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Acted as counsel to the Molson brothers Geoff, Andrew and Justin, in connection with the acquisition of the Montreal Canadiens Hockey Club by the investment group led by the Molson brothers, which transaction is considered to be one of the most significant North American acquisitions in professional sports. The Montreal Canadiens Hockey Club is one of the oldest established National Hockey League (NHL) franchises, and among the most successful clubs in North American sports history. The transaction also included the purchase of the Montreal Bell Centre and the Gillett Entertainment Group. |
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12/1/2009/2009 |
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Acted as lead counsel for the Miami Access Tunnel consortium, comprised of Meridiam Infrastructure, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Transfield Services Ltd. for the design, build, finance, operation and maintenance of the US$1 billion greenfield Port of Miami Tunnel project. Over its 35-year term, this Project will involve the design, construction and operation of two 4,000 foot long tunnels connecting the Port of Miami (Dodge Island) to Watson Island, the widening of the MacArthur Causeway Bridge and the construction of the necessary connections to the Port of Miami roadway system. Davies also acted as lead counsel for the consortium on the financing of the Project, with the senior debt financing of US$340 million being provided through a club of 10 international banks and the subordinated debt financing of US$341 million being provided as a 35-year fixed rate loan by the United States Department of Transportation under the federal TIFIA (Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998) program. This project was awarded in 2009 the Americas PPP Deal of the Year by each of Project Finance International and Project Finance magazine.
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10/15/2009/2009 |
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Acted for The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited with respect to its purchase of a 49% interest in the Queens Center Mall in New York City from The Macerich Company in a deal valued at approximately US$150 million. |
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8/24/2009/2009 |
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Acted as lead counsel to Australian-headquartered global packaging manufacturer, Amcor Limited, in its acquisition of Alcan Packaging operations from Rio Tinto plc in 31 countries for approximately US$2 billion. The acquisition enhances Amcor's position as one of the world's leading packaging companies. |
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8/17/2009/2009 |
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Acted as Canadian counsel for Fiat S.p.A. in the purchase of substantially all of Chrysler LLC's operations by a new company formed in alliance with Fiat for approximately US$2 billion in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities under a US restructuring (Chapter 11) and in the related approximately US$7 billion first lien credit facility provided by the United States Department of the Treasury and the approximately $2 billion working capital facility provided by Export Development Canada. |
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6/10/2009/2009 |
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Acted for a syndicate of agents co-led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and Scotia Capital Inc. in a $600 million offering by Manulife Financial Corporation of 7.768% medium term notes due 2019. |
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4/8/2009/2009 |
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Acted for Plenary Health which led the successful consortium for the design, build, finance and operation of the new Niagara Health System project. The Niagara Health System project reached financial close on March 27, 2009. The project is an Alternative Financing and Procurement ("AFP") project for the design, build, finance and maintenance aspects of a greenfield 970,000 square foot hospital and cancer centre in St. Catharines, Ontario. Payments to cover construction, building maintenance, lifecycle repair and renewal and project financing will be made on an availability and performance basis, in a total amount of $1.42 billion over 30 years, or a net present value of $759 million. This project was awarded the 2009 Americas Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year by Project Finance magazine. |
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3/27/2009/2009 |
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Acted for Detour Gold Corporation in its acquisition of its controlling public company shareholder, PDX Resources Inc., through a three-cornered amalgamation for share consideration valued at $209 million. |
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3/27/2009/2009 |
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Acting for the Montréal Expos in their successful challenge of Québec health tax and training tax assessments related to the Expos' payroll for services rendered outside Québec by non-resident players. |
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3/18/2009/2009 |
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Acted for Canadian Storage Partners, ULC, a member of the TKG-StorageMart group of companies, in connection with its acquisition of InStorage REIT in a deal valued at $416 million. InStorage REIT owns and operates 57 self-storage facilities in Ontario, Québec, Alberta and Saskatchewan and is a joint venture partner with respect to four additional self-storage facilities. The acquisition required the consent of lenders holding in excess of $275 million of loans. |
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3/18/2009/2009 |
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters co-led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and CIBC World Markets Inc. in a $450 million bought deal public offering of rate reset preferred shares of Manulife Financial Corporation. |
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3/4/2009/2009 |
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Acted for Fronteer Development Group Inc. in its successful unsolicited insider bid for the remaining 58% of Aurora Energy Resources Inc. not already owned by Fronteer, in a transaction valuing Aurora at $175 million. |
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3/2/2009/2009 |
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Acted for Prinoth SpA, a member of the Leitner Technologies Group, in its acquisition of the Camoplast Inc. Track Machine Group, a leading manufacturer of snow groomers and other utility vehicles. |
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2/2/2009/2009 |
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Acted for the sponsors of approximately 12 of the 22 conduits as well as DBRS Limited, the credit rating agency which rated the commercial paper issued by the restructured entities, in connection with the $32 billion Canadian Third Party ABCP restructuring. |
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1/21/2009/2009 |
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Acted for Kimco Realty Corporation which, together with RioCan REIT, consummated the transfer of air rights and residential density with respect to a 3.6 acre parcel of land forming part of the Brentwood Village Shopping Centre in Calgary. |
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1/19/2009/2009 |
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Acted for Lone Star Real Estate Fund with respect to the acquisition through a private REIT of a portfolio of senior care communities located throughout the U.S. |
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1/2/2009/2009 |
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Acted for GMAC LLC as it completed $38.146 billion outstanding notes exchange and purchase offers and separate offers to exchange and purchase outstanding notes of Residential Capital, LLC. |
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11/20/2008/2008 |
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Acted for an agency syndicate led by BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. in an offering of $2 billion medium term notes of Greater Toronto Airports Authority ("GTAA"). GTAA, with a syndicate of dealers led or, in one case, co-led, by BMO Nesbitt Burns, subsequently completed issues of $500 million, $325 million and $300 million in April 2008, December 2008 and May 2009, respectively. |
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10/13/2008/2008 |
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Acted for H&R Real Estate Investment Trust which effected a Plan of Arrangement transferring certain notes issued by H&R (U.S.) Holdings, Inc. (a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of H&R) in the principal amount of US$125 million to H&R Finance Trust. |
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10/1/2008/2008 |
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Acted for Access Cash General Partnership and its investors in Access Cash's acquisition of EZEE ATM LP, Canada's second largest full service independent provider of Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs), in a transaction valued at $41.2 million. |
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9/30/2008/2008 |
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Acted for Barrick Gold Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Barrick Gold Financeco LLC and Barrick North America Finance LLC, in its US$1.25 billion public offering of debt securities, consisting of US$500 million aggregate principal amount of 6.13% notes due 2013, US$500 million aggregate principal amount of 6.80% notes due 2018 and US$250 million aggregate principal amount of 7.50% notes due 2038. |
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9/11/2008/2008 |
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Acted for Barrick Gold Corporation in its $470 million unsolicited offer to acquire Cadence Energy Inc., leading to Barrick's negotiated takeover bid for Cadence that successfully trumped Cadence's previously announced negotiated merger with Daylight Resources Trust. |
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9/4/2008/2008 |
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Acted as Canadian counsel for Time Inc. in its acquisition of QSP, Inc., in the United States, and Quality Service Products Inc., in Canada, from The Readers Digest Association Inc. in a transaction valued at US$110 million. |
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8/22/2008/2008 |
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Acted for private equity firm Birch Hill Equity Partners Inc., TD Capital Group Ltd. and the other principal shareholders of Lift Technologies Inc. in the sale of Lift Technologies to Calvi Holdings of Italy. |
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8/14/2008/2008 |
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Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in its US$1.75 billion underwritten public offering of debt securities, consisting of US$1.40 billion aggregate principal amount of 6.80% senior notes due 2018 and US$350 million aggregate principal amount of 7.50% senior notes due 2038, made in the United States pursuant to the Multi-jurisdictional Disclosure System. |
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8/6/2008/2008 |
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Acted as Canadian counsel for Double-Take Software Canada Inc. in its acquisition of emBoot Inc. |
