Ropes & Gray served as lead counsel to Index Ventures on their recently announced $1.65 billion fundraise across two funds to back entrepreneurs with global ambitions:...
Index Ventures’ $1.65 Billion Fundraising
Diamondback Energy’s $9.2 Billion Acquisition of Energen Corporation
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. is acting as exclusive financial advisor to Diamondback, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is acting as legal advisor to...
Amcor Limited’s $6.8 Billion merger with Bemis Company, Inc.
UBS AG, Australia Branch and Moelis & Company LLC are acting as joint financial advisors and Kirkland & Ellis and Herbert Smith Freehills as legal counsel...
Fifth Third Bank’s $1.55 Billion Senior Notes Offering
Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Morgan Stanley, in connection with the 3(a)(2) exempt offering by Fifth Third Bank of $300 million aggregate principal amount...
KfW’s €1 billion Debt Offering
Simpson Thacher represented underwriters in connection to the offering Barclays, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs International acted as underwriters on the offering. KfW, also known as Kreditanstalt...
Investor Group Led by CC Capital, Cannae Holdings and Thomas H. Lee Partners’s $6.9 billion Acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet
J.P. Morgan is serving as financial advisor to Dun & Bradstreet, and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is serving as legal counsel. Financial advisors to...
Planet Fitness’ $1.275 Billion Securitized Financing Facility
Planet Fitness, Inc., one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the United States, has completed a financing transaction involving the...
Berkshire Hathaway’s $2.35 Billion Debt Offering
Simpson Thacher represented BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Wells Fargo Securities in the registered public offering by Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corporation (“BHFC”)...
Carlyle Partners VII’s $18.5 Billion Fundraising
Simpson Thacher represented The Carlyle Group L.P. (“Carlyle”) in the establishment of Carlyle Partners VII, an $18.5 billion fund that makes majority and strategic minority investments...
Seritage Growth Properties’s $2 Billion Term Loan Facility
Simpson Thacher represented Berkshire Hathaway Life Insurance Company of Nebraska in providing a $2 billion senior secured term loan facility (the “Term Loan Facility”) to a...
Yunfeng Fund III’s $2.5 Billion Fundraising
Simpson Thacher represented Yunfeng Capital in connection with the formation of Yunfeng Fund III, its third Greater China-focused private equity fund. The fund focuses primarily on...
AEW Value Investors Asia III’s $1.2 Billion Fundraising
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented AEW Value Investors Asia III and its sponsor AEW Capital Management in the formation of a new...