CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
This CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT (this Agreement), dated as of December 14, 2006 (the Effective Date), is made by and between BNP PARIBAS LEASING CORPORATION (BNPPLC), a Delaware corporation, and NETWORK APPLIANCE, INC. (NAI), a Delaware corporation.
RECITALS
Contemporaneously with the execution of this Agreement, BNPPLC and NAI are executing a Common Definitions and Provisions Agreement dated as of the Effective Date (the Common Definitions and Provisions Agreement), which by this reference is incorporated into and made a part of this Agreement for all purposes. As used in this Agreement, capitalized terms defined in the Common Definitions and Provisions Agreement and not otherwise defined in this Agreement are intended to have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Common Definitions and Provisions Agreement.
At the request of NAI and to facilitate the transaction contemplated in the other Operative Documents, contemporaneously with this Agreement BNPPLC is executing and accepting a Ground Lease from NAI (the Ground Lease), pursuant to which BNPPLC is acquiring a leasehold estate in the Land described in Exhibit A and any existing Improvements on such Land.
Also contemporaneously with this Agreement, BNPPLC and NAI are executing a Lease Agreement (the Lease), pursuant to which the parties expect that NAI will lease the Improvements on the Land described in Exhibit A from BNPPLC for a lease term that will commence on the Completion Date (as defined below).
In anticipation of the construction of new or additional Improvements for NAIs use pursuant to the Lease, BNPPLC and NAI have agreed upon the terms and conditions upon which BNPPLC is willing to authorize NAI to arrange and manage such construction and upon which BNPPLC is willing to provide funds for such construction, and by this Agreement BNPPLC and NAI desire to evidence such agreement.
ENGAGEMENT AND AUTHORIZATION
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, BNPPLC does hereby engage and authorize NAI and NAI does hereby accept such engagement and authorization, as an independent contractor for BNPPLC to construct the Construction Project on the Land and to manage such construction for BNPPLC. As more particularly provided in subparagraph 2(A)(2) below, NAI will take possession and control of the Land and all Improvements on the Land to accomplish such construction. However, the rights and authority granted to NAI by this Agreement are expressly made subject and subordinate to the terms and condition hereinafter set
forth and to the Ground Lease, to the Permitted Encumbrances and to any other claims or encumbrances affecting the Land or the Property that may be asserted by third parties other than Liens Removable by BNPPLC.
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1 Additional definitions. As used in this Agreement, capitalized terms defined above will have the respective meanings assigned to them above; as indicated above, capitalized terms that are defined in the Common Definitions and Provisions Agreement and that are used but not defined herein will have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Common Definitions and Provisions Agreement; and, the following terms will have the following respective meanings:
97-10/Event means any of the following:
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