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• Acted for Rogers Communications Inc. with respect to competition and regulatory matters in connection with its joint acquisition with Bell Canada of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

• Acted as Canadian counsel to United Technologies Corporation on competition and other regulatory matters in connection with its acquisition of Goodrich Corporation in a deal valued at US$16.5 billion.

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

• Acted for Canada Pipe Company Ltd. before the Competition Tribunal, Federal Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada with respect to the only fully contested abuse of dominance case to be decided in Canada in the last 10 years. This matter was ultimately resolved through a negotiated Consent Agreement in December 2007.

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

• 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.

• Acted for BHP Billiton in connection with the sale of its diamonds business, comprising its controlling interests in the EKATI Diamond Mine and its Diamonds Marketing operations in Belgium, to Harry Winston Diamond Mines Ltd. for an aggregate cash consideration of US$500 million.

• 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 the Canadian Real Estate Association in proceedings brought by the Commissioner of Competition against the Toronto Real Estate Board which resulted in a lengthy trial before the Competition Tribunal in 2012.  At issue was whether certain rules relating the display of property information on an internet website amounted to abuse of dominance.

• Acted for AMC Entertainment Inc. in its divestiture of Canadian theatres to Cineplex Inc. and Empire Theatres Limited.

• Acting for a Québec-based gas retailer in connection with criminal charges laid by the Competition Bureau for alleged price-fixing and related class actions.

• Acted for KGHM Polska Miedz S.A., one of Poland's leading companies and Europe's largest copper miner, in its $2.87-billion acquisition of Quadra FNX Mining Ltd.  At the time of closing, this was the largest ever foreign acquisition by a Polish company.

• Acted for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a significant shareholder of Sirius Canada Inc., in connection with the merger between Sirius Canada Inc. and Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. in a deal valued at $520 million.

• Acted for Corus Entertainment Inc. on the sale of its Québec radio stations to Cogeco Inc. in a deal valued at $80 million.

• Acted for Canpages Inc., a local search and directories publisher in Canada, in an acquisition by Yellow Media Inc. from an investor group led by private equity firm HM Capital Partners, in a deal valued at $225 million.

• 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 for Hydro-Québec in connection with its $4.75-billion proposed acquisition of substantially all of the assets of New Brunswick Power and that of its affiliates, including hydroelectric, combustion and nuclear facilities.

• 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").

• Acting for Chi Mei Optoelectronics in its defence of multiple class actions commenced across Canada alleging price fixing in respect of the sales of LCD panels, including with respect to cross-border issues arising out of parallel U.S. class actions.

• Acted as Canadian counsel for Fiat S.p.A. in the purchase of substantially all of Chrysler LLC's operations by a new company formed in alliance with Fiat for approximately US$2 billion in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities under a U.S. restructuring (Chapter 11) and in the related approximately US$7 billion first lien credit facility provided by the United States Department of the Treasury and the approximately $2 billion working capital facility provided by Export Development Canada.

• Acted as Canadian counsel to Wells Fargo & Company on Canadian regulatory matters in connection with its acquisition of Wachovia Corporation in a deal valued at US$11.7 billion.

• Acted as Canadian counsel to Google Inc. on Canadian regulatory matters in connection with its proposed services agreement with Yahoo! Inc.

• Acted as Canadian counsel to Mars, Incorporated in connection with Mars' US$23-billion acquisition of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.

• Acted for private equity fund EdgeStone Capital Equity Fund III, L.P. in its acquisition and subsequent divestiture of an equity interest in Motion Picture Distribution LP, the former motion picture distribution arm of Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.

• Acted for St. Lawrence Cement Group Inc. in connection with the $630-million acquisition of St. Lawrence Cement by way of a takeover bid by its controlling shareholder, Holcim Ltd.

• 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.

• Acted for Agricore United, Canada's largest grain handler, in its successful defense of the unsolicited takeover bid made by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, the resulting white knight agreement with James Richardson International and the topping $1.8 billion offer by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. This deal was implemented using an innovative structure involving a concurrent continuance, takeover bid and plan of arrangement.

• Acted for BCE Inc. on the recapitalization and ownership restructuring of Bell Globemedia Inc. valued at $1.3 billion.