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  • Acted for Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec (F.T.Q.), Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Enertech Capital Partners IV L.P., Export Development Canada, Fonds de solidarité FTQ investissements croissance I s.e.c., SVIC No. 25 New Technology Business Investment L.L.P. and Investments W2 Inc. in connection with their investment in the share capital of Distech Controls Inc., a Québec private company held by Étienne Veilleux and Technovator International Limited.

    2013
  • Acted as Canadian counsel to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, CIBC World Markets and RBC Dominion Securities as underwriters in connection with an offering of $500 million of 2.3% Maple Bonds issued by Japan Bank for International Cooperation and guaranteed by Japan.

    2013
  • Acting for Sistem Muhendislik Insaat Sanayi Ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, a Turkish construction company, in connection with its application before the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario for the recognition and enforcement of an arbitration award rendered against the Kyrgyz Republic in a case of illegal expropriation of an hotel it owned and operated in Bishkek, capital city of Kyrgyzstan.

    2013
  • Acted for Amcor Limited in connection with its US$114.8-million acquisition of AGI-Shorewood's tobacco packaging operations in China, Mexico, South Korea and the United States.

    2013
  • Acting for Japan Airlines in connection with proceedings in Canada to implement and enforce insolvency proceedings conducted in Japan.

    2013
  • Acting for Beijing Matsushita Color CRT Company, Ltd. in defence of class actions commenced in Canada alleging price-fixing in respect of the sales of cathode ray tubes.

    2012
  • Acted for Balcorp Group Limited in connection with the acquisition of Mine Jeffrey Inc. by Mineral Fibre (MF) Inc., the re-organization with an Asian investor and the subsequent financing for the development of an underground mine by Investissement Quebec.

    2012
  • Acted as Canadian counsel to Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad in connection with its US$3.1-billion initial public offering on the Malaysian stock exchange.

    2012
  • Acted as Canadian counsel to AMC Entertainment Inc. in the US$2.6-billion acquisition of AMC by Beijing-based Dalian Wanda Group Co.

    2012
  • Acted for Aurora Oil & Gas Limited in connection with its A$120 million global offering.

    2012
  • Acted as Canadian counsel to IMC International Metalworking Companies B.V. in connection with its contemplated strategic arrangement with Woulfe Mining Corporation and its 100%-owned tungsten/molybdenum South Korean subsidiary, Sangdong Mining Corporation.

    2012
  • Acted for Hebei Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. in connection with its strategic investment in Alderon Iron Ore Corp. and its Kami iron ore project.

    2012
  • Acted for Amcor Flexibles Netherlands Holding B.V., a subsidiary of Amcor Limited, in connection with its US$40-million acquisition of the Aluprint, S. de R.L. de C.V. tobacco packaging plant in Mexico.

    2012
  • Acted for Twin Rivers Technologies - Entreprises de Transformation de Graines Oléagineuses du Québec Inc., a subsidiary of Felda Global Ventures Holdings Sdn Bhd of Malaysia, in connection with its joint venture with Bunge North America to create Bunge ETGO L.P.

    2011
  • Acted for Brambles Limited, the world's leading provider of pallet and container pooling solutions, in its acquisition of Paramount Pallet.

    2011
  • Acted for Minmetals Resources Limited in its $1.33-billion offer to acquire the outstanding shares of Anvil Mining Limited, a Canadian company headquartered in Perth, Australia, with mining operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    2011
  • Acted for Baosteel Resources International Co., Ltd., part of The Baosteel Group and one of the largest steel producers in China and worldwide, in connection with its investment in Noront Resources Ltd., by way of a private placement.

    2011
  • Acted for Minmetals Resources Limited, a Hong Kong listed company controlled by China Minmetals, in connection with its proposed $6.3-billion all-cash unsolicited takeover bid for Equinox Minerals Limited.

    2011
  • Acted for Neucel Specialty Cellulose Ltd., one of the world's top suppliers of specialty cellulose woodpulp, and for its majority shareholder, Neucel Specialty Cellulose Holdings LP, in connection with the sale of Neucel to Fulida Group Holding Ltd., an integrated textile manufacturer in China.

