Shearman & Sterling advised Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Goldman Sachs Bank USA as joint lead arrangers in connection with a $1.6 billion senior secured refinancing for LPL Holdings, Inc.‬ Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. acted as joint bookrunners in connection with the refinancing.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP represented Goldman, Sachs & Co., Deutsche Bank Securities and a syndicate of other banks in connection with a leveraged finance offering of $600 million of 9.625%/10.375% Senior PIK Toggle Notes due 2018 by TransUnion Holding Company, Inc. (the “Issuer) pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.  The notes include novel PIK/Toggle features which restrict the ability of the Issuer to elect to pay PIK interest.

Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added Bradley A. Siciliano to its growing Corporate Ethics & Compliance practice as a shareholder in the firm’s New York City office. Siciliano brings with him two decades of legal experience drawn from both private practice and corporate senior executive positions within major multinational corporations.