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Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPT)

8-K 2020-01-14 For: 2020-01-08
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UNITED STATES

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 reported): January 8, 2020

MEDICAL PROPERTIES TRUST, INC.

MPT OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, L.P.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Maryland<br> <br>Delaware 001-32559<br> <br>333-177186 20-0191742<br> <br>20-0242069
(State or other jurisdiction of<br> <br>incorporation or organization) (Commission<br> <br>File Number) (I.R.S. Employer<br> <br>Identification No.)
1000 Urban Center Drive, Suite 501
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Birmingham, AL 35242
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (205) 969-3755

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

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:

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Act:

Title of each class Trading<br> <br>Symbol Name of each exchange<br> <br>on which registered
Common Stock,<br> par value $0.001 per share,<br> of Medical Properties Trust, Inc. MPW The New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR § 240.12b-2).

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. Emerging growth company  <br>☐
MPT Operating Partnership, L.P. Emerging growth company  <br>☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

Medical Properties Trust, Inc.
MPT Operating Partnership, L.P.

This Current Report on Form 8-K is filed by Medical Properties Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), and MPT Operating Partnership, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership through which the Company conducts substantially all of its operations (the “Operating Partnership”). Through one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, the Company serves as the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership. Unless otherwise indicated or unless the context requires otherwise, references to “we” and “our” refer to the Company, the Operating Partnership and any other subsidiaries thereof.

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

The disclosure contained in “Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets” of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.

Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

On January 8, 2020, an affiliate of the Company and the Operating Partnership completed the previously announced acquisition of a portfolio of 30 acute care hospitals located throughout the United Kingdom operated by BMI Healthcare Ltd. (“BMI”) and owned by an affiliate of BMI, for approximately £1.5 billion, or $2.0 billion (the “BMI Acquisition”). In a related transaction, affiliates of Circle Health Ltd. (“Circle”) completed the acquisition of BMI and assumed operations of its 52 facilities in the United Kingdom. Circle has been one of the Company’s tenants since 2014.

The table below sets forth certain details with respect to the hospitals in the BMI portfolio:

Hospital City Form of<br> <br>Investment Hospital<br> Type Licensed<br> Beds
London Independent London Fee simple Acute 73
Blackheath London Fee simple Acute 68
Alexandra Cheadle Fee simple Acute 171
Ross Hall Glasgow Fee simple Acute 101
Highfield Rochdale Fee simple Acute 47
Beaumont Bolton Fee simple Acute 34
Droitwich Droitwich Spa Long leasehold Acute 56
Priory Edgbaston Fee simple and long leasehold Acute 118
Hampshire Clinic Basingstoke Fee simple Acute 65
Sarum Road Winchester Fee simple Acute 48
Albyn Aberdeen Fee simple Acute 28
Winterbourne Dorchester Long leasehold Acute 38
Hendon London Fee simple Acute 30
Goring Hall Worthing Fee simple Acute 37
Werndale Carmarthen Fee simple Acute 27
Bath Clinic Bath Fee simple Acute 67
Ridgeway Swindon Fee simple Acute 50
Beardwood Blackburn Fee simple Acute 18
Thornbury Sheffield Fee simple Acute 77
Park Arnold Fee simple Acute 85
Clementine Churchill Harrow Fee simple Acute 141
Mount Alvernia Guildford Fee simple Acute 76
Chaucer Canterbury Fee simple Acute 55
Chelsfield Park Orpington Fee simple Acute 36
Shirley Oaks Croydon Fee simple Acute 42
Sloane Beckenham Fee simple Acute 32
Princess Margaret Windsor Fee simple Acute 78
Chiltern Great Missenden Fee simple Acute 66
Saxon Clinic Milton Keynes Fee simple Acute 37
Manor Biddenham Fee simple Acute 23
Total Licensed Beds 1,824

At closing, we leased back the hospitals to affiliates of Circle under 30 cross-defaulted leases guaranteed by Circle. The leases will each have an initial fixed term to 2050, with two five-year extension options and annual rent escalators linked to U.K. consumer price inflation. The foregoing description of the Circle leases is only a summary of certain provisions of the leases


and is qualified in its entirety by the terms of the actual leases, a copy of the form of which will be filed as an exhibit to the combined Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 of the Company and the Operating Partnership.

