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EX-5.2 - OPINION OF JOHN MCDONALD - Toll Brothers, Inc.ex5-2.htm
EX-4.3 - FORM OF GLOBAL NOTE - Toll Brothers, Inc.ex4-3.htm
EX-4.2 - AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION - Toll Brothers, Inc.ex4-2.htm
EX-1.1 - UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT - Toll Brothers, Inc.ex1-1.htm
8-K - CURRENT REPORT - Toll Brothers, Inc.form8k.htm
Exhibit 5.1
 
[Letterhead of]
 
CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP
[New York Office]
 


January 22, 2018

Toll Brothers, Inc.
$400,000,000 4.350% Senior Notes due 2028


Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to Toll Brothers, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Toll Brothers Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), in connection with the public offering and sale by the Issuer of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.350% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “Senior Notes”) to be issued under the Indenture dated as of February 7, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), among the Issuer, the Company, the Guarantors (as defined below) and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Authorizing Resolution dated January 22, 2018 (the “Authorizing Resolution” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”). The Senior Notes will be on the date hereof guaranteed (the “Guarantees”) by the entities set forth on Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “Delaware Guarantors”), by the entities set forth on Schedule II hereto (collectively, the “New York Guarantors” and, together with the Delaware Guarantors, the “Covered Guarantors”) and by the entities set forth on Schedule III hereto (the “Other Guarantors” and, together with the Covered Guarantors, the “Guarantors”).

In that connection, we have examined originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records and other instruments as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion, including: (a) the Certificate of Incorporation of the Issuer and the Company, as amended; (b) the By-laws of the Issuer and the Company, as amended; (c) the Certificate of Incorporation, By-laws or other comparable organizational documents, as the case may be, of each other Covered Guarantor; (d) the Omnibus Written Consent of (i) all of the members of the


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boards of directors of the corporations listed on Schedule I thereto and (ii) the person or persons authorized to act (whether directly, or indirectly through a Guarantor) with regard thereto on behalf of one or more of the entities listed on Schedule II thereto, in each case duly adopted by unanimous consent on January 16, 2018; the Action Taken by Unanimous Written Consent of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, duly adopted on January 16, 2018; the Action Taken by Unanimous Written Consent of the Board of Directors of the Company, duly adopted on January 16, 2018; the Resolutions of a committee of the Board of Directors of the Company, duly adopted on January 17, 2018; the Pricing Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, duly adopted on January 17, 2018; and the Joint Action of the Persons Authorized to Act on Behalf of each of the Issuer, the Company and the Guarantors, duly adopted on January 22, 2018, pursuant to which the Authorizing Resolution was adopted; (e) the Registration Statement on Form S‑3 (Registration No. 333‑202046) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on February 12, 2015, as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto on October 27, 2015, by Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 thereto on March 7, 2017, by Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 thereto on June 7, 2017 and by Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 thereto on January 17, 2018 (the “Registration Statement”), for registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of an unlimited aggregate amount of various securities of the Company, the Issuer or certain other subsidiaries of the Company, to be issued from time to time by the Company, the Issuer or such subsidiaries; (f) the related Prospectus dated February 12, 2015 (together with the documents incorporated therein by reference, the “Basic Prospectus”); (g) the Prospectus Supplement dated January 17, 2018, filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act (together with the Basic Prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference therein, the “Prospectus”); (h) the Pricing Term Sheet dated January 17, 2018, filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act; (i) the Underwriting Agreement dated January 17, 2018 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Issuer, the Company and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Mizuho Securities USA LLC, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters names therein; and (j) the Indenture (including the First through Seventeenth Supplemental Indentures thereof) and the forms of the Senior Notes and Guarantees.

As to various questions of fact material to this opinion, we have relied upon representations of officers or directors of the Issuer and the Company and documents furnished to us by the Issuer and the Company without independent verification of their accuracy. We have also assumed (a) with your consent and without independent investigation or verification, the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity and competency of all natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as duplicates or copies, (b) that the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by, and represents a legal, valid and binding obligation of, the Trustee and (c) that the Guarantees have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Other Guarantors.


