Hunton Andrews Kurth Represents Duke Energy Corporation in $1.5 Billion Senior Notes Offerings

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP advised Duke Energy Corporation (“Duke Energy”) in connection with SEC-registered offerings of: (i) $750 million aggregate principal amount of 5.45% Senior Notes due 2034 and (ii) $750 million aggregate principal amount of 5.80% Senior Notes due 2054.

Duke Energy, together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified energy company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with both regulated and unregulated utility operations. It conducts its business through two operating business segments. Duke Energy’s electric utilities and infrastructure segment provides retail electric service through the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity to approximately 8.4 million customers within the Southeast and Midwest regions of the United States. Its gas utilities and infrastructure segment serves over 1.7 million customers, including more than 1.2 million customers located in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee and an additional 560,000 customers located within southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky.

The Hunton Andrews Kurth team included Peter K. O’Brien, Brendan P. Harney, Reuben H. Pearlman and Monika M. Dziewa. Robert McNamara, William Freeman, Caitlin A. Scipioni and Katherine Gallagher provided tax advice.