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7/29/2008/2008 |
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Acted for Khan Resources Inc. in its unsolicited share exchange takeover bid for Western Prospector Group Ltd. |
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7/10/2008/2008 |
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Acted for Atlas Holdings LLC in connection with its acquisition, together with Blue Wolf Capital Management, of a pulp mill in Pictou, Nova Scotia from Neenah Paper, Inc. |
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6/6/2008/2008 |
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Acted for the Special Committee of Creststreet Power and Income Fund LP in connection with its strategic alternatives review process which culminated in the sale of its windpower subsidiaries for $121.6 million to an affiliate of FPL Energy, LLC and the distribution of its net assets to unitholders. |
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6/2/2008/2008 |
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Acted for BHP Billiton in its $274 million all cash acquisition of Anglo Potash Ltd. by way of a plan of arrangement. |
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5/13/2008/2008 |
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Acted for TSX Group Inc. in its acquisition of Bourse de Montréal Inc. in a transaction valued at $1.3 billion which created TMX Group Inc., a leading integrated multi-asset stock exchange group. |
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5/1/2008/2008 |
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Acted as Canadian counsel to India-based Tata Chemicals Limited in its acquisition of General Chemical Industrial Products Inc. in a transaction valued at US$1 billion, making Tata Chemicals one of the largest soda ash producers in the world. |
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3/27/2008/2008 |
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Acted for Montréal-based Como Diffusion Inc. in regard to GB Merchant Partners, an affiliate of Gordon Brothers Group, and Crystal Capital acquiring a majority position in Como Diffusion's Como Fred David business, with Como's principals retaining a substantial stake. |
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3/17/2008/2008 |
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Acted for Jinchuan Group Ltd., a Chinese state-controlled corporation and the largest producer of cobalt, nickel and platinum group metals in China, in its $214 million all cash takeover bid for Tyler Resources Inc. |
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3/11/2008/2008 |
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Acted for TPG Partners V LP in connection with its negotiated plan of arrangement to acquire Axcan Pharma Inc. in an all cash transaction valued at US$1.3 billion, financed by a secured credit facility, an unsecured bridge facility and an offering of senior secured notes. |
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2/25/2008/2008 |
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Acted for AbitibiBowater Inc. in the sale of its Snowflake, Arizona mill to Catalyst Paper Corporation in a transaction valued at US$161 million. |
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2/22/2008/2008 |
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Acted for Redbourne Realty Fund Inc. on Canadian regulatory matters in connection its acquisition of the Madison Centre from Bentall Investment Management. |
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1/31/2008/2008 |
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Acted for China Minmetals Non-Ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. and Jiangxi Copper Company Ltd., both Chinese state-controlled corporations, in their takeover bid for Northern Peru Copper Corp. valued at $455 million. |
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1/25/2008/2008 |
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Acted for Westwind Partners Inc., a Toronto-based independent investment bank, in its sale to Thomas Weisel Partners Group Inc. in a plan of arrangement transaction valued at approximately $146.7 million. |
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12/31/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Dundee Securities Corporation in connection with the restructuring of approximately $2 billion of short-term debt obligations and contractual obligations of Skeena Capital Trust, a Canadian third-party asset-backed commercial paper conduit. This transaction was the first negotiated restructuring of a Canadian third-party asset-backed commercial paper conduit affected by the August 2007 Canadian asset-backed commercial paper market disruption. |
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12/19/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Barrick Gold Corporation in its $773 million negotiated all cash takeover bid for Arizona Star Resource Corp. |
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12/18/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Wega Mining ASA in its $118 million acquisition of Goldbelt Resources Ltd., the first time in Canada that a takeover bid was combined with a 19.9% private placement of shares of the target. |
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12/13/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Diversified Global Asset Management regarding Westmont/CDP Hotel Fund I (a US$550 million off-shore real estate investment fund to acquire hotel assets, worldwide) and Westmont/CDP Hotel Fund II structuring and acquisitions. |
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12/6/2007/2007 |
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Acted for TD Capital Group Limited in the initial public offering and acquisition of Innergex II Income Fund by Innergex Renewable Energy Inc.
