Davis Polk advised HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint book-running managers in connection with a $1.5 billion SEC-registered debt offering by Goldcorp Inc., consisting of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 2.125% notes due 2018 and $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.700% notes due 2023.

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The Firm represented Blackstone in the sale of its warrants to purchase shares of common stock of General Growth Properties, Inc. General Growth acquired all the warrants held by affiliates of Blackstone and Fairholme Funds, Inc. for approximately $633 million. The warrants were exercisable into an aggregate of approximately 52 million shares and were issued in connection with the restructuring of General Growth and its emergence from bankruptcy in 2010. The Firm represented Blackstone in the restructuring.

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Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Jennifer B. Coplan has joined the firm in its New York office as a partner in its global Technology Transactions practice. Ms. Coplan regularly advises public and emerging companies on digital media, intellectual property and information technology matters in both domestic and international transactions.

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Orrick attorneys won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on March 19, 2013, that rescued the estimated $60 billion U.S. market of copyrighted goods manufactured abroad from the brink of potential disaster.

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Haynes and Boone, LLP New York welcomes back Todd Ransom as a partner in the firm’s Prime Brokerage and Equity Lending Practice Group, a specialized practice focused on leveraged and derivative products and brokerage transactions used by financial institutions and private and public funds.

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Cravath represented the underwriters, led by Jefferies, BofA Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup, in connection with the US$125 million series A cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred shares of Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc., a real estate investment trust that owns and invests in real estate serving the healthcare industry. The transaction closed on March 21, 2013.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented the initial purchasers in connection with the initial public offering by Fibra Inn on the Mexican Stock Exchange. Fibra Inn is the second lodging Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) in Latin America and is the fifth publicly traded Mexican REIT to be created in the wake of a comprehensive legal overhaul in Mexico that created the “FIBRA”, a new Mexican investment vehicle, which bears many similarities to the U.S. REIT. The offering involved the issuance of approximately $300 million in Fibra Inn’s stock publicly on the Mexican Stock Exchange and internationally pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S. The initial purchasers involved in this transaction were Credit Suisse and Santander.

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A Weil team led by Corporate Chairman Michael Aiello is advising real estate investment trust American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. (American Realty) in connection with its approximately $9 billion unsolicited offer (including assumption of debt) to purchase 100% of the outstanding common stock of Cole Credit Property Trust III, Inc. When completed, the transaction will create the largest publicly traded real estate investment trust in the net lease sector.

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As has been widely reported in several news outlets including Bloomberg, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal, Charter Communications, Inc. and Liberty Media Corporation announced that Liberty Media has entered into a definitive agreement with investment funds managed by, or affiliated with, Oaktree Capital Management, Apollo Management and Crestview Partners. Paul, Weiss represented Oaktree in the transaction. The firm was first retained in 2008 to represent Oaktree and a committee of bondholders in restructuring Charter, so this transaction is the culmination of many years of work.

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Simpson Thacher represented MDC Partners Inc. (“MDC”) in connection with a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $550,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 6.75% Senior Notes due 2020, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by all of its existing and future subsidiaries that guarantee its senior secured credit facility. MDC used the net proceeds of the offering to redeem all $425 million aggregate principal amount of its 11% senior notes due 2016, to pay accrued interest, related premiums, fees and expenses. Any remaining net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including funding of deferred acquisition consideration. Simpson Thacher also represented MDC and certain of its subsidiaries in connection with the entry into an amended and restated $225,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility. The notes offering and credit facility closed on March 20, 2013.

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