Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that David M. Warren has joined the Firm as Partner in the Private Client group.  Mr. Warren has more than 30 years of experience in the area of trusts and estates law.  He is based in the Firm’s New York office.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that real estate partner Andrew Dady has joined the firm’s New York office.  Previously at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York, Dady will continue his commercial real estate practice at Gibson Dunn.

Todd Miles has joined the Harris Beach law firm as of February 21st as a partner in the Public Finance and Economic Development Practice Group and the Municipalities and Quasi-Governmental Agencies Team.  Mr. Miles, previously a partner at Hawkins Delafield & Wood since 1991, has a recognized expertise in New York local government finance and focuses his practice on representation of large New York municipalities and related financing boards and corporations.

DLA Piper announced today that William Marcoux has joined the firm as a partner and head of its Insurance Sector Transactions and Regulation practice. Marcoux arrives from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, where he was co-head of Dewey’s Insurance Sector Group and a member of its Executive Committee.

TransUnion Corp., a leading global provider of information management and risk management solutions, has announced its sale to Advent International and GS Capital Partners VI Fund, LP and certain of its affiliates in a transaction valued at more than $3 billion.

Davis Polk advised Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX) in connection with its SEC-registered offering of $3 billion of senior notes. FCX will use the proceeds from the offering plus cash on hand to redeem all of its outstanding 8.375% senior notes due 2017.

Kramer Levin today helped achieve confirmation of a plan of reorganization in the $7 billion bankruptcy of Washington Mutual, Inc. (“WaMu”), which was filed in 2008 in the wake of the largest bank failure in U.S. history. Judge Mary Walrath confirmed the plan after a hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware. Kramer Levin represented a longtime client that was a significant holder of WaMu debt. The firm and the client helped resolve several complex issues in the case, leading to a consensual plan that ultimately will permit WaMu’s assets to be distributed to a wide range of stakeholders.

International law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, led by Global Securities partner Robert W. Mullen, Jr., acted as US counsel in a $3 billion offering by the Government of Canada of its 0.875% United States Dollar Bonds due in 2017.  The bonds were purchased by a group of twelve underwriters, for whom Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and RBC Capital Markets, LLC acted as representatives.  The offering raised net proceeds of approximately $2.99 billion.

The Firm recently represented the initial purchasers, led by J.P. Morgan, in the offering of $500 million of 8% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Notes”) and the add-on offering of $100 million of Notes by The ServiceMaster Company pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.  The net proceeds of the offering are being used to redeem a portion of ServiceMaster’s 10.75% / 11.50% Senior Toggle Notes due 2015.

Simpson Thacher recently represented HCA Inc. in its high yield offering of $1.35 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.875% Senior Secured Notes due 2022.  HCA intends to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment, redemption or repurchase of its existing indebtedness and/or the financing of a special cash dividend to shareholders.