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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