the Benchmark is no longer representative.

  7.“Calculation Agent” means such bank or other entity (which may be the Company or an affiliate of the Company) as may be appointed by the Company to act as Calculation Agent for the Subordinated Notes during the Floating Rate Period.

  8.“Compounded SOFR” means the compounded average of SOFRs for the applicable Corresponding Tenor, with the rate, or methodology for this rate, and conventions for this rate being established by the Calculation Agent in accordance with:

  a.the rate, or methodology for this rate, and conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining compounded SOFR; providedthat:

  

  b.if, and to the extent that, the Calculation Agent determines that Compounded SOFR cannot be determined in accordance with clause (a) above, then the rate, or methodology for this rate, and conventions for this rate that have been selected by the Calculation Agent giving due consideration to any industry-accepted market practice for U.S. dollar denominated floating rate notes at such time.

   

  For the avoidance of doubt, the calculation of Compounded SOFR will exclude the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

  9.“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to a Benchmark Replacement means a tenor (including overnight) having approximately the same length (disregarding Business Day adjustment) as the applicable tenor for the then-current Benchmark.

  10.“FRBNY” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

  11.“FRBNY’s Website” means the website of the FRBNY at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source.

  12.“Interpolated Benchmark” with respect to the Benchmark means the rate determined for the Corresponding Tenor by interpolating on a linear basis between: (1) the Benchmark for the longest period (for which the Benchmark is available) that is shorter than the Corresponding Tenor and (2) the Benchmark for the shortest period (for which the Benchmark is available) that is longer than the Corresponding Tenor.

  13.“ISDA” means the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto.

  14.“ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the ISDA or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time.

  15.“ISDA Fallback Adjustment” means the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that would apply for derivatives transactions referencing the ISDA Definitions to be determined upon the occurrence of an index cessation event with respect to the Benchmark for the applicable tenor.

  16.“ISDA Fallback Rate” means the rate that would apply for derivatives transactions referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon the occurrence of an index cessation date with respect to the Benchmark for the applicable tenor excluding the applicable ISDA Fallback Adjustment.

  17.“Reference Time” with respect to any determination of a Benchmark means (1) if the Benchmark is Three-Month Term SOFR, the time determined by the Calculation Agent after giving effect to the Three-Month Term SOFR Conventions, and (2) if the Benchmark is not Three-Month Term SOFR, the time determined by the Calculation Agent after giving effect to the Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes.

  18.“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) and/or the FRBNY, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve and/or the FRBNY or any successor thereto.

  19.“SOFR” means the daily Secured Overnight Financing Rate provided by the FRBNY, as the administrator of the benchmark (or a successor administrator), on the FRBNY’s Website.

  20.“Term SOFR” means the forward-looking term rate for the Corresponding Tenor based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.

  21.“Term SOFR Administrator” means any entity designated by the Relevant Governmental Body as the administrator of Term SOFR (or a successor administrator).

  22.“Three-Month Term SOFR” means the rate for Term SOFR for a tenor of three months that is published by the Term SOFR Administrator at the Reference Time for any Floating Interest Period, as determined by the Calculation Agent after giving effect to the Three-Month Term SOFR Conventions.

  23.“Three-Month Term SOFR Conventions” means any determination, decision or election with respect to any technical, administrative or operational matter (including with respect to the manner and timing of the publication of Three-Month Term SOFR, or changes to the definition of “Floating Interest Period”, timing and frequency of determining Three-Month Term SOFR with respect to each Floating Interest Period and making payments of interest, rounding of amounts or tenors, and other administrative matters) that the Calculation Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the use of Three-Month Term SOFR as the Benchmark in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Company decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Calculation Agent 

  

  determines that no market practice for the use of Three-Month Term SOFR exists, in such other manner as the Calculation Agent determines is reasonably necessary).

