Recent Work

Our selected work includes:

2012

• Acting for Minefinders Corporation Ltd. in its $1.5 billion sale to Pan American Silver Corp.
• Acting for Teck Resources Ltd. in its $435 million acquisition of SilverBirch Energy Corp.

2011

• Acting for European Goldfields Limited in its $2.5 billion sale to Eldorado Gold Corporation by way of a plan of arrangement.
• Acting for Sirius Energy Inc. in its $214 million merger with Seaview Energy, Charger Energy, and Silverback Energy, by way of a plan of arrangement, to form a light oil focused junior exploration and production company.
• Acting for the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in the $1.32 billion sale of a majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment to Rogers Communications and BCE Inc.
• Acting for KKR & Co. as Canadian counsel in its US$1.12 billion acquisition of Capital Safety Ltd. from Arle Capital Partners LLP.
• Acting for Universal Music Group as Canadian regulatory counsel in connection with its proposed £1.2 billion acquisition of EMI's recorded music division.
• Acting for Trafigura Beheer B.V. in connection with its $500 million offer to acquire all outstanding registered shares of Iberian Minerals Corp. by way of a take-over bid.
• Acting for Eurazeo as Canadian counsel in connection with its acquisition of 3S Photonics SA, a French leader in lasers and opto-electronic components.
• Acting for Prime Restaurants Inc. in its acquisition agreement by Cara Operations Limited, who have agreed to acquire the Company's all issued and outstanding shares.
• Acting for Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. in its $91 million cash offer to acquire Afexa Life Sciences Inc.
• Acting for Trafigura Beheer B.V. in connection with Minmetals Resources Ltd.'s $1.3 billion offer to purchase Anvil Mining Ltd.
• Acting for HSBC Bank Canada in its $206 million sale to National Bank of Canada of HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc.'s full service investment advisory business and certain assets related to HSBC Insurance Agency.
• Acting for Magotteaux S.A. in its €500 million sale to Sigdo Koppers S.A., one of the largest conglomerates of Chile.
• Acting for Nova Capital Management Ltd. in its acquisition of the majority of Premetalco Inc., the Canadian subsidiary of Amalgamated Metal Corporation Plc.
• Acting as Canadian counsel to Microsemi Corp. in connection with its takeover bid to acquire Zarlink Semiconductor Inc.
• Acting for The Province of Ontario in its transaction with Teranet Inc. (a subsidiary of OMERS), to renew their partnership until 2067.
• Acting for Dundee Corporation in connection with its substantial issuer bid to purchase up to 10,000,000 of its Class A Subordinate Voting Shares at a purchase price of $23.75 per share.
• Acted for Atlas Holdings in its definitive agreement with International Paper to combine their consumer packaging solutions businesses.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Warburg Pincus in its investment in Velvet Energy Ltd.
• Acted for Zynga in its acquisition of certain assets and intellectual property of Five Mobile Inc.
• Acted for the lenders and bond underwriters in the $2 billion New Oakville Hospital project agreement between Hospital Infrastructure Partners and Halton Health Services.
• Acted for Yellow Media Inc. in the $708M sale of Trader Corporation to funds advised by Apax Partners.
• Acted for Canadian, US, and UK excess insurers in successfully dismissing a large claim over $50 million by directors and officers seeking indemnification of losses and defence costs.  
• Acted for Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board in its $541 million acquisition of shares of Empressa de Servicios Sanitarios del Bío Bío ("Essbio") S.A. and Esval S.A.
• Acting for Air Canada in its response to the Commissioner of Competition's application to the Competition Tribunal opposing the proposed Canada-U.S. cross-border joint venture with United Continental Holdings.
• Acting for Johnson & Johnson as Canadian counsel in its acquisition of Synthes Inc. for US$21.3 billion.
• Acted for Saputo Inc. in the $270.5 acquisition of Fairmount Cheese Holdings, Inc., the parent company of DCI Cheese Company, Inc.
• Acted for Cogeco Inc. in the acquisition of 11 Québec-based radio stations of Corus Entertainment Inc.
• Acted for Mood Media Corp. in its $345 million acquisition of Muzak Holdings, LLC.
• Acted for Bauer Sports Performance Ldt. in its $75 million IPO, one of the only domestic IPOs outside of the mining, technology and investment fund sectors since the start and end of the financial crisis
• Acted for KarpReilly LLC in its acquisition of the operating subsidiaries of XS Cargo Income Fund for an aggregate of approximately CDN$36.9 million.
• Acted for the underwriters on the $962 million offering of subscription receipts by Intact Financial Corporation.
• Acting as competition counsel for Canadian Tire Corporation Limited in its acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Forzani Group Ltd. for C$771 million in cash.
• Acted for the special committee of Liquidation World Inc. in their $36 million sale to Big Lots Inc.
• Acted for Bell Canada in connection with public offerings of three series of senior notes for an aggregate principal amount of $2 billion.
• Acting as Canadian counsel to Volkswagen AG in its $20 billion bid for German truck manufacturer MAN SE.
• Acted for the underwriters in the C$225 million offering by Vermillion Energy Inc.
• Acted for Canadian Convertibles Income Plus Fund and its manager in its initial public offering of 9,750,000 units raising gross proceeds of $97,500,000.
• Acted for Dynamex Inc. in the US$248 million cash sale of all of its outstanding shares to TransForce Inc.
• Acted for Senior Gold Producers Income Corp. and Brompton Funds Management Limited in the initial public offering by Senior Gold Producers Income Corp. of Class A Shares for gross proceeds of $50,000,000.
• Acted for Birch Hill Equity Partners in its $425 million sale of Atria Networks LP to Rogers Communications Inc.
• Acted for AGF Management Limited in its $339 million acquisition of 100% of Acuity Funds Ltd. and Acuity Investment Management Inc.
• Acting for Marsulex Inc. in the $419.5 million sale of all of the businesses of Marsulex, other than Marsulex Environmental Technologies Corporation, to Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund.
• Acted for Excel-Pac Inc., a leading flexible packaging manufacturer, in its sale to Packaging Solutions Holding, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jen-Coat, Inc., a portfolio company of Wellspring Capital.
• Acted for TPG Capital in its US$955 million acquisition of the North American business of Taylor Wimpey plc.
• Acted for Priszm Income Fund in respect of its filing under Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and the additional financing related thereto.
• Acting for Vector Aerospace Corp., in its $625 million sale to Eurocopter, a subsidiary of EADS.
• Acted for India's Tata Steel in its agreement with New Millennium Capital to fund potential Canadian iron ore mining developments
• Acted for Wall Street Systems Delaware, Inc. and Wall Street Systems Services Corp (Canada) in the acquisition of the assets of Thomson Reuters Corporate Treasury Manager.
• Acted for Markit Group (Canada) Limited in its acquisition of QuIC Financial Technologies Inc.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Alberta Investment Management Corp. in its acquisition of 50 per cent of Autopista Central from Skanska.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to The Riverside Company in the $108 million acquisition of Pareto Corporation.
• Acted for Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. on regulatory matters in relation to its US$3.5 billion acquisition by Rock-Tenn Co.
• Acted for Zellers in the $1.825 billion sale of up to 220 leasehold interests to Target Corporation.

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