Hunton & Williams Advises on Southern Company Gas Capital Corporation $900 Million Senior Notes Offering

Hunton & Williams LLP advised J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC, Mizuho Securities USA Inc., MUFG Securities Americas Inc. and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., as joint book-running managers, on an SEC registered offering by Southern Company Gas Capital Corporation of $350 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.450% Senior Notes due 2023 and $550 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.950% Senior Notes due 2046, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Southern Company Gas.

Southern Company Gas, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Southern Company, is an energy services holding company, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, whose primary business is the distribution of natural gas in seven states—Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey, Florida, Tennessee, and Maryland—through its seven natural gas distribution utilities. At June 30, 2016, these utilities served approximately 4.6 million end-use customers. Southern Company Gas also is involved in several related and complementary businesses to the distribution of natural gas, including retail natural gas marketing to end-use customers primarily in Georgia and Illinois and home equipment protection products and services through its retail operations segment; natural gas asset management and related logistics activities for its own utilities as well as for nonaffiliated companies through its wholesale operations; and the development and operation of high-deliverability underground natural gas storage assets through its midstream operations.

The Hunton & Williams team included Bud Ellis, Steven Friend and Patrick Jamieson. Cary Tolley and Anna Page provided tax advice.