Recent Work

2010

• Acting for West Energy Ltd. in the sale of all of its outstanding common shares, by way of a plan of arrangement, to Daylight Resources Trust, for C$570 million.
• Acting for Yara International ASA in its acquisition of all of the outstanding common shares of Terra Industries Inc. for approximately US$4.1 billion in cash.
• Acted as independent compliance counsel for the Ontario Energy Board in an enforcement proceeding before the OEB.
• Acted for AbitibiBowater Inc. in its $615 million sale of a 60% indirect interest in the 335 MW McCormick hydroelectric facility to the Production division of Hydro-Québec.
• Acted for American International Group, Inc. as Canadian counsel in the sale of its Canadian mortgage insurance business, AIG United Guaranty Mortgage Insurance Company of Canada, to a private investor group led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
• Acting for Uranium Limited in its sale to Uranium Participation Corporation by way of a court sanctioned scheme of arrangement for approximately $139.4 million.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to GENBAND, Inc., in its "Stalking Horse" agreement with Nortel to acquire substantially all of the assets of its CVAS business globally, for a purchase price of US$282 million and a total cost of ownership in excess of US$400 million.

2009

• Acting as legal counsel to the financial advisor to Suncor Energy Inc. in its $22.2 billion acquisition of Petro-Canada.
• Acting for Teck Resources Limited in the $1.74 billion private placement of Class B subordinate voting shares to China Investment Corporation.
• Acted as co-counsel for Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation in its $10.3 billion acquisition of Addax Petroleum Corp.
• Acting for PetroChina International Investment Company Limited in its $1.9 billion acquisition of a 60% working interest in Athabasca Oil Sands Corp.'s MacKay River and Dover oil sands projects.
• Acting for ABB Grain Ltd. in its US$1.7 billion sale to Viterra Inc.
• Acted for Golden Gate Private Equity, Inc. as Canadian counsel in its US$286 million acquisition of Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc.
• Acting for George N. Gillett in connection with the sale of the Montréal Canadiens and the Bell Centre to the Molson family and its partners.
• Acted for Bell Canada in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of the Canadian electronics retailer The Source.
• Acting for Ciena Corporation in the US$521 million acquisition of substantially all of the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Network Corporation's Metro Ethernet Networks business.
• Acting for Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. as Canadian counsel in its US$2.5 billion merger with Live Nation, Inc.
• Acted for Centerra Gold in the $900 million secondary offering of Centerra shares by Cameco Corp.
• Acted for Formula One Administration Ltd. with respect to the proposed return of the F1 Grand Prix to Montréal.
• Acting for Solvay in its entire pharmaceutical business sale to Abbott Laboratories for €4.5 billion.
• Acted for Sithe Global Power, LLC in its sale of a 25% interest in the 875-MW Goreway Station, to Chubu Electric Power Company, Inc. and Toyota Tsusho Corporation.
• Acted for Dollarama Inc., in its initial public offering of common shares.
• Acted for General Motors of Canada in its preparations for a potential filing under the CCAA (ultimately avoided by a negotiated restructuring).
• Acting for Yahoo! Inc. in connection with their search advertising agreement with Microsoft Corporation.
• Acted for Kotinos Pharmaceuticals Inc. in connection with its patent and technology acquisition of Ambrilia Biopharma Inc.'s prostate cancer therapeutic PCK3145.
• Acted for Bell Canada in connection with its $1 billion prospectus offering of debentures.
• Acted for a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pluspetrol Resources Corporation in its $400 million offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Petro Andina Resources Inc.
• Acted for TransCanada Corporation in its $1.84 billion prospectus offering of common shares.
• Acted for TransCanada Corporation in its acquisition of ConocoPhillips' remaining interest in Keystone Oil Pipeline System for approximately US$750 million and for the capital investment required to complete the project resulting in an incremental commitment of approximately US$1.7 billion.
• Acting for both Cameron Corp and NATCO on competition regulatory issues regarding their US$780 million merger.
• Acted as counsel on certain Canadian matters for German based K+S AG in its acquisition of Morton International, Inc. for US$1.675 billion, from Rohm & Haas Co.
• Acting for the AbitibiBowater Group in its global restructuring under the CCAA and Chapter 11.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Tyco Electronics Ltd. in the US$675 million sale of its Wireless Systems business to Harris Corporation.
• Acted for CNPC International in $499 million offer to acquire outstanding common shares of Verenex Energy Inc.
• Acted for underwriters and agents in the $2.163 billion offering of ING Canada common shares.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Wyeth in the US$68 billion acquisition by Pfizer Inc.
• Acted as co-counsel for American Insurance Group, Inc. (AIG) in the C$329 million sale of its Canadian life insurance business to Bank of Montreal.
• Acted as Canadian counsel in the restructuring of packaging and recycling company Smurfit-Stone.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. in its acquisition of thinkorswim Group Inc. and Thinkorswim Canada, Inc.
• Acted for TransCanada PipeLines Limited in its US$2.0 billion prospectus offering of senior notes.
  
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2008

• Acted as Canadian counsel for American Insurance Group, Inc. (AIG) in the US$739 million sale of its HSB Group to Munich Re Group.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Barclays plc in its $1.6 billion acquisition of Lehman Brothers' North American operations.
• Acted as Canadian counsel for Panasonic Corporation in its US$9 billion acquisition of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
• Acted for the underwriters in Royal Bank of Canada's $2.3 billion common share issue, the second-largest stock sale by a Canadian bank this year.
• Acted as Canadian counsel to Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V., in its US$2.5 billion acquisition of the U.S. fresh baking assets from George Weston Limited.
• Acted for Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation in their $2.1 billion offer to acquire all outstanding common shares of Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd.
• Acted for Eni S.p.A. in its $923 million acquisition of First Calgary Petroleums Ltd.
• Acted for TransCanada Corporation in connection with the ownership with ConocoPhillips and commercial legal structure of the US$12.2 billion Keystone Oil Pipeline project.
• Acted for Dubai-based Istithmar World Capital and Nakheel in their acquisition of a 20 per cent interest in Cirque du Soleil.
• Acted for Aurelian Resources Inc. in connection with $1.2 billion acquisition offer from Kinross Gold Corporation.
• Acted for Xantrex Technology Inc. in its $500 million acquisition by Schneider Electric.
• Acted for Teck Cominco Ltd. in its $14.1 billion acquisition of Fording Canadian Coal Trust.
• Acted for Yara International ASA in its Cdn. $1.6 billion acquisition of Canadian nitrogen producer Saskferco.
• Acted for NRDC Equity Partners in its acquisition of Hudson's Bay Co.
• Acted for Credit Union Central of British Columbia in its acquisition of the assets of Credit Union Central of Ontario Limited.
• 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 as Canadian counsel to Tata Motors in its winning bid to acquire Jaguar and Land Rover for US$2.3 billion.
• 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 and selling agents in connection with CIBC's $2.75 billion common share issue.
  
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