BPCE in $750 Million U.S. Medium-Term Note Offering

Cleary Gottlieb represented BPCE in a $750 million offering of senior unsecured notes issued under BPCE’s $10 billion US Medium Term Note Program ($250 million of 1.700% Notes due 2016, $500 million of Floating Rate Notes due 2016). Barclays Capital, Citigroup Global Markets, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, and Natixis Securities Americas acted as dealers in the transaction, which closed on April 25.

BPCE is the central body of Groupe BPCE, a leading French mutual banking group. Groupe BPCE was created through the July 2009 combination of the Groupe Banques Populaires and the Groupe Caisse d’Epargne, two leading French mutual banking groups.