Realty Income Corporation ((Realty Income, NYSE:O), The Monthly Dividend Company®, today announced its intention to offer, subject to market and other conditions, $750.0 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2031 (the "notes") in a private offering (the "offering") to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). Realty Income also expects to grant the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase, for settlement within a period of 13 days from, and including, the date the notes are first issued, up to an additional $112.5 million aggregate principal amount of notes. 

The notes will be senior, unsecured obligations of Realty Income and interest will be payable semi-annually in arrears. Realty Income will settle conversions by paying cash up to the aggregate principal amount of the notes to be converted and paying or delivering, as the case may be, cash, shares of Realty Income's common stock or a combination of cash and shares of Realty Income's common stock, at Realty Income's election, in respect of the remainder, if any, of Realty Income's conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the notes being converted, based on the then applicable conversion rate. The interest rate, initial conversion rate and other terms of the notes are to be determined upon pricing of the offering.