Outfront Media Inc., 2024

Acted as Canadian counsel to OUTFRONT Media Inc. in the C$410-million sale of its Canadian outdoor advertising business to Bell Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BCE.

RelationShop Inc., 2024

Acted as Canadian counsel for RelationShop Inc. in its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Mercatus Technologies, a leading provider of eCommerce solutions for regional grocers and independents.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2023

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. to establish its U.S. registration statement, registering up to US$8 billion of future public offerings of debt securities and preferred shares in the United States pursuant to the multijurisdictional disclosure system.

National Bank of Canada, 2023

Acted for a syndicate of lenders led by National Bank of Canada in establishing a US$125-million revolving credit facility in favour of Sagicor Financial Company Ltd.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2023

Acted as Canadian counsel for Rogers Communications Inc. in its offer to exchange any and all of its outstanding US$7.05-billion senior notes previously issued under a private placement for an equal principal amount of new notes with substantially identical terms that are registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.

Lakeside Book Company, 2023

Acted for Lakeside Book Company, a portfolio company of Atlas Holdings, in its acquisition of Marquis Books.

Integrated Media Company, 2023

Acted for Integrated Media Company, a TPG platform dedicated to the new media ecosystem, in its C$147.5-million acquisition of Toon Boom Animation Inc., an Emmy® Award-winning Montreal-based animation software company, from Nelvana Limited, a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment Inc.

Insolvency Institute of Canada, 2023

Acting for the Insolvency Institute of Canada as an intervenor before the Supreme Court of Canada in Aquino v. Ernst & Young Inc. and Scott v. Doyle Salewski Inc., two cases raising important questions about corporate attribution and set-off in the insolvency context.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2022

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in its U.S. and Canadian private placement of US$750 million of fixed-to-fixed rate subordinated notes.

Shaw Communications Inc., 2022

Acted for Shaw Communications Inc. in its joint C$2.85-billion sale with Rogers Communications Inc. of Freedom Mobile Inc. to Videotron Ltd., a subsidiary of Québecor Inc.

Rogers Communications, 2022

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in a C$4.25-billion Canadian private placement of senior notes issued across four tranches, the largest-ever Canadian dollar issuance by a corporate in Canadian market history. Concurrently acted as Canadian counsel for Rogers Communications Inc. in a US$7.05-billion U.S. private placement of senior notes issued across five tranches, the largest-ever U.S. dollar issuance by a Canadian corporate issuer in U.S. market history. These offerings won Capital Markets Deal of the Year at the 2023 Canadian Law Awards.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2022

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in its separate but concurrent Canadian and U.S. consent solicitations for an amendment that extended the outside date (prior to which Rogers must consummate its acquisition of Shaw Communications) stipulated in the special mandatory redemption provisions of three series of its Canadian dollar senior notes (C$3-billion) and five series of its U.S. dollar senior notes (US$7.05-billion).

Rogers Communications Inc., 2021

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in its Canadian private placement of $2 billion of fixed-to-fixed rate subordinated notes, the largest hybrid corporate bond issue in Canada to date.

National Bank Financial Inc., 2021

Acted for BofA Securities, Inc., National Bank Financial Inc. and a syndicate of initial purchasers in a US$500 million offering of Videotron Ltd.'s 3.625% Senior Notes due June 15, 2029 and a C$750 million offering of Videotron Ltd.'s 3.625% Senior Notes due June 15, 2028.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2021

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc., Canada's largest rural-focused broadband service provider, in its acquisition of fibre assets from Brant Fibre Optics, a network operator providing gigabit speed Internet services to enterprise customers in Brant County, Ontario.

SESAC, 2021

Acted as Canadian counsel to SESAC, a portfolio company of Blackstone, in its US$385-million acquisition of Entertainment One Music (eOne) from Hasbro, Inc.

