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Joshua Ford Bonnie
Joshua Ford Bonnie is a partner in Simpson Thacher's Corporate Department. Mr. Bonnie advises a number of public companies on general corporate and securities law matters and 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. The Blackstone IPO was the largest U.S. IPO of 2007 and one of the largest in history. 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 MasterCard and Accenture were the largest U.S. IPOs of 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 has also represented major investment banking firms, including Bear, Stearns, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley.
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 joined Simpson Thacher in 1981 and has been a partner since 1986. He is currently the head of Simpson Thacher's Capital Markets Group, representing both underwriters and corporate clients 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 also regularly advises corporate clients on merger and acquisition transactions and on disclosure, financing, corporate governance and other general matters. He is active in a wide variety of industries, including the public utilities, energy, financial services, housing and health care industries.
Mr. Pagano earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1979. He received bachelor's degree from Lehigh University and has advanced degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Rutgers University.

LeAnn S. Leutner
LeAnn S. Leutner has been an associate in Simpson Thacher's Corporate Department since 2005. Ms. Leutner graduated from Yale Law School and has a bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Illinois.

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