  24.“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the Benchmark Replacement excluding the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

  d)In the event that any Fixed Interest Payment Date during the Fixed Rate Period falls on a day that is not a Business Day (as defined below), the interest payment due on that date shall be postponed to the next day that is a Business Day and no additional interest shall accrue as a result of that postponement. In the event that any Floating Interest Payment Date during the Floating Rate Period falls on a day that is not a Business Day (as defined below), the interest payment due on that date shall be postponed to the next day that is a Business Day and interest shall accrue to but excluding the date interest is paid. However, if the postponement would cause the day to fall in the next calendar month during the Floating Interest Period, the Floating Interest Payment Date shall instead be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day. The term “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or any other day on which banking institutions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are generally authorized or required by law or executive order to be closed.

   

  3.Subordination. 

  a)The indebtedness of the Company evidenced by this Subordinated Note, including the principal and interest on this Subordinated Note, shall be subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all existing claims of creditors of the Company whether now outstanding or subsequently created, assumed, guaranteed or incurred (collectively, “Senior Indebtedness”), which shall consist of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on: (i) all indebtedness and obligations of, or guaranteed or assumed by, the Company for money borrowed, whether or not evidenced by bonds, debentures, securities, notes or other similar instruments, and including, but not limited to all obligations to the Company’s general and secured creditors; (ii) any deferred obligations of the Company for the payment of the purchase price of property or assets acquired other than in the ordinary course of business; (iii) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of the Company in respect of any letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances, security purchase facilities and similar direct credit substitutes; (iv) any capital lease obligations of the Company; (v) all obligations of the Company in respect of interest rate swap, cap or other agreements, interest rate future or option contracts, currency swap agreements, currency future or option contracts, commodity contracts and other similar arrangements or derivative products; (vi) any obligation of the Company to its general creditors as defined for purposes of the capital adequacy regulations of the Federal Reserve applicable to the Company, as the same may be amended from time to time; (vii) all obligations that are similar to those in clauses (i) through (vi) of other persons for the payment of which the Company is responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or otherwise arising from an off-balance sheet guarantee; (viii) all obligations of the types referred to in clauses (i) through (vii) of other persons secured by a lien on any property or asset of the Company; and (ix) in the case of (i) through (viii) above, all amendments, renewals, extensions, modifications and refundings of such indebtedness and obligations; except “Senior Indebtedness” does not include (A) the Subordinated Notes, (B) any obligation that by its terms expressly is junior to, or ranks equally in right of payment with, the Subordinated Notes, or (C) any indebtedness between the Company and any of its subsidiaries or Affiliates. This Subordinated Note is not secured by any assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or Affiliates. The term “Affiliate(s)” means, with respect to any Person (as such term is defined in the Purchase Agreement), such Person’s immediate family members, partners, members or parent and subsidiary corporations, and any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with said Person and their respective Affiliates.

  b.In the event of liquidation of the Company, holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company shall be entitled to be paid in full with such interest as may be provided by law before any payment shall be made on account of principal of or interest on this Subordinated Note.  Additionally, in the event of any insolvency, dissolution, assignment for the benefit of creditors or any liquidation or winding up of or relating to the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to be paid in full before any payment shall be made on account of the principal of or interest on the Subordinated Notes, including this Subordinated Note.  In the event of any such proceeding, after payment in full of all sums owing with respect to the Senior Indebtedness, the registered holders of the Subordinated Notes from time to time (each a “Noteholder” and, collectively, the “Noteholders”), together with the holders of any obligations of the Company ranking on parity with the Subordinated Notes, shall be entitled to be paid from the remaining assets of the Company the unpaid principal thereof, and the unpaid interest thereon before any payment or other distribution, whether in cash, property or otherwise, shall be made (i) with respect to any obligation that by its terms expressly is junior to in the right of payment to the Subordinated Notes, (ii) with respect to any indebtedness between the Company and any of its subsidiaries or Affiliates or (iii) on account of any capital stock.

  c.If there shall have occurred and be continuing (i) a default in any payment with respect to any Senior Indebtedness or (ii) an event of default with respect to any Senior Indebtedness as a result of which the maturity thereof is accelerated, unless and until such payment default or event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to 

  

  exist, no payments shall be made by the Company with respect to the Subordinated Notes.  The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any payment with respect to which the immediately preceding paragraph of this Section 3 (Subordination) would be applicable.

  d.Nothing herein shall act to prohibit, limit or impede the Company from issuing additional debt of the Company having the same rank as the Subordinated Notes or which may be junior or senior in rank to the Subordinated Notes.  Each Noteholder, by its acceptance hereof, further acknowledges and agrees that the foregoing subordination provisions are, and are intended to be, an inducement and a consideration for each holder of any Senior Indebtedness, whether such Senior Indebtedness was created or acquired before or after the issuance of the Subordinated Notes, to acquire and continue to hold, or to continue to hold, such Senior Indebtedness, and such holder of Senior Indebtedness shall be deemed conclusively to have relied on such subordination provisions in acquiring and continuing to hold or in continuing to hold such Senior Indebtedness.

