Gaming and Leisure Properties Announces Pricing of $400,000,000 of 3.350% Senior Notes Due 2024 and $700,000,000 of 4.000% Senior Notes Due 2030

Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (the “Company” or “GLPI”) (NASDAQ: GLPI) today announced the pricing of its previously announced public offering of Notes (as defined below), to be issued by its operating partnership, GLP Capital, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”), and GLP Financing II, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Operating Partnership (together with the Operating Partnership, the “Issuers”). The Notes will be issued in two tranches, the first of which will be due 2024 (the “2024 Notes”) and the second of which will be due 2030 (the “2030 Notes” and, together with the 2024 Notes, the “Notes”). The 2024 Notes priced with a coupon of 3.350% and the 2030 Notes priced with a coupon of 4.000%. The Notes will be senior unsecured obligations of the Issuers, guaranteed by the Company.

The estimated net proceeds from the offering are expected to be approximately $1,087.9 million. The Issuers intend to use (i) approximately $340.0 million of the net proceeds to repay outstanding borrowings under the Operating Partnership’s revolving credit facility, excluding any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, (ii) approximately $236.0 million of the net proceeds to repay outstanding borrowings under the Operating Partnership’s Term Loan A-1 facility, excluding any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, and (iii) approximately $512.0 million of the net proceeds to finance a cash tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) to purchase up to $500.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Issuers’ outstanding 4.875% senior unsecured notes due November 1, 2020 (the “2020 Notes”). To the extent less than $500.0 million of the 2020 Notes are tendered in the Tender Offer and there are any remaining net proceeds, the Issuers will use such remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes or to pay down additional borrowings under the Term Loan A-1 facility. The offering is expected to close on August 29, 2019, subject to certain closing conditions.

The offering will be made under an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and only by means of a prospectus and prospectus supplement. The preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering have been filed with the SEC and are available by visiting the EDGAR database on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Fifth Third Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Citizens Capital Markets, Inc., Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., M&T Securities, Inc. and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. are serving as joint book-running managers for the offering. A copy of the preliminary prospectus supplement, final prospectus supplement (when available) and the accompanying prospectus relating to the offering of the Notes may be obtained by contacting: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC at 1-800-645-3751, BofA Securities, Inc. at 1-800-294-1322, Fifth Third Securities, Inc. at 1-866-531-5353, or J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, collect at 1-212-834-4533.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Any offer or sale will be made only by means of the prospectus supplement and prospectus forming part of the effective registration statement relating to these securities.