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12/6/2007/2007 |
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Acted for BCE Inc. in the sale of its subsidiary Telesat Canada to Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Loral Space & Communications Inc. in a transaction valued at $3.42 billion. |
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11/19/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Barzel Industries Inc. (formerly Symmetry Holdings Inc.) in its acquisition of Novamerican Steel Inc. for a purchase price of US$585 million. This transaction was only the second time that a US special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) acquired a US public company. |
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11/15/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Morgan Stanley Real Estate in connection with its acquisition of Three Sisters Mountain Village Ltd. |
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11/1/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Schonbek Worldwide Lighting Inc. and its affiliated companies in connection with their sale to Swarovski US Holding Ltd., a subsidiary of Swarovski International Holding. |
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10/22/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Cadim Inc. (a division of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) in connection with its partnership arrangements with Westmont Hospitality Group and Citigroup in connection with their joint negotiated US$1.32 billion acquisition of Red Roof Inns Inc. |
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9/4/2007/2007 |
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Acted for IPC US REIT in its strategic process and ultimate sale of its assets to Behringer Harvard in a US$1.4 billion all cash transaction. |
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8/14/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Osprey Media Income Fund in its auction process and the resulting negotiated all cash takeover bid for Osprey by Quebecor Media Inc., including successfully defending Osprey against litigation initiated by Quebecor to challenge Black Press Ltd.'s superior proposal that was eventually matched by Quebecor in a transaction valued at $578 million. |
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8/3/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Cadim Inc. (a division of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) in connection with its partnership arrangements with Westmont Hospitality Group and Cadbridge Investors LP, and acted for Cadbridge and InnVest REIT in connection with their joint negotiated takeover bid for Legacy Hotels REIT in a transaction valued at approximately $2.5 billion. |
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7/18/2007/2007 |
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Acted as Canadian counsel for Vista Equity Partners, a San Francisco private equity firm, in the US$240 million acquisition of Indus International Inc. |
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7/10/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Cadim Inc. (a division of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) in its partnership arrangements with Westmont Hospitality Group and Kimco Realty Corporation, and on behalf of the consortium, in connection with their joint acquisition of Intown Suites Management Inc. |
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6/15/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Agricore United, Canada's largest grain handler, in its successful defense of the unsolicited takeover bid made by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, the resulting white knight agreement with James Richardson International and the topping $1.8 billion offer by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. This deal was implemented using an innovative structure involving a concurrent continuance, takeover bid and plan of arrangement. |
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6/12/2007/2007 |
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Acted as Canadian counsel for Reuters Group plc in its dual listed company merger with The Thomson Corporation to create Thomson-Reuters in a transaction valued at US$17.6 billion, creating the first Canadian dual listed company structure. |
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6/12/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Fortis Inc. in its acquisition of Terasen Inc., the Canadian natural gas distribution business of Kinder Morgan, Inc., in a transaction valued at $3.7 billion, creating the largest investor-owned utility in Canada. Awarded 2007 Deal Team of the Year at the inaugural Canadian Dealmakers Gala. |
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5/17/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Onex Corporation on financing matters in connection with Onex's acquisition of Eastman Kodak Company's Health Group, renamed Carestream Health, Inc., in a transaction valued at US$2.35 billion. |
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5/11/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. in a joint venture with Caisse de depôt et placement du Québec with respect to the company's hydroelectric generation facilities in Ontario. |
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5/11/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in its negotiated share exchange takeover bid for Cumberland Resources Ltd. valued at $710 million. |
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5/1/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Patheon Inc. in the issuance of US$150 million private placement of convertible preferred shares to JLL Partners and concurrent refinancing of Patheon's North American credit facilities with new US$225 million syndicated credit facilities by JP Morgan Securities Inc. and GE Commercial Finance. |
