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Acted for BCE Inc. in the sale of its subsidiary Telesat Canada to Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Loral Space & Communications Inc. in a transaction valued at $3.42 billion. |
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2007 |
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Acted as Canadian counsel for Vista Equity Partners, a San Francisco private equity firm, in the US$240 million acquisition of Indus International Inc. |
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2007 |
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Acted for private equity firm Birch Hill Equity Partners Inc. in the acquisition by Birch Hill Equity Partners III, LP of the assets of Bio Agri Mix LP. |
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2006 |
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Acted for RBC Dominion Securities Inc., TD Securities Inc. and the underwriting syndicate in the $133 million initial public offering by Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. by way of secondary offering. |
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2006 |
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Acted for Michaels Stores Inc. on the acquisition by Bain Capital Partners LLC and the Blackstone Group in a transaction valued at US$6 billion. |
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2006 |
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Acted as Canadian counsel to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in connection with an underwritten private placement offering by Quebecor Media Inc. in the US and Canada of US$525 million of 7 3/4% senior notes due 2016, issued as part of Quebecor Media's US$1.1 billion refinancing plan. |
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2006 |
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Acted for Trizec Canada Inc. and as Canadian counsel to Trizec Properties, Inc., one of the largest publicly traded REITs in the United States (and 38% owned by Trizec Canada), in their strategic auction, ultimately culminating in Brookfield Properties Corporation acquiring Trizec Canada in an all cash plan of arrangement and Trizec Properties in a parallel US cash-out merger. The combined transaction was valued at US$8.9 billion. |
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2006 |
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Acted for Roman Corporation with respect to an application under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act for protection in January 2006. Following the application, the assets were sold to Forest Resources LLC. |
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2006 |
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Acted for Bank of Montreal and a syndicate of lenders in connection with its $756 million financing of the Canaport liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving and regasification terminal in New Brunswick. The facility is the first LNG regasification plant in Canada. |
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2006 |
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in an $85 million public offering of subordinated unsecured convertible debentures of the Newport Partners Income Fund. |
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2005 |
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Acted for the lending syndicate to the successful consortium in connection with Canada Line, the $2 billion, 19.5 kilometre long rapid transit rail line connecting downtown Vancouver with the Vancouver International Airport. The project was the largest public-private partnership to be implemented in Canada and the first rail PPP in North America. This project won the Project Finance 2005 North American PPP Transportation Deal of the Year award. |
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2005 |
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Acted for Vista Equity Partners in its acquisition of MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $77 million. |
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2005 |
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Acted for two separate syndicates of underwriters co-led in Canada by BMO Nesbitt Burns and TD Securities Inc. and in the U.S. by J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated in private placement offerings by Molson Coors Capital Finance ULC of $900 million 5.00% senior notes due 2015 in Canada and US$300 million 4.85% senior notes due 2010 in the United States. The senior notes issued in Canada were subsequently exchanged for 5.00% senior notes due 2015 of Molson Coors Capital Finance qualified by a Canadian prospectus filed under the northbound Multi-jurisdictional Disclosure System. |
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2005 |
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Acted for Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. on its acquisition by Goldcorp Inc. in a transaction valued at $2.4 billion. |
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2005 |
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Acted for Rogers Sugar Income Fund in its public offering of $50 million principal amount of 6.00% convertible unsecured subordinated debentures. |
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2005 |
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Acted for an affiliate of Bain Capital in the sale of its interests in Advertising Directory Solutions Inc. for a purchase price of approximately $2.55 billion.
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2005 |
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters led by BMO Nesbitt Burns in a $75 million initial public offering of Altus Group Income Fund, creating a national leading independent multi-disciplinary provider of real estate consulting and advisory services in Canada. |
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2005 |
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Acted for Saunders Karp & Megrue on its acquisition of Comark Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $86 million. |
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2005 |
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Acted for an affiliate of Bain Capital in connection with the purchase of Verizon Communications Inc.'s directory operations, SuperPages Canada, in a transaction valued at $1.985 billion.
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2004 |
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Plan of arrangement involving the acquisition of The Nu-Gro Corporation by United Industries for approximately $192 million. |
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2004 |
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Public offering in the United States and concurrent private placement in Canada of US$500 million aggregate principal amount of 7 7/8% senior subordinated notes.
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2004 |
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Acted for BCE Inc. in regard to the sale of the controlling interest in BCE Emergis Inc. through the issuance of subscription receipts for gross proceeds of approximately $356 million. |
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2004 |
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CHC Helicopter Corporation completed a U.S.$250 million offering of its 73/8 per cent senior subordinated notes by way of a 144A offering in the U.S. and a private placement in Canada. Davies represented both Merrill Lynch & Co. which acted as sole book-running manager, and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., which acted as joint-lead manager. CHC Helicopter Corporation is the world's largest provider of helicopter services to the global offshore oil and gas industry, with aircrafts operating in 30 countries and a team of approximately 3,500 professionals worldwide. |
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2004 |
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Acted for CML Healthcare Inc. in its $1.25 billion plan of arrangement that resulted in the creation of two new entities, CML Healthcare Income Fund, an income trust owning CML's diagnostic services business, and Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc., a pharmaceutical corporation owning CML's drug development and pharmaceutical research business. As part of the arrangement, CML also entered into new credit facilities in the amount of $200 million with a syndicate of lenders. |
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2004 |
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Acted for the underwriting syndicate led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in connection with a $350 million offering of Rogers Cable Inc. of 5.50% Senior (Secured) Second Priority Notes due 2014. |
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2004 |
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Acted for the underwriting syndicate led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in a $750 million offering of Rogers Wireless Inc. of 6.375% Senior (Secured) Notes due 2014. |
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2004 |
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$369 million secondary offering of units of CML Healthcare Income Fund. |
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2004 |
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