Current Report Filing (8-k)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 26, 2017

DUKE REALTY CORPORATION

DUKE REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

(Exact name of registrant specified in its charter)

Duke Realty Corporation:



Indiana	1-9044	35-1740409
(State of	(Commission	(IRS Employer
Formation)	File Number)	Identification No.)

Duke Realty Limited Partnership:



Indiana	0-20625	35-1898425
(State of	(Commission	(IRS Employer
Formation)	File Number)	Identification No.)

600 East 96th Street

Suite 100

Indianapolis, IN 46240

(Address of principal executive offices, zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (317) 808-6000

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On July 26, 2017, Duke Realty Corporation, an Indiana corporation (the “Company”), the sole general partner of Duke Realty Limited Partnership, an Indiana limited partnership (the “Operating Partnership”), issued a press release (the “Press Release”) announcing its results of operations and financial condition for the quarter ended June 30, 2017. A copy of the Press Release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated into this Item 2.02 by this reference.

The information contained in this Item 2.02, including the related information set forth in the Press Release attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein, is being “furnished” and shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise. The information in this Item 2.02 shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or into any filing or other document pursuant to the Exchange Act, except as otherwise expressly stated in any such filing.

Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On July 26, 2017, the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) increased the size of the Board from ten members to eleven members and, upon the recommendation of the Corporate Governance Committee, appointed Mr. Norman K. Jenkins, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Capstone Development, LLC, to the Board. Mr. Jenkins will serve as a member of the Board until the 2018 annual meeting of shareholders of the Company or until his resignation or sooner removal and otherwise until his successor is elected and qualifies. The Company expects that the Board will appoint Mr. Jenkins to a Board committee at a future meeting.

Effective upon appointment, Mr. Jenkins became eligible to receive the standard compensation provided by the Company to its other non-employee directors, as most recently disclosed in the Company’s proxy statement for its 2017 annual meeting of shareholders. There is no arrangement pursuant to which Mr. Jenkins was selected as a director, and there have been no transactions regarding Mr. Jenkins that are required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits



Exhibit Number	Description
99.1	Duke Realty Corporation press release dated July 26, 2017, with respect to its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017*

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*	The Press Release attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 is “furnished” and not “filed,” as described in Item 2.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.



	DUKE REALTY CORPORATION

	By:	/s/ ANN C. DEE
		Ann C. Dee
		Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary



	DUKE REALTY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

	By: Duke Realty Corporation, its general partner

	By:	/s/ ANN C. DEE
		Ann C. Dee
		Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary