Alex Moore is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance & Securities, Corporate/Commercial and Energy practices. He has been involved in a broad range of transactions, including public company M&A, private equity transactions, proxy contests and contested transactions.

Alex has been involved in numerous high profile transactions. He represented BCE in its proposed $51.7 billion acquisition by a private equity consortium that included Teachers' Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. He also played a significant role advising BCE in the litigation brought by certain bondholders of Bell Canada (BCE's main subsidiary) in opposition to the transaction. That litigation was ultimately favourably resolved for BCE in a landmark decision at the Supreme Court of Canada in June 2008.

Alex has extensive experience in private company acquisitions and has represented some of Canada's largest private equity firms and their portfolio companies in both acquisitions and acquisition financings. He represented EdgeStone Capital Partners in its acquisition of an interest in an international group of companies based in Houston, Texas that supplies metal goods to oil and gas fields in Canada, the United States and the North Sea.

Alex regularly advises significant shareholders of Canadian public companies on their rights and obligations under Canadian corporate and securities laws. He has experience in advising shareholders on requisitioning shareholder meetings and conducting proxy battles for board control. In 2006, Alex represented Scion Capital in its dissident proxy battle to oppose the acquisition of Bolivar Gold Corp. by Gold Fields Limited and in the related litigation before the courts of Ontario and the Yukon Territory.

Alex joined Davies as a partner in 2005. He was previously a partner with a leading law firm in San Francisco, California.

Representative Work

• Acted for Actuate Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed company, in its takeover bid for Xenos Group Inc.
• Acted for the independent committee of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. on the partnership's US$1.1 billion investment in the recapitalization and restructuring of Babcock and Brown Infrastructure and its purchase of certain infrastructure assets from Babcock and Brown.
• Acted for FortisOntario Inc. in its acquisition of Algoma Power Inc., an electric distribution utility, from Great Lakes Power Limited and its parent Brookfield Renewable Power Inc.
• Acted for Detour Gold Corporation in its merger with PDX Resources Inc.
• Acted for BCE Inc. and Bell Canada in connection with a proposed $51.7 billion take-private acquisition of BCE by way of a plan of arrangement with an investor group led by Teachers' Private Capital. 
• Acted for the founder and majority shareholder of Husky Injection Molding in the $960 million acquisition of the company by Onex Partners.
• Acted for Xstrata in its unsolicited $24.1 billion acquisition of Falconbridge.
• Acted for Birch Hill Equity Partners and EISI Energy Information Systems Inc., a Birch Hill Equity Partners portfolio company, in the acquisition of Financial Profiles Inc.
• Acted for Scion Capital in its dissident proxy battle in opposition to the acquisition of Bolivar Gold Corp. by Gold Fields Limited and related litigation before the courts of Ontario and the Yukon Territory.

Articles and Publications

Alex is the author of the articles "BCE Inc. (RE): An Unexamined Question Considered", published in the Canadian Business Law Journal, December 2009; "Contested Takeovers Bids" with Davies partner William M. Ainley in the 2009 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; and "The Supreme Court's Decision in BCE v. 1976 Debentureholders" in the March 2009 issue of Business Beat, Volume 19, No. 2, published by the Business Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association.

Teaching Engagements

Alex has taught Securities Regulation at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law and is an instructor in the Advance Business Law Workshop on Mergers and Acquisitions at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Speaking Engagements

Alex's past speaking engagements include: "BCE Bondholder Litigation: Decision of Supreme Court of Canada", a webinar to the M&A and Corporate Governance Subcommittees of the American Bar Association, February 12, 2009; "Shareholder Activism: Bolivar Gold, a Case Study" at the Lexpert Shareholder Activism Conference, October 30, 2007; and "Deal or No Deal: Issues Affecting Mergers and Acquisitions in the Credit Crunch", March 5, 2009 and "The BCE Case", February 23, 2009, both at the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law.

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