Philippe C. Rousseau is a partner in the corporate and securities group, practising in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, financing, securities and commercial law.
Philippe has significant experience in the M&A area acting for bidders and target boards in numerous friendly and unsolicited merger and acquisition transactions. His recent involvement includes representing Schlumberger Limited on its $700 million acquisition, jointly with First Reserve Corporation, of Saxon Energy Services; acting for the board of directors of Ridley Inc. in connection with its strategic review process; advising Westwind Capital on its $146.7 million acquisition by Thomas Weisel Partners by way of plan of arrangement; assisting on the proposed $51.7 billion privatization of BCE to a group led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board; representing Agricore United on the unsolicited take-over bid from Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and subsequent negotiated $1.2 billion acquisition; and advising Trizec Canada on its $9.9 billion acquisition by Brookfield Properties. Philippe also has experience advising in connection with contested proxy contests for public companies and the formation of strategic alliances and joint ventures in the biotechnology, forestry, mining and oil and gas industries, as well as sales and acquisitions in the context of liquidation and insolvency proceedings.
In the financing and securities area, Philippe has acted on a number of initial public offerings and public debt financing transactions, including the $205 million initial public offering of Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust and the public offerings of $1.28 billion of medium term notes by the Greater Toronto Airport Authority and $205 million of subordinated bonds by 407 ETR International Inc. He has also been counsel to numerous borrowers and lenders for domestic and cross-border debt financings, both in the context of conventional credit arrangements and leveraged buyout structures.
Philippe is fluent in English and French and is qualified to practice both common and civil law. Since 2006, he has been an instructor with other members of the firm in an advanced mergers and acquisitions workshop offered to a selected group of students at the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. He is a member of the business and securities law committees of the International Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association. He earned an LL.B. from Laval University in 1998 and became a partner of the firm in 2003.
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