Williams has completed a public offering of $1.25 billion of its 4.55 percent senior notes due 2024 at a price of 99.738 percent of par and $650 million of its 5.75 percent senior notes due 2044 at a price of 99.773 percent of par.
Williams intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to finance a portion of its acquisition of the 50 percent general partner interest and 55.1 million limited partner units in Access Midstream Partners, L.P. held by certain Global Infrastructure Partners funds that was previously announced on June 15, 2014.
Barclays, Citigroup and UBS Investment Bank acted as joint book-running managers for the offering.
