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Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. combined with Bowater Inc. in an all-stock merger of equals. The combined entity, AbitibiBowater Inc. will be the third largest public paper and forest products company in North America.
 
Davies represented Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. with a team led by Maryse Bertrand in our Montréal office. 

The Davies team that acted for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. is as follows:
Corporate and Securities: Maryse Bertrand, Peter Mendell, Olivier Désilets, David Torralbo, Sébastien Thériault, Brian Kujavsky, Anthony Arquin, Grant McIntyre, Sylvie Guillemette, Monika Jedrzejowska and Violetta Kokolus.

Pensions and Benefits: Janet Ferrier

Environmental: Alexandria Pike

Tax: Mario Cavalancia, Brian Bloom and Marie-Emmanuelle Vaillancourt

Employment Law: Louise Patry

Litigation: Louis-Martin O'Neill

For for more information about this transaction please see the Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. and Bowater press realease: http://www.abitibibowater.com/

Davies, with over 235 lawyers, practices nationally and internationally from offices in Toronto, Montréal, New York and an affiliate in Paris, and is consistently at the heart of the largest and most complex commercial and financial matters on behalf of its North American and overseas clients.

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CONTACTS:

 

Gary Nurse                                                           Nicolas Rubbo
Manager, Marketing                                            Manager, Marketing
Toronto                                                                 Montréal
Tel. 416-367-6902                                                Tel. 514-841-6451
gnurse@dwpv.com                                             nrubbo@dwpv.com

 

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