  4.Redemption.

  a)Redemption Prior to Fifth Anniversary.  This Subordinated Note shall not be redeemable by the Company in whole or in part prior to April 15, 2027,except in the event of a: (i) Tier 2 Capital Event (as defined below); (ii) Tax Event (as defined below); or (iii) Investment Company Event (as defined below).  Upon the occurrence of a Tier 2 Capital Event, a Tax Event or an Investment Company Event, the Company may redeem this Subordinated Note, subject to Section 4(f) (Regulatory Approvals) hereof, in whole but not in part at any time, upon giving not less than 10 days’ notice to the holder of this Subordinated Note at an amount equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount being redeemed plus accrued but unpaid interest, to but excluding the redemption date.  “Tier 2 Capital Event” means the receipt by the Company of an opinion of counsel to the Company to the effect that there is a material risk that this Subordinated Note no longer qualifies as “Tier 2” Capital (as defined by the Federal Reserve) (or its then equivalent) as a result of a change in law or regulation, or interpretation or application thereof, by any judicial, legislative or regulatory authority that becomes effective after the date of issuance of this Subordinated Note.  “Tax Event” means the receipt by the Company of an opinion of counsel to the Company that as a result of any amendment to, or change (including any final and adopted (or enacted) prospective change) in, the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of any official administrative pronouncement or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or regulations, there exists a material risk that interest payable by the Company on the Subordinated Notes is not, or within 120 days after the receipt of such opinion will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in part, for United States federal income tax purposes.  “Investment Company Event” means the receipt by the Company of an opinion of counsel to the Company to the effect that there is a material risk that the Company is or, within 120 days after the receipt of such opinion will be, required to register as an investment company pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

  b)Redemption on or after Fifth Anniversary. On or after April 15, 2027, subject to the provisions of Section 4(f)(Regulatory Approvals) hereof, this Subordinated Note shall be redeemable at the option of and by the Company, in whole or in part from time to time upon any Interest Payment Date, at an amount equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount being redeemed plus accrued but unpaid interest, to but excluding the redemption date, but in all cases in a principal amount with integral multiples of $1,000. In addition, the Company may redeem all or a portion of the Subordinated Notes, at any time upon the occurrence of a Tier 2 Capital Event, Tax Event or an Investment Company Event. The redemption referenced in this Section 4(b) (Redemption on or after Fifth Anniversary) shall be subject to the receipt of any required regulatory approval. In the case of any redemption of this Subordinated Note pursuant to this paragraph, the Company will give the holder hereof notice of redemption, which notice shall indicate the aggregate principal amount of Subordinated Notes to be redeemed, not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) calendar days prior to the redemption date.

  c)Partial Redemption. If less than the then outstanding principal amount of this Subordinated Note is redeemed, (i) a new Subordinated Note shall be issued representing the unredeemed portion without charge to the holder thereof and (ii) such redemption shall be effected on a pro rata basis as to the Noteholders. For purposes of clarity, upon a partial redemption, a like percentage of the principal amount of every Subordinated Note held by every Noteholder shall be redeemed. 

  d)No Redemption at Option of Noteholder. This Subordinated Note is not subject to redemption at the option of the holder of this Subordinated Note. 

  e)Effectiveness of Redemption. If notice of redemption has been duly given and notwithstanding that this Subordinated Note has been called for redemption but has not yet been surrendered for cancellation, on and after the date fixed for redemption interest shall cease to accrue on the portion of this Subordinated Note called for redemption, this Subordinated Note shall no longer be deemed outstanding with respect to the portion called for redemption and all rights with respect to the portion of this Subordinated Note called for redemption shall forthwith on such date fixed for redemption cease and terminate unless the Company shall default in the payment of the redemption price, except only the right of the holder hereof to receive the amount payable on such redemption, without interest.  

