Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, and BNP Paribas Securities Corp. as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Bemis Company, Inc. of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 4.5% senior notes due 2021.

Bemis is the largest producer of flexible packaging in North and South America as measured by annual sales in 2010, with a focus on utilizing proprietary technologies to design and manufacture differentiated products that offer extended shelf life, product freshness and consumer appeal. Bemis’s flexible packaging business provides packaging for a wide variety of products in the packaged food market segments, as well as medical, pharmaceutical, lawn and garden, industrial, display and other end markets. In addition to flexible packaging, Bemis produces pressure sensitive adhesive products that it sells to label converters and customers in graphic and technical markets.

The Davis Polk corporate team included partner Richard A. Drucker and associates Jason Roomer, Jonathan C. Pentzien and Rachel S. Marx. Counsel Loyti Cheng and associate Hayden S. Baker provided environmental advice. Partner Michael Farber and associate Juelle Gomes provided tax advice. Kristyn M. Dunleavy was the legal assistant on the transaction. All members of the Davis Polk team are based in the New York office.