    2011
  • Acted for Sentient Global Resources Fund III, LP in connection with its $5,372,640 private placement in Marengo Mining Limited.

    2010
  • Acted for Sentient Global Resources Fund III, LP in connection with its $3-million investment in Marengo Mining Limited pursuant to a prospectus offering.

    2010
  • Acted as counsel for OneSteel Limited on Canadian Competition Act matters in connection with its US$932-million acquisition of the Moly-Cop and AltaSteel businesses from Anglo American Plc.

    2010
  • Acted for the special committee of Brookfield Properties Corporation on the acquisition of a US$1.4-billion interest in a portfolio of Australian office properties from Brookfield Asset Management.

    2010
  • Acted for Neucel Specialty Cellulose Ltd. and Wellspring Capital in connection with the financing of a pulp mill in Port Alice, British Columbia and a strategic investment by Fulida Group Holding Ltd., an integrated textile manufacturer in China.

    2010
  • Acted for Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, an Asia investment company headquartered in Singapore, in a US$100-million convertible debenture PIPE investment in Platmin Limited as well as a purchase of US$50 million of common shares in a prospectus offering by Platmin.

    2010
  • Acted for Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, an Asia investment company headquartered in Singapore, in a $500-million PIPE investment in subscription receipts of Inmet Mining Corporation.

    2010
  • Acted for Khan Resources Inc. in connection with various political, regulatory and licensing matters relating to its uranium properties in the Republic of Mongolia, including with respect to the reinstatement, maintenance and renewal of its licences for the Dornod uranium project, one of the most significant undeveloped uranium deposits in the Republic of Mongolia.

    2010
  • Acted for Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Holdings Co. Ltd., China's second largest copper cathode producer, and China Railway Construction Corporation Limited, one of the largest integrated construction enterprises in the world, in connection with their joint acquisition of Corriente Resources Inc.

    2010
  • Acted for Amcor Limited in its acquisition of Alcan Packaging operations from Rio Tinto plc in 31 countries for approximately US$2 billion. The acquisition enhances Amcor's position as one of the world's leading packaging companies.

    2010
  • Acted for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, a leading global bank headquartered in China, in its acquisition of The Bank of East Asia (Canada), a Canadian chartered bank.

    2010
  • Acted for a subsidiary of Amcor Limited in the sale of Amcor's U.S. subsidiary, Marshall Flexibles LLC, to Printpak Inc.

    2010
  • Acted for DRI Capital Inc., the manager of a private investment fund, in connection with the acquisition of certain royalty rights from NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

    2010
  • Acted for Sentient Global Resources Fund III, LP in connection with its $4,610,775 investment in Marengo Mining Limited pursuant to a prospectus offering.

    2009
  • Acted for Sentient Global Resources Fund III, LP in connection with its $1,313,903 investment in Marengo Mining Limited pursuant to a prospectus offering.

    2009
  • Acted as Canadian counsel for BHP Billiton in the negotiation of its proposed global iron ore joint venture with Rio Tinto.

    2009
  • Acted for Khan Resources Inc., a uranium exploration and development company focused on Mongolia, in connection with the successful defense of a hostile takeover bid by Atomredmetzoloto JSC, a Russian state-owned enterprise, and acted for Khan Resources Inc. in connection with the "white knight" negotiated offer by way of takeover bid by CNNC Overseas Uranium Holding Ltd., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation.

    2009
  • Acted for Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed Hunan Non-Ferrous Metals Corporation Ltd., the largest antimony company in China, in its acquisition of Beaver Brook Antimony Mine Inc. located in central Newfoundland and Labrador. The Beaver Brook Mine is the only operating antimony mine in North America, and is one of the world's largest antimony deposits outside China and South Africa.

    2009
  • Acted for the independent committee of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. on the partnership's US$1.1-billion investment in the recapitalization and restructuring of Babcock and Brown Infrastructure and its purchase of certain infrastructure assets from Babcock and Brown.

