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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): March 6, 2013

 

 

AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-14195   65-0723837

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

116 Huntington Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts 02116

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

(617) 375-7500

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Item 8.01 Other Events

On March 6, 2013, American Tower Corporation (the “Company”) issued a press release (the “Press Release”) announcing that certain of its indirect subsidiaries had priced, in a private transaction, $1,800.0 million aggregate principal amount of Secured Tower Revenue Securities, Series 2013-1 and Series 2013-2, which will be backed by debt of two special-purpose subsidiaries of the Company and secured primarily by mortgages on their interests in 5,195 communications sites. A copy of the press release is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit
No.

 

Description

99.1   Press Release, dated March 6, 2013.


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

    AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION
   

(Registrant)

Date: March 6, 2013     By:  

/S/ THOMAS A. BARTLETT

      Thomas A. Bartlett
     

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial

Officer and Treasurer


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
No.

 

Description

99.1   Press Release, dated March 6, 2013.