DRE Duke Realty Corporation

As previously announced, on February 11, 2020, 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 November 5, 2019, attached as Annex A thereto and made a part thereof, the “Terms Agreement”) with each of Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., RBC Capital Markets, LLC and UBS Securities LLC, on behalf of the underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), pursuant to which the Underwriters agreed to purchase from the Operating Partnership $325 million aggregate principal amount of the Operating Partnership’s 3.050% Senior Notes due 2050 (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 filed on February 12, 2020. The issuance and sale of the Notes was completed on February 21, 2020. The Operating Partnership intends to use the net proceeds from the issuance and sale of the Notes to fund the redemption of its 4.375% Senior Notes due 2022, and intends to use any remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes.

The Notes were registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the Operating Partnership’s automatic shelf registration statement on Form (File No. (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 February 12, 2020 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, 2018, contained in the Registration Statement.

A copy of the Supplemental Indenture is filed as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form (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 (File No. 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.

The following exhibits are filed with this Report pursuant to Item 601 of the Commission’s Regulation in lieu of filing the otherwise required exhibits to the Registration Statement. This Report is incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, and, as such, the Company and the Operating Partnership are incorporating by reference the exhibits to this Report to cause them to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement as exhibits thereto. By filing this Report and the exhibits hereto, however, neither the Company nor the Operating Partnership believe that any of the information set forth herein or in the exhibits hereto represent, individually or in the aggregate, a “fundamental change” (as such term is used in Item 512(a)(1)(iii) of the Commission’s Regulation in the information set forth in, and incorporated by reference into, the Registration Statement.