Hunton & Williams Advises on Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. $300 Million Notes Offering

Hunton & Williams LLP advised Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and US Bancorp Investments, Inc. as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. of $300 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2043.

Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial, industrial and power generation utility customers in portions of North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, and regulated interstate natural gas transportation and storage and intrastate natural gas transportation businesses.

The Hunton & Williams LLP team included Pete O'Brien, Kevin Felz and Adam O'Brian. Cary Tolley provided tax advice.