Brandywine Realty Trust Prices $250 Million of 7.500% Senior Unsecured Notes
September 21 2009 - 8:42PM
PR Newswire (US)
RADNOR, Pa., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brandywine Realty
Trust (the "Company") (NYSE:BDN) announced today that its operating
partnership, Brandywine Operating Partnership, L.P., has priced the
underwritten public offering of $250 million of 7.500% senior
unsecured guaranteed notes due May 15, 2015. Interest on the notes
will be payable semi-annually on May 15 and November 15, commencing
May 15, 2010. The notes are being offered to investors at a price
of 99.412% with a yield to maturity of 7.625%, representing a
spread at the time of pricing of 5.162% to the yield on the August
2014 Treasury note. The net proceeds of the offering, after
deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses, are
expected to be approximately $247 million and will be used to repay
existing indebtedness under the Company's unsecured revolving
credit facility and for general corporate purposes. The sale of the
notes is expected to close on September 25, 2009. The joint
book-running managers for the offering are BofA Merrill Lynch, J.P.
Morgan, Wells Fargo Securities and RBS Securities. The senior
co-managers are BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, Citi, Deutsche
Bank Securities, Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., PNC Capital
Markets LLC, TD Securities and U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc., and
the co-managers are Commerzbank Corporates & Markets, Comerica
Securities, Inc., RBC Capital Markets and SunTrust Robinson
Humphrey. Copies of the prospectus supplement and prospectus
relating to the offering may be obtained from Banc of America
Securities LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 100 West 33rd
Street, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10001, 1-800-294-1322; J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc, 270 Park Avenue New York, NY 10017, Attn:
High Grade Syndicate Desk - 8th floor (212) 834-4533; and Wells
Fargo Securities, LLC, 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd., NC0675,
Charlotte, North Carolina 28262, Attn: Syndicate Operations,
1-800-326-5897. About Brandywine Realty Trust Brandywine Realty
Trust is one of the largest, publicly traded, full-service,
integrated real estate companies in the United States. Organized as
a real estate investment trust and operating in select markets,
Brandywine owns, develops and manages a primarily Class A, suburban
and urban office portfolio aggregating 37.8 million square feet,
including 26.1 million square feet which it owns on a consolidated
basis. For more information, visit our website at
http://www.brandywinerealty.com/. Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this release constitute "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known
and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
our and our affiliates' actual results, performance, achievements
or transactions to be materially different from any future results,
performance, achievements or transactions expressed or implied by
such forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and
other factors relate to, among others: our ability to lease vacant
space and to renew or relet space under expiring leases at expected
levels; competition with other real estate companies for tenants;
the potential loss or bankruptcy of major tenants; interest rate
levels; the availability of debt, equity or other financing; risks
of acquisitions, dispositions and developments, including the cost
of construction delays and cost overruns; unanticipated operating
and capital costs; our ability to obtain adequate insurance,
including coverage for terrorist acts; dependence upon certain
geographic markets; and general and local economic and real estate
conditions, including the extent and duration of adverse changes
that affect the industries in which our tenants operate. Additional
information on factors which could impact us and the
forward-looking statements contained herein are included in our
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008. We assume no
obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that
become untrue because of subsequent events except as required by
law. DATASOURCE: Brandywine Realty Trust CONTACT: Investor-Press,
Marge Boccuti, Manager, Investor Relations, +1-610-832-7702, or
Company, Howard M. Sipzner, EVP & CFO, +1-610-832-4907, , both
of Brandywine Realty Trust Web Site:
http://www.brandywinerealty.com/
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