Amended and Restated Share Repurchase Plan, effective as of April 28, 2025
Exhibit 4.1
NORTH HAVEN NET REIT
Share Repurchase Plan
Effective April 28, 2025
Definitions
Adviser — MSREF Real Estate Advisor, Inc.
Class D shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class D.
Class E shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class E.
Class F-D shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class F-D.
Class F-I shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class F-I.
Class F-IO shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class F-IO.
Class F-S shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class F-S.
Class F-T shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class F-T.
Class I shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class I.
Class IO shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class IO.
Class S shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class S.
Class T shares — shall mean the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest classified as Class T.
Common Shares — shall mean, collectively, the Class D shares, Class E shares, Class F-D shares, Class F-I shares, Class F-IO shares, Class F-S shares, Class F-T shares, Class I shares, Class IO shares, Class S shares, Class T shares and such other classes of common shares of beneficial interest of the Company that the Company’s board of trustees hereinafter designates.
Company — shall mean North Haven Net REIT, a Maryland statutory trust.
Dealer Manager — shall mean Morgan Stanley Distribution, Inc.
Morgan Stanley — shall mean Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS).
Morgan Stanley Equity Investment — shall mean Morgan Stanley’s agreement to purchase from the Company a total of $25 million of the Company’s Class E shares and/or Class E Operating Partnership units at a price per share/unit equal to the most recently determined NAV of the Class E shares/Class E Operating Partnership units, or if an NAV has yet to be calculated, then $20.00.
NAV — shall mean the net asset value of the Company attributable to its Shareholders or the net asset value of a class of its shares, as the context requires, determined in accordance with the Company’s Net Asset Value Calculation and Valuation Guidelines as described in the Company’s Private Placement Memorandum, as may be amended and/or supplemented from time to time.
Operating Partnership — shall mean NH Net REIT Operating Partnership, LP, a Delaware limited partnership.
Operating Partnership units — shall mean limited partnership interests in the Operating Partnership.
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Plan — shall mean this share repurchase plan of the Company, as the same may be amended from time to time.
Special Limited Partner — shall mean Net REIT Special Limited Partner LP, a Delaware limited partnership.
Shareholders — shall mean the holders of Common Shares.
Transaction Price — shall mean the repurchase price per share for each class of Common Shares, which shall be equal to the then-current offering price before applicable selling commissions and dealer manager fees.
Share Repurchase Plan
Shareholders may request that the Company repurchase its Common Shares through their investment professional or directly with the Company’s transfer agent. The procedures relating to the repurchase of Common Shares are as follows:
North Haven Net REIT c/o
State Street Bank and Trust Company
Transfer Agency
One Heritage Drive Building
1 Heritage Drive
Mail Stop OHD0100
North Quincy MA 02171
Overnight Address:
North Haven Net REIT c/o
State Street Bank and Trust Company
Transfer Agency
One Heritage Drive Building
1 Heritage Drive
Mail Stop OHD0100
North Quincy MA 02171
Corporate investors and other non-individual entities must have an appropriate certification on file authorizing repurchases. A signature guarantee may be required.
Minimum Account Repurchases
In the event that any Shareholder fails to maintain the minimum balance of $1,000 of Common Shares, the Company may repurchase all Common Shares held by that Shareholder at the repurchase price in effect on the date the Company determines that such Shareholder has failed to meet the minimum balance, less any Early Repurchase Deduction.
Minimum account repurchases will apply even in the event that the failure to meet the minimum balance is caused solely by a decline in the Company’s NAV. Minimum account repurchases are subject to the Early Repurchase Deduction.
Sources of Funds for Repurchases
The Company may fund repurchase requests from sources other than cash flow from operations, including, without limitation, borrowings, offering proceeds (including from sales of Common Shares or Operating Partnership units to the Special Limited Partner),
the sale of the Company’s assets, and repayments of the Company’s real estate debt investments, and the Company has no limits on the amounts it may fund from such sources.
Repurchase Limitations
The Company may repurchase fewer shares than have been requested in any particular quarter to be repurchased under this Plan, or none at all, in the Company’s discretion at any time. In addition, the aggregate NAV of total repurchases of Common Shares (including repurchases at certain non-U.S. investor access funds primarily created to hold Common Shares but excluding any Early Repurchase Deduction applicable to the repurchased shares) will be limited to no more than 5% of the Company’s aggregate NAV per calendar quarter (measured using the average aggregate NAV attributable to Shareholders as of the end of the immediately preceding three months).
In the event that the Company determines to repurchase some but not all of the shares submitted for repurchase during any quarter, shares submitted for repurchase during such quarter will be repurchased on a pro rata basis after the Company has repurchased all shares for which repurchase has been requested due to death, disability or divorce and other limited exceptions. All unsatisfied repurchase requests must be resubmitted after the start of the next quarter, or upon the recommencement of this Plan, as applicable.
