UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 12b-25
NOTIFICATION OF LATE FILING
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(Check one): |
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þ Form 10-K
o Form 20-F
o Form 11-K
o Form 10-Q
o Form 10-D
o Form N-SAR
o Form N-CSR
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For Period Ended: |
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December 31, 2006 |
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o Transition Report on Form 10-K |
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o Transition Report on Form 20-F |
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o Transition Report on Form 11-K |
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o Transition Report on Form 10-Q |
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o Transition Report on Form N-SAR |
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For the Transition Period Ended:
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Read Instruction (on back page) Before Preparing Form. Please Print or Type.
Nothing in this form shall be construed to imply that the Commission has verified any information contained herein.
If the notification relates to a portion of the filing checked above, identify the Item(s) to which
the notification relates:
PART I REGISTRANT INFORMATION
Crescent Real Estate Equities Company
Full Name of Registrant
Former Name if Applicable
777 Main Street, Suite 2100
Address of Principal Executive Office (Street and Number)
City, State and Zip Code
PART II RULES 12b-25(b) AND (c)
If the subject report could not be filed without unreasonable effort or expense and the registrant seeks relief pursuant to Rule 12b-25(b), the following should be completed. (Check box if appropriate)
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(a)
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The reason described in reasonable detail in Part III of this form could not be
eliminated without unreasonable effort or expense |
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(b)
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The subject annual report, semi-annual report, transition report on Form 10-K, Form 20-F, Form 11-K, Form N-SAR or Form N-CSR, or portion thereof, will be filed on or before the fifteenth calendar day following the prescribed due date; or the subject quarterly report or transition report on Form 10-Q or subject distribution report on Form 10-D, or portion thereof, will be filed on or before the fifth calendar day following the prescribed due date; and |
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(c)
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The accountants statement or other exhibit required by Rule 12b-25(c) has been attached if applicable. |
PART III NARRATIVE
State below in reasonable detail the reasons
why Forms 10-K, 10-KSB, 11-K, 20-F, 10-Q 10-QSB, N-SAR, N-CSR or the transition report portion thereof
could not be filed within the prescribed time period.
(Attach extra sheets if needed.)
Crescent Real Estate Equities Company (the Registrant) files this Notification of Late Filing of its Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2006.
The Registrant will not timely file its Form 10-K because in light of the pending restatement described in the Explanatory
Note attached hereto, the Registrant has not completed the necessary analysis and internal processes to ensure accurate and
comprehensive completion of the consolidated financial statements and cannot complete such by the prescribed filing date
without unreasonable effort or expense.
The Registrant will file the Form 10-K no later than the fifteenth day after the prescribed due date of
the Form 10-K.
Explanatory
Note, as described in Form 8-K filed February 28, 2007
In connection with the closing of the financial records of Crescent Real Estate Equities Company
(the Company) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, our management, in conjunction with
our independent registered public accounting firm, Ernst & Young LLP, identified the
accounting-related items discussed below that affect the Companys financial statements. In light
of these accounting items, on February 28, 2007, the Audit Committee of the Board of Trust Managers
of the Company determined that readers should no longer rely on our previously filed financial
statements and other financial information for the fiscal years 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 and 2001,
and component fiscal quarters, as well as for the first, second and third quarters of fiscal year
2006. We have just completed our review of these items in conjunction with our auditors and, as a
result, will defer the filing of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2006 until not later than March 16, 2007, in accordance with Rule 12b-25 of the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1934, in order to give us the opportunity to incorporate the indicated changes in
our financial statements. We will reflect all required restatements in our Form 10-K.