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4/27/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Fortis Inc. in its $1.2 billion bought deal public offering of subscription receipts. The net proceeds were used to finance a portion of the acquisition of Terasen Inc. from Kinder Morgan, Inc. |
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4/4/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. in its merger of equals with Bowater Incorporated to create a company with a combined enterprise value of US$8 billion. |
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3/15/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Cominar REIT in its $592 million acquisition of 6.5 million square feet of office and industrial properties from Homburg Invest Inc., representing approximately 72% of the leasable space acquired by Homburg in its purchase of Alexis Nihon REIT. |
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2/12/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Scotia Capital Inc., GMP Securities L.P., BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and CIBC World Markets Inc. as lead agents in Cogeco Cable's issuance of 5 million shares for total proceeds of $192.5 million. |
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2/2/2007/2007 |
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Acted for La Senza Corporation in the negotiated takeover bid by Limited Brands, Inc. valued at $710 million. |
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1/4/2007/2007 |
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Acted for Onex Corporation on Canadian tax matters in connection with the attempted takeover of Australia's largest airline carrier, Qantas, by a consortium including Onex in a transaction valued at $10.2 billion that would have given Onex 12.5% of the airline. |
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12/16/2006/2006 |
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Acted for a syndicate of agents co-led by Scotia Capital Inc. and RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in a $1.2 billion offering of senior and subordinate debentures of Manulife Finance (Delaware) LP, an indirect subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation. The offering of subordinated debentures was the first innovative Tier 2b capital offering in Canada. |
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12/14/2006/2006 |
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters led by BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. in a $1.25 billion initial public offering of three and five-year asset-backed notes by Master Credit Card Trust, a special purpose securitization vehicle sponsored by the Bank of Montréal. |
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12/7/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Fortis Inc. in its US$90 million acquisition of two electricity utilities which together serve 80% of the electricity customers on the Turks & Caicos Islands. |
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11/30/2006/2006 |
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Acted for the Special Committee of Retirement Residences REIT in connection with its strategic alternatives review process which culminated in a $2.8 billion supported takeover bid by Public Sector Pension Investment Board. |
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11/22/2006/2006 |
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Acted for private equity firm Birch Hill Equity Partners Inc. in the acquisition by Birch Hill Equity Partners III, LP of the assets of Bio Agri Mix LP. |
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11/22/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Ironbridge Equity Partners Inc. in the establishment of Ironbridge Equity Partners I, LP. |
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11/22/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Vitol Refining Group B.V. on its sale of North Atlantic Refining Limited to Harvest Energy Trust in a transaction valued at $1.6 billion. |
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11/22/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Agricore United in its Secured Term B financing of $150 million with a syndicate of lenders headed by Scotia Bank to refinance an existing term loan and fund a new US acquisition. |
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11/22/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Simmons Canada Inc. and SCI Income Trust on the acquisition by Simmons Bedding Co. of Simmons Canada in a transaction valued at $136.8 million. |
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11/22/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Fortis Inc. in its $125 million bought deal public offering of first preference shares. |
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11/22/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Starwood Capital Group Global, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board in a joint venture in the sale of two luxury resorts and REIT units in LaSalle Hotel Operating Partnership for an aggregate price of US$310 million. |
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11/7/2006/2006 |
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Acted for SCRE Investments Inc. and the Reichmann family as entities affiliated with SCRE Investments completed the sale to Ventas, Inc., a leading US healthcare REIT, of a portfolio of healthcare and seniors' housing properties for $649 million. |
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11/7/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Xstrata plc in its unsolicited takeover bid for Falconbridge Ltd. valuing Falconbridge at $24.1 billion. At the time of announcement, this transaction was the largest unsolicited takeover bid ever made in the global mining sector and its successful completion made Xstrata the world's fifth-largest mining company. |
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11/2/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Key Principal Partners Corp. and its affiliates Plastival Canadian Holdings Inc. and Plastival US Holdings Inc. in the Canadian aspects of the funding of their approximately $52.5 million purchase of Plastival Inc. (Canada) and Plastival, Inc. (US). |
