0001193125-13-256482.txt : 20130820 0001193125-13-256482.hdr.sgml : 20130820 20130612200131 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-13-256482 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20130612 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: REED ELSEVIER PLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000929869 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MISCELLANEOUS PUBLISHING [2741] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: X0 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1-3 STRAND CITY: LONDON WC2N 5JR STATE: X0 ZIP: 00000 BUSINESS PHONE: 011442071665660 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1-3 STRAND CITY: LONDON WC2N 5JR STATE: X0 ZIP: 00000 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: REED ELSEVIER NV CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000929872 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MISCELLANEOUS PUBLISHING [2741] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: E1 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: RADARWEG 29 STREET 2: 1043 NX AMSTERDAM CITY: THE NETHERLANDS STATE: P7 ZIP: 00000 BUSINESS PHONE: 011442071665660 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: RADARWEG 29 STREET 2: 1043 NX AMSTERDAM CITY: THE NETHERLANDS STATE: P7 ZIP: 00000 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ELSEVIER NV / DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19980327 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm CORRESP

SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP

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VIA EDGAR   June 12, 2013

Lyn Shenk, Branch Chief

Division of Corporate Finance

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

  Re: Reed Elsevier PLC
       Form 20-F for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2012
       Filed March 12, 2013
       File No. 001-13334
       Reed Elsevier NV
       Form 20-F for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2012
       Filed March 12, 2013
       File No. 001-13688

Dear Mr. Shenk:

We are writing on behalf of our clients, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV (“Reed Elsevier”), in response to your letter dated June 11, 2013 containing comments by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Staff”) with respect to Reed Elsevier’s Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.

As discussed by telephone with Dana Brown of the Staff, we confirm that Reed Elsevier intends to provide the Staff with Reed Elsevier’s responses to your letter on or before July 12, 2013.

If you have any questions regarding the foregoing, please contact Rhett Brandon of this firm (rbrandon@stblaw.com, tel. 212-455-3615, fax 212-455-2502).

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT

 

cc:    D. J. Palmer
       Reed Elsevier PLC and
       Reed Elsevier NV
   Dana Brown
   Lauren Nguyen
   Jeffrey Sears
       Division of Corporation Finance
       Securities and Exchange Commission