Leading law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP is pleased to announce the addition of three attorneys to the firm’s national Labor & Employment Department, fortifying the firm’s extensive group of labor lawyers, and continuing Seyfarth’s expansion of more than 100 new attorneys hired within the past 18 months in the department. Partners Cliff Fonstein and  Nicholas H. De Baun and associate Tara Conroy have joined Seyfarth’s New York office from Sidley Austin LLP.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP represented Covanta Holding Corporation in connection with a registered public offering of $400 million of 6.375% Senior Notes due 2022, and Covanta Energy Corporation and its subsidiaries in connection with a new senior secured term loan facility in the amount of $300 million, maturing in 2019, and a senior secured revolving credit facility in the amount of $900 million, terminating in 2017.

Simpson Thacher represented the initial purchasers, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., in the sale of an aggregate principal amount of $300 million 7.00% Senior Notes due 2020 of New Gold Inc., a British Columbia corporation (“New Gold”).  The offering was conducted as a private offering in reliance upon Rule 144A and Regulation S.  The notes are guaranteed by certain of New Gold’s direct and indirect subsidiaries.  The transaction closed on April 5, 2012.  New Gold intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund the redemption of its 10% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 and for general corporate purposes.