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10/31/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Tim Hortons Inc. in its spin-off from Wendy's International, Inc. valued at $4.6 billion. |
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10/31/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Kimco Realty Corporation in the establishment of a partnership with Sterling Centrecorp and Cherokee Partners and the subsequent acquisition by the partnership of Faubourg Boisbriand, a lifestyle-based 1.2 million square foot power centre currently being developed in Boisbriand, Québec. |
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10/31/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Barrick Gold Corporation in its all cash US$1.53 billion unsolicited takeover bid to acquire NovaGold Resources Inc. |
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10/31/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Barrick Gold Corporation in its successful unsolicited US$10.4 billion takeover bid for Placer Dome Inc. resulting in a negotiated transaction to create the world's largest gold mining company. At the time of announcement this was the largest unsolicited takeover bid made in Canada and it is the largest acquisition transaction ever completed in the gold industry. |
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10/31/2006/2006 |
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Acted for the Public Sector Pension Investment Board in its investment in Market Street Capital Partners REIT, LLC and Market Street Capital Partners PIV, LP, a real estate fund sponsored by Divco West, LLC. |
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10/31/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Sleep Country Canada Inc. in its offering of senior secured notes, the proceeds of which were used to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Sleep America of Arizona. |
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10/31/2006/2006 |
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Acted for private equity firm EdgeStone Capital Partners in the sale of the firm to GMP Capital Trust for $152 million in cash and units. |
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10/23/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Gallop Logistics Corporation in an acquisition by Greatwide Logistics Services, Inc. |
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9/13/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Australia-based Amcor Limited in the sale of its White Cap business in Europe, Asia, Brazil and the US to Silgan Holdings Inc. for a base price of €230 million. |
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9/7/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Trizec Canada Inc. and as Canadian counsel to Trizec Properties, Inc., one of the largest publicly traded REITs in the United States (and 38% owned by Trizec Canada), in their strategic auction, ultimately culminating in Brookfield Properties Corporation acquiring Trizec Canada in an all cash plan of arrangement and Trizec Properties in a parallel US cash-out merger. The combined transaction was valued at US$8.9 billion. |
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9/7/2006/2006 |
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Acted as Canadian counsel to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in connection with an underwritten private placement offering by Quebecor Media Inc. in the US and Canada of US$525 million of 7 3/4% senior notes due 2016, issued as part of Quebecor Media's US$1.1 billion refinancing plan. |
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9/7/2006/2006 |
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters co-led by CIBC World Markets Inc. and Scotia Capital Inc. in the $205 million initial public offering of Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust. |
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8/25/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Cadim Inc. (a division of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) in its partnership arrangements with Westmont Hospitality Group, and on behalf of both parties in connection with their joint acquisition of Boykin Lodging Company in an all cash merger transaction valued at approximately US$416 million. |
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8/25/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Kimco North Trust III, an entity controlled by Kimco Realty Corp., a leading U.S.-based REIT, in connection with its private placement offering of $200 million principal amount of 5.18% notes due 2013. |
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8/16/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in a US$250 million bought deal cross-border public offering of common shares in Canada and the United States. |
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6/13/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Roman Corporation with respect to an application under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act for protection in January 2006. Following the application, the assets were sold to Forest Resources LLC. |
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6/5/2006/2006 |
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Acted for GPX International Tire Corporation in a US$170 million financing from the Royal Bank of Scotland, part of which was used in the acquisition of Maine Industrial Tires Limited. |
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3/6/2006/2006 |
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Acted for Patheon Inc., a leading independent provider of pharmaceutical manufacturing and development services, in its new North American credit facilities in the amount of US$290 million with Royal Bank of Canada as sole Administrative Agent and RBC Capital Markets as Lead Arranger and sole Book Runner.