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Based on the foregoing and subject to the qualifications set forth herein, we are of opinion that, when the Senior Notes are authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered and paid for, (i) the Senior Notes will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Issuer, enforceable against the Issuer in accordance with their terms and entitled to the benefits of the Indenture (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and (ii) the Guarantees will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Guarantors entitled to the benefits of the Guarantees and enforceable against the Guarantors in accordance with their terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer and other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

We are admitted to practice in the State of New York, and we express no opinion as to matters governed by any laws other than the laws of the State of New York, the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act and the Federal laws of the United States of America.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus supplement forming a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are included in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission.


 
Very truly yours,
 
/s/ Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP


Toll Brothers, Inc.
250 Gibraltar Road
Horsham, Pennsylvania 19044

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Schedule I – Delaware Goarantors

134 Bay Street LLC
Toll Corp.
Ashford Land Company, L.P.
Toll DE II LP
Byers Commercial LLC
Toll DE LP
Component Systems I LLC
Toll Diamond Corp.
Component Systems II LLC
Toll EB, LLC
Dominion III Corp.
Toll Equipment, L.L.C.
Dominion IV LLC
Toll Golden Corp.
ESE Consultants, Inc.
Toll Hoboken LLC
First Brandywine Investment Corp. II
Toll Holdings, Inc.
First Brandywine Investment Corp. IV
Toll Land Corp. No. 50
First Brandywine LLC I
Toll MA Holdings LLC
First Brandywine LLC II
Toll MA Land II GP LLC
First Brandywine Partners, L.P.
Toll Mid-Atlantic II LLC
First Huntingdon Finance Corp.
Toll Mid-Atlantic LP Company, Inc.
Hoboken Land I LLC
Toll Midwest LLC
Hockessin Chase, L.P.
Toll Morgan Street LLC
Liseter, LLC
Toll NJX-I Corp.
Morgan Street JV LLC
Toll Northeast II LLC
Plum Canyon Master LLC
Toll Northeast LP Company, Inc.
PRD Investors, Inc.
Toll Northeast Services, Inc.
PRD Investors, LLC
Toll Realty Holdings Corp. I
Rancho Costera LLC
Toll Realty Holdings Corp. II
Shapell Hold Properties No. 1, LLC
Toll Realty Holdings LP
Shapell Homes, Inc.
Toll Southeast II LLC
Shapell Industries, Inc.
Toll Southeast LP Company, Inc.
Shapell Land Company, LLC
Toll Southwest II LLC
TB Kent Partners LLC
Toll Southwest LLC
TB Proprietary Corp.
Toll VA GP Corp.
Toll Architecture I, P.A.
Toll VA LLC
Toll Architecture, Inc.
Toll VA Member Two, Inc.
Toll Bros., Inc.
Toll West Coast II LLC
Toll Brothers Canada USA, Inc.
Toll West Coast LLC
Toll Brothers, Inc.
Upper K Investors, Inc.
Toll CA Holdings, Inc.
Upper K Investors, LLC
Toll Centennial Corp.
Upper K-Shapell, LLC
Toll Corners LLC
 
 


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Schedule II – New York Guarantors

110-112 Third Ave. Realty Corp.
89 Park Avenue LLC
Toll at Whippoorwill, L.P.
Toll Brooklyn L.P.
Toll Land V Limited Partnership
Toll Land VI Limited Partnership
Toll Land VII LLC
Toll Lexington LLC
Toll NY II LLC
Toll NY III L.P.
Toll NY IV L.P.
Toll NY L.P.
Toll NY V L.P.
Toll Van Wyck, LLC

 

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Schedule III – Other Guarantors

