Baker Hughes’s $3.95 Billion Senior Notes Offering
December 21, 2017
Cravath represented the initial purchasers, led by Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, HSBC, J.P. Morgan Securities and UniCredit Capital Markets, in connection with the $3.95 billion 144A/Reg. S senior notes offering of Baker Hughes, a GE company, and Baker Hughes Co‑Obligor, Inc. Baker Hughes is a leading supplier of oilfield services, products, technology and systems. Cravath also represented the dealer managers in connection with concurrent debt self‑tender offers by Baker Hughes. The transaction closed on December 11, 2017.
The Cravath team included partners Andrew J. Pitts and D. Scott Bennett and associates Major C. McCargo and Sean M. Linnehan on securities matters; senior attorney Annmarie M. Terraciano on environmental matters; and associate Damien J. Rose and foreign associate attorney Jean‑Baptiste Frantz on tax matters. D. Ryan Hart also worked on securities matters.
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