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555 East Lancaster Avenue
Radnor, PA 19087
(610) 325-5600

Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders
to Be Held May 29, 2014

Dear Shareholder:

We invite you to attend our annual meeting of shareholders on Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., local time, at The Four Seasons Hotel, One Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the meeting we will ask you to:

        w       elect our Board of Trustees;
 
        w       ratify the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm for calendar year 2014;
 
        w       provide an advisory, non-binding vote on our executive compensation.

We will also transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting and at any adjournment or postponement of the meeting. Our Proxy Statement provides information that you should consider when you vote your shares.

Only holders of record of our common shares at the close of business on April 2, 2014 are entitled to vote at the 2014 annual meeting or at any adjournment or postponement of the meeting.

Your vote is important to us. Whether or not you plan to attend the annual meeting, please vote your shares electronically via the Internet, by telephone or, if you receive a paper copy of the proxy materials, by signing, dating and completing the accompanying proxy card in the enclosed postage-paid envelope. Voting electronically via the Internet, by telephone, or by returning your proxy card in advance of the meeting does not deprive you of your right to attend the meeting. If you attend the meeting, you may vote your shares in person, even if you have previously submitted a proxy in writing, by telephone or via the Internet. Our Proxy Statement includes additional instructions on voting procedures for shareholders whose shares are held by a brokerage firm or other custodian.

I look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Sincerely,

Brad A. Molotsky, Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary

April 11, 2014



  

555 East Lancaster Avenue | Radnor, PA 19087 | (610) 325-5600  

Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders

To be held on May 29, 2014

The Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Brandywine Realty Trust will be held at The Four Seasons Hotel, One Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., local time, for the following purposes:

(1)       To elect seven Trustees to serve as members of our Board of Trustees until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors are elected and qualified;
 
(2) To ratify the Audit Committee’s appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for calendar year 2014; and
 
(3) To hold an advisory, non-binding vote on our executive compensation.

Only holders of record of our common shares of beneficial interest, par value $.01 per share, as of the close of business on April 2, 2014 are entitled to notice of and vote at the Meeting.

Our Board of Trustees knows of no other business that will be presented for consideration at the Meeting. If any other matter should be properly presented at the Meeting or any adjournment or postponement of the Meeting for action by the shareholders, the persons named in the proxy card will vote the proxy in accordance with their best judgment on such matter.

On or about April 11, 2014, we mailed a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials to shareholders. This proxy statement and the form of proxy are first being furnished to shareholders on or about April 11, 2014.


Instead of receiving paper copies of future annual reports and proxy statements in the mail, you can elect to receive an e-mail that will provide an electronic link to these documents. Choosing to receive your proxy materials online will save us the cost of producing and mailing documents to you. With electronic delivery, we will notify you by e-mail as soon as the annual report and proxy statement are available on the Internet, and you can easily submit your shareholder votes online. If you are a shareholder of record, you may enroll in the electronic delivery service at the time you vote by selecting electronic delivery if you vote on the Internet, or at any time in the future by going directly to www.proxyvote.com, selecting the “request copy” option, and following the enrollment instructions.
 

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials
for the Shareholders Meeting to be Held on May 29, 2014

This proxy statement, the form of proxy and our 2013 annual report to
shareholders are available at
www.proxyvote.com.



Table of Contents

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Information About The Meeting and Voting 1
    w     What Am I Voting on? 1
w What Are the Board’s Recommendations? 1
w Who Is Entitled to Vote? 1
w How Do I Vote? 1
w How You May Revoke or Change Your Vote 2
w What Constitutes a Quorum?   2
w   What Vote Is Required to Approve Each Proposal? 3
w Who Counts the Votes? 3
w What Does it Mean if I Receive More Than One Proxy Card? 3
w What if I Receive Only One Set of Proxy Materials Although There Are Multiple  
Shareholders at My Address? 3
w How Do I Submit a Shareholder Proposal for Next Year’s Annual Meeting? 4
w Will I Receive a Copy of the Annual Report and Form 10-K? 4
w How Can I Access the Proxy Materials Electronically? 4
 
Proposal 1: Election of Trustees 5
w Trustees 5
w Meetings of Trustees and Annual Meeting of Shareholders 8
w Committees of the Board of Trustees 8
w Trustee Independence; Independence Determination 10
w Corporate Governance 11
w Board’s Role in Risk Oversight 12
w Trustee Nominations 13
w Communications with the Board 14
w Trustee Compensation 15
 
Executives and Executive Compensation 17
w Current Executive Officers 17
w Former Executive Officer 18
w Compensation Discussion and Analysis 18
w Compensation Committee Report 41
w Compensation Tables and Related Information 42
w Employment and Other Agreements 50
w Potential Payments Upon Termination of Employment or Change-in-Control 52

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w   401(k) Plan 53
  w Employee Share Purchase Plan 54
 
Securities Ownership 55
w Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management   55
 
Proposal 2: Ratification of the Appointment of Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm 58
w Fees to Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 58
w Report of the Audit Committee 59
 
Proposal 3: Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation 60
 
Other Information 61
w Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance 61
w Other Business 61
w Expenses of Solicitation 61
w Shareholder Proposals for the 2015 Annual Meeting of Shareholders 61

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Information About The Meeting and Voting


What Am I Voting on?

Our Board of Trustees is soliciting your vote for:

                      w      

The election of seven Trustees to serve as members of our Board of Trustees until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors are elected and qualified.

 
        w       Ratification of the Audit Committee’s appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for calendar year 2014.

Our Board is also requesting you to cast an advisory, non-binding vote on:

                      w       Our executive compensation.

If any other matter should be properly presented at the Meeting or any adjournment or postponement of the Meeting for action by the shareholders, the persons named in the proxy card will vote the proxy in accordance with their best judgment on such matter.


What Are the Board’s Recommendations?

Our Board recommends that you vote:

                      w       FOR the election of the Trustees nominated and named in this proxy statement to serve as Trustees;
 
        w       FOR the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for calendar year 2014; and
 
        w       FOR the approval, on an advisory, non-binding basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers.


Who Is Entitled to Vote?

Holders of common shares of record as of the close of business on April 2, 2014 are entitled to notice of and to vote at the Meeting. Common shares can be voted only if the shareholder is present in person or is represented by proxy at the Meeting. As of the record date, 156,916,901 common shares were issued and outstanding and entitled to vote.


How Do I Vote?

Shareholders of Record. If you are a shareholder of record, there are several ways for you to vote your common shares at the Meeting:

                      w       Voting by Internet. You may vote your shares through the Internet by signing on to the website identified on the proxy card and following the procedures described on the website. Internet voting is available 24 hours a day, and the procedures are designed to authenticate votes cast by using a personal identification number located on the proxy card. The procedures allow you to appoint a proxy to vote your shares and to confirm that your instructions have been properly recorded. If you vote through the Internet, you should not return your proxy card.
 
        w       Voting by Mail. If you choose to vote by mail, simply complete the enclosed proxy card, date and sign it, and return it in the postage-paid envelope provided. If you sign your proxy card and



                            return it without marking any voting instructions, your shares will be voted: (1) FOR the election of all Trustee nominees; (2) FOR the ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for calendar year 2014; and (3) FOR the approval of the compensation of our named executive officers.
 
        w       Voting by Telephone. You may vote your shares by telephone by calling toll-free 1-800-690-6903. Telephone voting is available 24 hours a day, and the procedures are designed to authenticate votes cast by using a personal identification number located on the proxy card. The procedures allow you to appoint a proxy to vote your shares and to confirm that your instructions have been properly recorded. If you vote by telephone, you should not return your proxy card.
 
        w       In Person Attendance. You may vote your shares in person at the Meeting. Even if you plan to attend the Meeting in person, we recommend that you submit your proxy card or voting instructions or vote by telephone or via the Internet by the applicable deadline so that your vote will be counted if you later decide not to attend the Meeting.

Beneficial Owners. If you are a shareholder whose shares are held in “street name” (i.e., in the name of a broker or other custodian) you may vote the shares in person at the Meeting only if you obtain a legal proxy from the broker or other custodian giving you the right to vote the shares. Alternatively, you may have your shares voted at the Meeting by following the voting instructions provided to you by your broker or custodian. Although most brokers offer voting by mail, telephone and via the Internet, availability and specific procedures will depend on their voting arrangements. If you do not provide voting instructions to your broker or other custodian, your shares are referred to as “uninstructed shares.” Under rules of the New York Stock Exchange, your broker or other custodian does not have discretion to vote uninstructed shares on non-routine matters, such as Proposals 1 and 3, accordingly, may not vote uninstructed shares in the votes on such Proposals. However, your broker or other custodian has discretion to vote your shares on Proposal 2.


How You May Revoke or Change Your Vote

You may revoke your proxy at any time before it is voted at the Meeting by any of the following methods:

                      w       Submitting a later-dated proxy by mail, over the telephone or through the Internet.
 
        w       Sending a written notice, including by telecopy, to our Secretary. You must send any written notice of a revocation of a proxy so as to be delivered before the taking of the vote at the Meeting to:
 
        Brandywine Realty Trust
555 East Lancaster Avenue
Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087
Attention: Brad A. Molotsky, Secretary
 
        w       Attending the Meeting and voting in person. Your attendance at the Meeting will not in and of itself revoke your proxy. You must also vote your shares at the Meeting.


What Constitutes a Quorum?

A quorum of common shareholders is required to hold a valid meeting of shareholders. Unless a quorum is present at the Meeting, no action may be taken at the Meeting except the adjournment thereof to a later time. The holders of a majority of the outstanding common shares entitled to vote at the Meeting must be present in person or by proxy to constitute a quorum. All valid proxies returned will be included in the determination of whether a quorum is present at the Meeting. The shares of a shareholder whose ballot on any or all proposals is marked as “abstain” will be treated as present for quorum purposes. If a

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broker indicates on the proxy that it does not have discretionary authority as to certain shares to vote on a particular matter, those uninstructed shares will be considered as present for determining a quorum, but will not be voted with respect to that matter.


What Vote Is Required to Approve Each Proposal?

Voting Rights Generally. Each common share is entitled to one vote on each matter to be voted on at the Meeting. Shareholders have no cumulative voting rights. Although the advisory vote on Proposal 3 is non-binding, as provided by law, our Board will review the results of the vote and, consistent with our record of shareowner engagement, will take the result into account in making a determination concerning executive compensation.

Election of Trustees. Trustees are elected by a plurality of the votes cast at the Meeting. Shareholders may vote in favor of all nominees, withhold their votes as to all nominees, or withhold their votes as to specific nominees. “Votes cast” excludes abstentions and any votes withheld by brokers or other custodians in the absence of instructions from street-name holders (“broker non-votes”). Abstentions and broker non-votes will therefore have no effect on the result of such vote.

Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. Ratification of the Audit Committee’s appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2014 requires the affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast on this Proposal. Abstentions and broker non-votes will therefore have no effect on the result of such vote.

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation. Approval, by non-binding vote, of our executive compensation requires the affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast on this Proposal. Abstentions and broker non-votes will therefore have no effect on the result of such vote.


Who Counts the Votes?

We have engaged Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. as our independent agent to receive and tabulate votes. Broadridge will separately tabulate “for”, “against” and “withhold” votes, abstentions and broker non-votes. We have also retained an independent election inspector to certify the results, determine the existence of a quorum and the validity of proxies and ballots.


What Does it Mean if I Receive More Than One Proxy Card?

Some of your shares may be registered differently or are in more than one account. You should vote each of your accounts by telephone or the Internet or mail. If you mail proxy cards, please sign, date and return each proxy card to assure that all of your shares are voted. If you hold your shares in registered form and wish to combine your shareholder accounts in the future, you should contact our transfer agent, Computershare, at P.O. Box 30170, College Station, Texas 77845-3170, phone (888) 985-2061; outside the U.S., phone (781) 575-2724. Combining accounts reduces excess printing and mailing costs, resulting in savings for us that benefit you as a shareholder.


What if I Receive Only One Set of Proxy Materials Although
There Are Multiple Shareholders at My Address?

If you and other residents at your mailing address own common shares you may have received a notice that your household will receive only one annual report, proxy statement and Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials. If you hold common shares in street name, you may have received this notice from your broker or other custodian and the notice may apply to each company in which you hold

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shares through that broker or custodian. This practice of sending only one copy of proxy materials is known as “householding.” The reason we do this is to attempt to conserve natural resources. If you did not respond to a timely notice that you did not want to participate in householding, you were deemed to have consented to the process. If the foregoing procedures apply to you, one copy of our annual report, proxy statement and Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials has been sent to your address. You may revoke your consent to householding at any time by sending your name, the name of your brokerage firm, and your account number to Broadridge Householding Department, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by calling telephone number (800) 542-1061. The revocation of your consent to householding will be effective 30 days following its receipt. In any event, if you did not receive an individual copy of this proxy statement, our annual report and Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, we will send a copy to you, free of charge, if you address your written request to Brandywine Realty Trust, 555 East Lancaster Avenue, Radnor, PA 19087, Attention: Marge Boccuti or by calling Ms. Boccuti at (610) 832-7702. If you are receiving multiple copies of our annual report, proxy statement and Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, you can request householding by contacting Ms. Boccuti in the same manner.


How Do I Submit a Shareholder Proposal for Next Year’s Annual Meeting?

Shareholder proposals may be submitted for inclusion in the proxy statement for our 2015 annual meeting of shareholders in accordance with rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the advance notice provisions summarized later in this proxy statement under “Other Information — Shareholder Proposals for the 2015 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.” Proposals should be sent via registered, certified, or express mail to: Brad A. Molotsky, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, 555 East Lancaster Avenue, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087.


Will I Receive a Copy of the Annual Report and Form 10-K?

We have furnished our 2013 Annual Report with this proxy statement. The 2013 Annual Report includes our audited financial statements, along with other financial information about us. Our 2013 Annual Report is not part of the proxy solicitation materials.

You can obtain, free of charge, a copy of our Form 10-K, which also includes the audited financial statements of Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P., our operating partnership subsidiary, by:

                      w       accessing our Internet site at www.brandywinerealty.com and clicking on the “Investor Relations” link;
 
        w       writing to our Manager of Investor Relations, Marge Boccuti, at 555 East Lancaster Avenue, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087; or
 
        w       calling Ms. Boccuti at: (610) 832-7702.

You can also obtain a copy of our Form 10-K and other periodic filings that we make with the SEC from the SEC’s EDGAR database at www.sec.gov.


How Can I Access the Proxy Materials Electronically?

This proxy statement and our 2013 Annual Report are available on our website at www.proxyvote.com. Instead of receiving copies of our future annual reports, proxy statements, proxy cards and, when applicable, Notices of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, by mail, shareholders can elect to receive an email that will provide electronic links to our proxy materials and also will give you an electronic link to the proxy voting site. Choosing to receive your future proxy materials or Notices of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials online will save us the cost of producing and mailing documents to you and help conserve natural resources. You may sign up for electronic delivery by visiting www.proxyvote.com.

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Proposal 1: Election of Trustees


Our business and affairs are managed under the direction of our Board of Trustees. Our Board has responsibility for establishing broad corporate policies and for our overall performance. Our Board currently consists of seven Trustees (identified below), and these Trustees have been nominated for election to new terms.

The Trustees have no reason to believe that any of the nominees will be unable or unwilling to be a candidate for election at the time of the Meeting. If any nominee is unable or unwilling to serve on our Board, the persons named in the proxy will use their best judgment in selecting and voting for a substitute candidate or the Board may reduce the number of Trustees.

Each individual elected as a Trustee at the Meeting will serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor is elected and qualified.

The Board of Trustees unanimously recommends that shareholders vote FOR the election of each of the nominees as Trustees.


Trustees

The following table identifies the Trustees nominated for election at the Meeting.

Name Age Position
Walter D’Alessio 80 Non-Executive Chairman of the Board and Trustee
Anthony A. Nichols, Sr. 74 Chairman Emeritus and Trustee
Gerard H. Sweeney 57 President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee
James C. Diggs 65 Trustee
Wyche Fowler 73 Trustee
Michael J. Joyce 72 Trustee
Charles P. Pizzi 63 Trustee

The following are biographical summaries of the Trustees nominated for election at the Meeting.

Walter D’Alessio, Chairman of the Board and Trustee. Mr. D’Alessio was first elected a Trustee on August 22, 1996 and was appointed our non-executive Chairman of the Board on March 25, 2004. Mr. D’Alessio served as Vice Chairman of NorthMarq Capital, a real estate investment banking firm, from October 2003 until December 2011 and since December 2011 has served as principal of NorthMarq Advisors, a real estate consulting group. From 1982 until September 2003, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Legg Mason Real Estate Services, Inc., a mortgage banking firm headquartered in Philadelphia. Previously, Mr. D’Alessio served as Executive Vice President of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation and Executive Director of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. He also serves as a director of PECO Energy Company, a subsidiary of Exelon, Independence Blue Cross, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust and the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Until December 2012, Mr. D’Alessio also served on the board of Exelon. In addition to these boards, during the past five years Mr. D’Alessio served on the board of Motologic, Inc. until 2011.

Areas of Relevant Experience: Real estate; finance; construction and development; government and public policy.

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Anthony A. Nichols, Sr., Chairman Emeritus and Trustee. Mr. Nichols was elected Chairman of our Board on August 22, 1996. On March 25, 2004, Mr. Nichols became Chairman Emeritus of our Board. Mr. Nichols founded The Nichols Company, a private real estate development company, through a corporate joint venture with Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. and was President and Chief Executive Officer from 1982 through August 22, 1996. From 1968 to 1982, Mr. Nichols was Senior Vice President of Colonial Mortgage Service Company (now GMAC Mortgage Corporation) and President of Colonial Advisors (the advisor to P.N.B. Mortgage and Realty Trust). Mr. Nichols has been a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”) and former member of the Board of Governors of the Mortgage Banking Association and Chairman of the Income Loan Committee of the regional Mortgage Bankers Association and the Executive Committee of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. He was Vice Chairman, a member of the Executive Committee and a Trustee of Saint Joseph’s University and also served as Chairman of the Development Committee. Mr. Nichols is a member of the Board of Directors of Fox Chase Bank, as well as Chairman of the Fox Chase Board’s risk management committee and a member of its audit committee.

Areas of Relevant Experience: Real estate; finance; construction and development.

Gerard H. Sweeney, President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee. Mr. Sweeney has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since August 8, 1994 and as our President since November 9, 1988. He was first elected a Trustee on February 9, 1994. Prior to August 1994, in addition to serving as our President, Mr. Sweeney served as Vice President of LCOR, Incorporated (“LCOR”), a real estate development firm. Mr. Sweeney was employed by the Linpro Company (a predecessor of LCOR) from 1983 to 1994 and served in several capacities, including Financial Vice President and General Partner. During this time, Mr. Sweeney was responsible for the development, marketing, management, construction and financial oversight of a diversified portfolio consisting of urban high-rise, mid-rise, flex, warehouse and distribution facilities, retail and apartment complexes. Mr. Sweeney is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable, Chairman of the Schuylkill River Development Corporation (SRDC) and WHYY, and co-chair of the World Class Greater Philadelphia initiative. Mr. Sweeney is also co-founder and co-CEO of Bonomo Turkish Taffy LLC. Additionally, Mr. Sweeney serves on the boards of several other Philadelphia-based non-profit organizations.

Areas of Relevant Experience: Senior executive, with ability to drive and oversee our business strategy; detailed knowledge and unique perspective regarding our strategic and operational opportunities and challenges and our competitive and financial positioning.

James C. Diggs, Trustee. Mr. Diggs was first elected a Trustee on March 21, 2011. From 1997 until his retirement in June 2010, Mr. Diggs served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of PPG Industries, Inc., a producer of coatings and glass products. From 2004 to September 2009, Mr. Diggs also served as Corporate Secretary of PPG Industries, Inc. Mr. Diggs is a director of Allegheny Technologies Inc.

Areas of Relevant Experience: Legal; complex regulatory; energy; financial reporting, accounting and controls.

Wyche Fowler, Trustee. Mr. Fowler was first elected a Trustee on September 1, 2004. Mr. Fowler served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1977-1986) and U.S. Senate (1987-1992) and as ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1996-2001). Mr. Fowler received an A.B. degree in English from North Carolina’s Davidson College in 1962 and a J.D. from Emory University in 1969. Mr. Fowler serves on a number of corporate boards, including Shubert Theatres, NY, Ziopharm, Inc. and Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, and Mr. Fowler is Chair Emeritus of the Middle East Institute, a nonprofit research foundation in Washington, D.C. In addition to these boards, during the past five years Mr. Fowler served on the board of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange until it was acquired by NASDAQ in 2008.

