September 6, 2010
 
Mario P. Cavalancia - Representative Work
 
 
 
      Transactions and Cases   Year  
 
      Acted for Hydro-Québec in connection with its $4.75 billion proposed acquisition of substantially all of the assets of New Brunswick Power and that of its affiliates, including hydro electric, combustion and nuclear facilities.   2010  
      Acted for Access Cash General Partnership and its investors in Access Cash's acquisition of EZEE ATM LP, Canada's second largest full service independent provider of Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs), in a transaction valued at $41.2 million.   2008  
      Acted for Public Sector Pension Investments in connection with its investment in Black Creek Mexico Residential Fund, L.P.
  2008  
      Acted for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. which with the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec completed a joint venture for the Company's hydroelectric generation facilities in Ontario. The joint venture, ACH Limited Partnership, is 75% owned by Abitibi-Consolidated and 25% owned by the Caisse.   2007  
      Acted for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. in its merger of equals with Bowater Incorporated to create a company with a combined enterprise value of US$8 billion.   2007  
      Acted for Faubourg Boisbriand Shopping Centre Holdings Inc. (a joint venture among Kimco Realty Corporation, Cherokee Partners and Sterling Centrecorp) in connection with a $165 million construction credit facility in respect of the Faubourg Boisbriand lifestyle retail complex in Boisbriand, Québec.   2007  
      Acted for Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in connection with its investment in ARC Energy Fund 5 Canadian LP.   2006  
      Acted for Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in connection with its investment in Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund III, L.P.   2005  
      Acted for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. as its shares in PanAsia Paper Company Pte Ltd. were acquired by Norske Skog in a transaction valued at US$600 million.   2005  
      Acted for Premier Tech Ltd. in a loan agreement providing for a revolving credit facility of up to US$70 million made available to it by CIT Business Credit Canada Inc. The proceeds from the facility were used to refinance existing indebtedness and will also be used to provide for the ongoing working capital requirements and ongoing business development of Premier Tech Ltd.   2005  
      Acted for SFI Apparel Corp. which was acquired by Oxford Industries Inc. of Atlanta in a transaction valued at $40 million.   2005  
      Acted for Bell Canada in regard to its acquisition of Nexxlink Technologies Inc. shares in a transaction valued at $67 million.   2005  
      Acted for TD Securities Inc., BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and Desjardins Securities Inc. which co-led the underwriting syndicate for the completion of a $46 million initial public offering by 20-20 Technologies Inc. The IPO involved the underwriting of 6.154 million common shares at $6.50 per share, for gross proceeds of approximately $40 million. Of these shares, 389,540 were being offered by a selling shareholder by way of a secondary offering at the same price of $6.50 per share. 20-20 closed the exercise of the over-allotment option granted to the underwriters in the amount of approximately $6 million, bringing the total gross proceeds of the offering to approximately $46 million.   2004  
      Acted for Systemcorp A.L.G. Limited, a Montréal-based company, which is a leading provider of project portfolio management software, was acquired by IBM Canada Limited pursuant to a Plan of Arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act.   2004  
      Acted for UBS Securities LLC and Credit Suisse First Boston which led the arrangement of debt financing of US$800 million in an approximately US$1.75 billion transaction where Thomas H. Lee Partners, LP, in partnership with Richard L. Bready, chairman and CEO of Nortek, Inc. ("Nortek") and other members of Nortek management, acquired Nortek Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Nortek.   2004