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Select corporate finance transactions include:
- acting for Detour Gold Corporation in connection with a $162 million bought deal public offering by short form prospectus;
- acting for the underwriters in connection with a $115 million overnight marketed public offering by PMI Gold Corporation;
- acting for the underwriters in connection with a $35 million bought deal public offering by PMI Gold Corporation;
- acting for the underwriters in connection with a $93 million bought deal public offering by Perseus Mining Limited;
- acting for the dealer managers in connection with a $1.1 billion rights offering by Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.;
- acting for Crystallex International Corporation in connection with a $35 million bought deal unit offering;
- acting for the underwriter in connection with a $2.0 billion Canadian medium term note program established by Credit Suisse under a base shelf prospectus; and
- acting for Crystallex International Corporation in connection with a $69 million overnight marketed unit offering.
Select transactions involving investment funds include:
- acting for Healthcare Special Opportunities Fund in connection with a $72 million initial public offering;
- acting for High Rock Canadian High Yield Bond Fund in connection with a $23 million initial public offering;
- acting for GLG EM Income Fund in connection with an initial public offering;
- acting for Advantaged Canadian High Yield Bond Fund in connection with a short form prospectus offering (re-opening);
- acting for the agents in connection with a $125 million initial public offering of the Man GLG Emerging Markets Income Fund;
- acting for Horizons Enhanced U.S. Equity Income Fund in connection with a $30 million initial public offering;
- acting for Advantaged Canadian High Yield Bond Fund in connection with a $56 million initial public offering;
- acting for SMC Man AHL Alpha Fund in connection with an initial public offering;
- acting for Man Canada AHL DP Investment Fund in connection with an initial public offering; and
- acting for Man Canada AHL Alpha Fund in connection with a $98 million initial public offering.
Select merger and acquisition transactions include:
- acting for Société Anonyme d’Explosifs et de Produits Chimiques (Groupe EPC) in connection with the acquisition of Nordex Explosives Ltd. pursuant to a going private transaction;
- acting for Platte River Gold Inc. in connection with a $50 million dollar acquisition by Scorpio Mining Corporation pursuant to a plan of arrangement;
- acting for HMY Airways Inc. in connection with an acquisition by Exchange Industrial Income Fund pursuant to a plan of arrangement as part of an income trust conversion;
- acting for ABRY Partners, LLC in connection with the $361 million acquisition of Q9 Networks Inc. pursuant to a plan of arrangement;
- acting for Absolut Resources Corp. in connection with a $30 million dollar acquisition by Aquiline Resources Inc. pursuant to a three-cornered amalgamation;
- acting for certain principal shareholders in connection with a $1.2 billion acquisition of Stelco Inc. by United States Steel Corporation;
- acting for principal shareholders in connection with the $96 million take-over bid for PLM Group Inc. by Transcontinental Inc.; and
- acting for SUEZ Energy International in connection with a $123 million take-over bid for Ventus Energy Inc.
Clients advised in connection contested shareholder meetings include:
- acting for dissident shareholder group in a successful bid to replace the board of directors of Athabasca Potash Inc.; and
- acting for dissident shareholder group in a successful bid to replace the board of directors of Atlantis Systems Corp.
