Simpson Thacher Represented Initial Purchasers in Sale of $1.0 Billion Senior Notes due 2017 and $1.0 Billion Senior Notes due 2022 by FMG Resources (August 2006) Pty Ltd

Friday, March 23, 2012

Simpson Thacher represented the initial purchasers, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., RBS Securities Inc. and UBS Securities LLC, in the sale of an aggregate principal amount of $1.0 billion 6.000% Senior Notes due 2017 and $1.0 billion 6.875% Senior Notes due 2022 of FMG Resources (August 2006) Pty Ltd, an Australian corporation (“FMG”), and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (“Fortescue”), pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S. The notes are guaranteed by certain of Fortescue’s direct and indirect subsidiaries. The deal closed on March 19, 2012. FMG intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to expand its existing operations and for general corporate purposes.

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Goodwin Procter Expands Labor & Employment Practice with Addition of Kristen Garcia Dumont in Silicon Valley

Thursday, March 22, 2012
Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, today announced that Kristen Garcia Dumont has joined the firm’s Litigation Department in its Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices as a member of Goodwin’s Labor & Employment and Technology Companies Practices. She will focus on defense work for technology companies related to a wide range of employment disputes, including employee mobility lawsuits, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination and whistleblower complaints. Dumont joins Goodwin from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s San Francisco office where she was a partner.

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Paul, Weiss – Barclays Capital and J.P. Morgan Complete $1.6 Billion Notes Offering

Thursday, March 22, 2012
Paul, Weiss clients Barclays Capital and J.P. Morgan completed a more than $1.6 billion offering of senior secured term and variable funding notes backed by a “whole business” securitization of the assets of Domino’s Pizza on March 15. Paul, Weiss represented Barclays Capital as sole structuring advisor and joint bookrunning manager, and J.P. Morgan as joint bookrunning manager. The transaction refinanced the company’s 2007 securitization. The notes were secured by substantially all of the revenue-generating businesses of Domino’s, including company owned store licensing fees, franchising revenues and distribution revenues.

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