Hunton Advises on NextEra Energy Capital Holdings’ Inaugural €2.5B Junior Subordinated Debentures Offering
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP advised the underwriters on an SEC-registered offering by NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc. (NEE Capital) of €1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of NEE Capital’s Series V Junior Subordinated Debentures due 2056 (the “Series V Subordinated Debentures”) and €1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of NEE Capital’s Series W Junior Subordinated Debentures due 2056 (the “Series W Subordinated Debentures”, and together with the Series V Subordinated Debentures, the “Subordinated Debentures”). The Subordinated Debentures are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE), the parent company of NEE Capital. The Subordinated Debentures issued were NEE Capital’s and NEE’s inaugural Euro-denominated Subordinated Debentures.
NEE Capital owns and provides funding for all of NEE’s operating subsidiaries other than Florida Power & Light Company (“FPL”) and FPL’s subsidiaries. NEE is a holding company which conducts its operations principally through its wholly owned subsidiaries, FPL and, indirectly through NEE Capital; NextEra Energy Resources, LLC; and NextEra Energy Transmission, LLC (collectively “NEER”). FPL is a rate-regulated electric utility engaged primarily in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electric energy in Florida. NEER currently owns, develops, constructs, manages, and operates electric generation facilities in wholesale energy markets in the US and Canada. NEER produces the majority of its electricity from clean and renewable sources, including wind and solar. In addition, NEER develops and constructs battery storage projects and also owns, develops, constructs, and operates rate-regulated transmission facilities in North America, and transmission lines that connect its electric generation facilities to the electric grid. NEER also engages in energy-related commodity marketing and trading activities and participates in natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil production and in pipeline infrastructure, construction, management and operations.
The Hunton team included Steven C. Friend, Jingyi “Alice” Yao, Ryan Metz, and Catherine I. Bulger. Robert McNamara and William B. Freeman provided tax advice.
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