Recent Work

2008

• Acted for Credit Union Central of British Columbia in its acquisition of the assets of Credit Union Central of Ontario Limited.
• Acted for Clairvest Group Inc. in its $321 million agreement to sell substantially all of the assets of its investee company Shepell-fgi to Morneau Sobeco Income Fund. 
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Wrigley in its acquisition by Mars and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. for US$23 billion.
• Acted as Canadian counsel for Triarc Companies, Inc. in its merger agreement with Wendy's International, Inc.
• Acted for SmartCentres Inc. and a group of private investors in a sale to Retrocom Mid-Market REIT of $55 million of shopping centre assets.
• Acted for GE Capital Solutions Canada in connection with its purchase of Citigroup's Canadian commercial lending and leasing business, part of GE Capital's purchase of CitiCapital, Citigroup's North American commercial lending and leasing business.
• Acted for Symcor Inc. in its multi-year outsourcing agreement for a significant portion of SunTrust's back-office banking operations including their check clearing, lockbox processing and statement production.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Tata Motors in its winning bid to acquire Jaguar and Land Rover for US$2.3 billion.
• Acted for TransCanada Corporation in its $1.27 billion prospectus offering of common shares.
• Acted for Quinto Mining Corporation in its $150 million merger with Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Limited.
• Acted for AXA Private Equity in its $155 million acquisition of the Active Ingredients and Specialty Chemicals division of Quebec-based Atrium Innovations Inc.
• Acted for Henkel KGaA as Canadian counsel in its US$5.3 billion acquisition of National Starch's Adhesives and Electronic Materials businesses from Akzo Nobel.
• Acted for Hasbro in its US$80 million acquisition of the "Trivial Pursuit" brand from Horn Abbot Ltd. and Horn Abbot International Limited.
• Acted as Canadian counsel in AbitibiBowater group's US$1.4 billion refinancing.
• Acted for Metallica Resources Inc. in its US$1.6 billion merger with Peak Gold Ltd. and New Gold Inc.
• Acted for Macquarie Group in its US$147 million acquisition of Orion Financial, Inc.
• Acted for Vallourec Group in its $800 million acquisition of Atlas Bradford (R) Premium Threading & Services, TCA (R) and Tube-Alloy businesses from Grant Prideco, Inc.
• Acted for Alcoa Inc. in negotiating its long-term agreement with the Government of Quebec relating to Alcoa's development in Quebec, including a $1.2 billion investment for the modernization of its Baie-Comeau plant and power supply arrangements. 
• Acted for Kohlberg & Company in its $200 million acquisition of the Bauer hockey division from Nike.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to the underwriters on the $19.1 billion offering by Visa Inc., the largest in U.S. history.
• Acted for the underwriters in the $232.5 million equity offering by Franco-Nevada Corp.
• Acted for the underwriters in the $1.56 billion secondary offering by Goldcorp Inc. of its holdings in Silver Wheaton Corp.
• Acted for 20-20 Technologies Inc. in its US$38 million acquisition of Planit Fusion, a British manufacturer of home design software.
• Acted for the underwriters and selling agents in connection with CIBC's $2.75 billion common share issue.
• Acted for Apple, Dell, HP, Sandisk and Sony in the successful appeal of taxes on digital music players.
• Acted in the successful defence of the Aquilini family against claims by the Gaglardi and Beedie families disputing the Aquilinis' ownership interest in the Vancouver Canucks and GM Place.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Avista Capital Partners in its US$525 million acquisition of the medical imaging business unit of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.
  
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• Acted for Aeroplan Income Fund in its $720 million acquisition of British counterpart, Loyalty Management Group Ltd.
• Acted for Axcan Pharma Inc. in its $1.3 billion sale to TPG Capital.
• Acted for Emergis Inc. in its $763 million sale to Telus Corp.
• Acted for Kaboose Inc. in connection with its $140 million acquisition of Bounty Group Limited and its $115 million bought deal offering to finance the purchase.
• Acted for AltaGas Income Trust in connection with its $590 million acquisition of Taylor NGL L.P.
• Acted for Ballard Power Systems in connection with the $168 million sale of its automotive fuel cell assets to Daimler Ag and Ford Motor Company.
• Acted for Nikanor plc in its US$3.3 billion merger with Katanga Mining Ltd.
• Acted for BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and UBS Securities Canada Inc., as lead underwriters, in connection with Franco-Nevada Corp.'s $1 billion IPO, the largest in Canada in 2007.
