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Acted for Onex Corporation and Celestica Inc. in the $113.3 million sale by Onex and certain of its affiliates of 11 million Celestica subordinate voting shares to a syndicate of underwriters led by the CIBC World Markets Inc. |
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2009 |
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Acted for Genuity Capital Markets and a syndicate of underwriters in connection with a bought deal offering by Air Canada of units comprised of shares and warrants for aggregate gross proceeds of $260 million. |
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2009 |
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Acted for Glencore Finance (Bermuda) Limited in connection with a US$250 million backstopped rights offering by Katanga Mining Limited, qualified by way of a short form prospectus filed in each of the provinces and territories of Canada. |
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2009 |
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited with respect to an amended and restated US$600 million unsecured revolving credit facility that matures June 2012. The facility amends and restates a US$300 million facility of Agnico-Eagle that was scheduled to mature September 2010. At the same time, Agnico-Eagle amended and restated its other US$300 million unsecured revolving credit facility that is scheduled to mature January 2013. As a result of these transactions, Agnico-Eagle now has US$900 million of credit lines. |
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2009 |
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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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2008 |
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Acted for E-Z-EM, Inc. in its merger with Bracco Diagnostics, Inc., a subsidiary of Bracco Imaging S.p.A., an Italian medical device manufacturer, for a cash purchase price of approximately US$240 million. |
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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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2008 |
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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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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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2007 |
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Acted for Russel Metals Inc. with respect to its acquisition of JMS Metal Services, Inc. in a transaction valued at US$125 million. |
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2007 |
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Acted for Zinifex Limited (now OZ Minerals Ltd.) in its $360 million negotiated takeover bid for Wolfden Resources Inc. |
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2007 |
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Acted for the Special Committee of Dynatec Corporation in the negotiated sale of Dynatec to Sherritt International Corporation by way of a share exchange plan of arrangement in a transaction valued at $1.6 billion. |
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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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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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2007 |
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Acted for Xstrata plc in its $6.2 billion all cash friendly takeover bid to acquire LionOre Mining International. Following two interloper bids by MMC Norilsk Nickel, Xstrata received the largest percentage break fee (5%) in any Canadian deal valued at over a billion dollars. |
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2007 |
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Acted for Barrick Gold Corporation in connection with the disposition of its 50% stake in the South Deep mine in South Africa to Gold Fields Limited for total consideration of US$1.525 billion. |
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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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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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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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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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