Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as joint book-running managers and representatives of the several underwriters in connection with an SEC-registered offering of $350 million 3.250% senior notes due 2023 and $850 million 4.875% senior notes due 2043 by Discovery Communications, LLC. The senior notes are guaranteed by the issuer’s indirect parent company, Discovery Communications, Inc.

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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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