Hudson Pacific Properties Inc : Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. Announces Closing of Public Offering of Common Stock and Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: HPP) today announced the completion of its public offering of 9,487,500 shares of its common stock (including 1,237,500 shares of its common stock issued and sold pursuant to the exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional shares in full) at the public offering price of $21.50 per share.

The net proceeds from the offering, after deducting underwriting discounts (before other transaction costs), were approximately $195.8 million.

The Company intends to contribute the net proceeds from this offering to its operating partnership, which will use the net proceeds to fund the recently announced acquisition of Merrill Place, development and redevelopment activities, potential acquisition opportunities and/or for general corporate purposes. Pending these applications, the Company's operating partnership intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to temporarily repay indebtedness outstanding from time to time under its senior unsecured revolving credit facility.

The joint book-running managers for this offering are Wells Fargo Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, and KeyBanc Capital Markets.

A copy of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to these securities can be obtained by contacting Wells Fargo Securities, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 375 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10152, or by calling [phone] or e-mailing a request to [e-mail]; or by contacting BofA Merrill Lynch, 4 World Financial Center, New York, New York 10080, Attn: Prospectus Department or emailing [e-mail].

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or other jurisdiction.

About Hudson Pacific Properties

Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. is a full-service, vertically integrated real estate company focused on owning, operating and acquiring high-quality office properties and state-of-the-art media and entertainment properties in select growth markets primarily in the Pacific Northwest and Northern and Southern California. The Company's strategic investment program targets high barrier-to-entry, in-fill locations with favorable, long-term supply-demand characteristics in select target markets, including Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. The Company's portfolio currently consists of approximately 6.2 million square feet, not including undeveloped land that the Company believes can support an additional 1.6 million square feet. The Company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for federal income tax purposes. Hudson Pacific Properties is a component of the Russell 2000® and the Russell 3000® indices.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements relate to expectations, beliefs, projections, future plans and strategies, anticipated events or trends and similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "intends," "plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," or "potential" or the negative of these words and phrases or similar words or phrases that are predictions of or indicate future events or trends and that do not relate solely to historical matters. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and contingencies, many of which are beyond the Company's control that may cause actual results to differ significantly from those expressed in any forward-looking statement. All forward-looking statements reflect the Company's good faith beliefs, assumptions and expectations, but they are not guarantees of future performance. Furthermore, the Company disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect changes in underlying assumptions or factors, of new information, data or methods, future events or other changes. For a further discussion of these and other factors that could cause the Company's future results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements, see the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14, 2013, and other risks described in documents subsequently filed by the Company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Investor Contact:
Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.
Mark Lammas
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