Simpson Thacher Represents JPMorgan Chase & Co. in $850 Million Preferred Stock Offering

The Firm represented JPMorgan Chase & Co. in connection with a public offering of 34,000,000 Depositary Shares, equivalent to $850 million in aggregate amount, each Depositary Share representing a 1/400th interest in a share of perpetual 5.45% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series P, of JPMorgan Chase & Co. The underwriters have the right to purchase up to an additional 5,100,000 Depositary Shares at the public offering price within 30 days. The offering closed on February 5, 2013.

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Simpson Thacher Represents First Data in Refinancing

Simpson Thacher represented First Data Corporation (“First Data”) in connection with its Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of $785 million aggregate principal amount of 11.25% Senior Notes due 2021. Simpson Thacher also represented First Data in connection with its borrowing of $258 million in aggregate principal amount of incremental term loans due 2018.

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Greg Young Joins Wick Phillips Team in Austin

Wick Phillips, a full-service business law firm with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, announces the addition of Greg Young as a partner in the Austin office, who will also manage the firm’s Central Texas operations. With more than 14 years of experience, Young has handled a wide variety of corporate and transactional matters for clients, including mergers and acquisitions, loan transactions on both the borrower and the lender side, formation and governance of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, as well as venture capital and other private equity transactions.

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Davis Polk Advises Comcast on Its Acquisition of General Electric’s Common Equity Stake in NBCUniversal

Davis Polk is advising Comcast Corporation on its $16.7 billion acquisition of General Electric Company’s 49% common equity stake in the NBCUniversal Media, LLC joint venture. NBCUniversal will also purchase from GE the properties used by NBCUniversal at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and CNBC’s headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey for approximately $1.4 billion. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of this year.

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Stephenson Harwood Appoints New Partner to the Paris Office

International law firm Stephenson Harwood has boosted its Paris office with the hire of new partner, Olivier de Chazeaux. Olivier joins Stephenson Harwood from Nixon Peabody where he headed the Public Law and Regulatory department. His arrival boosts Stephenson Harwood’s’ current corporate and regulatory offering in Paris and also increases the firm’s litigation and arbitration capability.

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Arnold & Porter Legal Team Guides PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. in Major Company and Asset Sale

Arnold & Porter LLP client PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. (in receivership) recently entered into definitive agreements with Arch Capital Group Ltd. for its U.S.-based subsidiaries, Arch U.S. MI, to acquire CMG Mortgage Insurance Company from PMI and CMFG Life Insurance Company. The agreements also involve the acquisition of PMI’s mortgage insurance information technology operating platform and related assets from PMI. The value of the consideration for these transactions are estimated to be approximately $300 million. Arch U.S. MI will also enter into a services agreement with PMI to provide for necessary services to administer the run-off of PMI’s legacy business at the direction of PMI. An affiliate of Arch U.S. MI will reinsure the run-off of in-force insurance on current, non-delinquent loans included in the primary mortgage insurance originated by PMI for book years 2009-2011.

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