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8-K - FORM 8-K - NATIONAL RETAIL PROPERTIES, INC. | d521734d8k.htm |
EX-4.1 - EX-4.1 - NATIONAL RETAIL PROPERTIES, INC. | d521734dex41.htm |
EX-1.1 - EX-1.1 - NATIONAL RETAIL PROPERTIES, INC. | d521734dex11.htm |
EX-8.1 - EX-8.1 - NATIONAL RETAIL PROPERTIES, INC. | d521734dex81.htm |
EX-4.2 - EX-4.2 - NATIONAL RETAIL PROPERTIES, INC. | d521734dex42.htm |
Exhibit 5.1
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
2300 N Street, NW | Washington, DC 20037-1122 | tel 202.663.8000 | fax 202.663.8007
April 15, 2013
National Retail Properties, Inc.
450 South Orange Avenue
Orlando, FL 32801
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are acting as counsel for National Retail Properties, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the Company), in connection with the issuance and sale by the Company (the Offering) of $350,000,000 principal amount of its 3.30% Notes due 2023 (the Notes), pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement dated April 9, 2013 between the several underwriters listed on Schedule I thereto (the Underwriters) and the Company (the Agreement). The Notes are being issued under the Indenture dated as of March 25, 1998, as supplemented by the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 15, 2013, between U.S. Bank National Association, as successor trustee (the Trustee), and the Company (as so supplemented, the Indenture) pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-179696) (the Registration Statement) filed by the Company to register the offer and sale of the Notes with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) under the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act), and the related prospectus dated February 24, 2012, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement dated April 9, 2013 (as so supplemented, the Prospectus).
We have reviewed and are familiar with such documents, corporate proceedings and other matters as we have considered relevant or necessary as a basis for the opinions in this letter. Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Notes have been duly authorized and, when issued and sold by the Company in the manner described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and in accordance with the resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.
The opinion set forth in this letter is limited to the laws of the State of New York and the Maryland General Corporation Law, as in effect on the date hereof.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as an exhibit to the Companys Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company with the Commission on the date hereof and the incorporation thereof in the Registration Statement and to the use of our name under the caption Legal Matters in the Prospectus. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP