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Transalta Corporation has announced:

it has completed its public offering of 9,000,000 Cumulative Redeemable Rate Reset First Preferred Shares, Series E (the “Series E Shares”) at a price of $25.00 per Series E Share.

The offering, previously announced on August 2, 2012, resulted in gross proceeds to TransAlta of $225 million. The net proceeds of the offering will be used to partially fund capital projects, for other general corporate purposes, and to reduce short term indebtedness of the Corporation and its affiliates.

The Series E Shares were offered to the Canadian public through a syndicate of underwriters led by CIBC, RBC Capital Markets and Scotiabank by way of a prospectus supplement that was filed with securities regulatory authorities in Canada under TransAlta’s short form base shelf prospectus dated November 15, 2011.

Holders of Series E Shares are entitled to receive a cumulative quarterly fixed dividend yielding 5.00% annually for the initial period ending September 30, 2017. Thereafter, the dividend rate will be reset every five years at a rate equal to the 5-year Government of Canada bond yield plus 3.65%. Holders of Series E Shares will have the right, at their option, to convert their shares into Cumulative Redeemable Rate Reset First Preferred Shares, Series F (the “Series F Shares”), subject to certain conditions, on September 30, 2017 and on September 30 every five years thereafter. Holders of Series F Shares will be entitled to receive cumulative quarterly floating dividends at a rate equal to the three-month Government of Canada Treasury Bill yield plus 3.65%. The Series E Shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TA.PR.H.

They announced on August 3:

that further to its bought deal financing (the “Offering”) announced on August 2, 2012, the syndicate of underwriters led by CIBC, RBC Capital Markets and Scotiabank have exercised the underwriters’ option (the “Option”) granted to them. Pursuant to the exercise of the Option, TransAlta Corporation will issue an additional 3,000,000 Cumulative Redeemable Floating Rate Reset First Preferred Shares, Series E (the “Series E Shares”) for aggregate gross proceeds of $75 million, bringing the aggregate gross proceeds of the Offering to $225 million.

TA.PR.H is a FixedReset, 5.00%+365, announced August 2. The issue will be tracked by HIMIPref™ but assigned to the Scraps index on credit concerns.

TA was recently downgraded to P-3 by S&P and placed on Review-Developing by DBRS.

TA.PR.H traded 236,734 shares today in a range of 24.70-85 before closing at 24.70-73, 3×16. Vital statistics are:

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