Areas of Relevant Experience: Government and public policy; complex regulatory and legal issues.

Michael J. Joyce, Trustee. Mr. Joyce was first elected a Trustee on June 1, 2004. From 1995 until his retirement from Deloitte in May 2004, Mr. Joyce served as New England Managing Partner of Deloitte, an international accounting firm. Prior to that, he was, for ten years, Philadelphia Managing Partner of

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Deloitte. Mr. Joyce is a director of Allegheny Technologies Inc. In addition, Mr. Joyce served on the board of A.C. Moore Arts and Crafts, Inc. until the company was sold in 2011.

Areas of Relevant Experience: Financial reporting, accounting and controls; risk management.

Charles P. Pizzi, Trustee. Mr. Pizzi was first elected a Trustee on August 22, 1996. Mr. Pizzi served as the President and Chief Executive Officer as well as a director of Tasty Baking Company from October 7, 2002 until the company’s sale in May 2011. Mr. Pizzi served as President and Chief Executive officer of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce from 1989 until October 4, 2002. Mr. Pizzi is a director of Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust and Allied Security Holdings LLC and serves on a variety of civic, educational, charitable and other boards, including the boards of Drexel University, Franklin Square Energy Fund, PHH Corporation and Independence Blue Cross. Mr. Pizzi served on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 2006 through 2011, including as Chairman from 2010 through 2011. In addition, during the past five years Mr. Pizzi served on the board of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange until it was acquired by NASDAQ in 2008.

Areas of Relevant Experience: Government and public policy; finance; financial reporting, accounting and controls; capital markets; risk management.

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Meetings of Trustees and Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Our Board of Trustees held six meetings in 2013. In 2013, each incumbent Trustee attended at least 75% of the aggregate of the total number of meetings of the Board and meetings held by all committees on which he served. In addition, our Board holds informational sessions with our President and Chief Executive Officer. During 2013, the Board held nine informational sessions. Our non-management Trustees also hold regular meetings without management. During 2013, our non-management Trustees held four such meetings.

It is our policy that all Trustees attend annual meetings of shareholders except where the failure to attend is due to unavoidable circumstances or conflicts. All Trustees attended our annual meeting of shareholders on May 30, 2013.



Committees of the Board of Trustees

Our Board of Trustees has standing Audit, Corporate Governance, Compensation and Executive Committees.

The table below provides 2013 membership and meeting information for each of the Board Committees.

Name Audit Corporate Governance Compensation Executive
Walter D’Alessio X X X
Anthony A. Nichols, Sr. X
Gerard H. Sweeney X
James C. Diggs X X
Wyche Fowler X X
Michael J. Joyce X X X
Charles P. Pizzi X X
2013 Meetings 11 3 7 0

Audit Committee. Our Audit Committee assists our Board in overseeing:

        w       the integrity of our financial statements;
 
        w       our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements;
 
        w       related party transactions;
 
        w       the independence and qualifications of our independent registered public accounting firm; and
 
        w       the performance of our internal audit function and independent registered public accounting firm.

Our Audit Committee currently consists of Messrs. Joyce (Chair), Diggs and Pizzi, each of whom is independent within the meaning of the SEC regulations, the listing standards and requirements of the New York Stock Exchange and our Corporate Governance Principles. Each member of the Audit Committee is financially literate, knowledgeable and qualified to review financial statements. Mr. Joyce is qualified as an “audit committee financial expert” within the meaning of SEC regulations. Our Board reached its conclusion as to the qualifications of Mr. Joyce based on his education and experience in analyzing financial statements of a variety of companies. In addition to serving on our Audit Committee, Mr. Joyce currently serves on the audit committee of Allegheny Technologies Inc.

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Policies and Procedures for Review, Approval or Ratification of Transactions with Related Persons

Our Audit Committee’s charter provides for review by the Audit Committee of related party transactions. In addition, our Declaration of Trust, which is our corporate charter, provides for approval of transactions in which any of our Trustees has an interest by a majority of our Trustees who have no interest in the transaction. Therefore, related party transactions with a Trustee require both review by our Audit Committee and approval by a majority of our Trustees who have no interest in the transaction. Our Audit Committee charter and our corporate charter do not state criteria or standards that our Trustees must follow in approving related party transactions. Accordingly, our Trustees consider related party transactions in light of their fiduciary duties to act in an informed and careful manner and in the best interest of us and our shareholders. Since January 1, 2013, we have not had any related party transactions.

Corporate Governance Committee. Our Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for:

        w       identifying individuals qualified to become Board members and recommending to our Board the nominees for election to the Board;
 
        w       recommending to our Board any changes in our Corporate Governance Principles;
 
        w       leading our Board in its annual review of Board performance, and making recommendations to the Board regarding Board organization, membership, function and effectiveness, as well as committee structure, membership, function and effectiveness;
 
        w       recommending to our Board Trustee nominees for each Board committee;
 
        w       reviewing our efforts to promote diversity among Trustees, officers, employees and contractors;
 
        w       arranging for an orientation for all Trustees; and
 
        w       assessing succession planning, including assisting the Board in identifying and evaluating potential successors to the President and Chief Executive Officer.

Our Corporate Governance Committee currently consists of Messrs. Fowler (Chair), D’Alessio, Diggs and Nichols. Each member of the Corporate Governance Committee meets the independence requirements of the New York Stock Exchange and our Corporate Governance Principles. The charter of our Corporate Governance Committee requires such independence as a condition to continued membership on the Committee.

Compensation Committee. Our Compensation Committee is responsible for:

        w       reviewing, evaluating and approving compensation plans and programs for our Trustees and senior executives;
 
        w       annually reviewing and approving corporate goals and objectives relevant to compensation of our President and CEO and evaluating his performance in light of these goals and objectives;
 
        w       reviewing and discussing with the full Board whether our compensation programs for employees generally are designed in a manner that creates incentives for employees to take inappropriate or excessive risk; and
 
        w       retaining and terminating any consultant or outside advisor to the Committee (and has sole authority to approve any such consultant’s or advisor’s fees and other terms of engagement).

Since the fourth quarter of 2010, our Compensation Committee has retained Pay Governance LLC as its consultant. We describe the role of the Compensation Committee’s consultant in the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” later in this proxy statement.

Our Compensation Committee currently consists of Messrs. Pizzi (Chair), D’Alessio, Fowler and Joyce. Each member of our Compensation Committee meets the independence requirements of the New York Stock Exchange and our Corporate Governance Principles. The charter of our Compensation Committee requires such independence as a condition to continued membership on the Committee.

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For further information on the process and procedures of our Compensation Committee, please see “Compensation Discussion and Analysis – Decision Making”.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

The Compensation Committee of our Board is currently comprised of Charles P. Pizzi (Chair), Walter D’Alessio, Wyche Fowler and Michael J. Joyce. No member of the Compensation Committee is or has been an officer or employee of the Company. In addition, none of our executive officers serves as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any company that has an executive officer serving as a member of our Board.

Executive Committee. Our Executive Committee has authority to approve certain significant acquisitions, dispositions and other investments, subject to limitations set by the Board. Our Executive Committee currently consists of Messrs. Sweeney (Chair), D’Alessio and Joyce.



Trustee Independence; Independence Determination

No Trustee qualifies as independent unless our Board affirmatively determines that the Trustee has no material relationship with us, directly or as a partner, share owner or officer of an organization that has a relationship with us.

Our Board has adopted standards that are set forth in our Corporate Governance Principles. These standards meet the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange and assist our Board in its evaluation of each Trustee’s independence. These standards provide that a Trustee who has any of the following relationships or arrangements will not qualify as independent:

        w       The Trustee is, or has been within the last three years, an employee of ours, or an immediate family member of the Trustee is, or has been within the last three years, an executive officer of ours.
 
        w       The Trustee has received, or has an immediate family member who has received, during any twelve-month period within the last three years, more than $120,000 in direct compensation from us (excluding compensation in the form of Board fees and Board committee fees and pension or other forms of deferred compensation not contingent on continued service).
 
        w       (A) The Trustee or an immediate family member is a current partner of a firm that is our internal or external auditor; (B) the Trustee is a current employee of such a firm; (C) the Trustee has an immediate family member who is a current employee of such a firm and who participates in the firm’s audit, assurance or tax compliance (but not tax planning) practice; or (D) the Trustee or an immediate family member was within the last three years (but is no longer) a partner or employee of such a firm and personally worked on our audit within that time.
 
        w       The Trustee or an immediate family member of the Trustee is, or has been within the last three years, employed as an executive officer of another company where any of our present executive officers at the same time serves or served on that company’s compensation committee.
 
        w       The Trustee is a current employee, or an immediate family member of the Trustee is a current executive officer, of a company that has made payments to, or received payments from, us for property or services in an amount which, in any of the last three fiscal years, exceeds the greater of $1 million or 2% of such other company’s consolidated gross revenues.

In its assessment of Trustee independence, our Board considers all commercial, charitable and other relationships and transactions that any Trustee or member of his immediate family may have with us, with any of our affiliates or with any of our consultants or advisers. Our Board applies the same criteria for assessing independence for purposes of each of the Audit Committee, Corporate Governance Committee and Compensation Committee. In addition, no member of the Audit Committee or Compensation Committee may accept directly or indirectly any consulting, advisory or other

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compensatory fee from us (other than fees for service as a Trustee and member of Board committees) or be an affiliate of us.

Our Board has affirmatively determined that each of Messrs. D’Alessio, Diggs, Fowler, Joyce, Nichols and Pizzi is independent under the standards of the New York Stock Exchange and those set forth in our Corporate Governance Principles and that the Audit Committee, Corporate Governance Committee and Compensation Committee are comprised exclusively of independent Trustees.

Our Board did not determine Mr. Sweeney to be independent because of his position as our President and Chief Executive Officer.



Corporate Governance

Governance Compliance: Our policies and practices comply with the listing requirements of the New York Stock Exchange and the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Our Board and Corporate Governance Committee regularly evaluate our approach to corporate governance in light of changing regulatory requirements and evolving best practices.

        w       Our Board has adopted corporate governance policies as reflected in our Corporate Governance Principles.
 
        w       A majority of our Trustees are independent of us and our management, and all members of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Corporate Governance Committee are independent.
 
        w       All Trustees are elected annually; we do not have a classified board.
 
        w       The Chairman of our Board is independent.
 
        w       Our non-management Trustees meet regularly without the presence of management.
 
        w       The charters of our Board committees clearly establish the respective roles and responsibilities of the committees.
 
        w       Our Board has adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to all of our Trustees, officers and employees.
 
        w       We have a toll-free hotline available to all employees, and our Audit Committee has established procedures for the anonymous submission of any employee complaint, including those relating to accounting, internal controls or auditing matters.
 
        w       Our Board and Board committees undertake an annual performance self-evaluation.

Additional information on our corporate governance is provided in the following paragraphs and elsewhere in this proxy statement.

Board Leadership Structure: Our Board believes that independent Board leadership is a critical component of our corporate governance. Mr. D’Alessio is Chairman of the Board and Mr. Sweeney is our President and Chief Executive Officer and a Trustee. As Chairman of the Board, Mr. D’Alessio presides at executive sessions of non-management Trustees, oversees the agenda of Board meetings, provides guidance to our President and Chief Executive Officer as to Board views and perspectives, particularly on our strategic direction, and is available to shareholders and other parties interested in communicating with our non-management Trustees. As President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Sweeney is responsible for our day-to-day operations, engaging with shareholders and external constituents, developing our future leaders and executing our strategy. The Board believes that its leadership structure (i) achieves independent oversight and evaluation of our senior management; (ii) assures effective communication between the Board and senior management on corporate strategy; and (iii) fosters effective decision-making and accountability.

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Executive and Trustee Share Ownership Requirements: We maintain minimum share ownership requirements for our executives and Trustees. We have summarized these requirements later in this proxy statement under “Compensation Discussion and Analysis — Share Ownership Requirements.”

Hedging Policy: Our executives and Trustees are prohibited from hedging their ownership or offsetting any decline in the market value of our shares, including by trading in publicly-traded options, puts, calls or other derivative instruments related to our shares.

Succession Planning: Our Board, primarily through our Corporate Governance Committee, assesses succession planning for management and leadership, with a primary focus on succession in the event of the unexpected incapacity of our President and Chief Executive Officer. Our Corporate Governance Principles provide that our President and Chief Executive Officer should at all times make available to the Board, on a confidential basis, his recommendations and evaluations of potential successors.

Code of Conduct: We maintain a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, a copy of which is available on our website (www.brandywinerealty.com), applicable to our Trustees, officers and employees. The Code of Business Conduct and Ethics reflects and reinforces our commitment to integrity in the conduct of our business. Any waiver of the Code for executive officers or Trustees may only be made by the Board or by the Audit Committee (which is composed solely of independent Trustees) and will be disclosed promptly as required by law or stock exchange regulation. In addition to the strictures on our personnel included in our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, we notify our vendors annually of our commitment to the highest ethical standards and the restrictions in our Code on improper payments and gratuities to our personnel.

Hotline Submissions: Our Audit Committee has established procedures, set forth in our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, for the submission of complaints about our accounting or auditing matters. These procedures include a hotline for the anonymous submission of concerns regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters. Any matters reported through the hotline that involve accounting, internal controls over financial reporting or auditing matters, or any fraud involving management or persons who have a significant role in our internal controls over financial reporting, will be reported to the Chairman of our Audit Committee. Our current hotline number is (877) 888-0002.

Availability of Committee Charters; Corporate Governance Principles; and Code of Conduct: Our Board has adopted, and annually reviews, charters for each of the Audit, Compensation, Corporate Governance and Executive Committees. These charters and our Corporate Governance Principles and our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics are available on our website (www.brandywinerealty.com) and we will also make available in print copies of these documents to any shareholder, without charge, upon request.



Board’s Role in Risk Oversight

Our Board as a whole has responsibility for risk oversight, with reviews of certain areas being conducted by the relevant Board Committees that report on their deliberations to the Board. The oversight responsibility of the Board and its Committees is enabled by management reporting processes that are designed to provide visibility to the Board about the identification, assessment and management of critical risks and management’s risk mitigation strategies. These areas of focus include competitive, economic, operational, financial (accounting, credit, liquidity and tax), legal, regulatory, compliance and reputational risks. The Board and its Committees oversee risks associated with their respective principal areas of focus, as summarized below.

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Committee       Primary Areas of Risk Oversight
Audit Committee

Risks and exposures associated with financial matters, particularly financial reporting, tax, accounting, disclosure, internal control over financial reporting, financial policies, investment guidelines and credit and liquidity matters.

 
Corporate Governance Committee

Risks and exposures associated with leadership and succession planning; and corporate governance.

 
Compensation Committee

Risks and exposures associated with executive compensation programs and arrangements, including incentive plans. See “Compensation Discussion and Analysis — Additional Compensation Information — Compensation and Risks.”



Trustee Nominations

In making its recommendations as to nominees for election to our Board, the Corporate Governance Committee may consider, in its sole judgment, recommendations of our President and Chief Executive Officer, other Trustees, senior executives, shareholders and third parties. The Corporate Governance Committee may also retain third-party search firms to identify candidates. Shareholders desiring to recommend nominees should submit their recommendations in writing to Walter D’Alessio, Chairman of the Board, c/o Brandywine Realty Trust, 555 East Lancaster Avenue, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087. Recommendations from shareholders should include pertinent information concerning the proposed nominee’s background and experience.

Our Board’s Corporate Governance Principles set forth qualifications for Trustee nominees and the qualifications include a nominee’s:

        w       personal ethics, integrity and values;
 
        w       inquiring and independent mind;
 
        w       practical wisdom and mature judgment;
 
        w       broad training and experience at the policy making level in business, government, education or technology;
 
        w       willingness to devote the required amount of time to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of Board membership;
 
        w       commitment to serve on the Board over a period of years in order to develop knowledge about our operations; and
 
        w       involvement in activities or interests that do not create a conflict with the nominee’s responsibilities to us and our shareholders.

The Corporate Governance Committee also considers such other factors as it deems appropriate, including the current composition of the Board. The Committee and Board believe that Board membership should reflect diversity in its broadest sense, including persons diverse in skills, background, gender and ethnicity. The Committee has not adopted a formal policy for the consideration of diversity in identifying candidates for the Board. The Committee has not adopted any criteria for evaluating a candidate for nomination to the Board that differ depending on whether the candidate is nominated by a shareholder versus by a Trustee, member of management or other third parties.

If the Committee decides, on the basis of its preliminary review of a candidate, to proceed with further consideration of the candidate, members of the Committee, as well as other members of the Board,

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interview the candidate. After completing its evaluation, the Committee makes a recommendation to the full Board, which makes the final determination whether to nominate or appoint the candidate as a new Trustee. Our President and Chief Executive Officer, as a Trustee, participates in the Board’s determination.



Communications with the Board

Shareholders and other parties interested in communicating directly with our lead independent Trustee and Chairman of the Board (Mr. D’Alessio), or with our non-management Trustees as a group, may do so by writing to Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Brandywine Realty Trust, 555 East Lancaster Avenue, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087. In addition, any shareholder or interested party who wishes to communicate with our Board or any specific Trustee, including non-management Trustees, may write to Board of Trustees, c/o Brandywine Realty Trust, at our headquarters’ address. Depending on the subject matter, management will:

        w       forward the communication to the Trustee or Trustees to whom it is addressed. (For example, if the communication received deals with questions or complaints regarding accounting, it will be forwarded by management to the Chairman of our Audit Committee for review);
 
        w       attempt to handle the inquiry directly (for example, where the communication is a request for information about us or our operations that does not appear to require direct attention by the Board or an individual Trustee); or
 
        w       not forward the communication if it is primarily commercial in nature or relates to an improper or irrelevant topic.

At each meeting of the Board, the Chairman of the Board will present a summary of all communications (if any) received since the last meeting of the Board that were not forwarded and will make those communications available to any Trustee upon request.

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Trustee Compensation

The following table and footnotes provide information on the 2013 compensation of our Trustees (other than our President and Chief Executive Officer, who is not separately compensated for his service on the Board). In the paragraph following the table and footnotes we describe our standard compensation arrangements for service on the Board and Board committees.

All Other
Fees Earned or Share Awards Compensation Total
Name Paid in Cash ($)(1) ($)(2) ($) ($)
Walter D’Alessio $       128,494 $       60,000 $       5,271(3) $       193,765
Anthony A. Nichols, Sr. $ 76,500 $ 60,000 $ 6,689(4) $ 143,189
James Diggs $ 87,500 $ 60,000 $ 4,926(3)   $ 152,426
Wyche Fowler $ 93,500   $ 60,000 $ 5,271(3) $ 158,771
Michael J. Joyce $ 106,500 $ 60,000   $ 5,271(3) $ 171,771
Charles P. Pizzi $ 101,500 $ 60,000 $ 5,271(3) $ 166,771

(1)       Represents the aggregate amount of all fees earned or paid in cash for services as a Trustee (including services on committees of the Board) in 2013 and, in the case of the 2013 annual retainer fee, whether paid in shares or cash. Mr. D’Alessio elected to receive $19,994 of his fee amount included in this column in the form of 1,409 common shares (computed based on the closing price of our shares on May 30, 2013, the date of our 2013 annual meeting of shareholders). Amounts include the portion of fees that a Trustee elected to defer under our Deferred Compensation Plan, which we describe later in this proxy statement. See “Compensation Discussion and Analysis — Deferred Compensation Plan.” Mr. Fowler deferred $57,000 of his 2013 cash compensation into his deferred share account under our Deferred Compensation Plan.
 
(2) Represents the grant date fair value of Share Awards computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, excluding the effect of estimated forfeitures. Share Awards consist of restricted common shares awarded annually to our Trustees (other than our President and Chief Executive Officer). On May 30, 2013, each Trustee (other than our President and Chief Executive Officer) received an award of restricted common shares with a grant date fair value of $60,000. These restricted common shares vest in three equal annual installments. Each restricted common share entitles the holder to receive cash distributions and voting rights equivalent to the distribution and voting rights on a common share that is not subject to any restrictions. A restricted common share is subject to forfeiture in the event that the Trustee terminates service on the Board prior to the applicable vesting date for reasons other than death, disability, qualifying retirement or a change of control of us. As of December 31, 2013, each of our non-employee Trustees owned 8,886 unvested restricted common shares.
 
