Healthcare Realty Trust and Healthcare Trust of America Announce Closing of Merger
July 20 2022 - 4:31PM
Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (NYSE: HR) (“Healthcare
Realty” or the “Company”) and Healthcare Trust of America, Inc.
(NYSE: HTA) (“Healthcare Trust of America” or “HTA”) today
announced the closing of their previously announced merger. The
combined company will continue to operate with the Healthcare
Realty name and trade on the NYSE under the ticker symbol HR.
The combination brings together two of the largest owners of
medical office buildings to create the preeminent, pure-play
medical office building REIT. The combined company will have
unmatched market scale in concentrated clusters, increased
diversification, and a strengthened balance sheet with enhanced
liquidity and improved access to capital. The combination is
expected to be accretive through meaningful near-term synergies,
with additional value from operational upside, expanded health
system relationships, and a larger development pipeline.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc. is serving as lead financial
advisor, Scotiabank is serving as financial advisor, and Hunton
Andrews Kurth LLP and Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP are
acting as legal advisors to Healthcare Realty. In addition,
BlackBirch Capital is acting as financial advisor to Healthcare
Realty on the previously announced asset sales and joint venture
transactions. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is acting as exclusive
financial advisor and McDermott Will & Emery LLP is acting as
legal advisor to Healthcare Trust of America.
About Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated
Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (NYSE: HR) is a real estate
investment trust that integrates owning, managing, financing and
developing income-producing real estate properties associated
primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services
throughout the United States. As of the closing of the merger on
July 20, 2022, the Company was invested in over 700 real estate
properties totaling approximately 44 million square feet and
provided leasing and property management services to more than 30
million square feet nationwide.
Forward-Looking Statements
This communication contains certain “forward-looking” statements
within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Exchange
Act. The Company intends such forward-looking statements to be
covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking
statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995 and includes: this statement for purposes of complying
with the safe harbor provisions. Words such as “expects,”
“anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,”
“estimates,” “will,” “should,” “may,” “projects,” “could,”
“estimates” or variations of such words and other similar
expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking
statements, which generally are not historical in nature, but not
all forward-looking statements include such identifying words.
Forward-looking statements regarding the Company, include, but are
not limited to, statements of management’s beliefs, intentions or
goals, and other statements that are not historical facts. These
forward-looking statements are based on current plans, objectives,
estimates, expectations and intentions and inherently involve
significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results and the timing
of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such
forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and
uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks and
uncertainties associated with: failure to realize the expected
benefits of the merger; significant transaction costs and/or
unknown or inestimable liabilities; the risk that the Company’s and
HTA’s respective businesses will not be integrated successfully or
that such integration may be more difficult, time-consuming or
costly than expected; risks related to future opportunities and
plans for the combined company, including the uncertainty of
expected future financial performance and results of the combined
company following completion of the transaction; the possibility
that, if the Company does not achieve the perceived benefits of the
merger as rapidly or to the extent anticipated by financial
analysts or investors, the market price of the Company’s common
stock could decline; general adverse economic and local real estate
conditions; the inability of significant tenants to continue paying
their rent obligations due to bankruptcy, insolvency or a general
downturn in their business; increases in interest rates; increases
in operating expenses and real estate taxes; changes in the
dividend policy for the Company’s common stock or its ability to
pay dividends; impairment charges; pandemics or other health
crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic; and other risks and
uncertainties affecting the Company , including those described
from time to time under the caption “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in
the Company’s and HTA’s Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)
filings and reports, including the Company’s Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, HTA’s Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and future filings
and reports by either company. Moreover, other risks and
uncertainties of which the Company is not currently aware may also
cause actual results and the timing of events to differ materially
from those anticipated. The forward-looking statements made in this
communication are made only as of the date hereof or as of the
dates indicated in the forward-looking statements, even if they are
subsequently made available by the Company on its website or
otherwise. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or
supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect actual
results, new information, future events, changes in its
expectations or other circumstances that exist after the date as of
which the forward-looking statements were made, except as required
by law.
Financial ContactKris Douglas, Chief Financial OfficerP: (615)
269-8175
Media ContactsCharlie Koons / Elizabeth VolpeBrunswick GroupP:
(212) 333-3810
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