Simpson Thacher Represents Rockwood Holdings, Inc. in Secondary Offering of Common Stock
11.26.12
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The Firm recently represented Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (“Rockwood”) in connection with a secondary offering of 6,900,838 shares of common stock of Rockwood by funds affiliated with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. Gross proceeds to the selling stockholders were approximately $294 million.
Rockwood is a leading global specialty chemical and advanced materials company. Rockwood and its subsidiaries and affiliates have a worldwide employee base of approximately 10,300 people and annual net sales of approximately $3.7 billion. The company focuses on global niche segments of the specialty chemicals, pigments and additives and advanced materials markets.
The Simpson Thacher team for the transaction included Roxane Reardon and Jason Pearl (Capital Markets); and Andrew Purcell (Tax).