Goldcorp Completes Offering and Private Placement of Shares

Toronto-based Goldcorp Inc. completed a US$144 million public offering in Canada and private placement in the U.S. of common shares and share purchase warrants on April 30, 2002.
The Goldcorp legal team was led in-house by Victoria Russell, vice-president, legal services; assisted by Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP with a team that included Michael Melanson, Leslie Johnson, John Sabine and David Medina (securities) and Brian Carr and Peter Baek (tax). U.S. securities law advice was provided to Goldcorp by Stephen Grant and Judy Lee of Sullivan & Cromwell.
Griffiths McBurney & Partners led a syndicate of underwriters that included BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch Canada Inc., National Bank Financial Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and Sprott Securities Inc. Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP acted for the underwriters, with a team that included Norman Findlay, Mark Young, Howard Burshtein and Chad Accursi (securities) and Chris Norton (tax). Gil Cornblum of Dorsey & Whitney LLP provided U.S. securities law advice to the underwriters.