Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as joint book-running managers on the SEC-registered offering by Altera Corporation of $500 million of its 1.75% notes due 2017.

Headquartered in San Jose, California, Altera is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufacturers and markets programmable logic devices (PLDs), application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), IP cores and related software.

The Davis Polk team, located in New York and Menlo Park, consisted of Alan F. Denenberg, Rachel D. Kleinberg, Marcie A. Goldstein, Beth Hooton Ruiz, Alex Kardon, Catherine Paskoff Change, Catherine L. Martin and Haniya H. Mir.

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