MCDONALDS CORP — Capital/Financing Update 2009

Jan 14, 2009

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Filed Pursuant to Rule 433

Dated January 13, 2009

Registration Statement No. 333-139431

*McDONALD’S CORPORATION*

USD 350 Million 5.700% Medium-Term Notes, Series I, Due 2039

*Summary of Terms*

| Issuer: | McDonald’s
Corporation |
| --- | --- |
| Ratings: | A3
/ A / A (Moody’s / Standard & Poor’s / Fitch) |
| Trade
Date: | January 13,
2009 |
| Settlement
Date: | January 16,
2009 |
| Maturity
Date: | February 1,
2039 |
| Security
Description: | SEC-Registered
Senior Unsecured Fixed Rate Medium-Term Notes, Series I |
| Total
Principal Amount: | USD
350,000,000 |
| Coupon: | 5.700% |
| Issue
Price: | 99.540%
of principal amount |
| Yield
to Maturity: | 5.732% |
| Spread
to Benchmark Treasury: | T
+ 270 basis points |
| Benchmark
Treasury: | 4.375%
30-year bond due February 15, 2038 |
| Benchmark
Treasury Yield: | 3.032% |
| Coupon
Payments: | Pays
Semi-Annually on the 1st day of February and August, beginning
August 1, 2009 |
| Day
Count: | 30
/ 360 |
| Redemption
Provision: | Callable
at any time at a make-whole price of the greater of (a) 100% of the
principal amount, or (b) discounted present value at Treasury Rate plus
40 basis points |
| Joint
Bookrunners: | Banc
of America Securities LLC |
| | J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc. |
| CUSIP: | 58013MEH3 |

The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer or any agent participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling McDonald’s Corporation toll-free at 1-800-228-9623; Banc of America Securities LLC toll-free at 1-800-294-1322; or J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. collect at 1-212-834-4533.

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