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Acted for CDP Financial Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in an offering of E750 million principal amount of 3.50% guaranteed notes due June 2020. |
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2010 |
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Acted for Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust in its $115 million public offering, after full exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option. |
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2010 |
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Acted for Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust in its takeover bid for Overland Realty Limited in an all-cash deal that values Overland at $70.9 million. |
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2010 |
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Acted for CDP Financial Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in an offering of $2 billion of senior notes, comprised of $1 billion of FRN (floating rate notes) senior notes due 2015 and $1 billion of 4.60% senior notes due 2020. |
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2010 |
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Acted as counsel to the Molson brothers, Geoff, Andrew and Justin, in connection with the acquisition of the Montreal Canadiens Hockey Club by the investment group led by the Molson brothers. This transaction is considered to be one of the most significant acquisitions ever completed in professional sports in North America. The transaction also included the purchase of the Montreal Bell Centre and the Gillett Entertainment Group.
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2009 |
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Acted for CDP Financial Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, in connection with an offering of US$5 billion of senior notes in the United States. This offering is the largest non-government guaranteed offering by any Canadian issuer in US dollars to date. |
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2009 |
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Acted for Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust in its second $57.5 million bought deal public offering of trust units. |
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2009 |
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Acted for Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust in its bought deal public offering of $115 million principal amount of convertible unsecured subordinated debentures. |
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2009 |
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Acted for Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust, the largest commercial property owners and managers in the Province of Québec, in its $55.2 million public offering of 3,783,500 units, after full exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option in respect thereof. The offering was completed on a bought deal basis through a syndicate of underwriters co-led by National Bank Financial Inc. and BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. |
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2009 |
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Acted for Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust in its initial $57.5 million bought deal public offering of trust units. |
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2009 |
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Acted for SITQ Inc. regarding Fabricom S.A.'s, a wholly-owned subsidiary of French-Belgian group GDF Suez, acquisition of Axima Services Inc. and its subsidiaries. |
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2009 |
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Acted for Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust in its $110 million offering of 5.80% convertible debentures due 2014. |
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2007 |
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Acted for Corus Entertainment Inc. in its acquisition of the radio station CIGR-FM of Sherbrooke, Quebec. |
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2007 |
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Acted for Scotia Capital Inc., GMP Securities L.P., BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and CIBC World Markets Inc. as lead agents in Cogeco Cable Inc.'s bought deal financing of 3 million subordinate voting shares for total proceeds of $153.45 million. |
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2007 |
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Acted for SITQ, an indirect subsidiary of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, with respect to financing the acquisition by Eimskip Holdings Inc. of Versacold Income Fund in a deal valued at $1.2 billion. |
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2007 |
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Acted for Cominar REIT in its acquisition of Alexis Nihon REIT in a transaction valued at $440 million. |
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2007 |
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Acted for Cominar REIT in its $592 million acquisition of 6.5 million square feet of office and industrial properties from Homburg Invest Inc., representing approximately 72% of the leasable space acquired by Homburg in its purchase of Alexis Nihon REIT. |
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2007 |
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Acted for Scotia Capital Inc., GMP Securities L.P., BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and CIBC World Markets Inc. as lead agents in Cogeco Cable's issuance of 5 million shares for total proceeds of $192.5 million. |
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2007 |
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Acted for La Senza Corporation in the negotiated takeover bid by Limited Brands, Inc. valued at $710 million. |
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2007 |
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Acted for Vitol Refining Group B.V. on its sale of North Atlantic Refining Limited to Harvest Energy Trust in a transaction valued at $1.6 billion. |
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2006 |
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Acted for SITQ as it financed the $580 million acquisition of Atlas Cold Storage Income Trust by Avion Group hf. |
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2006 |
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Joint venture between ITM Enterprises SA and Hagebau GMBH (Germany) relating to their international distribution and purchase networks. Davies represented ITM Enterprises. |
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2006 |
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Acted for Alexis Nihon Real Estate Investment Trust in regard to the $66 million public offering of units of Alexis Nihon Real Estate Investment Trust. |
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2006 |
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Acted for Cominar REIT in regard to a $100 million public offering of convertible subordinated debentures. |
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2006 |
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Acted for GlaxoSmithKline plc on its acquisition of ID Biomedical Corp. shares in a transaction valued at US$1.34 million. |
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2005 |
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Acted for Cornerstone Capital Partners, Inc. on the initial public offering of income trust units of Focus Doors & Windows Inc. |
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2005 |
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Acted for BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and a syndicate of dealers as Metro Inc. filed a short-form base shelf prospectus which established a $750 million medium term note program. Metro later accessed the program completing an offering of an aggregate of $600 million of notes, of which $200 million are due 2015 and $400 million are due 2035. The issue of $400 million of 30-year notes by Metro represents the first 30-year debt financing in Canada by a BBB-rated issuer. The notes were offered by a syndicate of dealers led by BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. |
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2005 |
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JP Morgan Partners, LLC and affiliates completed the sale from a control block of all of the shares of Telesystem International Wireless Inc. (TIW) for an aggregate amount of approximately $830 million. |
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2005 |
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Acted for Bell Canada in regard to its acquisition of Nexxlink Technologies Inc. shares in a transaction valued at $67 million. |
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2005 |
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Acted for Eric Molson and Pentland Securities (1981) Inc. regarding the Molson Inc. merger with Adolph Coors Company in a transaction valued at $7.7 billion. |
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2005 |
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Acted for GDF Suez (formerly Gaz de France) in connection with a $900 million Rabaska project developed by Gaz Métro, Enbridge Inc. and Gaz de France, which consists of the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of a deep water jetty to accommodate tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) as well as pipes connecting the jetty to two reservoirs, where the LNG will be stored and regasified for incorporation into the Québec and Ontario pipeline network. |
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2004 |
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