Cleary Gottlieb represented the underwriters, led by Barclays, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan as joint book running managers, in a public offering by Blackrock of €700 million of its 1.250% Notes due 2025. This was BlackRock’s inaugural euro-denominated note issuance. The offering launched and priced on April 28, 2015 and closed on May 6, 2015. The firm has also been counsel to the underwriters of multiple previous BlackRock offerings.
BlackRock is the world’s largest publicly traded investment management firm. As of March 31, 2015, BlackRock had approximately $4.8 trillion of assets under management.