Toll Bros. of Arizona, Inc.
Frenchman’s Reserve Realty, LLC
Toll Brothers AZ Construction Company
Jacksonville TBI Realty LLC
Toll Brothers AZ Limited Partnership
Mizner Realty, L.L.C.
Toll Prasada LLC
Naples TBI Realty, LLC
Arbors Porter Ranch, LLC
Orlando TBI Realty LLC
Placentia Development Company, LLC
Tampa TBI Realty LLC
Porter Ranch Development Co.
TBI/Palm Beach Limited Partnership
Sorrento at Dublin Ranch I LP
Toll Estero Limited Partnership
Sorrento at Dublin Ranch III LP
Toll FL I, LLC
Toll CA I LLC
Toll FL II Limited Partnership
Toll CA II, L.P.
Toll FL III Limited Partnership
Toll CA III LLC
Toll FL IV Limited Partnership
Toll CA III, L.P.
Toll FL IV LLC
Toll CA IV, L.P.
Toll FL Limited Partnership
Toll CA IX, L.P.
Toll FL V Limited Partnership
Toll CA Note II LLC
Toll FL V LLC
Toll CA V, L.P.
Toll FL VI Limited Partnership
Toll CA VI, L.P.
Toll FL VII Limited Partnership
Toll CA VII, L.P.
Toll FL VIII Limited Partnership
Toll CA VIII, L.P.
Toll FL X Limited Partnership
Toll CA X, L.P.
Toll FL XII Limited Partnership
Toll CA XI, L.P.
Toll FL XIII Limited Partnership
Toll CA XII, L.P.
Toll Ft. Myers Limited Partnership
Toll CA XIX, L.P.
Toll Jacksonville Limited Partnership
Toll CA XX, L.P.
Toll Jupiter LLC
Toll CA, L.P.
Toll Orlando Limited Partnership
Toll Land XIX Limited Partnership
Toll GA LP
Toll Land XX Limited Partnership
Toll ID I LLC
Toll Land XXII Limited Partnership
Toll IL HWCC, L.P.
Toll Land XXIII Limited Partnership
Toll IL II, L.P.
Toll Stonebrae LP
Toll IL III, L.P.
Toll YL II, L.P.
Toll IL IV, L.P.
Toll-Dublin, L.P.
Toll IL WSB, L.P.
Toll-Dublin, LLC
Toll IL, L.P.
Toll CO I LLC
Toll IN LLC
Toll CO II, L.P.
CC Estates Limited Partnership
Toll CO III, L.P.
The Bird Estate Limited Partnership
Toll CO, L.P.
Toll MA Development LLC
Southport Landing Limited Partnership
Toll MA I LLC
Toll CT II Limited Partnership
Toll MA II LLC
Toll CT III Limited Partnership
Toll MA III LLC
Toll CT IV Limited Partnership
Toll MA IV LLC
Toll CT Limited Partnership
Toll MA Land III Limited Partnership
Toll Glastonbury LLC
Toll MA Land Limited Partnership
Toll Land XVIII Limited Partnership
Toll MA Management LLC
Binks Estates Limited Partnership
Long Meadows TBI, LLC
 
 

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Toll MD AF Limited Partnership
Block 255 LLC
Toll MD I, L.L.C.
Block 268 LLC
Toll MD II Limited Partnership
CWG Construction Company LLC
Toll MD II LLC
Enclave at Long Valley I LLC
Toll MD III Limited Partnership
Enclave at Long Valley II LLC
Toll MD III LLC
Estates at Princeton Junction, L.P.
Toll MD IV Limited Partnership
Hoboken Cove LLC
Toll MD IV LLC
Hoboken Land LP
Toll MD IX Limited Partnership
Laurel Creek, L.P.
Toll MD Limited Partnership
PT Maxwell Holdings, LLC
Toll MD V Limited Partnership
PT Maxwell, L.L.C.
Toll MD VI Limited Partnership
Regency at Denville, LLC
Toll MD VII Limited Partnership
Regency at Washington I LLC
Toll MD VIII Limited Partnership
Regency at Washington II LLC
Toll MD X Limited Partnership
Toll at Westlake, L.P.
Toll MD XI Limited Partnership
Toll Grove LP
Arbor Hills Development LLC
Toll Hudson LP
HQZ Acquisitions, Inc.
Toll Land IV Limited Partnership
Silverman-Toll Limited Partnership
Toll Land XI Limited Partnership
The Silverman Building Companies, Inc.
Toll Land XVI Limited Partnership
Toll MI II Limited Partnership
Toll Land XXV Limited Partnership
Toll MI III Limited Partnership
Toll NJ I, L.L.C.
Toll MI IV Limited Partnership
Toll NJ II, L.L.C.
Toll MI Limited Partnership
Toll NJ II, L.P.
Toll MI V Limited Partnership
Toll NJ III, L.P.
Toll MI VI Limited Partnership
Toll NJ III, LLC
Toll MI VII Corp.
Toll NJ IV LLC
Toll MN II, L.P.
Toll NJ IV, L.P.
Toll MN, L.P.
Toll NJ VI, L.P.
Brier Creek Country Club I LLC
Toll NJ VII, L.P.
Brier Creek Country Club II LLC
Toll NJ VIII, L.P.
NC Country Club Estates Limited Partnership
Toll NJ XI, L.P.
Toll at Brier Creek Limited Partnership
Toll NJ XII LP
Toll Bros. of North Carolina II, Inc.
Toll NJ, L.P.
Toll Bros. of North Carolina, Inc.
Toll Port Imperial LLC
Toll NC I LLC
Coleman-Toll Limited Partnership
Toll NC II LP
Toll Henderson LLC
Toll NC III LP
Toll North LV LLC
Toll NC IV LLC
Toll North Reno LLC
Toll NC Note II LLC
Toll NV GP Corp.
Toll NC Note LLC
Toll NV GP I LLC
Toll NC, L.P.
Toll NV Holdings LLC
126-142 Morgan Street Urban Renewal LLC
Toll NV Limited Partnership
1400 Hudson LLC
Toll South LV LLC
1450 Washington LLC
Toll South Reno LLC
1451 Hudson LLC
Toll Sparks LLC
1500 Garden St. LLC
Toll SW Holding I Corp.
700 Grove Street Urban Renewal LLC
Toll SW Holding LLC
 
 

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Audubon Ridge, L.P.
Toll Dallas TX LLC
Broad Run Associates, L.P.
Toll Houston Land LLC
Byers Commercial LP
Toll Houston TX LLC
Cold Spring Hunt, L.P.
Toll San Antonio TX LLC
Goshen Road Land Company LLC
Toll TX Note LLC
Greens at Waynesborough, L.P.
Belmont Country Club I LLC
Hatboro Road Associates LLC
Belmont Country Club II LLC
Liseter Land Company LLC
Belmont Land, L.P.
Springton Pointe, L.P.
Dominion Country Club, L.P.
Stone Mill Estates, L.P.
Dominion Valley Country Club I LLC
Swedesford Chase, L.P.
Dominion Valley Country Club II LLC
Toll Bros., Inc.
Fairfax Investment, L.P.
Toll Brothers Real Estate, Inc.
Loudoun Valley Associates, L.P.
Toll Naval Associates
Martinsburg Ventures, L.L.C.
Toll PA Development LP
Regency at Dominion Valley LLC
Toll PA II, L.P.
South Riding Amberlea LP
Toll PA III, L.P.
South Riding Partners Amberlea LP
Toll PA IV, L.P.
South Riding Partners, L.P.
Toll PA IX, L.P.
South Riding Realty LLC
Toll PA Management LP
South Riding, L.P.
Toll PA Twin Lakes LLC
SR Amberlea LLC
Toll PA V, L.P.
SRLP II LLC
Toll PA VI, L.P.
The Regency Golf Club I LLC
Toll PA VIII, L.P.
The Regency Golf Club II LLC
Toll PA X, L.P.
Toll Cedar Hunt LLC
Toll PA XI, L.P.
Toll Land IX Limited Partnership
Toll PA XII, L.P.
Toll Land X Limited Partnership
Toll PA XIII, L.P.
Toll Land XV Limited Partnership
Toll PA XIV, L.P.
Toll Land XXI Limited Partnership
Toll PA XIX, L.P.
Toll Stratford LLC
Toll PA XV, L.P.
Toll VA II, L.P.
Toll PA XVI, L.P.
Toll VA III, L.L.C.
Toll PA XVII, L.P.
Toll VA III, L.P.
Toll PA XVIII, L.P.
Toll VA IV, L.P.
Toll PA, L.P.
Toll VA V, L.P.
Toll RI II, L.P.
Toll VA VI, L.P.
Toll RI, L.P.
Toll VA VII, L.P.
Toll Vanderbilt II LLC
Toll VA VIII, L.P.
Vanderbilt Capital, LLC
Toll VA, L.P.
Toll SC II, L.P.
Virginia Construction Co. I, LLC
Toll SC III, L.P.
Virginia Construction Co. II, LLC
Toll SC IV, L.P.
Toll WA GP Corp.
Toll SC, L.P.
Toll WA LP
Toll Austin TX II LLC
Toll WV GP Corp.
Toll Austin TX III LLC
Toll WV LP
Toll Austin TX LLC
 
Toll BBC II LLC
 
Toll BBC LLC