Should repurchase requests, in the Company’s judgment, place an undue burden on its liquidity, adversely affect its operations or risk having an adverse impact on the Company as a whole, or should the Company otherwise determine that investing its liquid assets in real properties or other investments rather than repurchasing Common Shares is in the best interests of the Company as a whole, the Company may choose to repurchase fewer shares in any particular quarter than have been requested to be repurchased, or none at all. Further, the Company’s board of trustees may make exceptions to, modify or suspend this Plan if in its reasonable judgment it deems such action to be in the Company’s best interest and the best interest of Shareholders. Material modifications, including any amendment to the 5% quarterly limitation on repurchases, and suspensions of this Plan will be promptly disclosed to Shareholders’ investment professionals. In addition, the Company may determine to suspend this Plan due to regulatory changes, changes in law or if the Company becomes aware of undisclosed material information that the Company believes should be publicly disclosed before Common Shares are repurchased. Once this Plan is suspended, the Company will consider the recommencement of the Plan at least quarterly. Continued suspension of this Plan would only be permitted if the Company’s board of trustees determines that the continued suspension of the Plan is in the Company’s best interest and the best interest of Shareholders. The Company’s board of trustees must affirmatively authorize the recommencement of this Plan before Shareholder requests will be considered again. The Company’s board of trustees cannot terminate this Plan absent a liquidity event which results in Shareholders receiving cash or securities listed on a national securities exchange or where otherwise required by law.
Shares held by the Adviser acquired as payment of the Adviser’s management fee or held by the Special Limited Partner in connection with distribution on its performance participation interest will not be subject to this Plan, including the repurchase limits and any Early Repurchase Deduction, or the calculation of NAV with respect to the Plan’s limits. Shareholders who are exchanging a class of Common Shares for an equivalent aggregate NAV of another class of Common Shares will not be subject to, and will not be treated as repurchases for the calculation of, the 5% quarterly limitation on repurchases and will not be subject to the Early Repurchase Deduction.
Early Repurchase Deduction
There is no minimum holding period for Common Shares and Shareholders can request that the Company repurchase their shares at any time. However, subject to limited exceptions, shares that have not been outstanding for at least one year will be repurchased at 98% of the Transaction Price (the “Early Repurchase Deduction”). The one-year holding period is measured as of first calendar day immediately following the prospective repurchase date. Additionally, Shareholders who have received Common Shares in exchange for their Operating Partnership units may include the period of time such Shareholder held such Operating Partnership units for purposes of calculating the holding period for such Common Shares. The Early Repurchase Deduction will also generally apply to minimum account repurchases. The Early Repurchase Deduction will not apply to shares acquired through the Company’s distribution reinvestment plan.
The Early Repurchase Deduction will inure indirectly to the benefit of the Company’s remaining Shareholders and is intended to offset the trading costs, market impact and other costs associated with short-term trading in Common Shares. The Company may, from time to time, waive the Early Repurchase Deduction in the following circumstances (subject to the conditions described below):
As set forth above, the Company may waive the Early Repurchase Deduction in respect of repurchase of shares resulting from the death or qualifying disability (as such term is defined in Section 72(m)(7) of the Code) of a Shareholder who is a natural person, including shares held by such Shareholder through a trust or an IRA or other retirement or profit-sharing plan, after (i) in the case of death, receiving written notice from the estate of the Shareholder, the recipient of the shares through bequest or inheritance, or, in the case of a trust, the trustee of such trust, who shall have the sole ability to request repurchase on behalf of the trust, (ii) in the case of qualified disability, receiving written notice from such Shareholder along with a physician’s certification of disability as defined in Section 72(m)(7) of the Code, provided that the condition causing the qualifying disability was not pre-existing on the date that the Shareholder became a Shareholder or (iii) in the case of divorce, receiving written notice from the Shareholder of the divorce and the Shareholder’s instructions to effect a transfer of the shares (through the repurchase of the shares by the Company and the subsequent purchase by the Shareholder) to a different account held by the Shareholder (including trust or an IRA or other retirement or profit-sharing plan). The Company must receive the written repurchase request within 12 months after the death of the Shareholder, the initial determination of the Shareholder’s disability or divorce in order for the requesting party to rely on any of the special treatment described above that may be afforded in the event of the death, disability or divorce of a Shareholder. In the case of death, such a written request must be accompanied by a certified copy of the official death certificate of the Shareholder. If spouses are joint registered holders of shares, the request to have the shares repurchased may be made if either of the registered holders dies or acquires a qualified disability. If the Shareholder is not a natural person, such as certain trusts or a partnership, corporation or other similar entity, the right to waiver of the Early Repurchase Deduction upon death, disability or divorce does not apply.
