November 26, 2012

Milbank Represents Underwriters in Public Equity Offering by Leading ETF Manager WisdomTree Valued at $157 Million

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International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, led by Global Securities partner James H. Ball, Jr., has represented a group of investment banks as underwriters in the follow-on sale of shares of asset manager WisdomTree Investments, Inc. The public equity offering is valued at $157.2 million.

The underwriter group was comprised of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Piper Jaffray & Co. and Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc.

WisdomTree is the only publicly-traded asset management company that focuses exclusively on exchange traded funds, or ETFs. The company achieved record revenues of $21.7 million on September 30, 2012, with assets under management, or AUM, of approximately $16.8 billion.

Additional attorneys on the Milbank team included associates Trevor Truman, Elizabeth Rosado and Kaveh Namazeh.

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Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is a leading international law firm providing innovative legal solutions to clients throughout the world for more than 140 years. Milbank is headquartered in New York and has offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, São Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, DC.

The firm’s lawyers provide a full range of legal services to the world’s leading commercial, financial and industrial enterprises, as well as to institutions, individuals and governments. Milbank’s lawyers meet the needs of our clients by offering a highly integrated and collaborative range of services across key practice groups throughout our global network. Milbank’s integrated practice is underpinned by our attorneys’ acknowledged technical excellence, sectoral expertise and a strong tradition of innovation and client service.