Broadstone Net Lease Proposes Amendment to Company Charter
Broadstone Net Lease announced that its Board of Directors decided to amend the Company’s Articles of Incorporation. The amendment will allow changes to the Charter with a majority vote from stockholders, rather than the current supermajority requirement, excluding provisions related to REIT ownership compliance. This will be submitted for approval at the 2022 annual stockholders meeting. As of March 31, 2021, BNL's portfolio comprises 661 net leased properties across various sectors, located primarily within the U.S.
- Simplified amendment process for the Charter with majority vote approval.
- Diverse portfolio of 661 net leased properties across multiple sectors.
- Risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting tenants and operations.
- Uncertainties related to property acquisitions and tenant financial health.
Broadstone Net Lease, Inc. (the “Company) today announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has determined that it is in the best interest of the Company and its stockholders to amend the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, as amended (the “Charter”), to provide that amendments to the Charter shall only require the approval of a majority of votes cast at a duly called meeting of the Company’s stockholders, with a customary carve-out that would retain a supermajority vote for amendments to the restrictions on transfer and ownership of shares in connection with complying with REIT ownership requirements. Such an amendment would replace the current supermajority voting standard provided for by the Maryland General Corporate law, except for the provisions with respect to REIT ownership requirements. The Company intends to submit a proposal to stockholders at its 2022 annual meeting of stockholders to amend the Charter accordingly.
About Broadstone Net Lease, Inc.
BNL is an internally-managed REIT that acquires, owns, and manages primarily single-tenant commercial real estate properties that are net leased on a long-term basis to a diversified group of tenants. The Company utilizes an investment strategy underpinned by strong fundamental credit analysis and prudent real estate underwriting. As of March 31, 2021, BNL’s diversified portfolio consisted of 661 individual net leased commercial properties with 660 located in 41 U.S. states and one property located in Canada across the industrial, healthcare, restaurant, office, and retail property types.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, regarding, among other things, our plans, strategies, and prospects, both business and financial. Such forward-looking statements can generally be identified by our use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “would be,” “believe,” “continue,” or other similar words. Forward-looking statements, including our 2021 guidance, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause BNL’s actual future results to differ materially from expected results, including, without limitation, risks and uncertainties related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its related impacts on us and our tenants, general economic conditions, local real estate conditions, tenant financial health, property acquisitions, and the timing and uncertainty of completing these acquisitions, and uncertainties regarding future distributions to our stockholders. These and other risks, assumptions, and uncertainties are described in Item 1A “Risk Factors” of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, filed with the SEC on February 25, 2021, which you are encouraged to read, and is available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those indicated or anticipated by such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. The Company assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any forward-looking statements after the date of this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions or otherwise.
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