Davis Polk advised Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, LLC and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as lead managers on an SEC-registered offering by Royal Bank of Canada of US$1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.45% senior notes due 2014 and US$750 million aggregate principal amount of senior floating-rate notes due 2014 under its US$25 billion medium-term notes program.

Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that it has again expanded its global intellectual property litigation group and regional capabilities with the addition of Alfred Fabricant and Lawrence Drucker as partners to its New York office. Fabricant will head the firm’s IP practice group in New York, as well. They join the firm from Dickstein Shapiro, LLP.

International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, led by Global Securities partners Marcelo Mottesi and Paul Denaro, represented Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Itau BBA USA Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as underwriters in the follow-on sale of shares of Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. (“Arcos Dorados”). The underwriters fully exercised their over-allotment option to purchase a total of 44,475, 958 shares from the selling shareholders raising US$978 million.