Exhibit 99.2
DATE: April 4, 2012
MEDIA CONTACT: Jeff Pounds (918) 573-3332 | INVESTOR CONTACT: Sharna Reingold (918) 573-2078 |
Williams Partners L.P. Prices Public Offering of Common Units
TULSA, Okla. – Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE: WPZ) today announced that it priced a public offering of 10,000,000 of its common units representing limited-partner interests at $54.56 per unit. The offering is expected to close on April 10, 2012.
Williams Partners also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 common units.
Williams Partners plans to use the net proceeds from the offering for general partnership purposes, including the funding of a portion of the purchase price of the acquisition by Williams Partners of Caiman Eastern Midstream, LLC that was previously announced on March 19, 2012.
Citigroup, Barclays, UBS Investment Bank, BofA Merrill Lynch, Jefferies, Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan are acting as joint book-running managers. In addition, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, Raymond James, RBC Capital Markets and Stifel Nicolaus Weisel have been named as co-managing underwriters.
This news release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful. A copy of the preliminary prospectus supplement and related base prospectus may be obtained on the SEC website atwww.sec.gov or from any of the underwriters, including:
Citigroup
Attention: Prospectus Delivery Department
Brooklyn Army Terminal
140 58th Street, 8th floor
Brooklyn, NY 11220
Phone: 800-831-9146
Email: batprospectusdept@citi.com
Barclays
c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions
1155 Long Island Avenue
Edgewood, NY 11717
Phone: 888-603-5847
Email: Barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com
UBS Investment Bank
Attention: Prospectus Department
299 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10171
Phone: 888-827-7275
BofA Merrill Lynch
4 World Financial Center
New York, NY 10080
Attn: Prospectus Department
E-maildg.prospectus_requests@baml.com.
Jefferies
520 Madison Avenue, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Email:Prospectus_Department@Jefferies.com
Phone: 877-547-6340
Morgan Stanley
Attn: Prospectus Department
180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10014
Email:prospectus@morganstanley.com
Phone: 866-718-1649
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Prospectus Department
200 West Street
New York, NY 10282
Phone: 866- 471-2526
Fax: 212-902-9316
Email:prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com
J.P. Morgan
c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions
1155 Long Island Avenue
Edgewood, NY 11717
Phone: 866-803-9204
Portions of this document may constitute “forward-looking statements” as defined by federal law. Although the partnership believes any such statements are based on reasonable assumptions, there is no assurance that actual outcomes will not be materially different. Any such statements are made in reliance on the “safe harbor” protections provided under the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Additional information about issues that could lead to material changes in performance is contained in the partnership’s annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.