Anticipated Impact. Management anticipates that the cumulative impact of these restatements will
result in an approximately $9.6 million increase in Net Income Available to Common Shareholders
for the years ending 1997 through 2005. We will reflect this impact as a cumulative adjustment to
decrease Retained Earnings as of December 31, 2003 by approximately $2.5 million and have restated
our Net Income Available to Common Shareholders, increasing the amounts by approximately $6.2
million and $5.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
Calculation of Minority Interest to Unitholders. In February 1998, the Company completed its first
offering of Series A Preferred Shares. In connection with this offering, the Companys operating
partnership, Crescent Real Estate Limited Partnership (the Operating Partnership), issued Series
A Preferred Units to the Company in exchange for the Companys contribution of the proceeds from
the offering to the Operating Partnership. Subsequent Series A Preferred Share Offerings in April
2002 and January 2004 and the Series B Preferred Share Offering in May 2002 were recorded in the
same manner as the February 1998 offering. In association with these offerings, the limited
partnership agreement of the Operating Partnership outlines terms of the allocation of
distributions between the Company and the other limited partners of the Operating Partnership, whom
we refer to as unitholders. Following a recent review of the limited partnership agreement of the
Operating Partnership, the Company determined that distributions on the preferred units held by the
Company occur prior to distributions to the unitholders. Therefore, net income would first be
allocated to cover the dividend on the preferred shares and then an allocation should be made to
the unitholders.
Our calculation of minority interest has incorrectly allocated net income between the Company and
unitholders based on respective ownership percentages and then deducting the preferred dividend
against the allocation to the Company. The cumulative impact of the restatement, whereby the
calculation deducts the preferred dividend from net income and then allocates the remaining net
income between the Company and unitholders, results in an approximately $14.6 million increase in
Net Income Available to Common Shareholders for the years ended December 31, 1998 through 2005.
We will reflect this impact as a cumulative adjustment to increase Retained Earnings as of December
31, 2003 by approximately $5.0 million and have restated our Net Income Available to Common
Shareholders, increasing the amounts by approximately $4.8 million for each of the years ended
December 31, 2005 and 2004.
Refundable Fees for Club Member Services. One of our golf clubs has a limited number of non-equity
club members who are entitled to repayment of a portion of their dues up to a fixed amount per
member upon surrender of their memberships. We are required to deposit a fixed percent of all dues
collected from these members into a separate cash fund and then use this fund to make payments to
members who choose to surrender their membership. Our obligation for payment for surrendered
memberships is limited only to amounts deposited into the separate cash fund.
In prior
years, consistent with SFAS No. 5, Accounting for
Contingencies, the liability associated
with these memberships was based on the maximum amount at the balance sheet date that we could be
required to pay upon surrender of a membership. As we are only obligated to make surrender payments
to the extent cash is available in the separate cash fund, the liability recorded was equal to the
cash fund balance. We have determined that the appropriate methodology associated with refundable
fees for club member services is outlined in Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 104, Revenue
Recognition, under which revenue related to refundable fees for services should not be recognized
until the fee is fixed
and determinable. For these memberships, member dues should not be recognized as revenue until the
dues paid exceed the maximum refund amount available to the member. This results in a liability for
these members at each balance sheet date equal to the maximum amount that could potentially be paid
due to future membership surrenders without consideration of the amount of funds available in the
separate cash account that will allow payments to be made. Application of the guidance under SAB
No. 104 results in an approximately $4.7 million decrease in Net Income Available to Common
Shareholders for the years ended December 31, 1997 through 2005. We will reflect this impact as a
cumulative adjustment to decrease Retained Earnings as of December 31, 2003 by approximately $4.1
million and have restated our Net Income Available to Common Shareholders, decreasing amounts by
approximately $0.2 million and $0.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004,
respectively.
Classification of Club Membership Intangible Asset. At the time of acquisition of one of our golf
clubs, a portion of the purchase price was recorded as a membership intangible asset related to the
acquired right to sell a predetermined number of equity memberships in the club. Since acquisition
of the club, we have amortized the membership intangible asset based upon the sale of those equity
memberships. We have determined that the right to sell a predetermined number of equity club
memberships does not meet the criteria established under SFAS
No. 141, Business Combinations, for
the recording of an intangible asset. We have determined that the membership intangible asset
should instead be recorded as goodwill and therefore not be amortized but instead evaluated for
impairment. The cumulative impact of the restatement results in an approximately $0.3 million
decrease in Net Income Available to Common Shareholders for the years ended 1997 through 2005.
We have reflected this impact as a cumulative adjustment to decrease Retained Earnings as of
December 31, 2003 by approximately $3.4 million and have restated our Net Income Available to
Common Shareholders, increasing the amounts by approximately $1.6 million and $1.5 million for the
years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.