8-K 1 a06-18568_18k.htm CURRENT REPORT OF MATERIAL EVENTS OR CORPORATE CHANGES

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 


 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): August 17, 2006

 

DUKE REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Indiana

0-20625

35-1898425

(State or other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)

(Commission
File Number)

(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

 

 

 

600 East 96th Street
Suite 100
Indianapolis, IN 46240

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (317) 808-6000

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

o               Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

o               Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

o               Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

o               Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 




Item 1.01.         Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On August 17, 2006, Duke Realty Corporation, an Indiana corporation (“Duke”), and Duke Realty Limited Partnership, an Indiana limited partnership (the “Partnership”) of which Duke is the sole General Partner, entered into a Terms Agreement (including the related Underwriting Agreement, dated as of August 17, 2006, attached as Annex A thereto and made a part thereof, the “Terms Agreement”) with the several underwriters named therein (collectively, the “Underwriters”), pursuant to which the Underwriters agreed to purchase from the Partnership $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Partnership’s 5.625% Senior Notes Due 2011 (the “2011 Notes”) and $450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Partnership’s 5.95% Senior Notes Due 2017 (the “2017 Notes,” and, together with the 2011 Notes, the “Notes”). The Notes were registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to Duke’s and the Partnership’s automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration Statement No. 333-136173) (as the same may be amended and/or supplemented, the “Registration Statement”), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Pursuant to General Instruction F to the Commission’s Form 8-K, a copy of the Terms Agreement is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K (this “Report”), and the information in the Terms Agreement is incorporated into this Item 1.01 by this reference.

Item 9.01.   Financial Statements and Exhibits.

The Terms Agreement listed below and filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Report also is being filed pursuant to Item 601 of the Commission’s Regulation S-K in lieu of filing the otherwise required exhibits to the Registration Statement. This Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, and, as such, the Partnership is filing the Terms Agreement to cause it to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement as an exhibit thereto. By filing

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this Report, and the exhibit hereto, however, neither Duke nor the Partnership believes that any of the information set forth herein or in the exhibit hereto represent, either individually or in the aggregate, a “fundamental change” (as such term is used in Item 512(a)(1)(ii) of the Commission’s Regulation S-K) in the information set forth in, and incorporated by reference into, the Registration Statement.

Exhibit
Number

 

Description

 

 

 

1.1

 

Terms Agreement, dated as of August 17, 2006 (including the related Underwriting Agreement, dated as of August 17, 2006, attached as Annex A thereto and made a part thereof), by and among Duke Realty Corporation, Duke Realty Limited Partnership, and the several underwriters named in the Terms Agreement.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

DUKE REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

 

 

 

By:

Duke Realty Corporation

 

 

As its sole General Partner

 

 

 

August 23, 2006

By:

/s/ Howard L. Feinsand

 

 

Name:

Howard L. Feinsand

 

 

Title

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

 

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