• Acted for H.I.G.Capital, LLC in its $106 million bid to acquire Gienow Windows & Doors Income Fund's operating entities.
• Acted for Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd. in its $629 million acquisition of TransAlta Power LP.
• Acted for RBTT Financial Group in its $2.2 billion acquisition by Royal Bank of Canada.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Hexagon AB in connection with its $390 million acquisition of NovAtel Inc.
• Acted for Dundee Corporation in the $348 million sale of an 18% interest in DundeeWealth and the $260 million sale of Dundee Bank to Bank of Nova Scotia.
• Acting for a syndicate led by Macquarie North America Limited and Kiewit Construction Cie, who won the tender for the construction of Autoroute 25. The partnership agreement has been signed by three Quebec ministers and the Mayor of Laval. This is the first public-private partnership project for the Government of Quebec.
• Acted for Thomas Weisel Partners Group Inc. in connection with its US$147 million acquisition of Westwind Partners Inc.
• Acted for PrimeWest Energy Trust on its $5 billion sale to Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC.
• Acted for Clairvest Group Inc. and Clairvest Equity Partners Limited Partnership in the US$263 million sale of Winters Bros. Waste Systems, Inc. to IESI, a subsidiary of BFI Income Fund.
• Acted for Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in its $356.5 million purchase of interests in water utility companies Empresa de Servicios Sanitarios del Bio-Bio S.A. (ESSBIO) and Aguas Nuevo Sur Maule, S.A. (ANSM).
• Acted for Frank Stronach and Stronach Trust on the Plan of Arrangement with respect to the proposed strategic investment in Magna International Inc. by Russian Machines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Basic Element, including the acquisition of all Class B Shares not held by the Stronach Trust at a value of US$1.5 billion.
• Acted for Cogeco Cable Inc. in its $153 million bought deal offering of subordinate voting shares.
• Acted for Sentinel Capital Partners in its $92 million acquisition of Spinrite Income Fund.
• Acted for Merck KGaA as Canadian counsel in connection with the US$6.7 billion sale of its generic pharmaceutical business to Mylan Laboratories Inc.
• Acted for North American Oil Sands Corporation in connection with the $2.2 billion cash takeover bid by Statoil ASA.
• Acted for the underwriters in connection with the $250.5 million offering by Paramount Energy Trust.
• Acted as Canadian counsel for Francisco Partners, controlling shareholder of Mitel Networks Corp., in Mitel's US$723 million acquisition of Inter-Tel Inc.
• Acted for Energy Metals Corp. in the $1.6 billion sale of all its outstanding common shares and options to Uranium One Inc.
• Acted for FLSmidth & Co. A/S of Denmark in connection with its $1.3 billion public acquisition of the process business of Groupe Laperrière & Verreault Inc.
• Acted for Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in its $384 million acquisition of a controlling interest in Esval S.A., Chile's third-largest water operator, from Consorcio Financiero.
• Acted for Transcontinental Inc. in connection with its $130 million takeover bid to acquire printer PLM Group.
• Acted for Sino Gold Mining Limited in its agreement with Golden China Resources Corporation regarding the proposed $73 million takeover of Golden China.
• Acted for Club Penguin in its US$700 million sale to Walt Disney Company.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Cerberus Capital Management LP in its successful US$4 billion acquisition bid for United Rentals Inc.
• Acted for Montréal-based Komunik Corporation, in its agreement to acquire all the issued and outstanding shares of Calgary-based Globel Direct, Inc., pursuant to a plan of arrangement under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.
• Acted for InnVest REIT and InnVest independent trustees in negotiating the consortium agreement with Westmont Hospitality Group and Cadim, a division of Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, in connection with the consortium's $2.5 billion acquisition of Legacy Hotels REIT.
• Acted for BCE Inc. in connection with the $51.7 billion bid by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Providence Equity Partners and Madison Dearborn Partners, the largest buyout in Canadian history.
• Acted on the $3.5 billion purchase of CCS Income Trust, representing the buying consortium of CAI Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, Kelso & Company and Vestar Capital Partners in one of Canada's largest management buyout deals to date.
• Acted as Canadian counsel for TreeHouse Foods Inc. in its $217 million bid to acquire E.D. Smith Income Fund's operating entities.
• Acted for NewWest Gold Corporation in connection with its $186.9 million acquisition bid by Fronteer Development Group Inc.