In addition, Common Shares are sold to certain feeder vehicles primarily created to hold Common Shares that in turn offer interests in such feeder vehicles to non-U.S. persons. For such feeder vehicles and similar arrangements in certain markets, the Company may agree not apply the Early Repurchase Deduction to the feeder vehicles or underlying investors, often because of administrative or systems limitations. Further, the Company will not apply the Early Repurchase Deduction on repurchases of Common Shares submitted by discretionary model portfolio management programs (and similar arrangements) as approved by the Company.
Morgan Stanley Equity Investment Repurchase Rights
The Class E shares and/or Class E Operating Partnership units issued in respect of the Morgan Stanley Equity Investment are not eligible for repurchase pursuant to this Plan. The shares/units issued in respect of the Morgan Stanley Equity Investment will only be eligible for repurchase by the Company following the earlier to occur of (i) the third anniversary of the initial closing of the Company’s continuous private offering, and (ii) the date that the Company’s aggregate NAV is at least $1.5 billion. Following such date, each quarter Morgan Stanley or its affiliate may request, with respect to the shares/units issued in respect of the Morgan Stanley Equity Investment, that the Company repurchase, a number of shares/units in an amount equal to the amount available under this Plan’s 5% quarterly cap (after satisfying repurchase requests from Shareholders who purchase Common Shares pursuant to such offering and other Common Shares that are otherwise subject to repurchase under this Plan). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for so long as Morgan Stanley or its affiliate acts as investment adviser to the Company, the Company will not effect any repurchase request in respect of Class E shares and/or Class E Operating Partnership units issued in respect of the Morgan Stanley Equity Investment during any quarter in which the full amount of all Common Shares requested to be repurchased by Shareholders other than Morgan Stanley and its affiliates under this Plan is not repurchased or when this Plan has been suspended.
Morgan Stanley Regulatory Repurchase
Subject to certain exceptions, at any time after an initial one-year period following the initial closing of this the Company’s continuous private offering where Common Shares and Operating Partnership units owned by Morgan Stanley, together with any such shares and units owned by its affiliates, were to represent 25% or more of the Company’s total equity, including all of the Common Shares and Operating Partnership units (other than those held by the Company) (such percentage referred to herein as the “Morgan Stanley Interest”), the Company will, or will cause the Operating Partnership to, automatically and without further action by Morgan Stanley or its affiliate, repurchase or redeem, as applicable, an amount of Common Shares or Operating Partnership units from Morgan Stanley and/or its affiliates as may be necessary to cause the Morgan Stanley Interest to remain equal to or less than 24.99%.
Items of Note
When Shareholders make a request to have shares repurchased, Shareholders should note the following:
IRS regulations require the Company to determine and disclose on Form 1099-B the adjusted cost basis for the common shares sold or repurchased. The Company will utilize the first-in-first-out method for determining the adjusted cost basis.
Frequent Trading and Other Policies
The Company may reject for any reason, or cancel as permitted or required by law, any purchase orders for Common Shares. For example, the Company may reject any purchase orders from market timers or investors that, in the Company’s opinion, may be disruptive to the Company’s operations. Frequent purchases and sales of Common Shares can harm Shareholders in various ways, including reducing the returns to long-term Shareholders by increasing the Company’s costs, disrupting portfolio management strategies and diluting the value of the shares of long-term Shareholders.
In general, Shareholders may request that the Company repurchase their shares once every 90 days. However, the Company prohibits frequent trading. The Company defines frequent trading as follows:
The following are excluded when determining whether transactions are excessive:
At the Dealer Manager’s discretion, upon the first violation of the policy in a calendar year, purchase and repurchase privileges may be suspended for 90 days. Upon a second violation in a calendar year, purchase and repurchase privileges may be suspended for 180 days. On the next business day following the end of the 90 or 180 day suspension, any transaction restrictions placed on a Shareholder may be removed.
Mail and Telephone Instructions
The Company and its transfer agent will not be responsible for the authenticity of mail or phone instructions or losses, if any, resulting from unauthorized Shareholder transactions if they reasonably believe that such instructions were genuine. The Company’s transfer agent has established reasonable procedures to confirm that instructions are genuine including requiring the Shareholder to provide
certain specific identifying information on file and sending written confirmation to Shareholders of record. Shareholders, or their designated custodian or fiduciary, should carefully review such correspondence to ensure that the instructions were properly acted upon. If any discrepancies are noted, the Shareholder, or its agent, should contact his, her or its investment professional as well as the Company’s transfer agent in a timely manner, but in no event more than 60 days from receipt of such correspondence. Failure to notify such entities in a timely manner will relieve the Company, its transfer agent and the investment professional of any liability with respect to the discrepancy.