Davies has been named Canada Corporate Firm of the Year at the International Financial Law Review’s 2021 Americas Awards.

The award reflects our standing as a leading transactional firm. With strategy and innovation always top of mind, we take an agile – yet measured – approach to every cross-border deal.

Davies advised on numerous groundbreaking cross-border deals across sectors and jurisdictions last year, including acting for:

• The Pallinghurst Group in its joint 50-50 acquisition with Investissement Québec of Nemaska Lithium Inc. pursuant to a sales process under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), which marked the first reverse vesting order granted in a contested CCAA proceeding;
• Xplornet Communications Inc., Canada’s largest rural-focused broadband service provider, in its sale to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners for over US$2 billion; and
• Foundation Building Materials, Inc. (FBM) and Lone Star Funds in the US$1.37-billion sale of all outstanding FBM shares to an affiliate of American Securities LLC, a leading private equity firm.

The IFLR Americas Awards celebrate the most legally innovative cross-border transactions that closed in the past year in North America, Central America and South America. The awards are a culmination of extensive research and interviews with private-practice lawyers, in-house counsel and financing specialists at investment banks.