NEW YORK and PHOENIX, Nov. 8,
2013 /PRNewswire/ -- American Realty Capital
Properties, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARCP) ("ARCP") and Cole Real Estate
Investments, Inc. (NYSE: COLE) ("Cole") announced today that both
companies' management teams will be attending
REITWorld®, NAREIT's Annual REIT Convention,
which will be held at the Marriott Marquis in
San Francisco, California
November 13-15, 2013. ARCP and Cole
will conduct joint meetings with investors and analysts while
at the conference.
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Separately, Nicholas S. Schorsch,
ARCP's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will be participating
on a net lease panel Thursday, November 14,
2013 at 10:00 AM PT. The
panel will be webcast live for participants who are unable to
attend the conference. Webcast details can be found below and
on ARCP's website at www.arcpreit.com.
Webcast Details
Date: Thursday,
November 14, 2013
Time: 10:00A.M. Pacific Time
Webcast Link: http://reitstream.com/reitworld2013
About ARCP
ARCP is a publicly traded Maryland corporation listed on The NASDAQ
Global Select Market that qualified as a real estate investment
trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes for the taxable year
ended December 31, 2011, focused on
acquiring and owning single tenant freestanding commercial
properties subject to net leases with high credit quality tenants.
Additional information about ARCP can be found on its website at
www.arcpreit.com. ARCP may disseminate important information
regarding the company and its operations, including financial
information, through social media platforms such as Twitter,
Facebook and LinkedIn.
About Cole
Cole is a publicly traded Maryland corporation listed on the New York
Stock Exchange, and is a market-leading net-lease REIT focused on
the acquisition, active management, leasing and financing of its
high-quality retail, office and industrial portfolio. Visit
www.ColeREIT.com to learn more about the company's comprehensive
capabilities, best-in-class management platform, disciplined
investment strategy, high-quality real estate portfolio and private
capital management business
Additional Information about Merger Between ARCP and Cole and
Where to Find It
This communication does not constitute an
offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities
or a solicitation of any vote or approval. In connection with
the proposed merger between ARCP and Cole, ARCP and Cole have filed
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on
November 5, 2013, a preliminary
registration statement on Form S-4 containing a joint proxy
statement/prospectus and other documents with respect to ARCP's
proposed acquisition of Cole. The preliminary joint
proxy/prospectus will contain important information about the
proposed transaction and related matters. INVESTORS ARE URGED TO
READ THE JOINT PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS (INCLUDING ALL AMENDMENTS
AND SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED BY ARCP
OR COLE WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT
INFORMATION ABOUT ARCP, COLE AND THE PROPOSED MERGER.
Investors and stockholders of ARCP and Cole may obtain free
copies of the preliminary registration statement, the preliminary
joint proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant documents filed
by ARCP and Cole with the SEC (if and when they become available)
through the website maintained by the SEC
at www.sec.gov. Copies of the documents filed by ARCP
with the SEC are also available free of charge on ARCP's website
at www.arcpreit.com and copies of the documents filed by Cole
with the SEC are available free of charge on Cole's website
at www.ColeREIT.com.
Participants in Solicitation relating to the Merger Between
ARCP and Cole
ARCP, Cole, AR Capital, LLC and their
respective directors and executive officers may be deemed to be
participants in the solicitation of proxies from ARCP's and Cole's
stockholders in respect of the proposed merger between ARCP and
Cole. Information regarding ARCP's directors and executive
officers can be found in ARCP's definitive proxy statement filed
with the SEC on April 30, 2013.
Information regarding Cole's directors and executive officers can
be found in Cole's definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC on
April 11, 2013. Additional
information regarding the interests of such potential participants
is included in the preliminary joint proxy statement/prospectus
filed with the SEC on November 5,
2013, and in other relevant documents filed with the SEC in
connection with the proposed merger if and when they become
available. These documents are available free of charge on the
SEC's website and from ARCP or Cole, as applicable, using the
sources indicated above.
Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth
herein (including information included or incorporated by reference
herein) contains "forward-looking statements" (as defined in
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended),
which reflect ARCP's and Cole's expectations regarding future
events. The forward-looking statements involve a number of risks,
uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking
statements. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not
limited to, whether and when the transactions contemplated by any
of the merger agreements referenced herein will be consummated, the
combined company's plans, market and other expectations,
objectives, intentions, as well as any expectations or projections
with respect to the combined company, including regarding future
dividends and market valuations, and estimates of growth, including
funds from operations and adjusted funds from operations and other
statements that are not historical facts.
The following additional factors, among others, could cause
actual results to differ from those set forth in the
forward-looking statements: (1) the occurrence of any event, change
or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of
the merger agreements for the American Realty Capital Trust IV,
Inc. ("ARCT IV") transaction or the Cole transaction; (2) the
inability to complete the ARCT IV merger due to the failure to
obtain ARCT IV stockholder approval of the ARCT IV merger or the
failure to satisfy other conditions to completion of the ARCT IV
merger, including that a governmental entity may prohibit, delay or
refuse to grant approval for the consummation of the ARCT IV
merger; (3) the inability to obtain regulatory approvals for the
Cole merger transaction and the approval by ARCP's stockholders of
the issuance of ARCP common stock in connection with the Cole
merger and the approval by Cole's stockholders of the Cole merger;
(4) risks related to disruption of management's attention from the
ongoing business operations due to the proposed mergers; (5) the
effect of the announcement of the proposed mergers on ARCP's, ARCT
IV's or Cole's relationships with their respective customers,
tenants, lenders, operating results and businesses generally; (6)
the outcome of any legal proceedings relating to any of the mergers
or the merger agreements; and (7) risks to consummation of the
mergers, including the risk that the mergers will not be
consummated within the expected time period or at all. Additional
factors that may affect future results are contained in ARCP's,
ARCT IV's and Cole's filings with the SEC, which are available at
the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. ARCP, ARCT IV and Cole disclaim
any obligation to update and revise statements contained in these
materials based on new information or otherwise.
SOURCE American Realty Capital Properties, Inc.