Greenhill & Co. Canada, Ltd., 2021

Acting for Greenhill & Co. Canada, Ltd., in its provision of a long form fairness opinion to the board of directors of Score Media and Gaming, Inc. (theScore), a leading digital media and sports betting and technology company, in theScore's acquisition by Penn National Gaming, Inc. for approximately US$2 billion in cash and stock.

Wattpad Corp., 2021

Acted for Wattpad Corp., a global multi-platform storytelling entertainment company headquartered in Canada, in its acquisition by Naver Corporation, a public South Korean Internet conglomerate. This transaction is valued at more than US$600 million.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2021

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc., Canada's largest rural-focused broadband service provider, in its acquisition of Swift High Speed, a facilities-based rural broadband service provider in Manitoba.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2021

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc., Canada's largest rural-focused broadband service provider, in its acquisition of TowerCo Inc.'s tower assets in Manitoba.

TPG Real Estate Partners, 2021

Acted for TPG Real Estate Partners, the dedicated real estate equity investment platform of alternative asset firm TPG, in its acquisition (and related financing) of Cinespace Film Studios, North America's second-largest independent sound stage platform with best-in-class studio campuses in Toronto and Chicago.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2020

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc., a portfolio company of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and Canada's leading rural broadband provider, in its acquisition of F6 Networks Inc., a fibre optic based telecommunications company in New Brunswick.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2020

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. to establish its Canadian shelf prospectus, qualifying up to $4 billion of future public offerings of debt securities in Canada, and its separate U.S. registration statement, registering up to US$4 billion of future public offerings of debt securities in the United States pursuant to the multijurisdictional disclosure system.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2020

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in its US$750 million U.S. public offering of floating rate senior notes due 2022 registered via the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2020

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in its $1.5 billion Canadian public offering of 3.65% senior notes due 2027.

Atlas Holdings LLC, 2020

Acted as Canadian counsel to Atlas Holdings LLC in its acquisition of LSC Communications, Inc., a global leader in print and digital media solutions.

Teneo, 2020

Acted for Teneo in its acquisition of Hatley Strategy Advisors, a leading strategic communications and corporate advisory firm based in Montréal, Canada.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2020

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc., a portfolio company of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and Canada's leading rural broadband provider, in its acquisition of Corridor Communications Inc., which operates CCI Wireless., a provider of broadband solutions to rural homes in Alberta, along with enterprise clients across western Canada.

Fine Capital Partners LP, 2020

Advised Fine Capital Partners LP, acting as investment manager for certain funds, in its financing of up to approximately US$18.5-million in exchangeable secured debentures issued by a newly formed subsidiary of WildBrain Ltd., a Canadian media production, distribution and broadcasting company.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2020

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc., Canada's leading rural broadband provider, in its acquisition of Silo Wireless Inc., a rural provider operating in southwestern Ontario and headquartered in Brantford, Ontario.

Equinoxe Virtual Clinic Corp., 2020

Acted for Equinoxe Virtual Clinic Corp., a leading Canadian virtual care provider, in the sale of all of its issued and outstanding shares to Right-Health Inc., a subsidiary of TELUS Corporation and the owner and operator of the Akira virtual care platform.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2020

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc., Canada's largest rural-focused broadband service provider, in its sale to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners.

Warner Media, LLC, 2020

Acted for Warner Media, LLC in its indirect acquisition, by way of plan of arrangement, of all of the issued and outstanding shares of You i Labs Inc., a leading provider of cross-platform development tools for television and media companies.

DIF Capital Partners, 2020

Acted for DIF Capital Partners, through its DIF Core Infrastructure Fund II (DIF CIF II), in its majority investment in Valley Fiber Ltd., a Manitoba-based telecommunications infrastructure company.

DigitalBridge, 2020

Acted for DigitalBridge in connection with the additional $148.5 million of bank financing raised to recapitalize Beanfield Metroconnect and the related tuck-in acquisition by Beanfield of the fibre business of Aptum Technologies.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2020

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc., a portfolio company of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and Canada's leading rural broadband provider, in its acquisition of Ocdotus Inc., a fibre-based service provider in southern Ontario operating under the name Metro Loop.

