MP Materials $747.4 million follow-on offering
The shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Davis Polk advised the joint lead book-running managers and representatives of the several underwriters in connection with the SEC-registered offering of 13,590,908 shares of common stock of MP Materials Corp., which included 1,772,727 shares of common stock from the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, for total gross proceeds of approximately $747.5 million. MP Materials’ common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MP.”
MP Materials is America’s only fully integrated rare earth producer with capabilities spanning the entire supply chain—from mining and processing to advanced metallization and magnet manufacturing. It extracts and refines materials from one of the world’s richest rare earth deposits in California, and manufactures the world’s strongest and most efficient permanent magnets. Its products enable innovation across critical sectors of the modern economy, including transportation, energy, robotics, defense and aerospace.
The Davis Polk capital markets team included partners Michael Kaplan and Roshni Banker Cariello and associates Steven Glendon and Nicole (Nikki) Williams. Counsel Liang Zhang and associates Omar Hersi and Hunter P. Shaw provided tax advice. Counsel Michael Comstock and associate Shefain Islam provided environmental advice. All members of the Davis Polk team are based in the New York office.