(3) Represents the aggregate dollar amount of dividends paid in 2013 on unvested restricted common shares.
 
(4) Represents (i) $5,271 in dividends paid in 2013 on unvested restricted common shares and (ii) $1,418 in health insurance premiums.

In 2013, our Trustees (other than our President and Chief Executive Officer) received the following compensation for their service as Trustees:

        w       $45,000 annual fee payable in cash or common shares, at each Trustee’s election;
 
        w       $60,000 annual award payable in restricted common shares that vest in three equal annual installments (valued at the closing price of the common shares on the date of our annual meeting of shareholders);
 
        w       $1,500 fee payable in cash for participation in each meeting and informational session of the Board;
 
        w       $1,000 fee payable in cash for participation by a member of a Board committee in each meeting of the committee; and

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        w       $45,000 annual fee payable in cash for the Chair of the Board; $15,000 annual fee payable in cash for the Chair of the Audit Committee; $10,000 annual fee payable in cash for the Chair of the Compensation Committee; and $10,000 annual fee payable in cash for the Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee.

Effective January 1, 2014, we: (i) increased the annual award payable in restricted common shares from $60,000 to $70,000, (ii) increased the fee payable for participation in Board committee meetings from $1,000 to $1,500 and (iii) set the annual fee for service as Chair of the Board, Chair of the Audit Committee, Chair of the Compensation Committee and Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee at $50,000, $20,000, $12,500 and $12,500, respectively.

Our Trustees are also reimbursed for expenses of attending Board and Board committee meetings. In addition, our Corporate Governance Principles encourage our Trustees to attend continuing education programs for directors and provide for reimbursement of the reasonable costs of attending such programs. Trustees may elect to defer the receipt of all or a portion of their $45,000 annual fee and $1,500 per Board meeting fee into our Deferred Compensation Plan.

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Executives and Executive Compensation


Current Executive Officers

The following are biographical summaries of our current executive officers who are not Trustees:

H. Jeffrey DeVuono (age 48) is our Executive Vice President and Senior Managing Director – Pennsylvania Region. Mr. DeVuono joined us in January of 1997. Prior to joining us, Mr. DeVuono worked for LCOR, Inc., a private development company that had a previous association with us, where he held a variety of positions, all of which related to asset management. Prior to joining LCOR, Mr. DeVuono was a sales representative for Cushman & Wakefield of Philadelphia. Mr. DeVuono serves as Chairman of the Board of the King of Prussia Business Improvement District. He is also a member of CoreNet, NAREIT, NAIOP, the Sunday Morning Breakfast Club, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Zell/Laurie Real Estate Center. Mr. DeVuono is a graduate of LaSalle University.

George D. Johnstone (age 50) is our Executive Vice President, Operations. Mr. Johnstone joined us in November 1998. He works in conjunction with our regional managing directors in running our operations. Prior to his appointment on March 12, 2014 as our Executive Vice President, Operations, Mr. Johnstone served as our Senior Vice President, Operations & Asset Management. Prior to his service in that position, Mr. Johnstone served as our Vice President of Operations for our Pennsylvania Region (2004 – 2005) and for our New Jersey Region (2002 – 2004) and served as Director of Operations for our New Jersey Region from 1998 until 2002. Prior to joining us, Mr. Johnstone was the Regional Controller for Linpro/LCOR Inc., where he was responsible for strategic and tactical accounting processes and oversight and leadership of all accounting functions for that company. Mr. Johnstone earned his B.S. in accounting from Albright College.

Gabriel J. Mainardi (age 40) is our Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Mainardi joined us in 2005 as our corporate controller. Prior to joining us, Mr. Mainardi was a senior manager in public accounting at Ernst & Young LLP, where he worked from October 1996 through July 2005, specializing in real estate clients. Mr. Mainardi is a member of NAREIT and the PICPA, and is licensed certified public accountant in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and earned his B.S. in accounting from Villanova University.

Brad A. Molotsky (age 49) is our Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Mr. Molotsky became our General Counsel and Secretary in October 1997; became a Senior Vice President in December 2004; became an Executive Vice President in August 2009; and became responsible for helping to create our company-wide sustainability initiative in 2010. Prior to joining us, Mr. Molotsky was an attorney at Pepper Hamilton LLP in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Molotsky is a member of NAREIT and the Real Estate Roundtable (serving as Vice-Chair of their Sustainability Taskforce), and a board member of the Committee of Seventy, the Delaware Valley Green Building Council, the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society – Philadelphia chapter, and The Federation of Southern New Jersey. Mr. Molotsky also serves as President and a board member of Jewish Community Properties, Inc., a non-profit affiliated with The Federation of Southern New Jersey. In addition, Mr. Molotsky is a member of NAIOP, the Urban Land Institute, the Southern New Jersey Development Council and BOMA (and serves on its national advisory board) and serves on the advisory committees of the Greater Philadelphia Energy Efficient Buildings Innovation Cluster and the C.A.R.E.S. Institute. Mr. Molotsky earned a B.S. in accounting from the University of Delaware and a JD/MBA from Villanova University’s School of Law and the College of Business and Finance.

George D. Sowa (age 54) is our Executive Vice President and Senior Managing Director – New Jersey/Delaware Region. Mr. Sowa joined us on April 13, 1998. Prior to joining us, Mr. Sowa was employed by Keating Development Company, a real estate development firm, from 1997 to 1998, as a development manager. Mr. Sowa was also employed by Linpro/LCOR, Incorporated as Director of Development/Operations from 1989 to 1997. Mr. Sowa serves on the National Board of NAIOP as well as

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being immediate past President and Board member of the New Jersey Chapter of NAIOP. Mr. Sowa is also a member of NAREIT and is on the board of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey and the Evergreens. Mr. Sowa holds a real estate broker’s license in New Jersey and a real estate sales license in Pennsylvania and earned a B.S. from Cornell University.

Thomas E. Wirth (age 50) was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on March 10, 2014. Prior to his appointment as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Wirth, who joined us in December 2009, served as our Executive Vice President, Portfolio Management and Investments. In that position, he directed portfolio management, acquisition and disposition activities and assisted in formulating our capital allocation tactics, including structuring joint ventures and construction financings. From 2004 until 2009, Mr. Wirth served as President (2007-2009) and Chief Financial Officer of Feldman Mall Properties. From 1997 to 2004, he served first as the Vice President of Finance and later as Chief Financial Officer of SL Green Realty Corporation. Mr. Wirth has also served as Vice President of Financial Reporting and Analysis for Greenwich, Connecticut-based United Waste System, Inc., and spent ten years with Ernst & Young LLP in various positions, including Senior Manager. Mr. Wirth earned his B.A. in business management and accounting from Gettysburg College.

Former Executive Officer

On March 10, 2014, Mr. Wirth replaced Howard M. Sipzner as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Sipzner (age 51) had served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from January 2007 until termination of his employment with us on March 10, 2014.



Compensation Discussion and Analysis

Executive Summary

2013 Accomplishments

        w       Delivering total returns to shareholders of 20.5% for the one-year period ended December 31, 2013 and 36.8% for the three-year period ended December 31, 2013.
 
        w       Achieving year-end portfolio occupancy of 89.5%, up 120 basis points from year-end 2012.
 
        w       Acquiring 2.2 million square feet of office properties, including substantially all of One and Two Commerce Square, twin high-rise office towers in Philadelphia containing 1.9 million square feet.
 
        w       Launching $771 million of new developments, including (i) evo at Cira, a 395 foot mixed-use residential tower one block from Amtrak’s 30th Street Station in Philadelphia that we own through a joint venture; and (ii) the FMC Tower at Cira Centre South, designed as a 47-story office and residential tower two blocks from 30th Street Station and slated for occupancy in mid-2016.
 
        w       Forming strategic joint ventures, including a 50-50 joint venture with DRA Advisors that acquired our Austin, Texas office portfolio containing 1.4 million square feet.
 
w Strengthening of our balance sheet through strong operating results, marked by 3.5% same-store GAAP NOI growth and 8.1% GAAP rent growth, and a $349 million asset recycling program along with capital markets activity, including a $158 million common equity offering.

Summary of Compensation Decisions for 2013

        w       2013 Pay for Performance: Our annual incentive plan for named executive officers is tied to corporate financial, operational and strategic goal achievement (80%) and to individual goal achievement (20%). Our 2013 goals reflected our emphasis on operations, leasing, investments and balance sheet strength and we have presented below a summary of the components of our “scorecard” that links our annual incentive awards to our performance against targets.

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Payments made for the individual goal achievement portion varied depending on the achievement of the stated goals. See “—Discussion—Annual Incentive Awards” below.
 

        w       Compensation of President and Chief Executive Officer: Mr. Sweeney’s salary remained at $600,000 for calendar year 2013 (and has remained unchanged since 2007). He was awarded long-term incentive equity in 2013 with an aggregate grant date fair value of $1,800,000. Two-thirds of this long-term incentive equity award (based on relative grant date fair values) consisted of performance units with a potential pay-out, after a three-year performance period, dependent on our total shareholder return measured relative to (i) companies in a broad REIT index (for 50% of the award) and (ii) to companies in our peer group (for 50% of the award). One-third of this long-term incentive equity award (based on relative grant date fair values) consisted of restricted shares that are subject to vesting on the third anniversary of the award date. In addition, Mr. Sweeney received an annual incentive award for 2013 of $1,200,000 (100% of his award target), reflecting the Committee’s assessment of our performance and Mr. Sweeney’s individual performance against the metrics in our 2013 “scorecard”, as described below. See “—Discussion — President and Chief Executive Officer Annual Incentive Award.” Moreover, in recognition of Mr. Sweeney’s leadership and contributions over many years, the Committee awarded him a bonus on March 12, 2014, comprised of a $250,000 cash payment and 24,424 restricted shares that are scheduled to vest in three equal annual installments on April 15, 2015, April 15, 2016 and April 15, 2017, subject to Mr. Sweeney’s continued employment with us (with earlier vesting upon death, disability, a change of control or termination of his employment without cause or resignation for good reason).
 
        w       Compensation of Other Named Executive Officers: The base salaries of our other named executive officers remained largely unchanged for 2013 compared to 2012 (with Messrs. Wirth, DeVuono and Johnstone receiving $7,750, $7,500 and $6,000 increases, respectively). These other executive officers (excluding Mr. Sipzner) received long-term incentive equity awards in 2013 with aggregate grant date fair values that reflected a 6.78% average increase over 2012 award levels, with the awards allocated two-thirds to performance units and one-third to restricted shares (based on relative grant date fair values). In addition, based on our 2013 performance scorecard, these other executive officers (excluding Mr. Sipzner) received annual incentive awards for 2013 that reflected an 8.81% average increase over 2012 award levels. See “—Discussion — Annual Incentive Awards.”
 
        w       Weighting of Performance-Based Awards: Our Compensation Committee set the composition of long-term equity awards granted to our named executive officers in each of March 2012 and February 2013 to consist exclusively of performance units (two-thirds) and sted restricted shares (one-third). The long-term equity awards granted to our named executive officers (excluding Mr. Sipzner) in March 2014 consisted exclusively of performance units (two-thirds) and sted restricted shares (one-third) with the exception that the non-cash portion of Mr. Sweeney’s bonus award on March 12, 2014 was in the form of 24,424 restricted shares. Our Compensation Committee has not awarded options since March 2011.
 
        w       116% Pay-out on 2011 Performance Units: The year 2013 was the final performance year of the 2011 award of performance units and, as a result of our cumulative 36.8% total shareholder return during the three-year measurement period for these units, we paid out common shares at 116% of target. (Our pay-out a year earlier for the 2010 award of performance units was at 50% of target based on the three-year measurement period for these units). See “—Capsule Information — Capsule Information: Settlement under 2011 Performance Units.”

Other Highlights

        w       Last Year’s Say on Pay Vote; Pay for Performance Analysis Conducted Annually: As part of its commitment to pay-for-performance, our Compensation Committee considered the favorable shareholder vote on our executive compensation at the May 2013 annual meeting of shareholders (approximately 97.4% of the votes cast were cast “FOR” our executive compensation). Our Compensation Committee also assessed our pay practices in light of

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published guidelines of ISS and evolving views on best pay practices. In seeking to link our compensation programs and practices with performance, our Compensation Committee evaluates a variety of data, including:

        w       Hedging Policy: Our executives and Trustees are prohibited from hedging their ownership or offsetting any decline in the market value of our shares, including by trading in publicly-traded options, puts, calls or other derivative instruments related to our shares.
 
        w       Stock Ownership Guidelines: We have share ownership requirements for executives and trustees that we believe align the financial interests of our executives and trustees with those of our shareholders. See “– Additional Compensation Information – Share Ownership Requirements.”


Overview and Philosophy

Our Compensation Committee sets and administers our executive compensation policies and practices. Through these policies and practices we seek to attract, retain and motivate high quality executives to advance our corporate goal of maximizing total returns to shareholders through quarterly dividends and share price appreciation. We believe that these policies and practices:

              1.     encourage the achievement of annual and longer-term business goals designed to build shareholder value;
 
2. provide compensation that is competitive with peer group companies;
 
3. enhance retention; and
 
4. encourage executives to achieve superior performance without excessive risk taking.

Our executive compensation program consists of three principal components: base salary; annual incentive awards; and equity-based long-term incentives. We discuss each of these components separately below.

Base salaries provide a regular stream of income and financial security. Base salaries are reviewed annually against market data and may be adjusted to reflect changes in individual responsibilities, skills, experience and performance. See “Discussion — Base Salary.”

Annual incentive awards are designed to reward executives who achieve annual performance goals that take into account and enhance our corporate performance. These performance goals fall within three general categories: corporate, business unit/regional and individual. These performance goals include both quantitative and non-quantitative performance measures. As we discuss in greater detail below, our Compensation Committee believes that a significant portion of each annual incentive award should be based on quantitative performance measures and also believes that more subjective elements are important in recognizing achievement and motivating officers. See “Discussion — Annual Incentive Awards.”

Equity-based long-term incentives are awarded to motivate, reward and retain key employees over longer periods and to align their interests with those of our shareholders. In 2011 and earlier years, these

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incentives consisted of a mix of (i) performance units; (ii) time vested restricted common shares; and (iii) options. As part of our ongoing effort to assure pay-for-performance alignment, the composition of awards made on March 1, 2012, February 25, 2013, March 11, 2014 and March 12, 2014 consist exclusively of (i) performance units and (ii) time vested restricted common shares. An executive whose employment with us terminates before incentive awards have vested or been earned, either because the executive has not performed in accordance with our expectations or because the executive chooses to leave (other than upon a qualifying retirement), will normally forfeit the unvested portions of the awards (except as otherwise provided in an employment agreement). See “—Vesting and Forfeiture Provisions.”

Generally, as an executive’s responsibilities increase, our Compensation Committee allocates a greater portion of the executive’s total compensation to annual incentive awards and equity-based long-term incentive awards (“variable” compensation) as compared to base salary (“fixed” compensation). A significant percentage of the variable compensation of our senior executives is composed of performance units and restricted common shares because: (i) we believe that the interests of these executives should be closely aligned with the interests of our shareholders; (ii) we want these individuals to maintain a long-term focus for us; and (iii) these types of pay arrangements are generally consistent with the compensation practices of peer companies with which we compete for executive talent.

Each year our Compensation Committee, along with our President and Chief Executive Officer, establishes performance targets under our incentive plans that tie awards to achievement of financial and operational results. We provide quantitative detail on these targets and results for 2013 below. See “Discussion — Annual Incentive Awards — Corporate Goals.” Following the end of each year, our Compensation Committee determines compensation by assessing performance against these targets, as well as in light of our total shareholder return over differing periods and our performance relative to our peers, measured against financial and non-financial metrics. Ultimately, the amount of compensation awarded to our executives is determined based on what our Compensation Committee believes is in the best interests of shareholders.

Consistent with our “pay-for-performance” philosophy and the significant percentage of total compensation of our President and Chief Executive Officer that consists of variable compensation, his annual base salary has remained unchanged at $600,000 for 2007 through the date of this proxy statement while his variable compensation has experienced significant year-over-year changes, as reflected in the following table and graph.

Variable Compensation
Long-Term Year over  
Annual Incentive Special Total Variable Year %  
Year      Award (1)           Award (2)           Award (3)           Compensation           Change  
2013 $ 1,200,000   $ 1,799,990(4) $ 602,927   $ 3,602,917   25.1  
2012 $ 1,080,000 $ 1,800,006(5)   -- $ 2,880,006 8.9
2011 $ 900,000 $ 1,745,625(6)   -- $ 2,645,625 (2.1 )    
2010 $ 900,000 $ 1,802,069(7) -- $ 2,702,069 55.9
2009 $ 1,050,000 $ 682,215(8) -- $ 1,732,215 --

      (1)       The amounts shown under the “Annual Award” column in the above table have been derived from and reflect the annual amounts presented under the “Non-Equity Incentive Plan” column in the Summary Compensation Tables in our annual proxy statements that relate to the applicable year.
 
(2) The amounts shown under the “Long-Term Incentive Award” column in the above table have been derived from and reflect the amounts presented under the “Grant Date Fair Value of Share and Option Awards” column in the Grants of Plan-Based Awards tables in our annual proxy statements that relate to the applicable year. For example, the 2013 amount ($1,799,990) was awarded on February 25, 2013.
 
(3) Represents a bonus awarded on March 12, 2014 and comprised of a $250,000 cash payment and 24,424 restricted shares (with an aggregate grant date value of $352,927) that are scheduled to vest in three equal annual installments on April 15, 2015, April 15, 2016 and April 15, 2017.

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      (4)       Consists of performance units ($1,205,995) and restricted common shares ($593,995) that cliff vest on the third anniversary of the award date
 
(5) Consists of performance units ($1,200,002) and restricted common shares ($600,004) that cliff vest on the third anniversary of the award date.
 
(6) Consists of performance units ($539,064); ten-year options (approximately 53% of which have vesting tied to our total shareholder return) ($658,408); and restricted common shares ($548,153) that cliff vested on the third anniversary of the award date.
 
(7) Consists of performance units ($551,091); ten-year options ($700,000); and restricted common shares ($550,978) that cliff vested on the third anniversary of the award date.
 
(8) Consists of performance units ($331,472); ten-year options ($21,654); and restricted common shares ($329,089) that cliff vested on the third anniversary of the award date.

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Total Variable Compensation

(President and Chief Executive Officer)


The following pages of this Compensation Discussion and Analysis include:

        w       A description of the roles of those responsible for overseeing and implementing our executive compensation;
 
        w       A discussion of each of the principal components of our executive compensation program;
 
        w       An explanation of how we set compensation targets, establish performance goals and determine amounts and forms of compensation; and
 
        w       A summary of other key aspects of our executive compensation.


Decision Making

Committee Authority. Our Compensation Committee’s responsibilities include:

        w       Approving the goals and objectives relating to our President and Chief Executive Officer’s compensation, evaluating the performance of our President and Chief Executive Officer in light of such goals and objectives, and setting the compensation of our President and Chief Executive Officer based on this evaluation;
 
        w       Approving the salaries and annual incentive awards of our other executive officers either (i) with the title Executive Vice President, (ii) with the title Senior Vice President or Vice President, in either case who hold a position as Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel or Chief Administrative Officer or (iii) who report directly to our President and Chief Executive

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                Officer, taking into account the recommendation of our President and Chief Executive Officer and such other information as the Committee believes appropriate;
 
        w       Administering our equity incentive plans, including authorizing restricted common shares, performance units, options and other equity-based awards under these plans;
 
        w       Retaining and terminating, in its sole discretion, third party consultants to assist in the evaluation of Trustee and executive compensation (with sole authority to approve any such consultant’s fees and other terms of engagement); and
 
        w       Assessing the appropriate structure and amount of compensation for our Trustees.

Our Compensation Committee’s charter does not authorize the Compensation Committee to delegate any of its responsibilities (including authority to award performance units, restricted common shares, options or other equity-based awards) to other persons, and the Compensation Committee has not delegated any of its responsibilities to other persons.

Compensation Consultants. Our Compensation Committee recognizes the importance of objective, independent expertise and advice in carrying out its responsibilities. In the fourth quarter of 2010, the Compensation Committee retained Pay Governance LLC as its consultant. Our Compensation Committee selected Pay Governance as consultants because of its expertise and reputation. Neither we nor our Trustees or executive officers have any affiliation with Pay Governance or its executives and the engagement and scope of services of Pay Governance have been solely through our Compensation Committee.

