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Joshua Ford Bonnie
Joshua Ford Bonnie is a partner in Simpson Thacher's Corporate Department. Mr. Bonnie is active in the firm's Public Company Advisory Practice and advises a number of public companies on general corporate and securities law matters and also routinely represents issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities.

Mr. Bonnie advised The Blackstone Group L.P. on its $4.8 billion initial public offering and on its concurrent sale of $3 billion of non-voting common units to a sovereign wealth fund established by the People's Republic of China. Mr. Bonnie also advised MasterCard Incorporated on its $2.6 billion initial public offering and Accenture Ltd on its worldwide reorganization and $1.9 billion initial public offering. The initial public offerings of Blackstone, MasterCard and Accenture were the largest U.S. IPOs of 2007, 2006 and 2001, respectively. Mr. Bonnie also represented Evercore Partners Inc., Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. and Cohen & Steers, Inc. on those firms' initial public offerings. Mr. Bonnie also advised The Carlyle Group on its sale of a 7.5% non-voting interest in that firm to an affiliate of Mubadala Development Company, an investment company owned by the government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

Mr. Bonnie has also represented major investment banking firms, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley.

Mr. Bonnie was featured in the American Lawyer's "Dealmakers of the Year" in 2008 and is recognized in Chambers USA 2009 as one of the leading capital markets practitioners in the United States. Mr. Bonnie regularly publishes and presents on a variety of subjects.

Mr. Bonnie graduated from the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia School of Law where he was an editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law. After serving as a law clerk to the Hon. Robert R. Merhige, Jr. (E.D. Va.), Mr. Bonnie joined Simpson Thacher in 1996.

Vincent Pagano, Jr.
Vincent Pagano is the head of the Capital Markets Practice Group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, which includes the firm's Public Company Advisory Practice Group. He represents both corporate clients and underwriters in public and private sales of capital securities, including in initial public offerings, acquisition finance, the issuance of high-yield debt securities, and the sale of new financial products. Mr. Pagano regularly advises corporate clients on disclosure, financing, corporate governance and other general matters and is active in the firm's Public Company Advisory Practice generally. He also advises corporate clients on merger and acquisition transactions. He is active in a wide variety of industries, including the public utilities and energy, financial services, homebuilding and health care industries.

Mr. Pagano serves on the firm's Executive Committee. He joined Simpson Thacher in 1981 and has been a partner since 1986.
Mr. Pagano regularly represents the leading investment banks and such public corporations. He is recognized among the leading capital markets lawyers in the United States and the world by several publications including The Legal Media Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers, Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Legal 500 US and Who's Who in American Law.

Mr. Pagano earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1979. He received bachelor's degree in engineering, summa cum laude, from Lehigh University and has advanced degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Rutgers University. From 1979 to 1981 he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert J. Ward of the Southern District of New York.

LeAnn S. Leutner
LeAnn S. Leutner is a senior member of Simpson Thacher's Public Company Advisory Practice, which advises public companies on all aspects of their compliance with the U.S. securities laws and the listing requirements of the major U.S. exchanges. Ms. Leutner frequently assists companies in preparing executive compensation disclosure and advises companies and funds with respect to Section 16 and Williams Act reporting and Rule 144 compliance.

Ms. Leutner joined Simpson Thacher in 2005. She received a B.S. in Finance in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received the Bronze Tablet award (given to the top 3% of graduates from each college), and a J.D. in 1995 from the Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review.

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