The São Paulo office of the Firm recently represented the underwriters, led by Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Santander Investment Securities Inc., in connection with the global offering of preferred shares of Telefonica Brasil, including preferred shares in the form of ADSs More >>

Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with the SEC-registered offering of 27,864,525 shares of common stock of Springleaf Holdings, Inc., of which 19,417,476 shares were issued and sold by the Company and 8,447,049 shares were sold by Springleaf Financial Holdings, LLC on behalf of an affiliate of American International Group. The aggregate gross proceeds of the offering were approximately $1.435 billion. The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 4,179,678 shares of Springleaf Holdings, Inc.’s common stock from Springleaf Financial Holdings, LLC. The common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “LEAF.” More >>

The São Paulo office of the Firm recently represented the underwriters, led by Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Santander Investment Securities Inc., in connection with the global offering of preferred shares of Telefonica Brasil, including preferred shares in the form of ADSs. The ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and the preferred shares are listed in Brazil on the BM&FBOVESPA stock exchange. The global offering raised net proceeds of approximately US$5.5 billion, which Telefonica Brasil intends to use to the fund the cash portion of the previously announced €7.2 billion acquisition of Brazilian telecommunication company GVT, repay certain GVT indebtedness following completion of the acquisition and improve its own liquidity. More >>