  

  f)Regulatory Approvals. Any such redemption shall be subject to receipt of any and all required federal and state regulatory approvals or non-objections, including, but not limited to, the consent of the Federal Reserve.  

  g)Purchase and Resale of the Subordinated Notes. Subject to any required federal and state regulatory approvals and the provisions of this Subordinated Note, the Company shall have the right to purchase any of the Subordinated Notes at any time in the open market, private transactions or otherwise. If the Company purchases any Subordinated Notes, it may, in its discretion, hold, resell or cancel any of the purchased Subordinated Notes.

  5.[Reserved].

  6.Events of Default; Acceleration. 

   

  Each of the following events shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

  a)the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, or reorganization law, now or hereafter in effect of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, and such decree or order will have continued unstayed and in effect for a period of ninety (90) consecutive days;

  b)the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization law, now or hereafter in effect of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, or the consent by the Company to the entry of a decree or order for relief in an involuntary case or proceeding under any such law;

  c)the Company (i) becomes insolvent or is unable to pay its debts as they mature, (ii) makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors, (iii) admits in writing its inability to pay its debts as they mature or (iv) ceases to be a bank holding company or financial holding company under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended;

  d)the failure of the Company to pay any installment of interest on any of the Subordinated Notes as and when the same will become due and payable, and the continuation of such failure for a period of thirty (30) days;

  e)the failure of the Company to pay all or any part of the principal of any of the Subordinated Notes as and when the same will become due and payable;

  f)the liquidation of the Company (for avoidance of doubt, “liquidation” does not include any merger, consolidation, sale of equity or assets or reorganization (exclusive of a reorganization in bankruptcy) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries);

  g)the failure of the Company to perform any other covenant or agreement on the part of the Company contained in the Subordinated Notes, and the continuation of such failure for a period of thirty (30) days after the date on which notice specifying such failure, stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder and demanding that the Company remedy the same, will have been given, in the manner set forth in Section 22 (Notices), to the Company by a Noteholder; or 

  h)the default by the Company under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company having an aggregate principal amount outstanding of at least $25,000,000, whether such indebtedness now exists or is created or incurred in the future, which default (i) constitutes a failure to pay any portion of the principal of such indebtedness when due and payable after the expiration of any applicable grace period or (ii) results in such indebtedness becoming due or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it otherwise would have become due and payable without, in the case of clause (i), such indebtedness having been discharged or, in the case of clause (ii), without such indebtedness having been discharged or such acceleration having been rescinded or annulled.

   

  Unless the principal amount of this Subordinated Note already shall have become due and payable, if an Event of Default set forth in Section 6(a) or Section 6(b) above shall have occurred and be continuing, the Noteholder, by notice in writing to the Company, may declare the principal amount, and any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, of this Subordinated Note to be due and payable immediately and, upon any such declaration, the same shall become and shall be immediately due and payable, and the Company waives demand, presentment for payment, notice of nonpayment, notice of protest, and all other notices.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, because the Company will treat the Subordinated Notes as Tier 2 Capital, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default other than an Event of Default described in Section 6(a)or Section 6(b), no Noteholder may accelerate the Maturity Date of the Subordinated Notes and make the principal of, and any accrued and unpaid interest on, the Subordinated Notes, immediately due and payable. The Company, within forty-five (45) calendar days after the receipt of written notice from any Noteholder of the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to this Subordinated Note, shall mail to all Noteholders, at their addresses shown on the Security Register (as defined in Section 14 (Registration of Transfer, Security Register) below), such written notice of Event of Default, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such notice as certified by the Company in writing.

