WASHINGTON, D.C. – Troutman Pepper Locke served as counsel to Simmons First National Corporation (Simmons), an Arkansas corporation and the bank holding company for Simmons Bank, an Arkansas state-chartered bank, in connection with Simmons’ underwritten public offering of 18,653,000 shares of its Class A common stock (including 2,433,000 shares pursuant to the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares of common stock in the offering). The public offering price of shares of common stock sold in the offering was $18.50 per share, and the underwriters agreed to purchase the shares from Simmons pursuant to the underwriting agreement at a price of $17.575 per share.