ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameren Corporation
(NYSE: AEE) announced today the pricing of a public offering of
$700 million aggregate principal
amount of its senior notes, consisting of $350 million aggregate principal amount of 2.700%
senior notes due 2020 and $350
million aggregate principal amount of 3.650% senior notes
due 2026. The 2020 senior notes and the 2026 senior notes are
being offered to the public at 99.977% and 99.911% of their
principal amount, respectively. The transaction is expected
to close on November 24, 2015.
Ameren intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to repay
a portion of its outstanding short-term debt.
Barclays Capital Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Mizuho
Securities USA Inc. are acting as
joint book-running managers for the offering.
The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus and
related prospectus supplement. A prospectus supplement related to
the offering will be filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying
prospectus, when available, for the offering may be obtained on the
Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov, or by
contacting Barclays Capital Inc. toll-free at 1-888-603-5847, J.P.
Morgan Securities LLC collect at (212) 834-4533, Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated toll-free at 1-800-294-1322
or Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
toll-free at 1-866-271-7403.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy the senior notes or any other
securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale
in any jurisdiction in which, or to any person to whom, such an
offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.
About Ameren
St. Louis-based Ameren
Corporation powers the quality of life for 2.4 million electric
customers and more than 900,000 natural gas customers in a
64,000-square-mile area through its Ameren Missouri and Ameren
Illinois rate-regulated utility subsidiaries. Ameren Illinois
provides electric delivery and transmission service as well as
natural gas delivery service while Ameren Missouri provides
vertically integrated electric service, with generating capacity of
over 10,200 megawatts, and natural gas delivery service. Ameren
Transmission Company of Illinois
develops regional electric transmission projects. Follow the
company on Twitter @AmerenCorp. For more information, visit
Ameren.com.
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