Recent Experience
TriWest Capital Partners in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, ZyTech Building Systems LP, to Dick's Lumber, a banner of RONA Inc., a portfolio investment of Sycamore Partners.
Hillcore Group in its acquisition of Thompson Construction Group, a leading heavy civil contractor and construction company in Western Canada.
Repsol Oil & Gas Canada Inc. in its US$468-million sale of all partnership interests of Repsol Canada Energy Partnership to Peyto Exploration & Development Corp.
Nippon Steel Corporation in its $1.15-billion investment in Elk Valley Resources Ltd., a steelmaking coal business to be spun-out as an independent public company from Teck Resources Ltd.
Cresco Labs Inc. in its US$2-billion acquisition of Columbia Care Inc., making Cresco the second-largest cannabis producer and retailer in the U.S. at the time of the transaction.
Datasite LLC, a portfolio company of CapVest Partners LLP, in its acquisition of Firmex Inc., a leading virtual data room and subscription file-sharing provider.
OMERS Infrastructure, in the US$312-million sale of its interest in Detroit River Tunnel Partnership and its related assets to Canadian Pacific Railway Limited.
Mitsubishi, in its acquisition of the olefins business of ARLANXEO Canada Inc.
TMX Group, in its proposed $165-million acquisition of AST Investor Services Inc. (Canada) and its subsidiary AST Trust Company (Canada).
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, in its sale of BluEarth Renewables Inc. to DIF Infrastructure V.
Onex, in its $445 million acquisition of Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc.
Parkland Fuel, in its US$1.21-billion transformational business combination with SOL Limited.
Takeda Pharmaceutical, as Canadian counsel in its US$62-billion acquisition of Shire plc.
Linde, as Canadian counsel in its US$70-billion all-stock merger of equals with Praxair, Inc.
Scotiabank, in its $2.58-billion acquisition of MD Financial Management Inc. from the Canadian Medical Association.
Thomson Reuters, in its US$17-billion sale of a 55% interest in its Financial & Risk business (now Refinitiv) to private equity funds managed by The Blackstone Group and its US$9-billion substantial issuer bid/tender offer and return of capital transactions.
Bombardier, in its partnership with Airbus SE and Investissement Québec on the C Series aircraft programmes.
Choice Properties REIT, in its transformational $6-billion combination with Canadian REIT to form Canada's largest real estate investment trust.
Scotiabank, in its $950-million acquisition of Jarislowsky, Fraser Limited.
Husky Injection Molding Systems, Berkshire Partners and OMERS Private Equity, in the US$3.85-billion sale of Husky to Platinum Equity LLC.
Kinectrics, in its acquisition of the North American nuclear businesses of Amec Foster Wheeler plc, a division of the Wood Group PLC.
Cabela's Incorporated, as Canadian counsel in its US$4.5-billion sale to Bass Pro Shops.
Parkland Fuel, as Canadian competition counsel in its $965-million acquisition of CST Brands, Inc.’s Canadian business and assets from Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., in connection with Couche-Tard’s US$3.67-billion acquisition of CST Brands Inc.
Sumitomo, as Canadian counsel in its acquisition of a 26.08% stake in Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd from Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation.
Loblaw, in a concluded Competition Bureau investigation into its supplier practices and related court proceedings.
Sumitomo, as Canadian counsel in its €751-million acquisition of Fyffes plc.
Loblaw, as competition counsel in its $12.4-billion acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation.
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