During 2013, our compensation consultants advised our Compensation Committee on executive compensation matters, plan design, industry trends and practices, and our pay-for performance alignment, including as measured relative to peers and relative to our total shareholder returns. As directed by the Committee, the consultants prepared analyses for the Committee relating to all aspects of the compensation of our executives. They advised the Committee on market practices regarding executive compensation, including annual incentive awards and long-term incentive pay, and reviewed our peer group and the market positioning of the compensation provided to our named executive officers and other senior executives. The consultants meet privately with the Committee and individual Committee members from time to time to plan for Committee meetings and discuss executive compensation matters. Pay Governance does not provide other services to us.

Our Compensation Committee received a letter from Pay Governance regarding its independence and assessed the independence of Pay Governance under NYSE rules and concluded that Pay Governance's work for the Committee does not raise any conflict of interest. Factors considered by the Committee include: (i) whether other services are provided to us by Pay Governance or its representatives; (ii) the amount of fees received by Pay Governance from us as a percentage of Pay Governance’s total revenue; (iii) policies of Pay Governance designed to prevent conflicts of interest; (iv) the absence of any business or personal relationship of representatives of Pay Governance or its representatives with a member of the Committee; (v) whether Pay Governance or its advisors to the Committee own any of our securities; and (vi) whether Pay Governance or its representatives have any business or personal relationship with any of our executive officers.

Role of Executives. Our Compensation Committee seeks the views of our President and Chief Executive Officer in setting and administering our executive compensation programs. In particular, at the beginning of each year, Mr. Sweeney oversees the development of corporate, business unit/regional and individual goals for purposes of annual and long-term compensation. These goals are derived from our corporate business plan and include both quantitative measurements and qualitative considerations selected to reinforce and enhance achievement of our operating and growth objectives. The Compensation Committee reviews these goals with Mr. Sweeney, adopts revisions it deems appropriate and determines the final goals for compensation.

Following the end of each year, Mr. Sweeney reviews with the Compensation Committee, at several meetings, the achievement of corporate, business unit/regional and individual goals and the performance of each other named executive officer and presents his evaluation of such executive officer’s performance

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to the Committee. Decisions about individual compensation elements and total compensation are made by the Committee, using its judgment, focusing primarily on each named executive officer’s performance against the officer’s performance goals as well as our overall performance. With respect to the non-quantitative performance measures applicable to our executives, the Committee relies heavily on the views of Mr. Sweeney (other than as to himself). As President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Sweeney oversees the day to day performance of the other named executive officers. As such, our Compensation Committee believes that he is well positioned to evaluate their performance and make recommendations as to their overall compensation.

In addition to the role played by our President and Chief Executive Officer, our other executive officers furnish such industry data and legal and financial analyses as the Committee requests from time to time.

Peer Group Data. Our Compensation Committee, in consultation with its compensation consultant, developed a peer group as a frame of reference for our executive compensation. Our Compensation Committee selects companies for inclusion in the peer group that acquire, sell, develop, lease and manage sizeable office real estate portfolios or own both office and industrial properties. In selecting companies, the Committee also considers their equity and total market capitalization and geographic location as well as third party considerations (for example, where members of the financial community treat a particular company as being a Company peer). Our Compensation Committee did not select or exclude companies from the peer group on account of their compensation practices. Our Compensation Committee believes that peer group data are an indicator of compensation opportunities at companies that might recruit our executives and the data therefore help the Committee set compensation at competitive levels. Our Compensation Committee also believes that peer group data provide perspective on performance measurement practices and linkages between pay and performance. The Committee does not set specific pay targets or otherwise engage in formal “benchmarking” of compensation of our executives against executives at peer group companies. The Committee does, however, attempt to set total compensation for each named executive near the middle of the peer group data while allowing for the possibility of greater or lesser compensation based upon our corporate and individual performance.

Our Compensation Committee believes that the selection of a peer group to be used for assessing the competitiveness of our executive compensation requires periodic review, including in light of capitalization, comparability of business and management and geographic location. As last updated in the first quarter of 2014, our peer group is comprised of the following companies:

        w       Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc.
 
        w       BioMed Realty Trust Inc.
 
        w       Commonwealth REIT
 
        w       Corporate Office Properties Trust Inc.
 
        w       Cousins Properties Inc.
 
        w       Columbia Property Trust, Inc.
 
        w       DCT Industrial Trust Inc.
 
        w       Duke Realty Corporation
 
        w       Douglas Emmett, Inc.
 
        w       Empire State Realty Trust, Inc.
        w       First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.
 
        w       Highwoods Properties, Inc.
 
        w       Kilroy Realty Corp.
 
        w       Lexington Corporate Properties Trust
 
        w       Liberty Property Trust
 
        w       Mack-Cali Realty Corporation
 
        w       Parkway Properties Inc.
 
        w       Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc.
 
        w       PS Business Parks, Inc.
 
        w       Washington Real Estate Investment Trust


Timing. Our Compensation Committee makes final compensation determinations in the first quarter of each year. Annual incentive and equity-based long-term incentive awards and base salary adjustments are typically made in late February or early March. This timing provides the Compensation Committee with sufficient time to evaluate our executives against their individual performance goals and our corporate performance. See “—Additional Compensation Information — Timing of Equity and other Awards.” These performance goals are typically established during the first quarter of the prior year, following review and analysis by the Committee of that year’s business plan, industry data and our

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compensation framework. On March 12, 2014 (in the case of Mr. Sweeney) and on March 11, 2014 (in the case of our other current named executives), our Compensation Committee set 2014 base salaries, approved 2013 annual incentive awards and granted equity-based long-term incentive awards, as summarized in the following tables.


Capsule Information

Capsule Information: Base Salaries. The table below shows 2013 and 2014 base salary information for each of our named executive officers (other than for Mr. Sipzner).

Name 2013
Base Salary
2014
Base Salary
%
Increase
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney $ 600,000 $ 600,000        0.0%
Thomas E. Wirth $ 321,300 $ 350,000        8.9%
H. Jeffrey DeVuono $ 347,500 $ 354,450        2.0%
Brad A. Molotsky $ 350,000 $ 350,000        0.0%
George D. Johnstone $ 306,000 $ 330,000        7.8%

Capsule Information: 2013 Annual Incentive Awards. The table below shows the 2013 annual incentive targets for each of our named executive officers (other than for Mr. Sipzner), expressed as a percentage of their 2013 base salaries and as dollar amounts, and the actual amounts awarded to them on March 12, 2014 (in the case of Mr. Sweeney) and March 11, 2014 (in the case of the other named executives).

Name 2013
Base
Salary
2013
Annual
Incentive
Award
Percentage
Target
2013
Annual
Incentive
Award
Opportunity
at Target
Actual 2013
Annual
Incentive
Award
Current Executive  
Gerard H. Sweeney $ 600,000 200%     $ 1,200,000     $ 1,200,000 (1)  
Thomas E. Wirth $ 321,300 85%       $ 273,105 $ 264,000  
H. Jeffrey DeVuono $ 347,500 100%     $ 347,500 $ 323,000
Brad A. Molotsky $ 350,000 80%     $ 280,000 $ 271,000
George D. Johnstone $ 306,000 80%     $ 244,800 $ 244,000

(1)       Amount does not include a discretionary bonus award made to Mr. Sweeney on March 12, 2014 in the form of a $250,000 cash payment and 24,424 restricted shares scheduled to vest in three equal annual installments on April 15, 2015, April 15, 2016 and April 15, 2017. The cash and restricted share components of this bonus are reported under the “Bonus” column in the Summary Compensation Table.

Capsule Information: 2013 and 2014 Equity-Based Long-Term Incentive Awards. Our Compensation Committee awards equity-based long-term incentives by reference to percentages of base salary of the applicable executives. The target percentages are subject to the sole discretion of the Committee and were as follows for the awards made on February 25, 2013, March 11, 2014 and March 12, 2014: Mr. Sweeney (300%); Mr. Wirth (150%); Mr. DeVuono (150%); Mr. Molotsky (150%); and Mr. Johnstone (125%). The table below shows the equity-based long-term incentive awards granted to each of our

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named executive officers on February 25, 2013 and March 12, 2014 (for Mr. Sweeney) and March 11, 2014 (for the other named executives).

Awarded on February 25, 2013 Awarded on March 11, 2014
and March 12, 2014(1)
Name Restricted
Shares (#)
Performance
Units (#)
Grant Date
Fair Value of
Share
Awards(2)
Restricted
Shares (#)
Performance
Units (#)
Grant Date
Fair Value of
Share
Awards(3)
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney 45,833 67,374 $ 1,799,990 41,452 (4) 61,720 $ 1,824,123
Thomas E. Wirth 10,026 14,738 $ 393,747 11,099 16,525 $ 481,947
H. Jeffrey DeVuono 12,986 19,089 $ 509,992 12,004 17,873 $ 521,256
Brad A. Molotsky 13,368 19,651 $ 525,002 12,090 18,002 $ 525,009
George D. Johnstone 9,549 14,036 $ 374,999 8,808 13,115 $ 382,486
Former Executive
Howard M. Sipzner 16,806 24,704 $ 660,007 -- -- --

(1)       Awards made on March 12, 2014 for Mr. Sweeney and March 11, 2014 for other executives.
 
(2) The amounts shown in this column represent the grant date fair value of awards on the date of grant (February 25, 2013), computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. Whether the named executive officers ultimately realize any of the value of the equity awards consisting of performance units generally depends on our total shareholder return during the three-year period beginning January 1, 2013 and ending December 31, 2015 (i) relative to the total shareholder returns of the real estate investment trusts included in the S&P US REIT index (with respect to 50% of the units) and (ii) relative to the total shareholder returns of the companies in our peer group (with respect to the other 50% of the units). Whether the named executive officers ultimately realize any of the value of the equity awards consisting of restricted common shares generally depends on their continued employment with us. Generally, the grant date fair value is the amount that we would expense in our financial statements over the vesting period of the applicable award. The grant date fair value of each restricted share awarded on February 25, 2013 equaled the closing price of our common shares on the New York Stock Exchange on that date ($12.96). The grant date fair value for the performance units awarded on February 25, 2013 was $17.90 (reflecting the average of the values for performance units measured against the S&P US REIT index ($18.35) and for performance units measured against the peer group ($17.45)) and was determined using a Monte Carlo simulation probabilistic valuation model. In the case of the performance units measured against the S&P US REIT index, we assumed volatility of 53.5%, which was calculated based on the volatility of our share price over the preceding six years, using weekly share price observations (average peer volatility over the same period was 43.6%). Our actual total shareholder return from the beginning of the performance period through the grant date was 10.2%, which was calculated using a 30-day average share price as the beginning share price and the share price on the grant date as the ending share price (average shareholder return for the index for the same period was 8.5%). In the case of the performance units measured against the peer group, we assumed volatility of 53.5%, which was calculated based on the volatility of our share price over the preceding six years, using weekly share price observations (average peer volatility over the same period was 45.1%). Our actual total shareholder return from the beginning of the performance period through the grant date was 10.2%, which was calculated using a 30-day average share price as the beginning share price and the share price on the grant date as the ending share price (average peer shareholder return for the same period was 10.3%).
 
(3) The amounts shown in this column represent the grant date fair value of awards on the date of grant (March 12, 2014 for Mr. Sweeney and March 11, 2014 for the other named executives), computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. Whether the named executive officers ultimately realize any of the value of the equity awards generally depends on, in the case of the performance units, our total shareholder return during the three-year period beginning January 1, 2014 and ending December 31, 2016 (i) relative to the total shareholder returns of the real estate investment trusts included in the S&P US REIT index (with

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respect to 50% of the units) and (ii) relative to the total shareholder returns of the companies in our peer group (with respect to the other 50% of the units). Whether the named executive officers ultimately realize any of the value of the equity awards consisting of restricted common shares generally depends on their continued employment with us. Generally, the grant date fair value is the amount that we would expense in our financial statements over the vesting period of the applicable award. The grant date fair values of each restricted share awarded on March 11, 2014 and March 12, 2014 equaled the closing prices of our common shares on the New York Stock Exchange on those dates, which were $14.33 and $14.45, respectively. The grant date fair values for the performance units awarded on March 11, 2014 and March 12, 2014 were $19.54 and $19.85, respectively (reflecting the average of the values for performance units measured against the S&P US REIT index ($19.99 and $20.30 on March 11 and March 12, respectively) and for performance units measured against the peer group ($19.08 and $19.40 on March 11 and March 12, respectively)) and was determined using a Monte Carlo simulation probabilistic valuation model. In the case of the performance units measured against the S&P US REIT index, we assumed volatility of 52.8%, which was calculated based on the volatility of our share price over the preceding six years, using weekly share price observations (average peer volatility over the same period was 40.5%). Our actual total shareholder return from the beginning of the performance period through the grant dates (March 11 and March 12) was 7.2% and 8.1%,respectively, calculated using a 30-day average share price as the beginning share price and the share price on the grant date as the ending share price (average shareholder return for the index for the same periods was 7.2% and 7.4%, respectively). In the case of the performance units measured against the peer group, we assumed volatility of 52.8%, which was calculated based on the volatility of our share price over the preceding six years, using weekly share price observations (average peer volatility over the same period was 42.4%). Our actual total shareholder return from the beginning of the performance period through the grant dates (March 11 and March 12) was 7.2% and 8.1%, respectively, calculated using a 30-day average share price as the beginning share price and the share price on the grant date as the ending share price (average peer shareholder return for the same periods was 9.4%).

       
(4) Does not include 24,424 restricted shares included in the bonus awarded to Mr. Sweeney on March 12, 2014. The cash ($250,000) and restricted share components of this bonus are reported under the “Bonus” column in the Summary Compensation Table.

Capsule Information: Settlement under 2011 Performance Units. The year 2013 was the final performance year under the three-year measurement period contained in the performance units awarded to our executives on March 2, 2011. Each of these performance units represented the right to earn common shares, with the number of common shares dependent on our total shareholder return during the measurement period compared to the total shareholder return for REITs included in the MSCI US REIT Index’s gross index. Our 36.8% cumulative total shareholder return during this period, as computed under the performance units, placed us in the 54th percentile of the comparative group, resulting in a formulaic payout of 116% of the target amount. The table below shows the number of performance units awarded in 2011 to our named executive officers and the number of common shares earned on account of these units and delivered to the executives in the first quarter of 2014 (adjusted to reflect dividend equivalents on the earned portion).

Name 2011
Performance
Units (#)
Shares
Issued (#)
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney 32,930 43,857  
Thomas E. Wirth 5,688   7,575
H. Jeffrey DeVuono 7,110 9,469
Brad A. Molotsky 10,478 13,955
George D. Johnstone 6,112 8,140
Former Executive
Howard M. Sipzner 13,172 17,543

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Capsule Information: Target Percentages for 2014 Annual Incentive Awards and 2015 Equity-Based Long-Term Incentive Awards. The table below shows the 2014 annual incentive targets and 2015 equity-based long-term incentive targets for each of our current named executive officers, expressed as a percentage of their 2014 base salaries.

Name 2014
Base
Salary
2014
Annual
Incentive
Award
Percentage
Target
2015
Equity-Based
Long-Term
Incentive
Award
Opportunity
at Target
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney $ 600,000 200% 300%
Thomas E. Wirth $ 350,000 100% 150%
H. Jeffrey DeVuono $ 354,450 100% 150%
Brad A. Molotsky $ 350,000   80% 150%
George D. Johnstone $ 330,000   85% 125%

Discussion

The principal components of our executive compensation consist of:

        w       Base salary;
 
        w       Annual incentive awards; and
 
        w       Equity-based long-term incentives.

Other components of executive compensation include:

        w       Health and disability coverage, 401(k) matching contributions, life insurance, deferred compensation;
 
        w       An opportunity to participate in our employee share purchase plan; and
 
        w       Change-in-control benefits.

Each of the principal components of our executive compensation furthers one or more of our compensation objectives identified under “Overview” set forth above and:

        w       Aligns management and shareholder interests;
 
        w       Aligns pay programs with our business strategy;
 
        w       Provides retention and recruitment incentives; and
 
        w       Provides appropriate, market based equity ownership by officers.

Our Compensation Committee considers each component as part of a total compensation package and, therefore, evaluates the impact on each component on each of the other components in making compensation determinations.

Base Salary. Base salary represents the fixed portion of an executive’s compensation and is paid on a bi-weekly basis. Accordingly, base salary provides a regular stream of income and financial security. In setting base salaries, our Compensation Committee considers the responsibilities, skills, experience and performance of the executives and relies heavily on the views of our President and Chief Executive Officer as to the impact, contribution and expertise of our executives (except in the case of himself and his

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compensation). In setting base salaries, our Compensation Committee also considers the linkage of base salaries to the elements of our compensation that are tied to base salaries (such as severance and change in control benefits and annual and long-term incentive targets that are computed as a multiple of base salary). As part of the annual compensation process, the Committee may adjust base salaries to reflect changes in market data or in an executive’s responsibilities, skills, experience and performance. In establishing 2013 base salaries for our named executive officers, our Compensation Committee concurred in the recommendation of our President and Chief Executive Officer that no increase be made in his base salary or in the base salary of any of the other named executive officers, except for a $7,750 increase for Mr. Wirth, a $7,500 increase for Mr. DeVuono and a $6,000 increase for Mr. Johnstone. For 2014, the base salaries of three of our current named executive officers were adjusted as reflected in the table above presenting capsule information. See “Capsule Information — Capsule Information: Base Salaries.”

Annual Incentive Awards. Annual incentive awards are designed to reward executives for achievement of annual performance goals linked to the achievement of our annual company goals. Each year our

Compensation Committee establishes a target amount for annual incentive awards for each executive, with the target amount expressed as a percentage of the executive’s base salary. The targeted amounts take into account all factors that the Committee deems relevant, including the input of Pay Governance LLC as to competitive compensation levels, the recommendation of our President and Chief Executive Officer (except with respect to his own target), responsibilities of the executives and the Committee’s view of market conditions. As described above under “Capsule Information: 2013 Annual Incentive Awards,” the 2013 target percentages for annual incentive awards for our named executive officers (other than for Mr. Sipzner) were: Mr. Sweeney (200%); Mr. Wirth (85%); Mr. DeVuono (100%); Mr. Molotsky (80%); and Mr. Johnstone (80%). As discussed below, actual annual incentive awards may be higher or lower than target.

Annual incentive awards are computed primarily on the basis of performance within three categories and reflected in a “scorecard”: corporate, business unit/regional and individual. The “corporate” and “business unit/regional” categories include performance measures that are derived from, or that seek to reinforce, our annual corporate business plan developed by our Board of Trustees and senior management. The “individual” category is tied to non-quantitative individual goals, including corporate initiatives, social/community activities (including participation on charitable and civic boards) and departmental leadership. Measurement of performance for this category is subjective.

The table below sets forth the relative weightings of each of these three categories for 2013 and 2014. The specific weightings reflect the different roles and responsibilities of our named executive officers. In particular, the relatively higher weighting of “Business Unit/Regional” for Mr. DeVuono compared to the other named executives reflects his operational role in specific geographic regions whereas the relatively higher weightings of “Corporate” for Messrs. Sweeney, Wirth, Molotsky and Johnstone reflect their company-wide responsibilities.

2013/2014
Name Corporate Business Unit/
Regional
Individual
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney 80% 0% 20%
Thomas E. Wirth 60% 20% 20%
H. Jeffrey DeVuono 40% 40% 20%
Brad A. Molotsky 60% 20% 20%
George D. Johnstone 60% 20% 20%

With respect to corporate and business unit/regional goals, the Committee sets a threshold (minimum), target and maximum payout shortly after the beginning of each year or as soon as practicable thereafter. If we or the executive were not to achieve the threshold (minimum) for the applicable component, then

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the executive would not receive any payout for that component. If we or the executive were to achieve the threshold (minimum), and no higher than the threshold for the applicable component, then the executive would receive 50% of the target payout for that component. If we or the executive were to achieve the target, and no higher than the target for the applicable component, then the executive would receive 100% of the target payout for that component. If we or the executive were to exceed target in a particular area, then the executive may be awarded up to 150% of the relevant component. Accordingly, an executive’s opportunity in respect of a given component ranges from zero (0) to 150% of target.