  

  7.Failure to Make Payments. In the event of an Event of Default under Section 6(c), Section 6(d) or Section 6(e) above, the Company will, upon demand of the Noteholder, pay to the Noteholder the amount then due and payable on this Subordinated Note for principal and interest (without acceleration of the Subordinated Note in any manner), with interest on the overdue principal and interest at the per annum rate borne by this Subordinated Note, to the extent permitted by applicable law.  If the Company fails to pay such amount upon such demand, the holder of this Subordinated Note may, among other things, institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid and such amount as shall be sufficient to cover the reasonable costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of such Noteholder, its agents and counsel, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company and collect the amounts adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company.

   

  Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 6(c), Section 6(d)or Section 6(e) above, until such Event of Default is cured by the Company or waived by the Noteholders in accordance with Section 18(Waiver and Consent) hereof, except as may be required by any federal or state bank regulatory agency, the Company shall not: (a) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company’s capital stock; (b) make any payment of principal or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any indebtedness of the Company that ranks equal with or junior to the Subordinated Notes; or (c) make any payments under any guarantee that ranks equal with or junior to the Subordinated Notes, other than: (i) any dividends or distributions in shares of, or options, warrants or rights to subscribe for or purchase shares of, any class of the Company’s common stock; (ii) any declaration of a non-cash dividend in connection with the implementation of a shareholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of stock under any such plan in the future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto; (iii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock; (iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged; or (v) purchases of any class of the Company’s common stock related to the issuance of common stock or rights under any benefit plans for the Company’s directors, officers or employees or any of the Company’s dividend reinvestment plans (including, without limitation, any repurchases or acquisitions in connection with the forfeiture of any stock award, cashless or net exercise of any option, or acceptance of common stock in lieu of an award recipient's tax obligations under any equity award) (the foregoing clauses (i) through (v) are collectively referred to as the “Permitted Dividends”).

  8.Affirmative Covenants of the Company.

  a)Payment of Principal and Interest. The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Noteholder that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of, and interest on, this Subordinated Note, in accordance with the terms hereof. 

  b)Maintenance of Office. The Company will maintain an office or agency in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania where Subordinated Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Subordinated Notes may be served.  The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Subordinated Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided that no such designation or rescission will in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  The Company will give prompt written notice to the Noteholders of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

  c)Corporate Existence. The Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect: (i) the corporate existence of the Company; (ii) the existence (corporate or other) of each of its material subsidiaries; and (iii) the rights (constituent governing documents and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company and each of its material subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company will not be required to preserve the existence (corporate or other) of any of its subsidiaries or any such right, license or franchise of the Company or any of its material subsidiaries if the Board of Directors of the Company determines that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the loss thereof will not be disadvantageous in any material respect to the Noteholders; provided, further, that the Company may consummate a merger in which (i) the Company is the surviving entity or (ii) pursuant to Section 9(b).

  d)Waiver of Certain Covenants. The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Section 8(b) (Maintenance of Office) or Section 8(c)(Corporate Existence) above, with respect to this Subordinated Note if before the time for such compliance the Noteholders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Subordinated Notes, by act of such Noteholders, either will waive such compliance in such instance or generally will have waived compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver will extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver will become effective, the obligations of the Company in respect of any such term, provision or condition will remain in full force and effect.

  

  e)Tier 2 Capital.  Whether or not the Company is subject to consolidated capital requirements under applicable regulations of the Federal Reserve, if all or any portion of the Subordinated Notes ceases to qualify as Tier 2 Capital, other than due to the limitation imposed on the capital treatment of subordinated debt during the five (5) years immediately preceding the Maturity Date of the Subordinated Notes, the Company will promptly notify the Noteholders and thereafter, if requested by the Company, the Company and the Noteholders will work together in good faith to execute and deliver all agreements as reasonably necessary in order to restructure the applicable portions of the obligations evidenced by the Subordinated Notes to qualify as Tier 2 Capital; provided, however, that nothing contained in this Section 8(e) (Tier 2 Capital) shall limit the Company’s right to redeem the Subordinated Notes upon the occurrence of a Tier 2 Capital Event pursuant to Section 4(a) (Redemption Prior to Fifth Anniversary) or Section 4(b)(Redemption on or after Fifth Anniversary).

  f)Compliance with Laws. The Company shall comply with the requirements of all laws, regulations, orders and decrees applicable to it or its properties, except for such noncompliance that would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (as such term is defined in the Purchase Agreement) on the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

  g)Taxes and Assessments. The Company shall punctually pay and discharge all material taxes, assessments, and other governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its income or upon any of its properties; provided, that no such taxes, assessments or other governmental charges need be paid if they are being contested in good faith by the Company.

  h)Company Statement as to Compliance. The Company will deliver to the Noteholders, within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year, an Officer’s Certificate covering the preceding fiscal year, stating whether or not, to the best of his or her knowledge, the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Subordinated Note (without regard to notice requirements or periods of grace) and if the Company is in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which he or she may have knowledge.

