John Reyes, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Public
Storage (NYSE:PSA), announced that the Company has priced a public
offering of 10,000,000 depositary shares at $25.00 per depositary share,
with each depositary share representing 1/1,000 of a 6.00% Cumulative
Preferred Share of Beneficial Interest, Series Z. The offering is
expected to result in $250 million of gross proceeds (assuming no
exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option) and to close on or
about June 4, 2014. The Company expects to use the net proceeds to make
investments in self-storage facilities and in entities that own
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 will be made only by means of a
prospectus and prospectus supplement, copies of which may be obtained by
contacting: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, 222
Broadway, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10038, Attention: Prospectus
Department, telephone: 1-800-294-1322 or email: dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com;
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014, Attn:
Prospectus Department, telephone: 1-866-718-1649 or email: prospectus@morganstanley.com;
UBS Securities LLC, 299 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10171, Attention:
Prospectus Department, telephone: 1-877-827-6444, ext. 561-3884; or
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd., NC0675,
Charlotte, North Carolina 28262, Attn: Capital Markets Client Support,
telephone: 1-800-326-5897 or email: cmclientsupport@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, 2014, the Company had interests in 2,202
self-storage facilities located in 38 states with approximately 141
million net rentable square feet in the United States and 188 storage
facilities located in seven Western European nations with approximately
ten 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 29.7
million rentable square feet of commercial space, primarily flex,
multi-tenant office and industrial space, at March 31, 2014.
Forward-Looking Statements
When used within this press release, the words “expects,” “anticipates,”
“intends” 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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