UNITED
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event
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August 17, 2006
VORNADO REALTY TRUST
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
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No. 22-1657560 |
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888 Seventh Avenue |
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Registrants telephone number, including area code: (212) 894-7000
Former name or former address, if changed since last report: N/A
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instructions A.2.):
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Item 5.03 . Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year
Issuance of Series D-15 6.875% Preferred Units of Vornado Realty L.P.
On August 17, 2006, Vornado Realty L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the Operating Partnership), through which Vornado Realty Trust (the Company) conducts its business, sold 400,000 Series D-15 6.875% Preferred Units of limited partnership interest (the Series D-15 Preferred Units) to an institutional investor in a private placement exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 pursuant to Section 4(2) thereunder at a price of $25.00 per Series D-15 Preferred Unit.
In connection with that sale, the Company filed with the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation Articles Supplementary classifying 400,000 of the Companys authorized preferred shares of beneficial interest as additional Series D-15 6.875% Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares (liquidation preference $25.00 per share). A copy of the above-referenced Articles Supplementary is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements, Pro Forma Financial Information and Exhibits.
(c) Exhibits.
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Articles Supplementary to Declaration of Trust with respect to the Series D-15 6.875% Preferred Shares. |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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/s/ Joseph Macnow |
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Joseph Macnow |
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Executive Vice President - Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer |
Date: August 23, 2006
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Articles Supplementary to Declaration of Trust with respect to the Series D-15 6.875% Preferred Shares |
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VORNADO REALTY TRUST
ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY
SERIES
D-15 6.875% CUMULATIVE REDEEMABLE PREFERRED SHARES
(liquidation preference $25.00 per share)
Vornado Realty Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the Trust), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland (the SDAT) that:
FIRST: Under a power contained in Article VI of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Trust, as amended (the Declaration), the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the Board of Trustees), established a Pricing Committee of the Board of Trustees which, by unanimous written consent, classified and designated 400,000 shares (the Shares) of the Preferred Stock (as defined in the Declaration), as 400,000 additional shares of Series D-15 6.875% Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares of Beneficial Interest, liquidation preference $25.00 per share (the Series D-15 Preferred Shares), with the same preferences and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends and other distributions, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption as are set forth in the Articles Supplementary of the Trust, relating to the Series D-15 Preferred Shares, dated as of May 2, 2006 and filed with the SDAT on May 2, 2006, which upon any restatement of the Declaration, shall be deemed to be part of Article VI of the Declaration, with any necessary or appropriate changes in the enumeration or lettering of the sections or subsections thereof.
SECOND: The Shares have been classified and designated by the Board of Trustees under the authority contained in the Declaration.
THIRD: These Articles Supplementary have been approved by the Board of Trustees in the manner and by the vote required by law.
FOURTH: Each of the undersigned acknowledges these Articles Supplementary to be the trust act of the Trust and, as to all matters or facts required to be verified under oath, the undersigned acknowledges that to the best of his or her knowledge, information and belief, these matters and facts are true in all material respects and that this statement is made under penalties for perjury.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trust has caused these Articles Supplementary to be executed under seal in its name and on its behalf by its Executive Vice President Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer and attested to by its Secretary on this ___ day of August, 2006.
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/s/ Joseph Macnow |
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Joseph Macnow |
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Vice PresidentFinance Executive and Administration, Chief Financial Officer |
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/s/ Alan J. Rice |
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Alan J. Rice |
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Secretary |