• Acted for Compton Petroleum Corporation in its $91 million bid to acquire Stylus Energy Inc.
• Acted for Movie Distribution Income Fund in the $193 million sale of an interest in Motion Picture Distribution LP to EdgeStone Capital Partners and GS Capital Partners. 
• Acted for Novamerican Steel Inc. and its controlling shareholders, in the  proposed $585 million acquisition, by way of a plan of arrangement, of all the issued and outstanding shares of Novamerican by Symmetry Holdings Inc. Closing is subject to conditions and is anticipated in October 2007.
• Acted as Canadian counsel for Bain Capital Partners, The Carlyle Group and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc., in their US$10.3 billion purchase of HD Supply from The Home Depot. 
• Acted for ACE Aviation Holdings in its $683 million sale of a controlling interest in Air Canada Technical Services to a consortium including KKR and Sageview Capital LLC.
• Acting for a syndicate led by Macquarie North America Limited and Kiewit Construction Cie, who won the tender for the construction of Autoroute 25 - the Quebec government's first public-private partnership project.
• Acted for Dominion Resources Inc. in its US$583 million sale of its Canadian oil and natural gas exploration and production operations to Paramount Energy Trust and Baytex Energy Trust.
• Acted for the syndicate of agents, led by Canaccord Adams, in financing Peak Gold Ltd.'s $300 million purchase of Peak Mine in Australia and Amapari Mine in Brazil.
• Acted as legal advisor to the Independent Committee of CanWest in connection with the $495 million privatization of CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund.  
• Acted for Apax Partners, as Canadian counsel, in a US$7.75 billion acquisition with OMERS Capital Partners of Thomson Learning Higher Education Assets. 
• Acted for Reuters Founders Share Company Limited in connection with the US$35 billion merger of Reuters Group PLC and Thomson Corp. 
• Acted for PrimeWest Energy Trust in its $1.25 billion bid for Shiningbank Energy Income Fund. 
• Acted for Palmarejo Silver and Gold Corporation in its US$1.1 billion merger agreement with Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation and Bolnisi Gold NL. 
• Acted for Intertape Polymer Group Inc. in connection with the US$500 million bid by Littlejohn & Co. LLC. 
• Acted for Sunrise REIT in connection with its $2.26 billion acquisition by Ventas, Inc. 
• Acted for Essar Global Ltd. in its $1.85 billion acquisition of Algoma Steel Inc.
• Acted for Credit Suisse in connection with financing the $804 million acquisition of KCP Income Fund by Caxton-Iseman Capital.  
• Acted for the City of Toronto in connection with its acquisition of the Green Lane landfill.
• Acted for Astral Media Inc. in its $1.08 billion agreement to purchase Standard Radio, in particular 52 radio stations across Canada. 
• Acted as Canadian counsel for the Bank of New York Co., providing banking advice in connection with its US$16.5 billion acquisition of Mellon Financial Corp., and acted for both parties in providing Canadian regulatory/competition advice. 
• Acting for Laidlaw International, as Canadian counsel in its US$3.6 billion sale to FirstGroup plc.
• Acted for TransCanada Corporation in connection with its offering of subscription receipts and common shares with gross proceeds of $1.75 billion, representing the largest equity bought deal offering in Canadian history.
• Acted for a syndicate of underwriters led by CIBC World Markets in connection with Fortis Inc.'s $1 billion bought deal, the proceeds of which are being used to fund the cash portion of Fortis' acquisition of Terasen Inc.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to the fund advised by Apax Partners in connection with its US$1.8 billion acquisition of Hub International Limited along with the fund advised by Morgan Stanley.
• Acted for the underwriters (Morgan Stanley, RBC Capital Markets, Scotia Capital, BMO Capital Markets and TD Securities) in connection with the $2.5 billion Maple Bond offering by Morgan Stanley & Co., the largest such offering in Canadian history.
• Acted for UrAsia Energy Ltd., in connection with its $3.8 billion acquisition by SXR Uranium One, creating a new global uranium producer with US$5 billion market capitalization. 
• Acted for Nucor Corp. in connection with its $1.25 billion bid to acquire Harris Steel Group.
• Acted for controlling shareholders of Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. in its sale to CanWest/Goldman Sachs.
• Acted for Eastman Kodak Company and Kodak Canada Inc. in connection with the US$2.55 billion sale of Kodak Health Imaging Division to Onex Healthcare Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Onex Corporation.    
  
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