  9.Negative Covenants of the Company.

   

  (a)   Limitation on Dividends. The Company shall not declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on capital stock or other equity securities of any kind of the Company if the Company or any of its banking subsidiaries is not “well capitalized” for regulatory purposes immediately prior to the declaration of such dividend or distribution, except for Permitted Dividends.

   

  (b)   Merger or Sale of Assets. The Company shall not merge into another entity, effect a Change in Bank Control (as defined below) or convey, transfer or lease substantially all of its properties and assets to any person, unless:

  (i)the continuing entity into which the Company is merged or the person which acquires by conveyance or transfer or which leases substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company shall be a corporation, association or other legal entity organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and expressly assumes the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on the Subordinated Notes according to their terms, and the due and punctual performance of all covenants and conditions hereof on the part of the Company to be performed or observed; and

  (ii)immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default (as defined above), and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing.

   

  “Change in Bank Control” means the sale, transfer, lease or conveyance by the Company, or an issuance of equity securities by The Gratz Bank other than to the Company, in either case resulting in ownership by the Company of less than 80% of The Gratz Bank.

  10.Denominations. The Subordinated Notes are issuable only in registered form without interest coupons in minimum denominations of $100,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

  11.Charges and Transfer Taxes. No service charge will be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Subordinated Note, or any redemption or repayment of this Subordinated Note, or any conversion or exchange of this Subordinated Note for other types of securities or property, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to pay all taxes, assessments or other governmental charges that may be imposed in connection with the transfer or exchange of this Subordinated Note from the Noteholder requesting such transfer or exchange.

  12.Payment Procedures. Payment of the principal and interest payable on the Maturity Date will be made by check, by wire transfer or by Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfer in immediately available funds to a bank account in the United States designated by the registered Noteholder if such Noteholder shall have previously provided wire or ACH 

  

  instructions to the Company, upon presentation and surrender of this Subordinated Note at the Payment Office (as defined in Section 22 (Notices) below) or at such other place or places as the Company shall designate by notice to the registered Noteholders as the Payment Office, provided that this Subordinated Note is presented to the Company in time for the Company to make such payments in such funds in accordance with its normal procedures.  Payments of interest (other than interest payable on the Maturity Date) shall be made on each Interest Payment Date by wire transfer in immediately available funds or check mailed to the registered Noteholder, as such person’s address appears on the Security Register. Interest payable on any Interest Payment Date shall be payable to the Noteholder in whose name this Subordinated Note is registered at the close of business on the fifteenth (15th) calendar day prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date, without regard to whether such date is a Business Day, except that interest not paid on the Interest Payment Date, if any, will be paid to the holder in whose name this Subordinated Note is registered at the close of business on a special record date fixed by the Company (a “Special Record Date”), notice of which shall be given to the Noteholder not less than ten (10) calendar days prior to such Special Record Date.  To the extent permitted by applicable law, interest shall accrue, at the rate at which interest accrues on the principal of this Subordinated Note, on any amount of principal or interest on this Subordinated Note not paid when due. All payments on this Subordinated Note shall be applied first against interest due hereunder; and then against principal due hereunder. The Noteholder acknowledges and agrees that the payment of all or any portion of the outstanding principal amount of this Subordinated Note and all interest hereon shall be pari passu in right of payment and in all other respects to the other Subordinated Notes. In the event that the Noteholder receives payments in excess of its pro rata share of the Company’s payments to the holders of all of the Subordinated Notes, then the Noteholder shall hold in trust all such excess payments for the benefit of the other Noteholders and shall pay such amounts held in trust to such other holders upon demand by such holders.

