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Acted for Ivanhoé Cambridge in connection with the sale of its interest in Bentall Kennedy to The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS).
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Acted for Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc. and Hydro-Québec Pension Fund in connection with the acquisition from 2020 University Associates, LP and redevelopment of the 525,000 sq. ft. office tower located at 2020 University Street in Montréal, Québec.
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Acted for Bell Canada in connection with the acquisition of the hosting division of 6126472 Canada Inc. (dba Hypertec Availability Systems), Québec's leading top tier data hosting provider.
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Acted for The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited in its acquisition of the Windsor Station complex and other real estate assets from The Canadian Pacific Railway Company for $86 million. As part of the transaction, Canadian Pacific has entered into a long-term lease with Cadillac Fairview to remain the principal tenant of Windsor Station. Windsor Station is located at 1160 De La Gauchetière in downtown Montréal and represents an important heritage property. It houses more than 300,000 square feet of leasable office space.
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Acted for Accès Santé CHUM, a consortium including Fiera-Axium Infrastructure, Acciona S.A., HSBC Specialist Fund Management Limited, Pomerleau inc. and Verreault inc., which was short-listed to participate in a request for proposal from the Agence des partenariats public-privé du Québec and the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal ("CHUM") to design, build, finance and maintain the CHUM's new hospital centre. The CHUM is one of the largest university hospital centres to be procured in North America.
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Acted for Jesta Capital Corp. in connection with its acquisition and financing of the Marriott Residence Inn Montreal Downtown, a four-star hotel located on Peel Street on the upper west side of downtown Montréal, Québec.
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Acted for Jesta Capital Corp. with respect to its acquisition and redevelopment, in association with Pur Immobilia, of the Viger station in the east end of Old Montréal, Québec.
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Acted for Mediabiz International Inc. in connection with the establishment of Mediabiz Capital Canada L.P.'s investment fund dedicated to project funding in the area of audiovisual products.
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Acted for the purchaser in its acquisition of the luxury boutique Hotel Gault in Old Montréal.
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Acting for Groupe Prével and Claridge Properties in connection with their joint venture for the development of the former Séville Theatre in Montréal, Québéc. The site is being redeveloped as a mixed-use commercial and residential complex, which will include street-level shops and up to 450 housing units in three towers.
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Acted as Canadian counsel for the initial purchasers, BofA Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, in a US$255-million private placement of senior secured notes due 2018 issued by Tembec Industries Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tembec Inc.
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Acted for Barzel Industries Canada Inc. (formerly Novamerican Steel) in its cross-border restructuring proceedings involving independent proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act run in parallel concert with U.S. Chapter 11 proceedings for the U.S. parent company and U.S. subsidiaries and implementing a cross-border "stalking horse" sale agreement, cross-border bidding and auction process and closing of such sale within 65 days of the initial filing.
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Acted for Maestro Real Estate Advisors in its purchase of Scarlett Heights seniors' residence in Etobicoke, Ontario from Spectrum Seniors Housing Development and The Rockport Group for a purchase price of $58 million.
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Acted for Nasdaq-listed Barzel Industries Inc. on its acquisition of the real property in Baie D'Urfé, Québec on which Barzel's existing tubular products facility is situated. The acquisition was completed in connection with the sale by Barzel to Chriscott Properties Inc. of the machinery and equipment at Barzel's processing facilities in Dorval and LaSalle, Québec. Net cash proceeds to Barzel from the transaction totalled US$15.5 million.
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Acted for the consortium comprised of Meridiam Infrastructure Managers and Pomerleau Construction which was shortlisted to respond to a request for proposal from the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Agence des partenariats public-privé du Québec for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of the new Montréal concert hall.
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Acted for Renewable Energy Systems Canada Inc. (RES), part of the St-Laurent Énergies consortium, consisting of EDF Énergies Nouvelles, Hydromega Services Inc. and RES, which was awarded five wind farm projects by Hydro-Québec Distribution representing a total capacity of 954 MW. These five projects represent a total anticipated investment in excess of $2 billion.
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Acted for the Miami Access Tunnel consortium, comprised of Meridiam Infrastructure, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Transfield Services Ltd. for the design, build, finance, operation and maintenance of the US$1.3 billion greenfield Port of Miami Tunnel project. Davies also acted as lead counsel for the consortium on the financing of the Project, with the senior debt financing of US$340 million being provided through a club of 10 international banks and the subordinated debt financing of US$341 million being provided as a 35-year fixed rate loan by the United States Department of Transportation under the federal TIFIA (Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998) program. This project was awarded the 2009 Global PPP Deal of the Year by Project Finance magazine and the 2009 Americas PPP Deal of the Year by each of Project Finance International and Project Finance magazine.
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Acted for Mirlaw Investments Ltd. in the sale of Complex Place Crémazie located in Montréal to 9197-3586 Québec Inc.
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Acted for Pixman Nomadic Media Inc., a corporation listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, in connection with a private placement of common shares for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $1 million.
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Acted for Enligna Canada Inc., a subsidiary of the German-based Enligna AG, in the purchase of assets of MacTara Limited, a Nova Scotia manufacturer of wood pellets under the protection of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, for an amount of $6.5 million.
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Acted for Barzel Industries Inc. (formerly Symmetry Holdings Inc.) in its acquisition of Novamerican Steel Inc. for a purchase price of US$585 million.
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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.
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Acted for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. (now known as Resolute Forest Products) in connection with its merger of equals with Bowater Incorporated to create a company with a combined enterprise value of US$8 billion.