LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. (“Hudson” or the “Company”) (NYSE: HPP) today announced it has commenced an underwritten public offering of 9,500,000 shares of common stock pursuant to an effective registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,425,000 shares at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount.
Hudson plans to contribute the net proceeds from this offering to its operating partnership, which intends to use the net proceeds to fund a portion of the previously announced acquisition of Equity Office Properties’ San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley portfolio and, if such acquisition is not completed, to fund development and redevelopment activities, potential acquisition opportunities and/or for general corporate purposes. Pending these applications, the Company’s operating partnership intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to temporarily repay indebtedness outstanding from time to time under its senior unsecured revolving credit facility.
The joint book-running managers for the offering are Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Barclays, Morgan Stanley and KeyBanc Capital Markets.
A copy of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to these securities can be obtained by contacting: Wells Fargo Securities, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 375 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10152, or by calling (800) 326-5897 or e-mailing cmclientsupport@wellsfargo.com; BofA Merrill Lynch, 222 Broadway, New York, New York 10038, Attn: Prospectus Department, or by emailing dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com; or Goldman, Sachs & Co., Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, or by calling (866) 471-2526 or emailing prospectus-ny@gs.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or other jurisdiction.
About Hudson Pacific Properties
Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. is a full-service, vertically integrated real estate company focused on owning, operating and acquiring high-quality office properties and state-of-the-art media and entertainment properties in select growth markets primarily in Northern and Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. The Company’s portfolio currently consists of approximately 6.4 million square feet, not including undeveloped land that can support approximately another 1.9 million square feet. Hudson has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for federal income tax purposes, and is a component of the Russell 2000® and the Russell 3000® indices.
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