Shaw Communications Inc., 2019

Acted for Shaw Communications Inc. in a $548-million secondary bought deal offering of 80,630,383 Class B non-voting participating shares of Corus Entertainment Inc.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2019

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in its $1-billion public offering of 3.25% senior notes due 2029, issued in Canada. This offering was supported by the largest single-tranche order book on record in Canada.

West Face Capital Inc., 2019

Acted for West Face Capital Inc. in defending successfully against a second claim asserted against it by The Catalyst Capital Inc., this time for more than $1.3 billion, arising from the participation by West Face in the purchase and subsequent sale of Wind Mobile Inc. On April 18, 2018, Justice Hainey of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice determined that this second claim was essentially an attempt to re-litigate the same facts and issues that had previously been decided by Justice Newbould in the first such claim between Catalyst and West Face. As such, Justice Hainey dismissed the claim as against West Face, and all of the other defendants, as an abuse of process. Catalyst's appeal from the Order of Justice Hainey dismissing this action as an abuse of process was dismissed by the Ontario Court of Appeal in early May 2019. In November 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed Catalyst's application for leave to appeal.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2019

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in its US$1.0-billion public offering of 3.70% senior notes due 2049, issued in the United States under the multijurisdictional disclosure system.

J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, MUFG and RBC Capital Markets, 2019

Acted as Canadian counsel to the initial purchasers, led by J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, MUFG and RBC Capital Markets, in the private placement of US$550 million of high yield notes of a subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2019

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc. in its U.S. and Canadian private placement of US$75 million in high-yield notes.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2019

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in its US$1.25-billion public offering of 4.35% senior notes due 2049, issued in the United States under the multijurisdictional disclosure system.

DigitalBridge, 2019

Acted for DigitalBridge in its acquisition (and related bank financing) of Beanfield Metroconnect, an independent bandwidth infrastructure provider serving the enterprise, carrier and multi-dwelling unit markets in Toronto and Montréal over its owned fibre network.

Fine Capital Partners LP, 2019

Advised Fine Capital Partners LP, acting as investment manager for certain funds, in providing a standby share purchase facility regarding a private placement rights offering in Canada by DHX Media Ltd., operating as WildBrain, a Canadian media production, distribution and broadcasting company. Under the standby share purchase facility, Fine Capital agreed to acquire up to $60 million of DHX shares in respect of rights that holders do not exercise.

TD Securities Inc., 2019

Acted for TD Securities Inc. and a syndicate of underwriters in a $800-million offering of Videotron Ltd.'s 4.5% senior notes due 2030.

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, 2018

Acted for Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in the $1.69-billion sale of its remaining holdings in Quebecor Media Inc. to Quebecor Media and Québecor Inc.

Greencopper Publishing Inc., 2018

Acted for Greencopper Publishing Inc. in its sale of shares to Patron Technology Inc., a portfolio company of Providence Strategic Growth, in order to integrate its event-oriented social media services into Patron Technology's platform.

GAEA Grand Holdings Limited, 2018

Acted for GAEA Grand Holdings Limited, a leading global interactive entertainment company, in its investment in Behaviour Interactive Inc.

Leonardo Worldwide Corporation, 2018

Acted for Leonardo Worldwide Corporation, a leading provider of digital asset management and digital marketing solutions for the global hospitality industry, on its sale to Jonas Software.

Expert Travel Services, LLC, 2018

Acted for Expert Travel Services, LLC (Expert Flyer), a leading digital technology vendor for business travellers and frequent flyers, in its sale to Red Ventures, a U.S. marketing and advertising company.

Getty family and Getty Images Inc., 2018

Acted as Canadian counsel to the Getty family and to Getty Images Inc. on competition and regulatory matters in the Getty family's acquisition from The Carlyle Group of a majority stake in Getty Images, a global leader in visual communications.