Achievement        Payout Percentage
•   Below Threshold 0
Threshold 50%
Target   100%
Maximum 150%

Our framework for annual incentive awards for executives contemplates that, after taking into account each executive’s individual scorecard, the Compensation Committee may exercise discretion in setting individual awards, including setting awards below the pool accrued for annual incentive awards. For example, an executive with a $400,000 base salary and an annual incentive target percentage of 100% would have an unadjusted annual incentive opportunity of $400,000. If the executive were to achieve 100% of his or her goals, and the Committee determined that we should pay out 90% of the aggregate accrued annual incentive pool, then the adjusted annual incentive for the executive would be $360,000. Factors the Committee may use in adjusting the pool include, but are not limited to, our share price performance, the extent of achievement/failure to meet corporate goals, our performance relative to peer companies and general economic/industry conditions.

Following the end of each year, our President and Chief Executive Officer reviews with the Compensation Committee achievements relative to corporate, business unit/regional and individual performance objectives as well as our performance compared to our business plan for the prior year and submits recommendations for annual incentive awards based on his assessment of our overall and individual achievements. The Compensation Committee analyzes the recommendations and has unrestricted authority to modify them. The Committee generally does not directly adjust corporate or business unit/regional goals, but may do so to take into consideration acquisitions, divestitures or financings, or significant events.

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The Committee’s framework for administering the corporate scorecard expressly affords the Committee the opportunity to adjust the results of the scorecard upward or downward by 25% to reflect our performance with respect to metrics selected by the Committee relative to peer company performance with respect to these metrics. In determining whether to make any such adjustments, the Committee exercises judgment and discretion, both as to the metrics it considers and the weight it assigns to any such metrics. The following diagram reflects this framework:

Based on our 2013 results, and the relative weightings and judgments applied to each component, the corporate portion of the scorecard reflected an overall achievement of 100%. We summarize directly below the specific 2013 performance measures that comprised the corporate portion of the annual incentive awards.

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Corporate Goals. Key 2013 corporate goals were tied to our operational performance and capital targets. The goals tied to operational performance and capital targets represented 60% and 40%, respectively, of the corporate component of our annual incentive award opportunity for 2013.

The key operational goals for 2013, and their weightings, were comprised of:

Performance Measure             Weighting
Operational
 
     Funds From Operations, as adjusted (FFO)1 25% 4

     Cash Available for Distribution, as adjusted (CAD)2

     Year-End Occupancy
     Same Store NOI Growth3
     Speculative Revenue   10%
     Year-End Leased   25%
 
       Subtotal 60%
 

The key capital targets for 2013, and their weightings, were comprised of:

 
Capital
     Sales/Joint Venture Activity
     Land Development
     Acquisition Activity   40% 4
     Joint Venture Investment Activity
     Leverage Ratio
     Indebtedness Strategy
Subtotal   40%
 
Total 100%

(1)       We compute FFO in accordance with standards established by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), which may not be comparable to FFO reported by other REITs that do not compute FFO in accordance with the NAREIT definition, or that interpret the NAREIT definition differently than we do. NAREIT defines FFO as net income (loss) before non-controlling interests of unit holders (preferred and common) and excluding gains (losses) on sales of depreciable operating property, impairment losses on depreciable consolidated real estate, impairment losses on investments in unconsolidated real estate ventures and extraordinary items (computed in accordance with GAAP); plus real estate related depreciation and amortization (excluding amortization of deferred financing costs), and after similar adjustments for unconsolidated joint ventures. Net income, the GAAP measure that we believe to be most directly comparable to FFO, includes depreciation and amortization expenses, gains or losses on sales of depreciable operating property, impairment losses on depreciable consolidated real estate, impairment losses on investments in unconsolidated real estate ventures, extraordinary items and non-controlling interests. To facilitate a clear understanding of our historical operating results, FFO should be examined in conjunction with net income (determined in accordance with GAAP) as presented in the financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. FFO does not represent cash flow from operating activities (determined in accordance with GAAP) and should not be considered to be an alternative to net income (loss) (determined in accordance with GAAP) as an indication of our financial performance or to be an alternative to cash flow from operating activities (determined in accordance with GAAP) as a measure of our liquidity, nor is it indicative of funds available for our cash needs, including our ability to make cash distributions to shareholders. For purposes of the scorecard, our Compensation Committee adjusts FFO to reflect intra-year capital markets and other transaction activity not taken into account in the initial scorecard metric.
 
(2) Cash available for distribution, or CAD, is a non-GAAP financial measure that is not intended as an alternative to cash flow from operating activities as determined under GAAP. CAD is presented in our investor presentations

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      solely as a supplemental disclosure with respect to liquidity because we believe it provides useful information regarding our ability to fund our distributions. Because other companies do not necessarily calculate CAD the same way as we do, our presentation of CAD may not be comparable to similarly titled measures provided by other companies. For purposes of the scorecard, our Compensation Committee adjusts CAD to reflect intra-year capital markets and other transaction activity not taken into account in the initial scorecard metric.
 
(3) NOI, or net operating income, is a non-GAAP financial measure equal to net income available to common shareholders, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, plus corporate general and administrative expense, depreciation and amortization, interest expense, non-controlling interests and losses from early extinguishment of debt, less interest income, development and management income, gains from property dispositions, gains on sale from discontinued operations, gains on early extinguishment of debt, income from discontinued operations, income from unconsolidated joint ventures and non-controlling interests. In some cases, we also present NOI on a cash basis, which is NOI after eliminating the effect of straight-lining of rent and deferred market intangible amortization. NOI presented by us may not be comparable to NOI reported by other REITs that define NOI differently. NOI should not be considered an alternative to net income as an indication of our performance, or as an alternative to cash flow from operating activities as a measure of our liquidity or ability to make cash distributions to shareholders. Our same store portfolio generally consists of those properties that we owned for the entirety of each of the periods being compared.
 
(4) The weighting among components in the stated percentage reflects the Committee’s exercise of discretion and judgment.


2013 Performance Targets

We summarize below actual performance against individual targets for 2013 (with our percentage achievements for each metric expressed as the result of straight-line interpolation between the minimum (50%), target (100%) and maximum (150%) levels in the scorecard):

             w       Our FFO target and actual FFO for 2013 (as adjusted for designated investment and capital markets activity) were $1.36 and $1.38, respectively. Our CAD target and actual CAD for 2013 (as adjusted for designated investment activity) were $0.75 and $0.73, respectively. Accordingly, we achieved 125% of our FFO metric and 75% of our CAD metric.
 
        w       Our year-end occupancy target for 2013 was 91.0% and our actual year-end occupancy was 90%, or 50% of target.
 
        w       Our same store GAAP NOI growth target for 2013 was 4.2% and our actual achievement was 3.5%, or 65% of target.
 
        w       Speculative revenue achievement reflects lease activity against an internal target. Our 2013 internal target was $44.9 million and our actual achievement was $44.7 million, or 90% of target.
 
        w       Our year-end leased target for 2013 was 92.0% and our actual result for 2013 was 92.5%, or 124% of target.
 
w Sales/Joint Venture activity relates to assets sold or contributed into joint ventures for strategic purposes. For 2013 our $348.6 of aggregate transaction value exceeded our $296.0 internal target, reflecting by approximately 139%.
 
w We achieved our 2013 Development activity, which relates to commencement of new developments.
 
w Acquisition activity relates to acquisitions of properties solely for our own account. For 2013, we completed $351.6 million in acquisitions of consolidated properties, exceeding our $75 million target.
 
w Joint Venture investment activity relates to our acquisitions of properties through joint ventures. For 2013, we completed $114.6 million in acquisitions through joint ventures, exceeding our $100 million target by 130%.
 
w Our leverage target is a ratio of debt to gross asset values, excluding cash. Our 2013 target was 41.8% and our actual year-end ratio was 44.8%, or below the minimum for this metric.

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             w       For 2013 our indebtedness strategy was measured through a net debt to EBITDA ratio, with our target set at 6.8 and our year-end outcome at 7.0.

Business Unit/Regional Goals. As noted above, four of our current named executive officers received annual incentive awards based in part upon the performance of their respective business units or regions. Because Mr. DeVuono oversees a specific region of our operations (Pennsylvania region), the performance metrics for the business unit/regional portion of his scorecard includes region-specific operational performance measures tied to leasing revenues, capital cost controls, same store net operating income, occupancy levels and lease renewals. The business unit/regional performance measures for our other three current named executive officers with business unit/regional goals are non-quantitative and the measurement of achievement involves judgment and subjectivity. Mr. Molotsky, as our chief legal officer, has direct oversight for a variety of matters. For 2013, his business unit goals were allocated among (a) general counsel responsibilities, including legal compliance and risk management; (b) legislative affairs, including internal communications on pending legislative and regulatory changes; (c) company environmental and sustainability initiatives; and (d) broader-based corporate responsibilities, including assuring ongoing integration of inter-department initiatives. The 2013 business unit performance measures for Mr. Johnstone, as our Executive Vice President, Operations, related to quality and timeliness of our operational reporting system and oversight of our leasing and internal capital allocation processes. During 2013, Mr. Wirth, who became our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on March 10, 2014, was our Executive Vice President, Portfolio Management and Investments. In this position his 2013 business goals were tied to our portfolio management, acquisitions and dispositions and formulation of our capital allocation tactics, including structuring joint ventures and construction financings.

Individual Goals. Individual goals for our executive officers are tied to executive leadership and managerial performance and are evaluated on a subjective basis annually. These goals are intended to move our company and the individual executive’s business unit or region forward in terms of organizational structure, improve on such practices as collaboration among business units or enterprise-wide thinking and address development of junior executives and succession planning. Individual performance for Mr. Sweeney is determined by the Compensation Committee. The Committee also determines individual performance for the other named executive officers after receiving recommendations from Mr. Sweeney. None of the individual goals included quantitative measures, and our Compensation Committee assigned no specific weighting to any of these goals, but rather assessed overall achievement levels in determining annual incentive awards. Individual goals for Mr. Sweeney in 2013 included (i) providing ongoing strategic leadership; (ii) proactive management of sources and uses of capital, including oversight of our portfolio allocation goals; and (iii) active management of career development of high potential officers within our company.

President and Chief Executive Officer Annual Incentive Award. As discussed above, our Compensation Committee approves the performance goals for our President and Chief Executive Officer each year following review of our annual business plan and key objectives for that year. For 2013, 80% of the annual incentive award opportunity for Mr. Sweeney was tied to “corporate” performance measures (with the components and targets identified above) and 20% reflected the Compensation Committee’s assessment of Mr. Sweeney’s leadership of our company and strategic vision. As discussed above, based on our 2013 business results, and the relative weightings in and judgments applied to our 2013 scorecard, Mr. Sweeney achieved 100% of the corporate portion of his annual incentive award opportunity. In recognition of Mr. Sweeney’s leadership and contributions over many years, the Committee also awarded him a bonus on March 12, 2014, comprised of a $250,000 cash payment and 24,424 restricted shares that are scheduled to vest in three equal annual installments on April 15, 2015, April 15, 2016 and April 15, 2017, subject to Mr. Sweeney’s continued employment with us (with earlier vesting upon death, disability, a change of control or termination of his employment without cause or resignation for good reason).

We do not have policy differences with respect to the compensation of individual executive officers even though the level of compensation may differ based on scope of responsibilities and performance. The compensation disparity between our President and Chief Executive Officer and the other executive

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officers is primarily due to our President and Chief Executive Officer having significantly greater responsibilities for management and oversight of our business.

2014 Goals. Our 2014 business plan reflects our continued focus on leasing of space at our existing portfolio and operating cost control and our longer-term strategy of growth through acquisition, ownership, management and development of office properties. Our corporate, business unit/regional and individual goals and objectives for annual incentive awards for 2014 include performance measures similar to those used in 2013, with operational metrics weighted 60% in aggregate and capital metrics weighted 40% in aggregate, and are calibrated to promote achievement of our 2014 business plan.

Equity-Based Long-Term Incentive Compensation.

Consistent with our compensation objectives, our equity-based long-term incentive program is designed to assist us in attracting and retaining high quality executives, while tying a significant portion of compensation to our financial performance, principally in the case of this program our total shareholder return. Given the influence of our more senior executives on our overall performance, we have allocated a larger percentage of their compensation to the variable performance associated with equity-based awards.

The amounts presented in the Summary Compensation Table for Share Awards and Option Awards reflect the aggregate grant date fair values of share-based awards and option awards granted during the indicated years. We address directly below the methodology for the determination of these awards.

For the awards made on February 25, 2013, and consistent with prior year practice, the Compensation Committee, after consultation with Pay Governance, determined a market based competitive target percentage and target value, expressed as a percentage of base salary, as set forth above. See “—Overview.” The awards made on February 25, 2013 were comprised of two components: performance units and restricted common shares, with the performance units representing two-thirds of the total and sted restricted common shares representing one-third of the total (based on relative grant date fair values). The Compensation Committee believes that these two components in combination create an effective link between ultimate value realizable by our executives and our longer-term performance and also enhance retention by conditioning payouts on continued service with us during the performance or vesting periods. We describe below the material terms of the components of equity-based long-term incentive compensation that were awarded on February of 2013.

The awards made on March 11, 2014 and March 12, 2014 to our current named executive officers were designed and allocated in the same manner as those awarded on February 25, 2013, with the exception that a portion of Mr. Sweeney’s bonus award made on March 12, 2014 was comprised of 24,424 restricted shares that are scheduled to vest in three equal annual installments on each of April 15, 2015, April 15, 2016 and April 15, 2017, subject to Mr. Sweeney’s continued employment with us (with earlier vesting upon death, disability, a change of control or termination of his employment without cause or resignation for good reason).

Performance Units. Each performance unit awarded in February 2013 represents the right to earn common shares. The number of common shares, if any, deliverable to award recipients depends on our performance based on our total return to shareholders during the three year period Measurement Period that commenced on January 1, 2013 and that ends on the earlier of December 31, 2015 or the date of a change of control, as defined in our 2013-2015 Restricted Performance Share Unit Program (the “Performance Unit Program”) compared to (i) for fifty percent (50%) of the performance units awarded to each recipient, the total return to shareholders for the Measurement Period of the component members (excluding us) of the S&P US REIT Index (the “Index Companies”) and (ii) for the other fifty percent (50%) of the performance units awarded to each recipient, the total return to shareholders for the Measurement Period of each of the companies in a designated peer group (the “Peer Group”) contained in the Performance Units Program. If our total return to shareholders over the Measurement Period places us below the 25th percentile of the Index Companies or the components in the Peer Group, as applicable, then no shares will be earned under the related performance units. If our total return to shareholders over the Measurement Period places us at or above the 25th percentile of the Index Companies or the components in the Peer Group, as applicable, then a percentage of the awards ranging

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from 50% to 200% will be earned and settled in common shares. Dividends are deemed credited to the performance units accounts and are applied to acquire more performance units for the account of the unit holder at the price per common share ending on the dividend payment date. Participants in the program may elect to defer receipt of common shares earned into our Deferred Compensation Plan. In the event of the participant’s death, disability or qualifying retirement, he will be eligible to receive shares (if any) under the program as if the Measurement Period ended on the last day of the month in which the termination occurred.

The performance units awarded in March 2014 have been designed in the same manner as the performance units awarded in February 2013, but with the scheduled Measurement Period being the three-year period that commenced January 1, 2014 and that ends December 31, 2016.

Time Vested Restricted Common Share Awards. Each restricted common share has a value equal to one common share as of the close of the market on the day of grant. Except as described below with respect to 24,424 restricted common shares awarded to Mr. Sweeney on March 12, 2014, restricted common shares (commonly referred to as “restricted common shares”) awarded to our named executives vest on the third anniversary of the award date and, upon vesting, each share is settled for one common share. Vesting would accelerate if we were acquired or underwent a change in control or if the recipient of the award were to die, become disabled or terminate employment in a qualifying retirement prior to the vesting date. A recipient of restricted common shares forfeits the shares if his or her employment with us terminates prior to the scheduled or (if applicable) accelerated vesting date (except, in the case of Mr. Sweeney, as provided in his employment agreement). We pay cash dividend equivalents on each restricted common share during the three-year vesting period. In addition to the award to Mr. Sweeney of 41,452 restricted common shares on March 12, 2014, with the design features described above, Mr. Sweeney was also awarded 24,424 restricted common shares on March 12, 2014 that are scheduled to vest in three equal annual installments on each of April 15, 2015, April 15, 2016 and April 15, 2017, subject to Mr. Sweeney’s continued employment with us (with earlier vesting upon death, disability, a change of control or termination of his employment without cause or resignation for good reason, but not upon retirement).

Share Option Awards. Our Compensation Committee has not awarded options since March 2011. As discussed earlier, as part of our ongoing effort to assure pay-for-performance alignment, we changed the mix for awards made in March 2012, February 2013 and March 2014 to consist of performance units and time vested restricted common shares.

Vesting and Forfeiture Provisions. Restricted common shares, performance units and options that remain unvested upon the holder’s termination of employment with us will vest or be forfeited depending on the reason for the termination. The table below, as supplemented by the notes to the table, summarizes these provisions:

Impact on Expiration Date
Reason for Termination Unvested Awards of Vested Options
Termination for Cause Forfeit Options expire immediately upon
termination
Voluntary Termination by Forfeit Options expire 90 days from date
Executive other than in of termination
Qualifying Retirement (1)
Termination without Cause (2) Forfeit Options expire 90 days from date
of termination
Change in Control Vesting restrictions lapse; early Options expire upon a Change in
measurement period for Control
performance units

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Impact on Expiration Date
Reason for Termination Unvested Awards of Vested Options
Death Vesting restrictions lapse; early Options expire one year from date
measurement period for of death
performance units
Disability Vesting restrictions lapse; early Options expire one year from date
measurement period for of termination for disability
performance units
Qualifying Retirement Vesting restrictions lapse; early Options expire at end of the stated
measurement period for term in the applicable option
performance units (3) award agreement

      (1)       Qualifying Retirement means an executive’s voluntary termination of employment after reaching age 57 and accumulating at least 15 years of service with us. One of our current named executive officers, Mr. Sweeney, has met conditions to elect a qualifying retirement as of the date of this proxy statement.
 
(2) The employment agreement for Mr. Sweeney provides for the lapse of vesting restrictions on his restricted common shares and options if he were to be terminated without cause or to resign for good reason.
 
(3) Does not apply to 24,424 restricted shares awarded to Mr. Sweeney on March 12, 2014.


Deferred Compensation Plan

We offer a deferred compensation plan that enables our executives to defer a portion of their base salaries, annual incentive awards and equity awards. The amounts deferred are not included in the executive’s current taxable income and, therefore, are not currently deductible by us. The executives select from a limited number of mutual funds and investment alternatives which serve as measurement funds, and the deferred amounts are increased or decreased to correspond to the market value of the selected investments. We do not consider any of the earnings credited under the deferred compensation plan to be “above market.” We do not provide any matching contribution to any executive officer who participates in this plan, other than a limited amount to make up for any loss of matching contributions under our Section 401(k) plan. An executive who defers more than 25% of his or her annual incentive award into the Company Share Fund under the deferred compensation account is entitled to a 15% discount on the share equivalents credited on account of the excess. We maintain this plan to help ensure that our benefits are competitive. See “Compensation Tables and Related Information — Nonqualified Deferred Compensation.”


Other Benefits

Our executives participate in company-sponsored benefit programs available generally to all our salaried employees, including our shareholder-approved non-qualified employee share purchase plan and our Section 401(k) plan. For 2013, our 401(k) plan provided a company matching contribution of 30% of the first 6% of eligible compensation contributed to the plan, up to a maximum company matching contribution of $4,590. Other benefits, such as health and dental plans, group term life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance and travel accident insurance, are also available generally to all our salaried employees.


Perquisites

We do not provide perquisites to our executive officers.

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Post-Termination Benefits; Qualifying Retirement

We provide post-employment benefits to our executive officers that vary based on the executive and the circumstances of the executive’s termination. See “Employment and Other Agreements” and “Potential Payments upon Termination of Employment or Change-in-Control.”

Our equity-based long-term incentive awards granted on each of March 1, 2012, February 25, 2013, March 11, 2014 and March 12, 2014 provide for vesting of unvested awards upon a qualifying retirement (other than 24,424 of the restricted shares awarded to Mr. Sweeney on March 12, 2014, which do not vest upon a qualifying retirement). A “qualifying retirement” means the termination of employment, other than for cause, after the employee has reached age fifty seven (57) and worked for us for at least fifteen (15) years. Our Compensation Committee believes that this definition of retirement is appropriate and rewards long-term contributions of employees to us.