The BMI Acquisition was documented pursuant to the terms of a share purchase agreement, dated December 23, 2019, between GHG Holdco 3 Limited, an affiliate of BMI and indirect owner of the properties, as seller, and Medical Properties Trust Limited, our affiliate, as purchaser. Five non-core properties acquired in the transaction, which are not included in the portfolio of properties listed above and have an aggregate purchase price of less than £10.0 million, or $13,000,000, are expected to be sold to third parties during the first quarter of 2020.

We financed the BMI Acquisition with cash on hand, including proceeds from recent U.S. dollar equity and sterling-denominated bond offerings and borrowings under an unsecured sterling-denominated term loan facility entered into by the Operating Partnership and other affiliates on January 6, 2020. The term loan facility matures in January 2025 and bears interest at a rate per annum equal to LIBOR plus the applicable margin. The applicable margin for the term loan is adjustable based on a pricing grid from 0.85% to 1.65% dependent on the Company’s current credit rating.

Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.

On January 8, 2020, the Company issued a press release announcing the BMI Acquisition described in Item 2.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

The information contained in this Item 7.01 and exhibits thereto is being “furnished” and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise. The information in this Item 7.01, including the exhibit thereto, shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or into any filing or other document pursuant to the Exchange Act, except as otherwise expressly stated in any such filing.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
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Exhibit<br> <br>No. Description
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99.1 Press release dated January 8, 2020
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the registrants have duly caused this report to be signed on their behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

MEDICAL PROPERTIES TRUST, INC.
By: /s/ R. Steven Hamner
Name: R. Steven Hamner
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
MPT OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, L.P.
By: /s/ R. Steven Hamner
Name: R. Steven Hamner
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the sole member of the general partner of MPT Operating Partnership, L.P.

Date: January 14, 2020

EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

Medical Properties Trust Completes Approximate £1.5 Billion Investment in 30 Hospitals in the United Kingdom

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 8, 2020—Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (the “Company” or “MPT”) (NYSE: MPW) today announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of the real estate interests of 30 UK hospitals.

About MedicalProperties Trust, Inc.

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is a self-advised real estate investment trust formed in 2003 to acquire and develop net-leased hospital facilities. From its inception in Birmingham, Alabama, the Company has grown to become one of the world’s largest owners of hospitals with 390 facilities and approximately 42,000 licensed beds in eight countries and across three continents. MPT’s financing model facilitates acquisitions and recapitalizations and allows operators of hospitals to unlock the value of their real estate assets to fund facility improvements, technology upgrades and other investments in operations. For more information, please visit the Company’s website at www.medicalpropertiestrust.com.

The statements in this press release that are forward looking are based on current expectations and actual results or future events may differ materially.Words such as “expects,” “believes,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “will,” “should” and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-lookingstatements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results of the Company or future events to differ materially from those expressed in or underlying such forward-lookingstatements, including without limitation: the satisfaction of all conditions to, and the timely closing (if at all) of pending transactions; the amount of acquisitions of healthcare real estate, if any; results from potential sales and joint venturearrangements, if any; capital markets conditions; estimated leverage metrics; the repayment of debt arrangements; statements concerning the additional income to the Company as a result of ownership interests in equity investments and the timing ofsuch income; the payment of future dividends, if any; completion of additional debt arrangements, and additional investments; national and international economic, business, real estate and other market conditions; the competitive environment inwhich the Company operates; the execution of the Company’s business plan; financing risks; the Company’s ability to maintain its status as a REIT for income tax purposes; acquisition and development risks; potential environmental and otherliabilities; and other factors affecting the real estate industry generally or healthcare real estate in particular. For further discussion of the factors that could affect outcomes, please refer to the “Risk factors” section of theCompany’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 and as updated by the Company’s subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form10-Q and other SEC filings. Except as otherwise required by the federal securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to update the information in this press release.

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