Hunton & Williams advises Duke Energy Corporation in $1 billion aggregate principal amount senior notes offering

Hunton & Williams LLP advised Duke Energy Corporation (the “Company” or “Duke Energy”) on an SEC-registered offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.75% Senior Notes due 2024 (the “2024 Notes”) and $600 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.80% Senior Notes due 2045. The Company’s offering of the 2024 Notes constituted the reopening of a series of senior notes originally issued in April 2014.

Duke Energy, together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified energy company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina with both regulated and unregulated utility operations. Duke Energy's regulated segment serves approximately 7.3 million retail electric customers in six states in the southeast and Midwest regions of the United States. Outside of the United States, Duke Energy principally operates and manages power generation facilities and engages in sales and marketing of electric power, natural gas, and natural gas liquids outside the United States and maintains approximately 4,300 megawatts of owned capacity. Additionally, Duke Energy is engaged in the building, development and operation of wind and solar renewable generation and energy transmission projects throughout the continental United States.

The Hunton & Williams team included Pete O’Brien, Christina Kwon and Andrew Spector. Cary Tolley and Anna Page provided tax advice.