UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO

SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): August 12, 2009

 

U-Store-It Trust

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Maryland

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

 

 

(610) 293-5700

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Not applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o                                    Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o                                    Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o                                    Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o                                    Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 

Item 7.01.  Regulation FD Disclosure.

 

Equity Offering

 

U-Store-It Trust (the “Company”) announced today that it is commencing an underwritten public offering of 22,000,000 common shares of beneficial interest. The public offering price and other terms are to be determined by negotiations between the Company and the underwriters. In addition, the Company expects to grant to the underwriters an option for 30 days to purchase up to 3,300,000 additional common shares to cover overallotments, if any, at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. A copy of the press release announcing the Company’s offering is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

The information included in this Current Report on Form 8-K (including Exhibit 99.1) shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing made by the Company under the Exchange Act or Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

 

Item 9.01.   Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)                                 Exhibits. The following exhibit is being furnished herewith to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

Exhibit No.		Description
99.1		Press Release dated August 12, 2009

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

	U-Store-It Trust
Date: August 12, 2009	By:	/s/ Jeffrey P. Foster
		Name:	Jeffrey P. Foster
		Title:	Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.		Description
99.1		Press Release dated August 12, 2009

 

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