Natalie Renner is an associate in the Corporate/Commercial and Financial Restructuring & Insolvency practices.
She has experience with a variety of corporate transactions, including restructurings and asset and share purchases.
Representative Work
- Acted for Postmedia Network Inc. in the acquisition of the publishing business of Canwest LP under a sale proceeding conducted pursuant to the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. The assets included the largest publisher of English-language newspapers in Canada as well as an extensive portfolio of digital media and online assets. The aggregate enterprise value of the assets was estimated to be $1.1 billion. Also acted throughout the CCAA proceedings for an Ad Hoc Committee of Noteholders, comprised of 18 investment funds, which held the majority of Canwest LP's outstanding indebtedness and which provided a $250 million equity commitment to permit the acquisition.
- Acted for Brainhunter Inc. and its subsidiaries, as debtors, in proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.
- Acted for an ad hoc committee of bondholders of Redcorp Ventures in conjunction with Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and receivership proceedings.
- Acted for Cooper-Standard Automotive Canada Limited in its filing under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.
- Acted for Bank of Montreal and BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. in connection with the 2008 restructuring of over $2 billion of asset-backed debt obligations and related credit derivatives transactions of Apex Trust and Sitka Trust.
- Acted for Toyota Boshoku America, Inc. in its acquisition of the Trim Masters operations in Ontario from Johnson Controls, Inc. in 2008.
- Acted for Thomas Weisel Partners Group Inc. on its acquisition of Canadian investment bank Westwind Partners by way of a plan of arrangement.
- Assisted with the purchase by A. Lassonde Inc. of certain assets of McCain Foods Limited.
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