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• Acting for Corus Entertainment Inc. with respect to the regulatory aspects of its acquisition from Bell Media of interests in certain TV (Teletoon, Historia & Series+) and radio assets in Ottawa currently held by Astral Media, Inc. The combined acquisition price for these assets is $494 million.

• Acting for Google Inc. in connection with the regulatory aspects of the sale of its Motorola Home Business to Arris Group, Inc. for $2.35 billion in a cash-and-stock transaction.

• Acting for US Airways Group, Inc. in connection with the regulatory aspects of its proposed merger with AMR Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Airlines, Inc. The combined equity value will be approximately US$11 billion.

• Acting for the Commissioner of Competition, the head of the Canadian Competition Bureau, in a challenge alleging that the merchant rules applied by Visa and MasterCard are anti-competitive. In addition to being the most significant proceeding before the Competition Tribunal in recent years, the challenge against Visa and MasterCard is also the first case under the newly enacted civil price maintenance provision of the Competition Act.

• Acting as Canadian counsel for Consorcio Comex, S.A. de C.V. with respect to regulatory matters in connection to a proposed acquisition of Consorcio Comex, S.A. de C.V. by The Sherwin Williams Company for approximately US$2.34 billion.
  

• Acted for Square, Inc. in connection with the expansion into Canada of its electronic payment service that allows users to accept credit card payments through their mobile devices.

• Acted for Westerkirk Capital Inc. in its acquisition of Vista Broadcast Group Inc., the parent company of Vista Radio Ltd. which holds 38 broadcast licences serving 50 communities throughout British Columbia, Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

• Acted as Canadian counsel to Google Inc. on competition and other regulatory matters in connection with its US$12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc.

• Acted as Canadian counsel for Google Inc. with respect to competition and regulatory matters in connection with its acquisition of ITA Software.

• Acted for George Weston Limited in connection with the acquisition of ACE Bakery Limited in a deal valued at $110 million.

• Acted for Shaw Communications Inc. in its $2-billion acquisition through Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act proceedings of the conventional and specialty television business of Canwest Global Communications Corp., now known as Shaw Media.

• Acted as Canadian counsel to The Black & Decker Corporation with respect to regulatory matters in connection with the acquisition of The Black and Decker Corporation by The Stanley Works in a deal valued at US$4.5 billion.

• Acted as external counsel to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission with respect to its ownership and control review of Globalive Wireless Communications Inc. ("Wind Mobile").

• Acted for TSX Group Inc. in its acquisition of Bourse de Montréal Inc. in a transaction valued at $1.3 billion which created TMX Group Inc., a leading integrated multi-asset stock exchange group.

• Acted as Canadian counsel for Reuters Group PLC in its dual-listed company merger with The Thomson Corporation to create Thomson-Reuters in a transaction valued at US$17.6 billion, creating the first Canadian dual-listed company structure.