This Practice Note provides a brief overview of an offering of investment grade senior non-convertible unsecured debt securities registered on a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 or F-3 under the Securities Act. It also includes links to the principal documents used in recent offerings by US domestic issuers and foreign private issuers, including the final prospectus supplement, the description of notes in the final prospectus supplement, the preliminary prospectus supplement, the underwriting agreement, any free writing prospectus, the registration statement, the indenture, and any supplemental indenture (or officers' certificate) establishing the terms of a series of debt securities and the form of the debt security. This Note is to be updated annually.