Investment-Grade Debt Offerings

Davis Polk's preeminence as an investment-grade debt adviser is aided by our long-standing relationships with some of the biggest debt issuers in the world. We are designated underwriters' counsel for some of the most prolific debt issuers in the United States, including GE Capital Corporation, GMAC and Morgan Stanley. The size of our investment-grade debt practice has helped keep us on the field's leading edge, with experience in new types of issues and novel and complex debt products.

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Davis Polk ranked 2nd as both issuer’s and manager’s counsel in U.S. investment-grade corporate debt offerings in 2007, according to Thomson Financial.

establishment of an automatic shelf registration statement and the immediate $6.9 billion notes takedown by AstraZeneca, a major international research-based bio-pharmaceutical company with headquarters in the United Kingdom—this was the largest corporate bond deal in 2007
$4 billion SEC-registered notes offering by General Electric
$2.3 billion SEC-registered off-the-shelf note offering by Telefónica Emisiones, S.A.U., fully guaranteed by Telefónica, S.A, the leading provider of fixed-line telephone, wireless communications, Internet access and data transmission services in Spain and one of the largest telecommunications operators in Europe and Latin America
$2 billion Rule 144A/Regulation S three-tranche offering of fixed-to-floating-rate subordinated notes and senior notes by ICICI Bank—this deal was selected as the “Emerging Asia Bond Issue” for 2007 by International Financing Review
$2 billion offering of notes and floating-rate notes by GMAC, a global finance company offering financing to GM dealerships and their customers