GMP Securities L.P., 2018

Acted for a syndicate of underwriters led by GMP Securities L.P. and including National Bank Financial Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corporation, Scotia Capital Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc. and Raymond James Ltd. in a bought deal offering of 4 million common shares of Goodfood Market Corp., for gross proceeds to the corporation of approximately $10 million.

Stingray Group Inc., 2018

Acted for Stingray Group Inc. in its $506-million acquisition of Newfoundland Capital Corporation Limited, one of Canada's leading radio broadcasters with 101 licences (82 FM and 19 AM) across Canada, and the financing of this acquisition, which included $450 million of new credit facilities and $138 million of equity, comprising a $83-million bought deal offering of subscription receipts, a $40-million private placement of subscription receipts to the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, and $15 million from the exercise of pre-emption rights from the Boyko Group.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2018

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in its US$750-million underwritten public offering of senior notes due 2048, issued in the United States under the multijurisdictional disclosure system.

Stingray Group Inc., 2018

Acted for Stingray Group Inc. in its acquisition of DJ-Matic, a provider of in-store media solutions (music, video, digital signage) for businesses with clients in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., 2018

Acted as Canadian counsel to J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. in its capacity as dealer manager in the offer to exchange all of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.'s US$520-million 5.875% senior notes for Lions Gate Capital Holdings LLC's 5.875% senior notes due 2024.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2018

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. to establish its Canadian shelf prospectus, qualifying up to $4 billion of future public offerings of debt securities in Canada, and its separate Canadian shelf prospectus and associated U.S. registration statement, registering up to US$4 billion of future public offerings of debt securities in the United States pursuant to the multijurisdictional disclosure system.

GMP Securities L.P., 2017

Acted for (i) a syndicate of dealers led by GMP Securities L.P. and including National Bank Financial Inc. and Cormark Inc. in connection with the private placement by Goodfood Market Inc. of 10,542,883 subscription receipts for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $21 million and (ii) GMP in connection with the sponsorship of Goodfood's subsequent going public transaction by way of a reverse takeover involving Mira VII Acquisition Corp. and the concurrent listing of its common shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2017

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc. in its U.S. and Canadian private placement of US$230 million in high yield notes, its US$75 million incremental secured term loan, its repurchase and redemption of existing high yield notes and its associated consent solicitation.

Beringer Capital, 2017

Acted for Beringer Capital in connection with the acquisition of iCiDIGITAL, a digital consulting firm.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2017

Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. in the establishment of its US$1.5-billion commercial paper program.

Rogers Communications Inc., 2017

Acting for Rogers Communications Inc. in connection with the appeal of an administrative decision of the Québec Privacy Commissioner that would prohibit the use by Rogers of any personal information to conduct credit verifications and fraud prevention measures in relation to consumer subscriptions for mobile telephone service.

Stingray Group Inc., 2017

Acted for Stingray Group Inc. in connection with its acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Yokee Music Ltd.

Cincinnati Bell Inc., 2017

Acted for Cincinnati Bell Inc. in its acquisition of OnX Enterprise Solutions, a leading enterprise technology services and solutions provider.

Kinepolis Group NV, 2017

Acted for Kinepolis Group NV in its $123-million acquisition of Landmark Cinemas Canada LP, Canada's second-largest movie theatre exhibition company.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2017

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc. in its U.S. and Canadian private placement of US$30 million in high yield notes and its US$30 million incremental secured term loan.

Stingray Group Inc., 2017

Acted for Stingray Group Inc. in connection with its acquisition of all the outstanding shares of C Music Entertainment Ltd. (also known as C Music TV).

Espial Group Inc., 2017

Acted for the Special Committee of Espial Group Inc. in successfully defending against a proxy contest brought by Vantage Asset Management Inc.

Beringer Capital, 2017

Acted for Beringer Capital in connection with the acquisition of Blue Acorn, Inc., an e-commerce design, development, optimization and marketing services company.

Xplornet Communications Inc., 2017

Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc. in its acquisition of the fixed wireless Internet access business of I-Netlink Incorporated and Manitoba Netset Ltd., operating in the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan as NetSet Communications.