TransCanada PipeLines Issues $700M of Medium Term Notes

TransCanada PipeLines Limited closed a $700 million public offering of medium term note debentures on February 17, 2009, of which $400 million will mature on February 17, 2039 and the remaining $300 million will mature on February 14, 2014. The offering was made pursuant to pricing supplements no. 2 and no. 3 dated February 11, 2009 to the March 20, 2007 short-form base shelf prospectus of TransCanada PipeLines.

The agents for the offering were BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., Scotia Capital Inc., RBC Capital Markets Inc., TD Securities Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc., National Bank Financial Inc. and HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc.

TransCanada PipeLines Limited was represented in-house by Robert Pitt, vice president, finance law and Bruce Nysetvold, senior legal counsel; and by David Lefebvre, David Taniguchi and Kristi Kasper of Stikeman Elliott LLP. Don Tse and Candace Herman of Macleod Dixon LLP acted as counsel for the agents.