The Firm recently represented Deutsche Bank Securities, Allen & Company LLC, JPMorgan and Roth Capital Partners in connection with a public offering of 6,350,000 shares of common stock of The Knot, Inc. Of the shares sold in the offering, 2,000,000 shares were sold by The Knot and the remaining 4,350,000 shares were sold by selling stockholders.
The Knot is a media company that targets couples planning weddings and future lives together. It operates several websites, including www.theknot.com, which is the most trafficked wedding-related website in the United States. The Knot also publishes a series of wedding-oriented magazines.
The net proceeds raised by The Knot will be used to pay a portion of the purchase price in its pending merger with WeddingChannel.com, a provider of wedding planning and gift buying services.
The Simpson Thacher team for the transaction included, among others, Glenn M. Reiter, Simone Bono, Anne Buckman, Kevin Malcolm, Joshua Koenig, Jonathan Cantor, Anne Goldstein and Mark Lab.