We have “change of control” severance agreements with our executive officers (other than our President and Chief Executive Officer) which condition the executive’s entitlement to severance following a change of control upon a so-called “double trigger.” Under a double-trigger, the executive is entitled to severance only if, within a specified period following the change of control, the terms of his or her employment are adversely changed. The entitlement of our President and Chief Executive Officer to severance following a change of control is not conditioned on an adverse change in his employment terms; rather he would be entitled to severance if he were to resign or his employment were terminated. Our Compensation Committee believes that the severance protection that we provide is consistent with those maintained by our peer companies and is therefore important in enabling us to attract and retain high quality executives. We also believe it is in our best interest to have agreements with our senior executives that maintain their focus on, and commitment to, us notwithstanding a potential merger or other change of control transaction.


Additional Compensation Information

Timing of Equity and Other Awards. We do not have any process or practice to time the grant of equity awards in coordination with our release of earnings or other material non-public information. Historically, our Compensation Committee has approved annual incentive awards and equity-based long-term incentive awards after the completion of each fiscal year, following review of pertinent fiscal year information and industry data. The date on which the Committee has met has varied from year to year, primarily based on the schedules of Committee members and the timing of compilation of data requested by the Committee. We do not time the release of material information to affect the value of executive compensation. The exercise price of option awards is the closing price of our common shares on the date of grant and we do not backdate options or grant options or equity-based awards retroactively.

Compensation Recovery. If we were required to restate our financial results due to material noncompliance with financial reporting requirements under the securities laws as a result of misconduct by an executive officer, applicable law permits us to recover incentive compensation from such executive officer (including profits realized from the sale of our securities). We do not have a policy apart from the legal requirements that provides for recovery of a compensatory award if a performance measure used to calculate the award is subsequently adjusted in a manner that would have reduced the size of the award. Although we have not previously experienced any such adjustment, if we were to experience such an adjustment, our Compensation Committee would assess the circumstances relating to the adjustment and take such actions as it believes to be appropriate, including, potentially, an action to recover the excess portion of the award.

Share Ownership Requirements. We maintain minimum share ownership requirements for our executives and Trustees. We include these requirements in our Corporate Governance Principles. Our executive officers are required to own, within five years of their election as an executive officer, the lesser of (x) 75% of the number of common shares or share equivalents awarded to such executive officer for no consideration (other than such officer’s services) under an equity compensation program during the sixty-

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month period that precedes the testing date less shares withheld for taxes and (y) common shares or share equivalents that have a market value (based on the average of the closing common share prices as reported on the New York Stock Exchange for the twelve-month period ending on June 30 of the calendar year that precedes the date of computation) at least equal to a multiple of the officers base salary. In the case of our President and Chief Executive Officer, the multiple is six, and in the case of our other executive officers, the multiple is four. Each of our non-employee Trustees is expected to retain a number of common shares (or share equivalents), whether vested or not, at least equal to the number of restricted common shares awarded to the non-employee Trustee during the 36-calendar month period immediately preceding the test date, less shares withheld for taxes. Each of our executive officers and non-employee Trustees is in compliance with the share ownership requirements. If an officer were not to meet the requirements, the officer would be restricted from selling any common shares (or share equivalents) that have been or are thereafter awarded to him or her under any of our equity compensation programs until such officer met the requirements, except as required by law or upon the approval of the Board or the Compensation Committee or (except as to himself) the President and Chief Executive Officer.

Hedging Prohibition. Our executives and Trustees are prohibited from hedging their ownership or offsetting any decline in the market value of our shares, including by trading in publicly-traded options, puts, calls or other derivative instruments related to our shares.

Pledges and Transactions in Shares. Our insider trading policy requires that our General Counsel review and approve pledges of common shares by our Trustees and executives. Our policy also requires that all executive officers must review transactions involving our common shares (or common share-based instruments) with our General Counsel prior to entering into the transactions.

Compensation and Risks. Our Compensation Committee believes that the risks material to our business are those that derive from broad-based economic trends and specific trends related to the types of real estate we own and operate in our relevant markets. We do not believe that these risks are materially affected by, or materially arise from, our compensation policies and practices. We believe that our compensation policies and practices support achievement of competitive performance without unnecessary and excessive risk taking. Our annual incentive awards and equity-based long-term incentive awards are based on a variety of indicators of performance, thus diversifying the risk associated with any single indicator of performance. See “Discussion — Corporate Goals” set forth above. In addition, three-year vesting periods for our equity compensation awards and three-year performance periods in our annual awards of performance units, as well as our share ownership requirements, encourage our executives to focus on sustained share price appreciation rather than short-term results. Furthermore, compliance and ethical behavior are integral factors considered in all performance assessments.

Accounting Considerations. Prior to implementation of a compensation program and awards under the program, we evaluate the cost of the program and awards in light of our current budget and anticipated budget. We also review the design of compensation programs to assure that the recognition of expense for financial reporting purposes is consistent with our financial modeling. Under FASB ASC Topic 718, the compensation cost recognized for an award classified as an equity award is fixed for the particular award and, absent modification, is not revised with subsequent changes in market prices of our common shares or other assumptions used for purposes of the valuation.

Tax Considerations. Prior to implementation of a compensation program and awards under the program, we evaluate the federal income tax consequences, both to us and to our executives, of the program and awards. Before approving a program, our Compensation Committee receives an explanation from our outside professionals as to the tax treatment of the program and awards under the program and assurances from our outside professionals that the tax treatment should be respected by taxing authorities.

Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code limits the annual tax deduction for compensation to each of our President and Chief Executive Officer and our four other highest paid executive officers to $1 million unless, in general, the compensation is paid under a plan that is performance-related, non-discretionary and has been approved by our shareholders. Because we qualify as a REIT under the Code

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and are generally not subject to Federal income taxes to the extent that we make distributions to shareholders in amounts at least equal to our REIT taxable income, we have not attempted to structure compensation to be fully deductible under Section 162(m).

We adopted our Deferred Compensation Plan for executives to provide them with an opportunity to save for the future without paying a current tax on the deferred amounts. In addition, we have awarded a portion of option awards in the form of incentive stock options in order to provide executives an opportunity to receive capital gains treatment on a portion of the value they may realize on exercise and sale of common shares underlying the options.

Consideration of Prior Year Compensation. The primary focus of our Compensation Committee in setting executive compensation is the executive’s current level of compensation, including recent awards of long-term incentives, in the context of current levels of compensation for similarly situated executives at peer companies, taking into account the executive’s performance and our corporate performance. The Committee has not adopted a formulaic approach for considering amounts realized by an executive from prior equity-based awards.


Severance for Former Executive Officer

Upon the termination of Mr. Sizpner’s employment on March 10, 2014, and as provided for in his employment agreement with us, Mr. Sipzner was entitled to the following payments and benefits: (i) a cash payment equal to $1,275,000 (reflecting 1.50 times the sum of his base salary and 2013 annual incentive award); and (ii) accelerated vesting of the unvested restricted shares then held by him (55,505 common shares). As further provided for in the employment agreement, Mr. Sipzner forfeited all of the performance units awarded to him in 2012 and 2013.



Compensation Committee Report

The Committee has reviewed and discussed the Compensation Discussion and Analysis with our management, which has the responsibility for preparing the Compensation Discussion and Analysis. Based upon this review and discussion, the Committee recommended to the Board that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013 and in our proxy statement for our 2014 annual meeting of shareholders.

        w       Charles P. Pizzi (Chair)
        w       Walter D’Alessio
        w       Wyche Fowler
        w       Michael J. Joyce

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Compensation Tables and Related Information


Compensation Tables and Related Information

The following tables and footnotes set forth information, for the three most recent fiscal years, concerning compensation awarded to, earned by or paid to: (i) our President and Chief Executive Officer, (ii) Howard M. Sipzner, who was our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2013 and until March 10, 2014) and (iii) each of our three other most highly compensated executive officers in 2013 who were serving as executive officers at December 31, 2013, including Thomas E. Wirth, who was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on March 10, 2014 (our “named executive officers”).


Summary Compensation Table
Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
 Name and Share Option Compensation All Other
 Principal Position Year Salary (1) Bonus (2) Awards (3) Awards (4) (2) Compensation Total
 Current Executive                                                
 Gerard H. Sweeney
 President and Chief
 Executive Officer
2013 $ 600,000 $ 602,927 $ 1,799,990 $ $ 1,200,000   $ 107,476(5) $  4,310,393
2012 $ 600,000 $ $ 1,800,000 $ $ 1,080,000 $ 123,832(5) $ 3,603,832
2011 $ 600,000 $ $ 1,087,217 $ 658,408 $ 900,000 $ 155,609(5) $ 3,401,234
 Thomas E. Wirth
 Executive Vice
 President, Chief
 Financial Officer
2013 $ 320,250 $ $ 393,747 $ $ 264,000 $ 16,405(6) $ 994,402  
2012 $ 312,500 $ $ 300,005 $ $ 235,620 $ 12,406(6) $ 806,531
2011 $ 297,500 $ $ 187,793 $ 94,999 $ 202,500 $ 7,068(6)   $ 789,860
 H. Jeffrey DeVuono
 Executive Vice
 President and Senior
 Managing Director
2013 $ 346,250 $ $ 509,992 $ $ 323,000 $ 26,979(7) $ 1,206,221
2012 $ 337,500 $ $ 406,239 $ $ 305,320 $ 27,006(7) $ 1,076,065
2011 $ 318,333 $ $ 234,744 $ 118,752 $ 241,313 $ 31,130(7) $ 944,272
 Brad A. Molotsky
 Executive Vice
 President, General
 Counsel and Secretary
2013   $ 350,000 $ $ 525,002 $ $ 271,000   $ 33,360(8) $ 1,179,362
  2012 $ 350,000 $ $ 525,004 $ $ 243,600 $ 36,495(8) $ 1,155,099
2011 $ 350,000   $ $ 345,939 $ 174,998 $ 225,000 $ 43,823(8) $ 1,139,760
 George D. Johnstone
 Executive Vice
 President,
 Operations
2013 $ 305,000 $   $ 374,999 $   $ 244,000 $ 23,118(9) $ 947,117
2012 $ 295,833 $ $ 343,749 $ $ 225,000 $ 23,716(9) $ 888,298
2011 $ 270,000 $ $ 201,796   $ 102,084 $ 198,000 $ 26,974(9) $ 798,854
 Former Executive  
 Howard M. Sipzner
 Former Executive Vice
 President, Chief
 Financial Officer
2013 $ 440,000 $ $ 660,007 $ $ $ 47,769(10) $ 1,147,776
2012 $ 440,000 $ $ 660,014 $ $ 410,000 $ 49,843(10) $ 1,559,857
2011 $ 440,000 $ $ 434,889 $ 220,001 $ 404,800 $ 53,135(10) $ 1,552,825

      (1)       Executives are eligible to defer a portion of their salaries under our Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan. The amounts shown in this column have not been reduced by any deferrals under the Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan. Amounts deferred in 2013 are shown in the Nonqualified Deferred Compensation table below.
 
(2) Amount shown under the “Bonus” column for Mr. Sweeney represents an award approved by the Compensation Committee on March 12, 2014, with $250,000 paid in cash and the balance in the form of

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24,424 restricted shares. Amounts shown under the “Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation” column for 2013, 2012 and 2011 were approved by the Compensation Committee on March 11, 2014 (for all named executive officers other than Mr. Sweeney), March 12, 2014 (for Mr. Sweeney), February 25, 2013 and March 1, 2012, respectively. Executives are eligible to defer a portion of the amounts shown under the “Bonus” and “Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation” columns under our Deferred Compensation Plan. Amounts that are deferred into the Company Share Fund under our Deferred Compensation Plan may be entitled to a 15% discount to the market price of our common shares on the date of the award. See “Compensation Discussion and Analysis Deferred Compensation Plan.” We disclose the amounts attributable to the 15% discount under the “All Other Compensation” column and the notes to that column.
 
      (3)       This column represents the grant date fair value of Share Awards computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, excluding the effect of estimated forfeitures. Share Awards consist of (i) restricted common shares (or share equivalents) that vest on the third anniversary of the award date and (ii) awards of performance units. Restricted common shares (or share equivalents) vest early upon a change of control or upon the death, disability or qualifying retirement of the holder of the shares. The holder of restricted common shares (or share equivalents) is entitled to receive distributions on the shares from the date of the award. Vesting of the restricted common shares (or share equivalents) is not subject to performance-based conditions. The fair value of each restricted common share awarded in 2013 was equal to the closing price of our common shares on the New York Stock Exchange on the award date ($12.96 on February 25, 2013). The fair value of each restricted common share awarded in 2012 was equal to the closing price of our common shares on the New York Stock Exchange on the award date ($10.86 on March 1, 2012). The fair value of each restricted common share awarded in 2011 was equal to the closing price of our common shares on the New York Stock Exchange on the award date ($11.89 on March 2, 2011). The fair value of each performance unit awarded in 2013 ($17.90) was determined using a Monte Carlo simulation probabilistic valuation model and averaging the results for the performance units tied to the S&P US REIT index ($18.35) and the performance units tied to our peer group ($17.45). For purposes of the 2013 simulation, we assumed volatility of 53.5%, which was calculated based on the volatility of our share price over the preceding six years, using weekly share price observations. Our actual total shareholder return from the beginning of the performance period through the grant date was 10.2%, which was calculated using a 30-day average share price as the beginning share price and the share price on the grant date as the ending share price. The fair value of each performance unit awarded in 2012 ($16.11) was determined using a Monte Carlo simulation probabilistic valuation model and averaging the results for the performance units tied to the S&P US REIT index ($16.47) and the performance units tied to our peer group ($15.74). For purposes of the 2012 simulation, we assumed volatility of 53.5%, which was calculated based on the volatility of our share price over the preceding six years, using weekly share price observations. Our actual total shareholder return from the beginning of the performance period through the grant date was 25.2%, which was calculated using a 30-day average share price as the beginning share price and the share price on the grant date as the ending share price. The fair value of each performance unit awarded in 2011 ($16.37) was determined using a Monte Carlo simulation probabilistic valuation model. For purposes of the 2011 simulation, we assumed volatility of 51.2%, which was calculated based on the volatility of our share price over the preceding six years, using weekly share price observations (average peer volatility over the same period was 44.4%). Our actual total shareholder return from the beginning of the performance period through the grant date was 4.4%, which was calculated using a 60-day average share price as the beginning share price and the share price on the grant date as the ending share price (average peer shareholder return for the same period was 6.0%).
 
(4) This column represents the grant date fair value of Option Awards computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, excluding the effect of estimated forfeitures. Note 14 to the financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year 2011 include a description of the assumptions that we made in determining grant date fair values.
 
(5) Represents for 2013 (i) $95,745 in dividends paid in 2013 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,590 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums; and (iv) $6,181 from participation in the Employee Share Purchase Plan. Represents for 2012 (i) $111,321 in dividends paid in 2012 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,500 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums; and (iv) $7,051 from participation in the Employee Share Purchase Plan. Represents for 2011 (i) $146,704 in dividends paid in 2011 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,410 in employer matching and profit

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                 sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums; and (iv) $3,535 from participation in the Employee Share Purchase Plan.
 
(6) Represents for 2013 (i) $15,445 in dividends paid in 2013 on unvested restricted common shares and (ii) $960 in life insurance premiums. Represents for 2012 (i) $11,446 in dividends paid in 2012 on unvested restricted common shares and (ii) $960 in life insurance premiums. Represents for 2011 (i) $6,108 in dividends paid in 2011 on unvested restricted common shares and (ii) $960 in life insurance premiums.
 
(7) Represents for 2013 (i) $21,429 in dividends paid in 2013 on unvested restricted common shares; and (ii) $4,590 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums. Represents for 2012 (i) $21,546 in dividends paid in 2012 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,500 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; and (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums. Represents for 2011 (i) $25,760 in dividends paid in 2011 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,410 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; and (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums.
 
(8) Represents for 2013 (i) $27,810 in dividends paid in 2013 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,590 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; and (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums. Represents for 2012 (i) $31,035 in dividends paid in 2012 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,500 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; and (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums. Represents for 2011 (i) $38,453 in dividends paid in 2011 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,410 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; and (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums.
 
(9) Represents for 2013 (i) $17,568 in dividends paid in 2013 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,590 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; and (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums. Represents for 2012 (i) $18,256 in dividends paid in 2012 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,500 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; and (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums. Represents for 2011 (i) $21,604 in dividends paid in 2011 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,410 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; and (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums.
 
(10) Represents for 2013 (i) $33,391 in dividends paid in 2013 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,590 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums; and (iv) $8,828 from participation in the Employee Share Purchase Plan. Represents for 2012 (i) $35,914 in dividends paid in 2012 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,500 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums; and (iv) $8,469 from participation in the Employee Share Purchase Plan. Represents for 2011 (i) $45,102 in dividends paid in 2011 on unvested restricted common shares; (ii) $4,410 in employer matching and profit sharing contributions to our 401(k) retirement and profit sharing plan and deferred compensation plan; (iii) $960 in life insurance premiums; and (iv) $2,663 from participation in the Employee Share Purchase Plan.

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Grants of Plan-Based Awards
All Other Share Grant Date Fair
Estimated Future Payouts Estimated Possible Payouts Awards: Value of Share
Grant Grant Under Non-Equity Incentive Under Equity Incentive Number of and Option
Name Type Date Plan Awards ($)(1) Plan Awards (#)(2) Shares (#)(3) Awards (4)
Threshold Target Maximum Threshold Target Maximum
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney Annual Incentive   $ 0 $ 1,200,000 $ 1,800,000
Performance Units 2/25/13 33,687 67,374 134,748 $ 1,205,995
Restricted Shares 2/25/13     45,833 $ 593,995
Thomas E. Wirth Annual Incentive $ $ 273,105 $ 409,658
Performance Units   7,369 14,738 29,476 $ 263,810
Restricted Shares 10,026 $ 129,937
H. Jeffrey DeVuono Annual Incentive $ 0 $ 347,500 $ 521,250
  Performance Units 2/25/13 9,545 19,089 38,178 $ 341,693
  Restricted Shares 2/25/13 12,986 $ 168,299
Brad A. Molotsky Annual Incentive $ 0 $ 280,000 $ 420,000
Performance Units 2/25/13 9,825 19,651 39,302 $ 351,753
Restricted Shares 2/25/13 13,368 $ 173,249
George D. Johnstone Annual Incentive $ 0 $ 244,800 $ 367,200
Performance Units 2/25/13 7,018 14,036 28,072 $ 251,244
Restricted Shares 2/25/13 9,549 $ 123,755
Former Executive
Howard M. Sipzner Annual Incentive -- -- --
Performance Units 2/25/13 12,352 24,704 49,408 $ 442,202
Restricted Shares 2/25/13 16,806 $ 217,805

           (1)       Actual non-equity incentive awards for 2013 were made on March 12, 2014 (for Mr. Sweeney) and March 11, 2014 (for our other current named executive officers). See the Summary Compensation Table above for the actual amounts of the annual incentive awards earned by each named executive officer for 2013. The “Threshold” column represents the minimum amount payable when threshold performance is met. The “Target” column represents the amount payable if the specified performance targets are reached. The “Maximum” column represents the maximum payment opportunity. See “Compensation Discussion and Analysis — Discussion — Annual Incentive Awards.”
 
(2) All equity and equity-based awards were made under our Amended and Restated 1997 Long-Term Incentive Plan. The numbers shown under Estimated Future Payouts Under Equity Incentive Plan Awards represent the number of shares issuable under performance units, not including performance units resulting from the deemed investment of amounts equal to dividends paid on an equivalent number of common shares. The recipient is not entitled to any voting rights in connection with performance units. See “Compensation Discussion and Analysis — Equity-Based Long-Term Incentive Compensation — Performance Units” for a description of, and a discussion of the objectives of, the performance units. Whether the named executive officers will receive any shares in respect of performance units depends on whether we achieve total shareholder return hurdles. If the measurement period had ended on December 31, 2013, the following number of shares would have been issued under the performance units awarded on February 25, 2013 to the following executives: 130,694 to Mr. Sweeney; 28,589 to Mr. Wirth; 37,028 to Mr. DeVuono; 38,119 to Mr. Molotsky; and 27,226 to Mr. Johnstone. Mr. Sipzner’s performance units were forfeited upon termination of his employment on March 10, 2014.

