Exhibit 1.1

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC.

 

Medium-Term Notes

Due Nine Months or More From Date of Issue

 

TERMS AGREEMENT

 

May 6, 2015

 

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

Ballston Tower

671 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 800

Arlington, Virginia 22203

 

Reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement dated as of December 16, 2013 (including any exhibits and schedules thereto, the “Distribution Agreement”), by and among AvalonBay Communities, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company” or “AvalonBay”) and the agents named therein. The entities listed on Schedule 1 hereto are collectively referred to herein as the “Agents.” Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated have agreed to act as the representatives (the “Representatives”) of the Agents in connection with this Terms Agreement (this “Agreement”). Capitalized terms used, but not defined, in this Agreement are used in this Agreement as defined in the Distribution Agreement. This Agreement is one of the Written Terms Agreements referred to in Section 4(a) of the Distribution Agreement. The first offer of Notes for purposes of the term “Time of Sale Prospectus” under the Distribution Agreement shall be 2:34 p.m. Eastern Time.

 

In accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, the Distribution Agreement and those certain Appointment Agreements dated as of the date hereof (the “Appointment Agreements”), by and between the Company and each of BBVA Securities Inc., Capital One Securities, Inc. and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., which agreements are incorporated herein in their entirety and made a part hereof, the Company agrees to sell to the Agents, and each of the Agents severally agrees to purchase, as principal, from the Company the aggregate principal amount set forth opposite its name in Schedule 1 hereto of the Company’s Notes identified on Schedule 2 hereto. If one or more of the Agents shall fail at the Settlement Date to purchase the Notes which it or they are obligated to purchase under this Agreement, the procedures set forth in Section 4(a) of the Distribution Agreement shall apply.

 

The obligations of the Agents to purchase Notes shall be subject, in addition to the conditions precedent listed in the Distribution Agreement, to the delivery of the following documents to the Representatives, on or before the Settlement Date:

 

1.              the opinions and letters referred to in Sections 6(a), 6(b) and 6(c) of the Distribution Agreement, each dated the Settlement Date and otherwise in substantially the same form as was delivered in connection with the Company’s December 5, 2013 public offering of medium-term notes (the “Prior Offering”);

 

 

2.              the letters of Ernst & Young LLP referred to in Section 6(d) of the Distribution Agreement, dated the date hereof and the Settlement Date and otherwise in substantially the same forms as were delivered in connection with the Prior Offering; and

 

3.              the officers’ certificate referred to in Section 6(e) of the Distribution Agreement, dated the Settlement Date and otherwise in substantially the same form as was delivered in connection with the Prior Offering.

 

All such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents will be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives of the Agents and their counsel. The Company will furnish the Agents with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and other documents as the Agents shall reasonably request.

 

This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York. This Agreement, the Distribution Agreement and the Appointment Agreements constitute the entire agreement of the parties regarding the offering of Notes contemplated by this Agreement and supersede all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and, if executed in more than one counterpart, the executed counterparts shall each be deemed to be an original but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

 

[Signature pages follow.]

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

	AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC.
	By:	/s/ Kevin P. O’Shea
	Name:		Kevin P. O’Shea
	Title:		Chief Financial Officer

 

[Signature Page to Terms Agreement]

 

 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH

INCORPORATED

 

For themselves and as Representatives of the Agents named on Schedule 1 hereto

 

 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.
By:	/s/ Jared Birnbaum
Name:		Jared Birnbaum
Title:		Managing Director
By:	/s/ Lourdes Solis Fisher
Name:		Lourdes Solis Fisher
Title:		Director
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC
By:	/s/ Som Bhattacharyya
Name:		Som Bhattacharyya
Title:		Vice President

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH

INCORPORATED

By:	/s/ Chris Djoganopoulos
Name:		Chris Djoganopoulos
Title:		Managing Director

 

[Signature Page to Terms Agreement]

 

 

Schedule 1

 

AGENTS’ ALLOCATIONS

 

2025 Notes

 

Agent		Aggregate Principal Amount of 2025 Notes
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.		$	157,500,000
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC		$	157,500,000
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated		$	157,500,000
BBVA Securities Inc.		$	17,500,000
Capital One Securities, Inc.		$	17,500,000
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.		$	17,500,000
		$	525,000,000

 

 

Schedule 2

 

AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC.

 

TERMS OF THE NOTES

 

(See Attached.)