0001209191-12-054039.txt : 20121120 0001209191-12-054039.hdr.sgml : 20121120 20121120152310 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-12-054039 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20121115 FILED AS OF DATE: 20121120 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20121120 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Williamson Kemal CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001350646 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-16463 FILM NUMBER: 121217886 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 701 MARKET STREET CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63101 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PEABODY ENERGY CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001064728 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BITUMINOUS COAL & LIGNITE SURFACE MINING [1221] IRS NUMBER: 134004153 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 701 MARKET ST CITY: ST LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63101-1826 BUSINESS PHONE: 3143423400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 701 MARKET ST CITY: ST LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63101-1826 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: P&L COAL HOLDINGS CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19980623 3 1 doc3.xml FORM 3 SUBMISSION X0206 3 2012-11-15 0 0001064728 PEABODY ENERGY CORP BTU 0001350646 Williamson Kemal 701 MARKET STREET ST. LOUIS MO 63101-1826 0 1 0 0 President - Americas Common Stock 46270 D Option (Right to Buy) 39.8143 2009-01-03 2016-01-03 Common Stock 24572 D Option (Right to Buy) 34.9553 2010-01-03 2017-01-03 Common Stock 8564 D Option (Right to Buy) 62.72 2009-01-02 2018-01-02 Common Stock 15751 D Option (Right to Buy) 26.84 2011-01-05 2019-01-05 Common Stock 21549 D Option (Right to Buy) 47.87 2011-01-04 2020-01-04 Common Stock 16354 D Option (Right to Buy) 64.52 2012-01-03 2021-01-03 Common Stock 12760 D Option (Right to Buy) 36.27 2013-01-03 2022-01-03 Common Stock 11986 D Includes 10,844 shares from a restricted stock award that vests on December 31, 2012 and 2,989 shares that are held by the reporting person in the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The options vest in three equal annual installments beginning January 2, 2009. The options vest in two equal annual installments beginning January 5, 2011. The options vest in three equal annual installments beginning January 4, 2011. The options vest in three equal annual installments beginning January 3, 2012. The options vest in three equal annual installments beginning January 3, 2013. Kemal Williamson By: Kenneth L. Wagner Attorney-in-Fact 2012-11-20 EX-24 2 attachment1.htm EX-24 DOCUMENT

POWER OF ATTORNEY
FOR EXECUTING FORMS 3, 4 AND 5

        Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Alexander C. Schoch, Kenneth L. Wagner, and Scott A. Jarboe,
signing singly, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)     execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Forms 3, 4 and 5 with
respect to Peabody Energy Corporation in accordance with Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2)     do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
which may be necessary or desirable to complete the execution of any such Form
3, 4 or 5 with respect to Peabody Energy Corporation and the timely filing of
such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any
other authority; and

(3)     take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his
discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as such attorney-in-fact
might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or
his substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The
undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in
such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 20th day of November, 2012.


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								Kemal Williamson