The Firm has represented underwriters in 16 public offerings of debt securities by KfW in 2016:~~The lead underwriters for these offerings have varied and have included many of the leading U.S., Canadian and European banks.~~KfW, also known as Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, is a development bank owned by the Federal Republic of Germany and the German federal states. KfW serves domestic and international public policy objectives of the German government.~~The Simpson Thacher team for these transactions included Mark Brod, Adam Wollstein, Sven Frode Frølund, Anna Pollak and Jakob Egle (Capital Markets); and Meredith B. Jones and Joseph Tootle (Tax).