Davis Polk Advises Delphi on $800 Million Senior Notes Offering

Davis Polk advised Delphi Corporation in connection with an SEC-registered offering of $800 million aggregate principal amount of its 5% senior notes due 2023. The notes are guaranteed by Delphi Automotive PLC, the parent company of Delphi Corporation, and certain of its subsidiaries. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Delphi intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay a portion of the term loan indebtedness outstanding under its revolving credit facility, and for general corporate purposes.

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Davis Polk – Airgas, Inc. $600 Million Notes Offering

Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters on an SEC-registered public debt offering by Airgas, Inc. of $325 million principal amount of its 1.65% notes due 2018 and $275 million principal amount of its 2.375% notes due 2020.

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White & Case Advises WPD Group on Financing the Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised Bremen-based wpd group on the financing of the Butendiek offshore wind farm. The overall investment amounts to approximately €1.3 billion. The wind farm is situated in the German North Sea, some 30km west of the island of Sylt, and has 80 Siemens turbines providing a total capacity of 288 MW. The wpd group is project developer and shareholder, besides an investor group consisting of Marguerite Fund, Siemens Project Ventures, Industriens Pension and PKA.

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Mayer Brown Advised a Syndicate of Banks on the Issue of EUR 500m Public Sector Pfandbriefe by Deutsche Kreditbank AG

Global law firm Mayer Brown advised a consortium of banks on the issuance und placement of a EUR 500 m Public Sector Pfandbrief of Deutsche Kreditbank AG due 25 January 2018 (issue date 25 January 2013). The Public Sector Pfandbrief has a fixed interest rate of 1.00 per cent. p.a. The syndicate of banks included Barclays Bank PLC, Bayerische Landesbank, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, UniCredit Bank AG and WGZ BANK AG Westdeutsche Genossenschafts-Zentralbank as Joint Lead Managers.

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Simpson Thacher Represents Team Health Holdings, Inc. and Selling Shareholders in Offering of 9,633,107 Shares of Common Stock

The Firm recently represented Team Health Holdings, Inc. (“TeamHealth”), Ensemble Parent LLC (an affiliate of The Blackstone Group), and certain management shareholders in the sale by the selling shareholders of 9,633,107 shares of TeamHealth common stock, resulting in gross proceeds of $319,915,483. Ensemble Parent LLC sold 9,588,990 shares, representing the remainder of its ownership of TeamHealth’s stock. Barclays and Citigroup acted as joint bookrunners for the offering.

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Simpson Thacher Represents the Underwriters in $150 Million Preferred Stock Offering by Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.

The Firm represented the underwriters, led by Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and UBS Securities LLC, as joint book-running managers, in connection with a public offering of 6,000,000 shares of 5.375% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A, $0.01 par value per share, with a liquidation preference of $25 per share, of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. The offering closed on February 15, 2013.

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Simpson Thacher Represents Blackstone in Creation of Largest National Single-Family Rental Home Platform

The Firm represents affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Partners in the formation of Invitation Homes, L.P., a national platform to purchase distressed single family homes and then refurbish, lease and maintain them in neighborhoods across the country. According to press reports, Invitation Homes has spent more than $2.5 billion on 16,000 homes to manage as rentals, making Invitation Homes the largest owner of single-family homes in the country. In connection with the formation of Invitation Homes, the Firm represented affiliates of Invitation Homes in a $600 million revolving credit facility with Deutsche Bank as administrative agent.

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