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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters co-led by BofA Merrill Lynch and TD Securities in connection with a $500-million private placement in Canada of 3.95% Series A senior unsecured notes issued by Molson Coors International LP and guaranteed by Molson Coors Brewing Company and certain of its U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in its acquisition of Comaplex Minerals Corp.'s Meliadine gold project, by way of a "spin-off" plan of arrangement in which Comaplex shareholders received Agnico-Eagle shares and, except for the largest Comaplex shareholder, shares of Geomark Exploration Ltd., a newly-created company that holds Comaplex's non-Meliadine assets.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with the private placement to institutional investors in the United States and Canada of an aggregate of US$600 million guaranteed senior unsecured notes due 2017, 2020 and 2022 with a weighted average yield of 6.59%.
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Acted as Canadian counsel to the syndicate of underwriters led by Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets in a cross-border US$575 million initial public offering of Sprott Physical Silver Trust and in several follow-on offerings in which a further US$880 million of proceeds were raised.
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Acted as Canadian counsel to the syndicate of underwriters led by Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets in a cross-border US$442 million initial public offering of Sprott Physical Gold Trust and in several follow-on offerings in which a further US$2 billion of proceeds were raised.
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Acted as Canadian counsel to the syndicate of underwriters led by Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets in a cross-border US$280 million initial public offering of Sprott Physical Platinum and Palladium Trust.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with the establishment of its $150-million letter of credit facility.
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Acted for Middlefield Limited in connection with the offering of an aggregate of $60 million limited partnership units by MRF 2012 Resource Limited Partnership, a partnership established to invest in a diversified portfolio of flow-through shares and flow-through warrants of Canadian exploration, development and production companies involved primarily in the oil and gas, mining or renewable energy sectors.
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Acted for a syndicate of agents consisting of TD Securities, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and HSBC Securities in connection with the issuance by Kellogg Canada Inc. of $300 million senior unsecured notes due 2014, fully guaranteed by Kellogg Company.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with its completed private placement of US$100-million 4.87% guaranteed senior unsecured notes due 2022 and US$100-million 5.02% guaranteed senior unsecured notes due 2024.
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Acted for Stornoway Portfolio Management Inc., a shareholder of Jovian Capital Corporation in connection with shareholders' concerns regarding Jovian's Management Profit Sharing Plan.
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters co-led by CIBC World Markets Inc. and Scotia Capital Inc. in a $67.1-million bought deal public offering of trust units of Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust.
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Acted for noteholders of Specialty Foods Group in connection with the exchange of Exchangeable Subordinated Notes.
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Acted as Canadian counsel for a syndicate of underwriters led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch in connection with a US$80-million cross-border follow-on public offering of common shares of YM BioSciences Inc.
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Acted as Canadian counsel to Mercantil Colpatria S.A. and its affiliates in connection with the US$1-billion purchase of 51% of Banco Colpatria Red Multibanca Colpatria S.A. by The Bank of Nova Scotia.
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Acted for Middlefield Limited in connection with the offering of an aggregate of $60 million limited partnership units by MRF 2011 Resource Limited Partnership, a partnership established to invest in a diversified portfolio of flow-through shares and flow-through warrants of Canadian exploration, development and production companies involved primarily in the oil and gas, mining or renewable energy sectors.
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Acted for the management of Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. in connection with their participation in the acquisition of Husky by Berkshire Partners and OMERS Private Equity for $2.1 billion.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with its amended and restated US$1.2-billion unsecured revolving credit facility that matures June 2016.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection to the acquisition of Grayd Resource Corporation by way of takeover bid for $275 million.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with the renewal of its US$500-million base shelf prospectus.
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Acted for Xplornet Communications Inc. (formerly Barrett Xplore Inc.) in connection with the private offering of $230 million of securities, one of the largest Canadian financing telecom projects to be announced in 2011.
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Acted for Middlefield Limited in connection with the offering of an aggregate of $50 million limited partnership units by MRF 2010 Resource Limited Partnership, a partnership established to invest in a diversified portfolio of flow-through shares and flow-through warrants of Canadian exploration, development and production companies involved primarily in the oil and gas, mining or renewable energy sectors.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with its US$1.2 billion unsecured revolving credit facilities made available by syndicates of domestic and foreign lenders.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with the renewal of its US$500-million base shelf prospectus.
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Acted as Canadian counsel to ING Groep N.V. in connection with its EUR 7.5-billion rights issue.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited with respect to an amended and restated US$600 million unsecured revolving credit facility (increased from US$300 million) and an amended and restated US$300 million unsecured revolving credit facility.
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Acted for ING Groep N.V. in the sale of its entire 70% stake in ING Canada Inc. through a public offering and a concurrent private placement of shares of ING Canada for gross proceeds of $2.2 billion.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with its US$34-million prospectus issuance of common shares to Fidelity Management and Research Company.
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters co-led by GMP Securities L.P. and TD Securities Inc. in a $210-million bought deal public offering of trust units of CI Financial Income Fund.
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Acted for Credit Suisse in the establishment of its $2-billion medium term note program.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with the establishment of its $300-million unsecured revolving credit facility.
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Acted for Lehman Brothers in connection with the US$360-million purchase and resale of senior notes of Calpine Canada Resources Company.
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Acted for Khan Resources Inc. in its $30-million underwritten public offering of common shares.