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12/15/2005/2005 |
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in an $85 million public offering of subordinated unsecured convertible debentures of the Newport Partners Income Fund. |
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12/12/2005/2005 |
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Acted for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. as its shares in PanAsia Paper Company Pte Ltd. were acquired by Norske Skog in a transaction valued at US$600 million. |
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11/17/2005/2005 |
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. in its US$150 million acquisition of Swedish public company, Riddarhyttan Resources AB. |
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11/16/2005/2005 |
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Acted for Ontario School Boards Financing Corporation which made offerings from June 2000 through June 2007 of over $3 billion principal amount of various series of pooled debentures ownership interest representing undivided co-ownership interests in amortizing and non-amortizing debentures issued by 25 Ontario school boards. |
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11/2/2005/2005 |
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Acted for PetroKazakhstan Inc., a Canadian-listed energy company, in its US$4.18 billion acquisition by China National Petroleum Corporation by way of negotiated takeover bid. |
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11/1/2005/2005 |
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Acted for the lending syndicate to the successful consortium in connection with Canada Line, the $2 billion, 19.5 kilometre long rapid transit rail line connecting downtown Vancouver with the Vancouver International Airport. The project was the largest public-private partnership to be implemented in Canada and the first rail PPP in North America. This project won the Project Finance 2005 North American PPP Transportation Deal of the Year award. |
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10/7/2005/2005 |
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Acted for two separate syndicates of underwriters co-led in Canada by BMO Nesbitt Burns and TD Securities Inc. and in the U.S. by J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated in private placement offerings by Molson Coors Capital Finance ULC of $900 million 5.00% senior notes due 2015 in Canada and US$300 million 4.85% senior notes due 2010 in the United States. The senior notes issued in Canada were subsequently exchanged for 5.00% senior notes due 2015 of Molson Coors Capital Finance qualified by a Canadian prospectus filed under the northbound Multi-jurisdictional Disclosure System. |
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9/22/2005/2005 |
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Acted for CanWest Global Communications Corp., which with Torstar Corporation and Metro International S.A. formed a joint venture to publish English-language free daily newspapers in various Canadian cities. Subsidiaries of CanWest and Torstar will each have a 37.5% interest and a subsidiary of Metro International will have a 25% interest in the new venture.
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9/14/2005/2005 |
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Acted for Copley Place which was acquired by LaSalle Hotel Properties in a transaction valued at approximately US$318 million. |
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9/8/2005/2005 |
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in the $400 million initial public offering by Brompton Tracker Fund. |
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9/7/2005/2005 |
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Acted as Canadian counsel to Shoreview Capital Partners on its acquisition of Paradigm Electronics Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately US$60 million. |
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9/7/2005/2005 |
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Acted for Toromont Industries Ltd. in the sale of its Sterling Trucks Division to a subsidiary of Harper Detroit Diesel Limited. |
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8/31/2005/2005 |
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Acted for Birch Hill Equity Partners in connection with the formation of Birch Hill Equity Partners III, LP, an $850 million private equity fund. |
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8/26/2005/2005 |
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Acted for InnVest Real Estate Investment Trust in a $174 million refinancing of 88 hotels, including the financing of the acquired Les Suites Hotel in Ottawa, and a $25 million fixed rate mortgage facility through General Electric Capital Canada Inc.'s Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) Group. |
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8/19/2005/2005 |
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