UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 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): September 11, 2018

DUKE REALTY CORPORATION

DUKE REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

(Exact name of registrant specified in its charter)

Duke Realty Corporation:

Duke Realty Limited Partnership:

600 East 96th Street

Suite 100

Indianapolis, IN 46240

(Address of principal executive offices, zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (317) 808-6000

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:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

As previously announced, on September 4, 2018, 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 September 4, 2018, attached as Annex A thereto and made a part thereof, the “Terms Agreement”) with each of Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 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 $450 million aggregate principal amount of the Operating Partnership’s 4.000% Senior Notes due 2028 (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 September 5, 2018. The issuance and sale of the Notes was completed on September 11, 2018. The Operating Partnership intends to use the net proceeds from the issuance and sale of the Notes to repay $224 aggregate principal amount of secured debt, fund development, repay borrowings under its revolving credit facility and for general corporate purposes.

The Notes were issued under the Indenture, dated as of July 28, 2006 (the “Indenture”), as supplemented by the Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 11, 2018 (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. 333-224538-01) (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 September 5, 2018 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 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.

The following exhibits are filed with this Report pursuant to Item 601 of the Commission’s Regulation S-K 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 S-K) in the information set forth in, and incorporated by reference into, the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

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 thereunto duly authorized.

Date: September 11, 2018