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           (3)       Consists of restricted common shares (or share equivalents) that vest on April 15, 2016. Restricted common shares (or share equivalents) vest prior to April 15, 2016 upon a change of control, upon the death or disability of the holder of the shares or, in the case of Mr. Sweeney, his termination without cause or resignation for good reason. The holder of restricted common shares is entitled to receive dividends on the shares from the date of the award. Vesting of the restricted common shares (or share equivalents) is not subject to performance-based conditions.
 
(4) The amounts shown in this column represent the grant date fair value of awards on the date of grant, computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. Whether the named executive officers ultimately realize any of the value of the equity awards consisting of performance units generally depends on our total return to shareholders during the three-year period beginning January 1, 2013 and ending December 31, 2015 (i) relative to the total shareholder returns of the real estate investment trusts included in the S&P US REIT index (with respect to 50% of the units) and (ii) relative to the total shareholder returns of the companies in our peer group (with respect to the other 50% of the units). Whether the named executive officers ultimately realize any of the value of the equity awards consisting of restricted common shares generally depends on their continued employment with us. Generally, the grant date fair value is the amount that we would expense in our financial statements over the vesting period of the applicable Share Award. For the February 25, 2013 grants of restricted common shares the value was calculated based on the closing price of our common shares on the date of grant ($12.96). The grant date fair value for the performance units awarded on February 25, 2013 was $17.90 (reflecting the average of the values for performance units measured against the S&P US REIT index ($18.35) and for performance units measured against the peer group ($17.45)) and was determined using a Monte Carlo simulation probabilistic valuation model. In the case of the performance units measured against the S&P US REIT index, we assumed volatility of 53.5%, which was calculated based on the volatility of our share price over the preceding six years, using weekly share price observations (average peer volatility over the same period was 43.6%). Our actual total shareholder return from the beginning of the performance period through the grant date was 10.2%, which was calculated using a 30-day average share price as the beginning share price and the share price on the grant date as the ending share price (average shareholder return for the index for the same period was 8.5%). In the case of the performance units measured against the peer group, we assumed volatility of 53.5%, which was calculated based on the volatility of our share price over the preceding six years, using weekly share price observations (average peer volatility over the same period was 45.1%). Our actual total shareholder return from the beginning of the performance period through the grant date was 10.2%, which was calculated using a 30-day average share price as the beginning share price and the share price on the grant date as the ending share price (average peer shareholder return for the same period was 10.3%).

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Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End
Option Awards Share Awards
Equity
Incentive
Plan Awards:
Market or
Number of Number of Payout Value
Securities Securities Market of Unearned
Underlying Underlying Number of Value of Shares or
Unexercised Unexercised Option Shares That   Shares That Other Rights
Options Options Exercise Option Have Not Have Not That Have
(#) (#) Price Expiration Vested Vested Not Vested
Name Exercisable (1) Unexercisable(1) ($) Date (#)(2) ($) ($)(3)
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney 13,333 $ 6.21 (4) 156,520 $ 2,205,367 $ 4,116,196
33,333 $ 14.31 (4)  
1,010,000 0 $ 20.61 April 8, 2018
  274,973 0 $ 2.91 April 1, 2019
239,726 0 $ 11.31 March 4, 2020
126,467 63,234 $ 11.89 March 2, 2021
Thomas E. Wirth 16,267 0 $ 11.31 March 4, 2020 27,197 $ 383,206 $ 781,925
  17,163 8,582 $ 11.89 March 2, 2021
H. Jeffrey DeVuono 53,975 0 $ 20.61 April 8, 2018 36,221 $ 510,354 $ 1,035,080
8,841 0 $ 11.31 March 4, 2020
0 10,727 $ 11.89 March 2, 2021
Brad A. Molotsky 84,813 0 $ 20.61 April 8, 2018 45,572 $ 642,109 $ 1,200,567
58,219 0 $ 11.31 March 4, 2020
31,617 15,808 $ 11.89 March 2, 2021
George D. Johnstone 42,858 0 $ 20.61 April 8, 2018 29,367 $ 413,781 $ 818,009
32,820 0 $ 11.31 March 4, 2020
18,443 9,222 $ 11.89 March 2, 2021
Former Executive
Howard M. Sipzner 100,000 0 $ 20.61 April 8, 2018 (5) 55,505 $ 782,065 $ 1,509,279
13,500 19,873 $ 11.89 March 2, 2021 (5)

           (1)       The options with a $20.61 per share exercise price were awarded on April 8, 2008 and vested in equal installments on the first, second and third anniversaries of the award date. The options with a $2.91 per share exercise price were awarded on April 1, 2009 and vested in equal installments on the first, second and third anniversaries of the award date. The options with an $11.31 per share exercise price were awarded on March 4, 2010 and vested in equal installments on the first, second and third anniversaries of the award date. The options with an $11.89 per share exercise price were awarded on March 2, 2011 and vested in equal installments on the first, second and third anniversaries of the award date.
 
(2) The unvested shares shown in this column vest or vested in the following amounts and on the following dates:

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Number of
Name Unvested Shares Vesting Date
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney               9,336                      January 15, 2014       
46,102 April 15, 2014
55,249 April 15, 2015  
  45,833 April 15, 2016
Thomas E. Wirth 7,963 April 15, 2014
9,208 April 15, 2015
10,026 April 15, 2016
H. Jeffrey DeVuono 812 January 15, 2014
9,954   April 15, 2014
12,469   April 15, 2015
12,986 April 15, 2016
Brad A. Molotsky 1,421 January 15, 2014
14,669 April 15, 2014
16,114 April 15, 2015
13,368 April 15, 2016
George D. Johnstone 710 January 15, 2014
8,557 April 15, 2014
  10,551 April 15, 2015
9,549 April 15, 2016
Former Executive
Howard M. Sipzner 18,441 April 15, 2014
20,258 April 15, 2015
16,806 April 15, 2016

           (3)       Represents hypothetical payment amount, if any, under performance units awarded on March 1, 2012 and February 25, 2013. For a discussion of the terms of performance units, see “Compensation Discussion and Analysis — Equity-Based Long-Term Incentive Compensation — Performance Units.” The number of common shares, if any, that we will issue on account of performance units will depend on whether, and the extent to which, our total shareholder return exceeds the hurdles applicable to performance units. The dollar amounts shown above were computed on the basis of (i) the closing price of our common shares on December 31, 2013 (the last trading day of 2013) ($14.09) and (ii) the assumed occurrence of a change of control on December 31, 2013 (resulting in an early termination of the three-year measurement period applicable to performance units). If the measurement period had ended on December 31, 2013, we would have issued 2 common shares per unit awarded on March 1, 2012 and 1.88 common shares per unit awarded on February 25, 2013. As we discussed above, the measurement period for the performance units awarded on March 2, 2011 ended on December 31, 2013, resulting in a payout under these units of 1.16 common shares per unit. See “Compensation Discussion and Analysis — Capsule Information — Capsule Information: Settlement under 2011 Performance Units.”
 
(4) These options have an expiration date tied to Mr. Sweeney’s employment with us.
 
(5) Unless exercised earlier, the options terminate on June 8, 2014 (the 90th day following termination of Mr. Sipzner’s employment with us on March 10, 2014).

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Option Exercises and Shares Vested
Option Awards Share Awards
Number of Shares     Number of Shares  
Acquired on Value Realized Acquired on Value Realized
Exercise on Exercise Vesting on Vesting
Name (#) ($) (#) ($)(1)
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney 0   $ 0   58,053 $ 845,009
Thomas E. Wirth   0 $ 0 4,207   $ 62,684
H. Jeffrey DeVuono 51,855 $ 155,172 10,961 $ 161,581
Brad A. Molotsky 0 $ 0 16,479 $ 242,496
George D. Johnstone 32,816 $ 356,382 9,198 $ 135,531
Former Executive
Howard M. Sipzner 56,662 $ 121,098 17,391 $ 259,126

           (1)       Reflects the number of restricted common shares (or share equivalents) that vested in 2013 multiplied by the closing market price of the common shares on the applicable vesting date.

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation
Executive Registrant Aggregate Aggregate Aggregate
Contributions Contributions Earnings in Withdrawals/ Balance at
in Last FY in Last FY Last FY Distributions Last FYE
Name ($)(1) ($) ($)(2) ($) ($)
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney $ 596,080 $ 0 $ 651,054 $ 0 $ 4,590,348
Thomas E. Wirth $ 23,367 $ 0 $ 474 $   $ 23,841
H. Jeffrey DeVuono $ 36,440 $ 0 $ 28,104 $ 0 $ 368,522
Brad A. Molotsky $ 17,798 $ 0 $ 279,991 $ 0 $ 1,833,188
George D. Johnstone $ 0 $ 0 $ 40,879 $ 0 $ 308,216
Former Executive
Howard M. Sipzner $ 719,562 $ 0 $ 1,373,545 $ 5,107 $ 6,634,667

           (1)       Amounts shown reflect the portion of the executive’s 2013 salary, annual incentive award and vested performance shares deferred into our Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan. These amounts are also reported in the Summary Compensation Table. All amounts shown in the year-end balance column have been reported either as salary, bonus or non-equity incentive plan compensation in the Summary Compensation Table of our proxy statements for previous years for those of the named executive officers who were named executive officers in proxy statements for such previous years, other than the component of the year-end balances that represents earnings.
 
(2) Amounts that represent aggregate earnings and appreciation since inception in the Plan, measured at December 31, 2013, are: $2,029,901 for Mr. Sweeney; $474 for Mr. Wirth; $128,743 for Mr. DeVuono; $979,035 for Mr. Molotsky; $223,616 for Mr. Johnstone; and $2,538,169 for Mr. Sipzner.

Our Executive Deferred Compensation Plan (the “Deferred Compensation Plan”) affords participating executives and Trustees the ability to defer a portion of their base salary, bonus and annual incentive

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award (or, in the case of our Trustees, annual retainer and Board fees) on a tax-deferred basis. In addition, participants may elect to defer the receipt of equity grants under our long-term incentive plans. If a participant’s matching contributions under our 401(k) plan are limited due to participation in the Deferred Compensation Plan or due to limitations on matching contributions imposed by the Internal Revenue Code, we make a matching contribution for the participant under the deferred compensation plan to the extent the participant has deferred an amount under the Deferred Compensation Plan at least equal to the amount that would have been required if the matching contribution had been made under our 401(k) plan. We have the right, but not the obligation, to make matching contributions for executives on deferred amounts (and/or to make a discretionary profit sharing contribution for executives) covering compensation in excess of $255,000 because the 401(k) plan rules will not permit such matching contributions due to the compensation limitations of $255,000. Participants elect the timing and form of distribution. Distributions are payable in a lump sum or installments and may commence in-service, after a required minimum deferral period, or upon retirement. Participants elect the manner in which their accounts are deemed invested during the deferral period.

Because the Deferred Compensation Plan is a “nonqualified” deferred compensation plan, we are not obligated to invest deferred amounts in the selected manner or to set aside any deferred amounts in trust. One of the deemed investment options is a hypothetical investment fund (the “Common Share Fund”) consisting of our common shares. Effective for compensation deferred after 2006, all deferrals that are invested in the Company Share Fund will continue to be invested in the Company Share Fund until distribution and will not be eligible to be transferred into other investment funds. An executive who defers more than 25% of his or her annual bonus or annual incentive award into the Company Share Fund is entitled to a 15% discount on the share equivalents credited on account of the excess. All deferred equity grants will be invested in the Company Share Fund and all distributions of benefits attributable to Company Share Fund credits will be paid in common shares.

With respect to post-2004 deferred compensation deemed invested in the Company Share Fund, dividend equivalents are subject to participants’ elections to receive the dividend equivalents in cash or to continue to defer them under the Deferred Compensation Plan. Any dividend equivalents credited to participants’ accounts in the Deferred Compensation Plan will be invested in investment funds selected by the participants other than the Company Share Fund.

In general, compensation subject to a deferral election, matching contributions and profit sharing contributions are not includible in a participant’s taxable income for federal income tax purposes until the participant receives a distribution from the Deferred Compensation Plan. We are not entitled to a deduction until such amounts are distributed.


Employment and Other Agreements

We have agreements with executives that provide for payments to the executives in connection with their termination of employment or upon a change of control of us. We summarize below, and in the table that follows, circumstances that would trigger payments by us, and the amounts of the payments. We discuss the rationale for these agreements above under “Compensation Discussion and Analysis – Post Termination Benefits; Qualifying Retirement,” including why we have entered into agreements with executive officers that provide for post-employment payments following a change-in-control.

Agreement with our President and Chief Executive Officer. We have an employment agreement with Gerard H. Sweeney. Mr. Sweeney’s employment agreement provides for an annual base salary of not less than $600,000. If Mr. Sweeney’s employment with us were not extended upon expiration of the term of his employment agreement, which currently renews annually for successive one-year periods absent advance notice of non-renewal, we would be obligated to provide him with a severance benefit during the one-year period following expiration of the term equal to the sum of his prior year salary and bonus as well as health care benefits. The employment agreement entitles Mr. Sweeney to a payment equal to 2.99 times the sum of his annual salary and annual bonus upon: (i) termination of his employment without cause, (ii) his resignation “for good reason” or (iii) his death. Resignation by Mr. Sweeney within

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six months following a reduction in his salary, an adverse change in his status or responsibilities, certain changes in the location of our headquarters or a change of control of us would each constitute a resignation “for good reason.” In addition, upon a change of control, Mr. Sweeney’s unvested restricted common shares and options would vest in full. Mr. Sweeney’s employment agreement also includes a tax gross-up for excise tax payments that would be payable upon a change of control and that would put him in the same financial position after-tax that he would have been in if the excise tax did not apply to him. Mr. Sweeney’s severance and change of control benefits were determined by our Compensation Committee and are not conditioned on any non-competition or other post-employment restrictive covenants.

Agreement with our Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The agreement that we entered into in 2010 with Howard Sipzner, our former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, required us to provide him the following severance benefits upon termination of his employment without cause: (i) a cash payment of $1,275,000 (representing 1.5 times the sum of his annual salary and the annual incentive he was awarded in February 2013) and (ii) accelerated vesting of the 55,505 unvested restricted shares he held at termination. As further provided for in the employment agreement, Mr. Sipzner forfeited all of the performance units awarded to him in 2012 and 2013.

Change of Control Agreements with Executive Officers. In addition to our employment agreement with Mr. Sweeney, we have entered into change of control agreements with our executive officers. These agreements provide that if both (i) a change of control (a “CIC”) occurs at a time when an executive is an employee and (ii) the executive’s employment is terminated other than for cause or the executive resigns for good reason, in either case within a specified number of days (as indicated in the table below under the caption “Coverage Period”) following the CIC, then we (or our successor in the CIC transaction) will pay to the executive the product of: (x) the CIC Multiplier (as indicated in the table below under the caption “CIC Multiplier”) times (y) the sum of (1) the executive’s annual base salary in effect at the time of the CIC plus (2) the greater of (i) the annual bonus most recently paid to the executive prior to the CIC or (ii) the executive’s target bonus for the year in which the CIC occurs. In addition, if the foregoing double trigger (i.e., a CIC and a qualifying employment termination) were to occur, we would provide the applicable executive with medical coverage and group term life insurance benefits on the terms specified in the revised agreement.

The table below shows the Coverage Period and CIC Multiplier for the identified executive officers.

Name Coverage Period CIC Multiplier
H. Jeffrey DeVuono 730 days 2.00
George D. Johnstone 730 days 1.75
Brad A. Molotsky 730 days 2.50
Thomas E. Wirth 730 days 2.00

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Potential Payments Upon Termination of Employment or Change-in-Control

The table below was prepared as though the triggering event listed below the name of each named executive officer occurred on December 31, 2013. Assumptions are noted in the footnotes to the table.

Value of Medical
Severance Unvested Equity and Life Tax
Name Amount(1) Awards(2) Insurance Gross Up Total
Current Executive
Gerard H. Sweeney
Voluntary resignation $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0
Involuntary termination
(not in connection with change
in control or for cause) $ 5,023,200 $ 6,325,736 $ 93,004 $ 0 $ 11,441,940
Death $ 5,023,200 $ 6,325,736 $ 0 $ 0 $ 11,348,936
Disability $ 1,680,000 $ 6,325,736 $ 31,105 $ 0 $ 8,036,841
Involuntary or good reason
termination after change of control $ 5,023,200 $ 6,325,736 $ 93,004 4,543,973 $ 15,985,913
Thomas E. Wirth
Voluntary resignation $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0
Involuntary termination (not in
  connection with change in control) $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0
Death $ 0 $ 1,165,696 $ 0 $ 0 $ 1,165,696
Disability $ 0 $ 1,165,696 $ 0 $ 0 $ 1,165,696
Involuntary or good reason
termination after change of control $ 1,111,740 $ 1,165,696 $ 51,826 $ 0 $ 2,329,262
H. Jeffrey DeVuono
Voluntary resignation $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0
Involuntary termination (not in
connection with change in control) $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0
Death $ 0 $ 1,449,569 $ 0 $ 0 $ 1,449,569
Disability $ 0 $ 1,449,569 $ 0 $ 0 $ 1,449,569
Involuntary or good reason
termination after change in control $ 1,303,140 $ 1,449,569 $ 68,574 $ 0 $ 2,821,283
Brad A. Molotsky
Voluntary resignation $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0
Involuntary termination (not in
connection with change in control) $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0
Death $ 0 $ 1,843,719 $ 0 $ 0 $ 1,843,719
Disability $ 0 $ 1,843,719 $ 0 $ 0 $ 1,843,719
Involuntary or good reason
termination after change of control $ 1,484,000 $ 1,843,719 $ 85,717 $ 0 $ 3,413,436
George D. Johnstone
Voluntary resignation $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0
Involuntary termination (not in
connection with change in control) $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0
Death $ 0 $ 1,232,399 $ 0 $ 0 $ 1,232,399
Disability $ 0 $ 1,232,399 $ 0 $ 0 $ 1,232,399
Involuntary or good reason
termination after change in control $ 927,500 $ 1,232,399 $ 60,002 $ 0 $ 2,219,901
Former Executive
Howard M. Sipzner
Voluntary resignation $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0
Involuntary termination (not in
connection with change in control) $ 1,275,000 $ 783,377 $ 0 $ 0 $ 2,058,377
Death $ 0 $ 2,292,656 $ 0 $ 0 $ 2,292,656
Disability $ 0 $ 2,292,656 $ 0 $ 0 $ 2,292,656
Involuntary or good reason
termination after change of control $ 2,125,000 $ 2,292,656 $ 85,717 $ 0 $ 4,503,373

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(1) Computed as a multiple of the sum salary and annual bonus.
 
           (2)       Represents the aggregate value of unvested equity awards as of December 31, 2013 that would vest upon a change of control, death, disability or qualifying retirement or, in the case of Mr. Sweeney, his termination without cause or resignation for good reason. Unvested equity awards are comprised of restricted common shares, performance units and options. We computed the value of the accelerated equity awards using the closing price of our common shares on December 31, 2013 (the last trading day of 2013) ($14.09).

Equity Compensation Plan Information as of December 31, 2013
(a) (b)   (c)
Number of securities
remaining available for
Number of securities to be Weighted-average future issuance under
issued upon exercise of exercise price of equity compensation plans
  outstanding options, outstanding options, (excluding securities
Plan category warrants and rights warrants and rights reflected in column (a))
Equity compensation
plans approved by 2,983,569 (2) $15.50 (3)   2,211,608  
security holders (1)    
Equity compensation  
plans not approved by  
security holders
Total 2,983,569 (2) $15.50 (3) 2,211,608

           (1)       Relates to our Amended and Restated 1997 Long-Term Incentive Plan (most recently approved by shareholders in June 2010) and 46,667 options awarded prior to adoption of the Amended and Restated 1997 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
 
(2) Does not include 563,713 unvested restricted common shares awarded under our Amended and Restated 1997 Long-Term Incentive Plan that were outstanding as of December 31, 2013.
 
(3) The weighted average remaining term of the options as of December 31, 2013 was approximately 5.15 years (assuming a 15 year term from the grant date for 46,667 options that do not have a stated expiration date).

401(k) Plan

We maintain a Section 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan (the “401(k) Plan”) covering eligible employees. The 401(k) Plan permits eligible employees to defer up to a designated percentage of their annual compensation, subject to certain limitations imposed by the Internal Revenue Code. The employees’ elective deferrals are immediately vested and non-forfeitable upon contribution to the 401(k) Plan. We reserve the right to make matching contributions or discretionary profit sharing contributions. The 401(k) Plan is designed to qualify under Section 401 of the Code so that contributions by employees or us to the 401(k) Plan and income earned on plan contributions are not taxable to employees until such amounts are withdrawn from the 401(k) Plan, and so that contributions by us, if any, will be deductible by us when made.

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Employee Share Purchase Plan

Our shareholders approved the 2007 Non-Qualified Employee Share Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”) in May 2007. The number of common shares reserved and initially available for issuance under the ESPP is 1,250,000.

The ESPP is intended to provide eligible employees with a convenient means to purchase common shares through payroll deductions and voluntary cash investments. All of our full-time and qualified part-time employees are eligible to participate in the ESPP beginning on the first day of the quarterly purchase period that begins on, or next following, their date of hire. Approximately 406 persons are eligible to participate in the ESPP, including 25 officers and all of our other full-time and qualified part-time employees. Part-time employees must be scheduled to work at least 20 hours per week to qualify for participation under the ESPP.

Prior to each purchase period, a participant may specify the contributions the participant proposes to make for the purchase period. Such contributions will be expressed as a stated whole percentage (ranging from 1% to 20%) of the participant’s compensation payable during the purchase period (including base salary, bonus, commissions and other compensation processed through our regular payroll system) that we are authorized to deduct during the purchase period to purchase common shares for the participant’s account under the ESPP. A participant may withdraw (without interest) at any time on or before the last day of a purchase period all or any of the contributions credited to his or her account. In addition, a participant may amend or revoke his or her election at any time prior to a purchase period, and a participant may amend or revoke his or her election during a purchase period to reduce or stop his or her contributions. The account balance of any participant who terminates employment during a purchase period before the last day of the purchase period will be automatically returned without interest to the participant. At the end of each purchase period, the amounts accumulated for each participant will be used to purchase common shares at a price equal to 85% (or such higher percentage set by the Compensation Committee) of the average closing price of the common shares as reported on the New York Stock Exchange during the purchase period. The ESPP Plan Year begins June 1 and extends to the next following May 31. Purchase periods have a duration of three months, ending on each of February 28, May 31, August 31 and November 30. Our Compensation Committee, in its discretion, may change the duration of purchase periods and also may change the beginning and ending dates of purchase periods from those described above, provided, however, that a purchase period may not extend for more than a 12-consecutive-month period. Under the plan document the maximum contribution by each participant for any Plan Year may not exceed $50,000. The ESPP does not qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” within the meaning of section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code.

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Securities Ownership


Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management


The following table shows the number of common shares (and common shares for which Class A Units of Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P. may be exchanged) beneficially owned as of April 2, 2014 by each Trustee, by each named executive officer, by all Trustees and executive officers as a group, and by each person known to us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the outstanding common shares. Except as indicated below, to our knowledge, all of such common shares are owned directly, and the indicated person has sole voting and investment power.

Number of Percentage of
Common Common
Name and Business Address of Beneficial Owner (1) Shares Shares
The Vanguard Group, Inc. (2)      20,536,379              13.09        
CBRE Clarion Securities, LLC (3) 13,958,201 8.90
Systematic Financial Management, L.P. (4) 9,815,458   6.26    
BlackRock, Inc. (5) 9,422,164   6.00  
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (6) 8,830,957 5.63  
FMR LLC (7) 8,131,081 5.18  
Gerard H. Sweeney (8) 2,707,326   1.73
Thomas E. Wirth (9)   44,940   *
George D. Johnstone (10) 160,920 *
Brad A. Molotsky (11) 344,313   *
Henry J. DeVuono (12) 196,667   *
Howard M. Sipzner (13) 525,304 *
Walter D’Alessio (14) 38,810 *
James C. Diggs (15) 11,974 *
Wyche Fowler (16)   29,504 *
Michael J. Joyce (17) 35,277 *
Anthony A. Nichols, Sr. (18) 78,191 *
Charles P. Pizzi (19) 23,543 *
All Trustees and Executive Officers as a Group (14 persons) 4,475,186 2.81

* Less than one percent.

      (1)       Unless indicated otherwise, the business address of each person listed is 555 East Lancaster Avenue, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087.
 
(2) Information regarding beneficial ownership of our common shares by The Vanguard Group, Inc. is included herein based on an Amendment No. 7 to Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 11, 2014, relating to such shares beneficially owned as of December 31, 2013. Vanguard has an address of 100 Vanguard Blvd., Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355. Such report provides that Vanguard Group, Inc. is the beneficial owner of 20,536,379 common shares, with sole dispositive power over 20,305,976 of such shares and shared

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            dispositive power over 230,403 of such shares and with sole power to vote 296,954 of such shares and shared power to vote 103,734 of such shares. Information in an Amendment No. 4 to Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 14, 2014 by Vanguard Specialized Funds-Vanguard REIT Index Fund indicates that Vanguard Specialized Funds-Vanguard REIT Index Fund is the beneficial owner of 10,607,868 of the foregoing common shares and has sole power to vote such shares.
 
(3) Information regarding beneficial ownership of our common shares by CBRE Clarion Securities, LLC is included herein based on Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 11, 2014, relating to such shares beneficially owned as of December 31, 2013. CBRE Clarion Securities, LLC has an address of 201 King of Prussia Road, Suite 600, Radnor, PA 19087. Such report provides that CBRE Clarion Securities, LLC is the beneficial owner of 13,958,201 common shares and has sole power to vote such shares.
 
(4) Information regarding beneficial ownership of our common shares by Systematic Financial Management, L.P. is included herein based on Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 13, 2014, relating to such shares beneficially owned as of December 31, 2013. Systematic Financial Management, L.P. has an address of 300 Frank W. Burr Blvd., Glenpointe East, 7th Floor, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666. Such report provides that Systematic Financial Management, L.P. is the beneficial owner of 9,815,458 common shares, with sole dispositive power over all of such shares and with sole power to vote 6,581,345 of such shares.
 
(5) Information regarding beneficial ownership of our common shares by BlackRock, Inc. is included herein based on Amendment No. 1 to Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on January 28, 2014, relating to such shares beneficially owned as of December 31, 2013. BlackRock, Inc. has an address of 40 East 52nd Street, New York, New York 10022. Such report provides that BlackRock, Inc. is the beneficial owner of 9,422,164 common shares and has sole dispositive power over all of such shares and sole power to vote 8,799,904 of such shares.
 
(6) Information regarding beneficial ownership of our common shares by JPMorgan Chase & Co. is included herein based on Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on January 24, 2014, relating to such shares beneficially owned as of December 31, 2013. JPMorgan Chase &Co. has an address of 270 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Such report provides that JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the beneficial owner of 8,830,957 common shares and has sole dispositive power over 8,533,163 of such shares and with sole power to vote 5,226,485 of such shares and shared power to vote 297,794 of such shares.
 
(7) Information regarding beneficial ownership of our common shares by FMR LLC and certain related entities is included herein based on an Amendment No. 4 to Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 14, 2014, relating to such shares beneficially owned as of December 31, 2013. FMR LLC has an address of 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210. Such report provides that FMR LLC, an investment advisor, is beneficial owner of 8,131,081 of such common shares and with Edward C. Johnson III each has sole dispositive power with respect to 5,432,900 of such common shares; and neither FMR LLC nor Mr. Johnson has sole or shared power to vote or direct the voting of these shares.
 
(8) Includes (a) 946,260 common shares (including 190,759 common shares held by a family limited partnership) and (b) 1,761,066 common shares issuable upon the exercise of options. Does not include 148,008 common share equivalents credited to Mr. Sweeney’s account in the deferred compensation plan or 213,060 unvested restricted common shares as of April 2, 2014.
 
(9) Includes (a) 2,928 common shares and (b) 42,012 options. Does not include 9,267 common share equivalents credited to Mr. Wirth’s account in the deferred compensation plan or 38,296 unvested restricted common shares as of April 2, 2014.
 
(10) Includes (a) 57,577 common shares and (b) 103,343 common shares issuable upon the exercise of options. Does not include 20,826 common share equivalents credited to Mr. Johnstone’s account in the deferred compensation plan or 37,465 unvested restricted common shares as of April 2, 2014.
 
(11) Includes (a) 153,856 common shares and (b) 190,457 common shares issuable upon the exercise of options. Does not include 68,574 common share equivalents credited to Mr. Molotsky’s account in the deferred compensation plan or 56,241 unvested restricted common shares as of April 2, 2014.
 
(12) Includes (a) 123,124 common shares and (b) 73,543 common shares issuable upon the exercise of options. Does not include 20,299 common share equivalents credited to Mr. DeVuono’s account in the deferred compensation plan or 47,413 unvested restricted shares as of April 2, 2014.
 
(13) Mr. Sipzner’s employment terminated on March 10, 2014.
 
(14) Mr. D’Alessio has a business address at 1600 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.

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      (15)       Mr. Diggs has a residence at 100 Central Avenue, Sarasota, Florida 34236.
 
(16) Does not include 9,973 common share equivalents credited to Mr. Fowler’s account in the deferred compensation plan as of April 2, 2014. Mr. Fowler has a residence at 2734 Peachtree Road NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30305.
 
(17) Mr. Joyce has a residence at 18 Newhall Road, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 29928.
 
(18) Includes 21,992 common shares held by a family limited partnership. Mr. Nichols has an address at 3637 Crayton Road, Naples, Florida 34103-3516.
 
(19) Mr. Pizzi has a residence at 8601 Thomas Mill Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19128.

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Proposal 2: Ratification of the Appointment of
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm


The Audit Committee has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was first engaged as our independent registered public accounting firm in June 2003 and has audited our financial statements for fiscal 2002, through and including 2013. Ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP requires the affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast on the matter.

Although shareholder ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm is not required by our bylaws or otherwise, our Board has decided to afford our shareholders the opportunity to express their opinions on the matter of our independent registered public accounting firm. Even if the selection is ratified, the Audit Committee in its discretion may select a different independent registered public accounting firm at any time if it determines that such a change would be in our best interests and those of our shareholders. If our shareholders do not ratify the appointment, the Audit Committee will take that fact into consideration, together with such other information as it deems relevant, in determining its next selection of an independent registered public accounting firm.

Representatives of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP will be present at the Meeting to make any statement they may desire and to respond to questions from shareholders.

The Board of Trustees unanimously recommends a vote FOR Proposal 2 to ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for calendar year 2014.



Fees to Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Audit Fees. For 2013, we incurred audit fees of $856,244 in aggregate payable to our independent registered public accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. These fees include: (i) recurring audit and quarterly review fees of $713,162 for both us, our operating partnership and our affiliates, (ii) fees of $25,654 for comfort letters, consents and assistance with documents filed with the SEC in connection with registration statements, and securities offerings by us and our operating partnership and (iii) fees of $117,428 related to the adoption and auditing of new accounting pronouncements and other nonrecurring items. For 2012, we incurred audit fees of $843,825 in aggregate payable to our independent registered public accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. These fees include: (i) recurring audit and quarterly review fees of $739,388 for both us, our operating partnership and our affiliates, (ii) fees of $87,464 for comfort letters, consents and assistance with documents filed with the SEC in connection with registration statements, and securities offerings by us and our operating partnership and (iii) fees of $16,973 related to the adoption and auditing of new accounting pronouncements and other nonrecurring items.

Audit-Related Fees. For 2012 and 2011, we did not incur audit-related fees.

Tax Fees. We did not pay PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP fees for tax services in 2013 or 2012 or engage PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for tax services in 2012 or 2011.

All Other Fees. For 2013 and 2012 we paid $2,754 and $1,800, respectively, to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for the use of technical accounting research tools. We did not engage PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for other services in 2013 or 2012.

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Pre-Approval Policy. All services provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in 2013 and 2012 were pre-approved by our Audit Committee, which concluded that the provision of such services by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was compatible with the maintenance of that firm’s independence in the conduct of its auditing functions. The Audit Committee has adopted a pre-approval policy for services provided by the independent registered public accounting firm. Under the policy, the Audit Committee has pre-approved the provision by the independent registered public accounting firm of services that fall within specified categories (such as statutory audits or financial audit work for subsidiaries, services associated with SEC registration statements and consultations by management as to accounting interpretations) but only up to specified dollar amounts. Any services that exceed the pre-approved dollar limits, or any services that fall outside of the general pre-approved categories, require specific pre-approval by the Audit Committee. If the Audit Committee delegates pre-approval authority to one or more of its members, the member would be required to report any pre-approval decisions to the Audit Committee at its next meeting.

We have been advised by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP that neither the firm, nor any member of the firm, has any financial interest, direct or indirect, in any capacity in us or any of our subsidiaries.

 

Report of the Audit Committee

Our Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed our 2013 audited financial statements with our management; has discussed with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, the matters required to be discussed by the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 61, as amended, as adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; and has received the written disclosures and the letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP required by applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and has discussed with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP their independence. Based on the review and discussions, our Audit Committee recommended to our full Board that the 2013 audited financial statements be included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. The Board accepted the Audit Committee’s recommendation. This report is made by the undersigned members of the Audit Committee.

       w       Michael J. Joyce (Chair)
 
        w       James C. Diggs
 
        w       Charles P. Pizzi

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Proposal 3: Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation


The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, or the Dodd-Frank Act, enables our shareholders to vote to approve, on an advisory (nonbinding) basis, the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in this proxy statement in accordance with the SEC’s rules.

As described in detail above under the heading “Executives and Executive Compensation — Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” our executive compensation programs are designed to attract, retain and motivate our named executive officers, who are critical to our success. Under these programs, our named executive officers are rewarded for the achievement of annual and long-term strategic and corporate goals, and the realization of increased shareholder value. Please read the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” and “Compensation Tables and Related Information” for additional details about our executive compensation programs, including information about the fiscal year 2013 compensation of our named executive officers.

We are asking our shareholders to indicate their support for our named executive officer compensation as described in this proxy statement. This proposal, commonly known as a “say-on-pay” proposal, gives our shareholders the opportunity to express their views on our named executive officers’ compensation. This vote is not intended to address any specific item of compensation, but rather the overall compensation of our named executive officers and the philosophy, policies and practices described in this proxy statement. Accordingly, we will ask our shareholders to vote “FOR” the following resolution at the Annual Meeting:

“RESOLVED, that the Company’s shareholders approve, on an advisory and non-binding basis, the compensation of the named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company’s Proxy Statement for the 2014 Annual Meeting of Shareholders pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, the 2013 Summary Compensation Table and the other related tables and disclosure.”

The say-on-pay vote is advisory, and therefore not binding on us, our Compensation Committee or our Board of Trustees. Our Board of Trustees and our Compensation Committee value the opinions of our shareholders and to the extent there is any significant vote against the named executive officer compensation as disclosed in this proxy statement, we will consider our shareholders’ concerns and the Compensation Committee will evaluate whether any actions are necessary to address those concerns.

The Board of Trustees unanimously recommends a vote “FOR” the approval of the compensation of our named executive officers, as disclosed in this proxy statement pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Other Information


Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires our officers, Trustees and persons who own more than 10% of our common shares to file reports of ownership and changes in ownership with the SEC. Officers, Trustees and greater than 10% shareholders are required by regulation to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file. Based solely on a review of the copies of such forms furnished to us, or written representations that no Annual Statements of Beneficial Ownership of Securities on Form 5 were required to be filed, we believe that during the year ended December 31, 2013, our officers, Trustees and greater than 10% shareholders complied with all applicable Section 16(a) filing requirements.

 

Other Business

We know of no business that will be presented at the Meeting other than as set forth in this Proxy Statement and our Bylaws do not allow proposals to be presented at the Meeting unless they were properly presented to us prior to December 13, 2013. However, if other matters should properly be presented at the Meeting, it is the intention of the persons named in the proxy card to vote in accordance with their best judgment on such matters.

 

Expenses of Solicitation

The expense of solicitation of proxies on behalf of the Trustees, including printing and postage, will be paid by us. Request will be made of brokerage houses and other custodians, nominees and fiduciaries to forward the solicitation material, at our expense, to the beneficial owners of common shares held of record by such persons. In addition to being solicited through the mails, proxies may also be solicited personally or by telephone by our Trustees and officers. In addition, we have engaged Georgeson Inc. to solicit proxies for the Meeting. We have agreed to pay $7,500 plus out-of-pocket expenses of Georgeson Inc. for these services.

 

Shareholder Proposals for the 2015 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

We must receive shareholder proposals submitted to us for inclusion in our proxy statement for our 2015 annual meeting of shareholders no later than December 12, 2014. Proposals must comply with rules of the SEC.

For a shareholder nomination or proposal that is not submitted for inclusion in next year’s proxy statement but is instead sought to be presented directly at the 2015 annual meeting, our bylaws generally permit such a presentation if a shareholder’s written notice of the nominee or proposal and any required supporting information (i) are received by our secretary not earlier than the 150th day nor later than the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the date of the notice and proxy statement for preceding year’s annual meeting and (ii) meet the requirements of our bylaws and SEC rules. For consideration at the 2015 annual meeting, a shareholder nominee or proposal not submitted to us for inclusion in the 2015 proxy statement must be received by us between November 12, 2014 and December 12, 2014. Notices of intention to present proposals at the 2014 annual meeting should be addressed to Brad A. Molotsky, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, 555 East Lancaster Avenue, Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087. If we were to advance or delay the date of our 2015 annual meeting by more than 30 days from the first anniversary of the date of our 2014 annual meeting then, under our bylaws, the

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notice of nominee or proposal and required supporting information must be delivered to us not earlier than 150th day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not after the later of (x) the 120th day prior to the date of such annual meeting, as originally convened, or (y) the 10th day following the day on which we first publicly announce the date of such annual meeting. You may contact our Secretary at the address mentioned above for a copy of our bylaws.

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BRANDYWINE REALTY TRUST
555 EAST LANCASTER AVENUE
SUITE 100
RADNOR, PA 19087

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   For
All
   Withhold
All
   For All
Except
The Board of Trustees recommends you vote
FOR the following:
    ¨ ¨ ¨
1.    Election of Trustees
Nominees

To withhold authority to vote for any individual nominee(s), mark “For All Except” and write the number(s) of the nominee(s) on the line below.

 
 



01    Walter D'Alessio 02    Anthony A. Nichols, Sr. 03    Gerard H. Sweeney 04    Wyche Fowler 05    Michael J. Joyce
06 Charles P. Pizzi 07 James C. Diggs

The Board of Trustees recommends you vote FOR proposals 2 and 3.    For    Against    Abstain
 
2    Ratification of the Audit Committee’s appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for calendar year 2014.   ¨   ¨   ¨
 
3 Provide an advisory, non-binding vote on our executive compensation ¨ ¨ ¨
 

NOTE: In their discretion, the Proxy Holders are authorized to vote upon such other matters as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

 

 

 

 

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Proxy – Brandywine Realty Trust

Annual Meeting of Shareholders
May 29, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. EDT
The Four Seasons Hotel
One Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proxy Solicited on Behalf of the Board of Trustees

The undersigned shareholder of Brandywine Realty Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the "Company"), hereby appoints Walter D’Alessio and Gerard H. Sweeney, and each of them, acting individually, as proxies for the undersigned, with full power of substitution in each of them, to attend the Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of Brandywine Realty Trust to be held at 10:00 a.m. EDT on May 29, 2014, and at any postponement or adjournment thereof, to cast, on behalf of the undersigned, all votes that the undersigned is entitled to vote at such meeting and otherwise to represent the undersigned, at the meeting with all powers possessed by the undersigned if personally present at the meeting.

This Proxy is solicited on behalf of the Board of Trustees. When properly executed, this Proxy will be voted in the manner directed by the undersigned shareholder. If this Proxy is executed but no direction is made, this Proxy will be voted "FOR" the election of all trustees and proposals 2 and 3.This Proxy also delegates discretionary authority with respect to any other business which may properly come before the meeting or any postponement or adjournment thereof.

The undersigned hereby acknowledges receipt of the Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders and of the accompanying Proxy Statement and revokes any Proxy previously submitted with respect to the meeting.

PLEASE REFER TO THE REVERSE SIDE FOR INTERNET AND TELEPHONE VOTING INSTRUCTIONS.

 

Continued and to be signed on reverse side