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IFLR Americas Names Davies Canada’s Capital Markets Firm of the Year
Davies is pleased to be named Canada’s Capital Markets Firm of the Year at the 2023 International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Americas Awards.
This award reflects our standing as a leading firm in advising clients on their most complex and cross-border corporate finance matters, such as:
- Acted as counsel for Rogers Communications, Inc. in its C$4.25-billion Canadian private placement of senior notes issued across four tranches, the largest-ever Canadian dollar issuance by a corporate issuer in Canadian market history.
- Acted as Canadian counsel for Rogers Communications, Inc. in its US$7.05-billion U.S. private placement of senior notes issued across five tranches, the largest-ever U.S. dollar issuance by a Canadian corporate issuer in U.S. market history.
- Acted as counsel to the underwriters for Definity’s $1.6-billion IPO, the largest Canadian IPO of 2021, and largest IPO by a Canadian company in over 20 years.
- Acted as Canadian counsel to the underwriters, led by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, in the US$700-million cross-border initial public offering of Bausch + Lomb Corporation, the largest Canadian IPO of 2022.
- Acted for Lithium Royalty Corp. in its C$150-million initial public offering of common shares underwritten by a syndicate co-led by Canaccord Genuity Corp and Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc.
- Acted for Rogers Communications, Inc. in its Canadian private placement of C$2 billion of fixed-to-fixed rate subordinated notes, the largest hybrid corporate bond issue in Canadian history.
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