FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

American Realty Capital Properties Announces Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares

New York, New York, May 22, 2014 – American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. (“ARCP”) (NASDAQ: ARCP) announced today that the underwriters for its previously announced public offering of 120,000,000 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share, that priced on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, have fully exercised their option to purchase an additional 18,000,000 newly issued shares of common stock, at a price of $12.00 per share (before underwriting discounts and commissions). The offering, including the option shares, is expected to close on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

As a result, ARCP will issue a total of 138,000,000 shares in the offering and expects to receive total net proceeds of approximately $1.59 billion, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and estimated expenses. ARCP intends to use the net proceeds of the offering (a) to repay outstanding indebtedness under its existing credit facility and (b) for other general corporate purposes. Amounts repaid under such credit facility may, subject to the satisfaction of customary draw conditions, be reborrowed by ARCP at any time, including to fund acquisitions consistent with ARCP’s acquisition strategy.

BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Barclays, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Securities, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities and Wells Fargo Securities are acting as joint bookrunners for the offering.

The shares of common stock will be issued pursuant to an effective registration statement previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form S-3 and available for review on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Any offer of the securities will be made only by means of a prospectus, forming a part of the effective registration statement, the applicable prospectus supplement and other related documents. Copies of the applicable prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus related to the common stock offering may be obtained, once filed, from BofA Merrill Lynch, Attn: Prospectus Department, 222 Broadway, New York, NY 10038, or by emailing dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com; Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, telephone: 1-800-831-9146; Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY, 11717, Telephone: (888) 603-5847, or by emailing barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com; or J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Attention: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, telephone: (866) 803-9204.

About ARCP

ARCP is a self-managed publicly traded Maryland corporation listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market, focused on acquiring and owning single tenant freestanding commercial properties subject to net leases with high credit quality tenants.

Important Notice

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