Paul Hastings Advises Barclays in Mattress Firm Secondary Offering

January 15, 2015

New York, NY - Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Barclays Capital Inc. as the sole underwriter in a secondary public offering of common stock by certain stockholders of Mattress Firm Holding Corp. (Nasdaq:MFRM), one of the nation's leading specialty bedding retailers.

Funds associated with J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. and certain directors and members of management of Mattress Firm or affiliates thereof sold an aggregate of 2,512,899 shares of common stock for gross proceeds of approximately $155 million in the offering.

Corporate partner John Cobb led the Paul Hastings team, which also included Corporate partner Yariv Katz and associates Keith Gartner, Melissa Fishkin and Steven Jean.

Paul Hastings has also represented Barclays in numerous prior public offerings and corporate transactions.

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