JPMorgan Chase Completes Private Placement

On September 8, 2005, JPMorgan Chase & Co. completed a private placement in Canada of $850 million principal amount of 3.877 per cent fixed rate/floating rate subordinated notes due 2015.

The offering was sold into Canada by a group of securities dealers co-led by JP Morgan Securities Canada Inc. and RBC Dominion Securities Inc., which also included BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., National Bank Financial Inc. and TD Securities Inc.
JPMorgan Chase was represented in Canada by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP with a team that included Ward Sellers, John Jason, Michael Innes and Jonathan Naimark, and in the US by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP with a team that included Maripat Alpuche, Rosa Chang, Mark Brod and Jennifer Nadborny, all under the guidance of Neila Radin, associate general counsel and senior vice-president.

The dealers were represented in Canada by Stikeman Elliott LLP with a team that included Jamie Davis, Maurice Swan and D'Arcy Nordick, and in the US by Adele Hogan of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.