  13.Form of Payment. Payments of principal of and interest on this Subordinated Note shall be made in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

  14.Registration of Transfer, Security Register.  Except as otherwise provided herein, and subject to limitations on transfer under applicable state and federal securities laws, this Subordinated Note is transferable in whole or in part, and may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Subordinated Notes of other authorized denominations, by the Noteholder in person, or by its attorney duly authorized in writing, at the Payment Office or the offices of the Registrar.  The Company or its agent (the “Registrar”) shall maintain a register providing for the registration of the Subordinated Notes and any exchange or transfer thereof (the “Security Register”). Upon surrender or presentation of this Subordinated Note for exchange or registration of transfer, the Company or the Registrar shall execute and deliver in exchange therefor a Subordinated Note or Subordinated Notes of like aggregate principal amount, each in a minimum denomination of $100,000 or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of $1,000 (and, in the absence of an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company to the contrary, bearing the restrictive legend(s) set forth hereinabove) and that is or are registered in such name or names requested by the Noteholder.  Any Subordinated Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall be duly endorsed and accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in such form as is attached hereto and incorporated herein, duly executed by the Noteholder or its attorney duly authorized in writing, with such tax identification number (including, without limitation, an appropriate and properly executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or appropriate type of Form W-8) or other information for each person in whose name a Subordinated Note is to be issued, and accompanied by evidence of compliance with any restrictive legend(s) appearing on such Subordinated Note or Subordinated Notes as the Company may reasonably request to comply with applicable law.  No exchange or registration of transfer of this Subordinated Note shall be made on or after (i) the fifteenth (15th) day immediately preceding the Maturity Date or (ii) the due delivery of notice of redemption.

  15.Successors and Assigns. This Subordinated Note shall be binding upon the Company and inure to the benefit of the Noteholder and its respective successors and permitted assigns. The Noteholder may assign all, or any part of, or any interest in, the Noteholder’s rights and benefits hereunder only to the extent and in the manner permitted by the terms of this Subordinated Note and under applicable securities laws and regulations.  To the extent of any such assignment, such assignee shall have the same rights and benefits against the Company and shall agree to be bound by and to comply with the terms and conditions of the Purchase Agreement as it would have had if it were the Noteholder hereunder.

  16.Priority. The Subordinated Notes rank pari passu among themselves and pari passu, in the event of any insolvency proceeding, dissolution, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, restructuring of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceeding or any liquidation or winding up of the Company, with all other present or future unsecured subordinated debt obligations of the Company, except any unsecured subordinated debt that, pursuant to its express terms, is senior or subordinate in right of payment to the Subordinated Notes.

  17.Ownership. Prior to due presentment of this Subordinated Note for registration of transfer, the Company may treat the holder in whose name this Subordinated Note is registered in the Security Register as the absolute owner of this Subordinated Note for receiving payments of principal and interest on this Subordinated Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not this Subordinated Note be overdue, and the Company shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary.

  18.Waiver and Consent. 

  

  a)This Subordinated Note may be amended or waived pursuant to, and in accordance with, the provisions set forth herein and as set forth in Section 7.3 of the Purchase Agreement. Any such consent or waiver given by the Noteholder shall be conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all subsequent holders of this Subordinated Note and of any Subordinated Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Subordinated Note.  No delay or omission of the Noteholder to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. 

