GLENDALE, Calif. -- (Business Wire)
John Reyes, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Public
Storage (NYSE:PSA, the “Company”), announced that the Company has priced
a public offering of 12,000,000 depositary shares at $25.00 per
depositary share, with each depositary share representing 1/1,000 of a
4.95% Cumulative Preferred Share of Beneficial Interest, Series D. The
offering is expected to result in $300 million of gross proceeds
(assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option) and to
close on or about July 20, 2016, subject to customary closing
conditions. The Company expects to use the net proceeds to make
investments in self-storage facilities and in entities that own
self-storage facilities, for the development of self-storage facilities
and for general corporate purposes.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co.
LLC, UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC acted as joint
book-running managers of the offering. This announcement shall not
constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these
securities nor shall there be any offer or sale of these securities in
any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale
would be unlawful. The offering is being made pursuant to an effective
shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”) and only by means of a prospectus and prospectus
supplement. Investors may obtain these documents for free by visiting
EDGAR on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Alternatively, copies of the prospectus and prospectus supplement may be
obtained by contacting: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated, 200 North College Street, NC1-004-03-43, Charlotte, NC
28255-0001, Attention: Prospectus Department, telephone: 1-800-294-1322
or email: dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com;
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
10014, Attn: Prospectus Department; UBS Securities LLC, 1285 Avenue of
the Americas, New York, NY 10019, Attention: Prospectus Department,
telephone: 1-888-827-7275; or Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 608 2nd
Avenue South, Suite 1000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attn: WFS Customer
Service, telephone: 1-800-645-3751 or email: wfscustomerservice@wellsfargo.com.
Company Information
Public Storage, a member of the S&P 500 and FT Global 500, is a fully
integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment
trust that primarily acquires, develops, owns and operates self-storage
facilities. The Company’s headquarters are located in Glendale,
California. At March 31, 2016, the Company had interests in 2,291
self-storage facilities located in 38 states with approximately 149
million net rentable square feet in the United States and 217 storage
facilities located in seven Western European nations with approximately
12 million net rentable square feet operated under the “Shurgard” brand.
The Company also owns a 42% common equity interest in PS Business Parks,
Inc. (NYSE:PSB), which owned and operated approximately 28 million
rentable square feet of commercial space, primarily flex, multi-tenant
office and industrial space, at March 31, 2016.
Forward-Looking Statements
When used within this press release, the words “expects,” “believes,”
“anticipates,” “plans,” “would,” “should,” “may,” “estimates” and
similar expressions are intended to identify “forward-looking
statements,” including but not limited to, statements about the
completion, timing and size of the proposed offering of securities by
the Company and the use of net proceeds of such offering. Such
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors, which may cause our actual results to
be materially different from those expressed or implied in the
forward-looking statements. Such factors include market conditions and
the demand for the Company’s preferred securities and risks detailed in
the Company’s prospectus and prospectus supplement filed with the SEC in
connection with this offering and in the Company’s SEC reports,
including quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, reports on Form 8-K and annual
reports on Form 10-K. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or
revise forward-looking statements which may be made to reflect events or
circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the
occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.
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Contacts:
Public Storage
Clemente Teng, (818) 244-8080, Ext. 1141
Source: Public Storage
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