DRE Duke Realty Corporation

As previously announced, on June 16, 2016, Duke Realty Corporation, an Indiana corporation (the “Company”), and Duke Realty Limited Partnership, an Indiana limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”) of which the Company is the sole General Partner, entered into a Terms Agreement (including the related Underwriting Agreement, dated as of June 16, 2016, attached as Annex A thereto and made a part thereof, the “Terms Agreement”) with each of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, UBS Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., on behalf of the underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), pursuant to which the Underwriters agreed to purchase from the Operating Partnership $375 million aggregate principal amount of the Operating Partnership’s 3.250% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”). The Terms Agreement was previously filed as Exhibit 1.1 to the Operating Partnership and the Company’s combined Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 17, 2016. The issuance and sale of the Notes was completed on June 23, 2016. The Operating Partnership has used a portion of the net proceeds from the issuance and sale of the Notes to repurchase some of its outstanding 5.95% Senior Notes due 2017 pursuant to the previously announced tender offer and intends to use the remainder of the net proceeds from the Notes offering (i) to redeem the remaining 5.95% Senior Notes due 2017 that were not tendered in the tender offer (ii) to repay borrowings under its revolving credit facility and (iii) for general corporate purposes.

The Notes were issued under the Indenture, dated as of July 28, 2006 (the “Indenture”), as supplemented by the Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 23, 2016 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), by and between the Operating Partnership and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association), as trustee (the “Trustee”).

The Notes were registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the Operating Partnership’s automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-203744-01) (as the same may be amended or supplemented, the “Registration Statement”), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The material terms of the Notes are described in the Operating Partnership’s final prospectus supplement, as filed with the Commission on June 17, 2016 pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) of the Securities Act, which relates to the offer and sale of the Notes and supplements the Operating Partnership’s prospectus, as filed with the Commission on April 30, 2015, contained in the Registration Statement.

A copy of the Supplemental Indenture is filed as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K (this “Report”), and the information in the Supplemental Indenture is incorporated into this Item 1.01 by this reference. The Indenture was previously filed with the Commission on July 31, 2006 as Exhibit 4.1 to the Operating Partnership’s prior registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-136173-01). The above description of the terms of the Supplemental Indenture is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture incorporated by reference into this Report.