  b)No waiver or amendment of any term, provision, condition, covenant or agreement in the Subordinated Notes shall be effective except with the consent of the Noteholders holding not less than fifty percent (50%) in aggregate principal amount (excluding any Subordinated Notes held by the Company or any of its Affiliates) of the Subordinated Notes at the time outstanding; provided, however, that without the consent of each Noteholder of an affected Subordinated Note, no such amendment or waiver may:  (i) reduce the principal amount of any Subordinated Note; (ii) reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest on any Subordinated Note; (iii) extend the maturity of any Subordinated Note; (iv) change the currency in which payment of the obligations of the Company under the Subordinated Notes are to be made; (v) lower the percentage of aggregate principal amount of outstanding Subordinated Notes required to approve any amendment of the Subordinated Notes; (vi) make any changes to Section 4(c) (Partial Redemption), Section 6 (Events of Default; Acceleration), Section 7 (Failure to Make Payments), Section 16 (Priority), or Section 18 (Waiver and Consent) of the Subordinated Notes that adversely affects the rights of any Noteholder; or (vii) disproportionately and adversely affect the rights of any of the holders of the then outstanding Subordinated Notes.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may amend or supplement the Subordinated Notes without the consent of the Noteholders to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency or to provide for uncertificated Subordinated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Subordinated Notes, or to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Noteholder of any of the Subordinated Notes.  No failure to exercise or delay in exercising, by any Noteholder of the Subordinated Notes, of any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise thereof, or the exercise of any other right or remedy provided by law, except as restricted hereby.  The rights and remedies provided in this Subordinated Note are cumulative and not exclusive of any right or remedy provided by law or equity. No notice or demand on the Company in any case shall, in itself, entitle the Company to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of the Noteholders to any other or further action in any circumstances without notice or demand. No consent or waiver, express or implied, by the Noteholders to or of any breach or default by the Company in the performance of its obligations hereunder shall be deemed or construed to be a consent or waiver to or of any other breach or default in the performance of the same or any other obligations of the Company hereunder.  Failure on the part of the Noteholders to complain of any acts or failure to act or to declare an Event of Default, irrespective of how long such failure continues, shall not constitute a waiver by the Noteholders of their rights hereunder or impair any rights, powers or remedies on account of any breach or default by the Company.

  19.Absolute and Unconditional Obligation of the Company. 

  a)No provisions of this Subordinated Note shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal and interest on this Subordinated Note at the times, places and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

  b)Any insured depository institution which shall be a Noteholder or which otherwise shall have any beneficial ownership interest in this Subordinated Note shall, by its acceptance of such Note (or beneficial interest therein), be deemed to have waived any right of offset with respect to the indebtedness evidenced thereby.

  20.No Sinking Fund; Convertibility. This Subordinated Note is not entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund. This Subordinated Note is not convertible into or exchangeable for any of the equity securities, other securities or assets of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company.

  21.No Recourse Against Others. No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Subordinated Note, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, will be had against any past, present or future shareholder, employee, officer, or director, as such, of the Company or of any predecessor or successor, either directly or through the Company or any predecessor or successor, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of this Subordinated Note by the Noteholder and as part of the consideration for the issuance of this Subordinated Note.

  22.Notices. All notices to the Company under this Subordinated Note shall be in writing and addressed to the Company at LINKBANCORP, Inc., 3045 Market Street, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania 17011, Attention: Andrew Samuel, Chief Executive Officer, or to such other address as the Company may notify to the Noteholder (the “Payment Office”). All notices to the Noteholders shall be in writing and sent by United States first-class mail or by a responsible overnight commercial courier 

  

  promising next business day delivery to each Noteholder at his, her or its address as set forth in the Security Register. Any notice given in accordance with the foregoing shall be deemed given three (3) Business Days after it shall have been deposited in the United States mails or, if sent by overnight commercial courier, the Business Day following the date of delivery to such courier, provided next business day delivery was requested.

  23.Further Issues. The Company may, without the consent of the Noteholders, create and issue additional notes having the same terms and conditions of the Subordinated Notes (except for the Issue Date and issue price) so that such further notes shall be consolidated and form a single series with the Subordinated Notes.

  24.Governing Law; Interpretation. THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE WILL BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACT MADE UNDER THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA AND WILL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF. THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE IS INTENDED TO MEET THE CRITERIA FOR QUALIFICATION OF THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AS TIER 2 CAPITAL UNDER THE REGULATORY GUIDELINES OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE, AND THE TERMS HEREOF SHALL BE INTERPRETED IN A MANNER TO SATISFY SUCH INTENT.

   

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  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Subordinated Note to be duly executed and attested.

   

  LINKBANCORP, INC.

    

  By:_______________________________________
Name: Andrew Samuel
Title:   Chief Executive Officer

   

  ATTEST:

    

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Name:     Brent Smith
Title:      Corporate Secretary

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

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