    2009
  • Acted for Barrick Gold Corporation in connection with the private placement by its affiliate of US$1.25 billion of notes maturing in 2020 and 2039, each guaranteed by Barrick, and the subsequent exchange of such notes for registered securities.

    2009
  • Acted for SG Overseas to assert secured claims in the insolvency of SaarGummi (Québec) Inc.

    2009
  • Acted for Sentient Global Resources Fund II, LP in connection with its $5,026,710 investment in Marengo Mining Limited within the framework of the initial public offering of Marengo.

    2008
  • Acted for Sentient Global Resources Fund II, LP in connection with its $8,001,100 investment in Andean Resources Limited pursuant to a prospectus offering. Andean Resources Limited has since been acquired by Goldcorp Inc.

    2008
  • Acted for SITQ Inc. in connection with the formation of SITQ India Private Limited in India.

    2008
  • Acted for BHP Billiton in connection with its $274-million all-cash acquisition of Anglo Potash Ltd. by way of a plan of arrangement.

    2008
  • Acted for China Minmetals Non-Ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. and Jiangxi Copper Company Ltd., both Chinese state-controlled corporations, in their takeover bid for Northern Peru Copper Corp. valued at $455 million.

    2008
  • Acted for Jinchuan Group Ltd., a Chinese state-controlled corporation and the largest producer of cobalt, nickel and platinum group metals in China, in its $214-million all-cash takeover bid for Tyler Resources Inc.

    2008
  • Acted for Khan Resources Inc. in its unsolicited share exchange takeover bid for Western Prospector Group Ltd.

    2008
  • Acted for Jinduicheng Molybdenum Group Co., Ltd. and Northwest Nonferrous International Investment Company, Limited, both Chinese state-controlled corporations, in their acquisition of Yukon Zinc Corporation by way of plan of arrangement in a transaction valued at $104 million.

    2008
  • Acted as Canadian counsel to India-based Tata Chemicals Limited in its acquisition of General Chemical Industrial Products Inc. in a transaction valued at US$1 billion, making Tata Chemicals one of the largest soda ash producers in the world.

    2008
  • Acted as Canadian counsel to BHP Billiton in its unsolicited offer to acquire Rio Tinto in a share exchange deal valued at US$147 billion.

    2008
  • Acted for Xstrata plc in connection with the establishment of its US$6-billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme.

    2007
  • Acted for Amcor Limited during the process of trademarks acquisition and patent acquisitions.

    2007
  • Acted for Australia-based Amcor Limited in the sale of its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging operation in six countries in Europe to La Seda de Barcelona S.A. in a transaction valued at 430 million euros.

    2007
  • Acted for The Sentient Group and a syndicate of lenders which provided a US$50-million senior secured credit facility for Ivernia Inc. and its Magellan mine in Australia.

    2007
  • Acted for Zinifex Limited (now OZ Minerals Ltd.) in its $360-million negotiated takeover bid for Wolfden Resources Inc.

    2007
  • Acting for Japan Airlines International Co., Ltd. in its defence of class actions across Canada alleging price fixing in respect of, among other things, fees for passenger airfares.

    2007
  • Acted for Onex Corporation on Canadian tax matters in connection with the attempted takeover of Australia's largest airline carrier, Qantas, by a consortium including Onex in a transaction valued at $10.2 billion that would have given Onex 12.5% of the airline.

    2007
  • Acted for Xstrata plc in connection with its 144A US$500 million offering of 6.9% notes due 2037. The notes were offered by Xstrata Finance (Canada) Ltd., a subsidiary of Xstrata and guaranteed by Xstrata and certain of its subsidiaries.

    2007
  • Acted for Northwest Geological Exploration and Mining Bureau for Non-Ferrous Metals of the People's Republic of China ("NWME") with respect to a joint venture between Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp. and Northwest Non-Ferrous International Investment Company Limited, a Chinese investment company 100% owned by NWME, to form a new Canadian company.

    2007