Montréal - Cossette Inc. announced yesterday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired and made private for $7.87 per share (approximately $134 million in the aggregate) by Mill Road Capital, L.P., a private investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Mill Road Capital is being represented by Davies Mergers & Acquisitions partners Franziska Ruf, Neil Kravitz, Justin Vineberg and Dan Wolfensohn, and Brian Bloom and Michael Kandev, both partners in the firm's Tax practice.

Davies’ Mergers & Acquisitions practice is widely regarded as the leading practice of its kind in Canada with practitioners in Toronto, Montréal and New York. Its practice spans every industry and business sector in Canada and the U.S. and includes representation in transactions of every size.

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