Davis Polk advised Oracle Corporation on its SEC-registered debt offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of floating-rate notes due 2019, $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.375% notes due 2019 and $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.625% notes due 2023. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. were the lead joint book-running managers.
Based in Redwood Shores, California, Oracle, the world’s largest enterprise software company, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes and services database, middleware and applications software and hardware systems, consisting primarily of computer server and storage products, which are designed to help customers manage and grow their business operations.
The Davis Polk corporate team included partner Bruce K. Dallas, associates Sara Chang and Adam Gottesfeld and summer associate Victoria Phillips. The tax team included partner Rachel D. Kleinberg and associate Catherine Paskoff Chang. Cassandra Aguirre and Katie Young were the legal assistants on the transaction. All members of the Davis Polk team work in the Menlo Park office.
