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Simpson Thacher Represented the Underwriters in a Public Offering of Facebook, Inc.’s Class A Common Stock That Raised a Total of Approximately $3.8 Billion for the Company and the Selling Stockholders

12.26.13

Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters in a public offering of Facebook, Inc.’s Class A Common Stock. The offering was conducted in connection with the inclusion of Facebook, Inc.’s Class A Common stock in the S&P 500 Index, which is comprised of 500 common stocks that Standard & Poor’s, a division of McGraw-Hill Financial Inc., selects. Facebook sold 27,004,761 shares and selling stockholders sold 42,995,239 shares.  J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Barclays were joint bookrunners for the offering.

The Simpson Thacher team for the transaction included: Bill Hinman, Dan Webb, Ryan Coombs, Alexis Orenstein and Karen Reyes (Capital Markets); Jeff Ostrow and Elizabeth Gillen (Intellectual Property); Noah Metz (Tax); and Jennie Getsin (Blue Sky).