Recent Experience
Acquisition of IBI Group Inc. by Arcadis NV for $873 million via a plan of arrangement.
Teknaform Inc., a manufacturer of PVC edgebanding products, in its sale to a portfolio company of Incline Equity Partners, a Pittsburgh-based private equity fund.
IBI Group Inc. in connection with its bought deal prospectus offering and concurrent private placement of $46 million aggregate principal amount of 6.50% senior unsecured debentures.
Freed Developments Ltd. in its approximately $330-million acquisition of a portfolio of real property assets of including Horseshoe Valley Resort, Deerhurst Resort and some additional lands from Skyline Investments, together with the purchase of the portion of Muskoka Bay Resort it did not already own.
IBI Group Investment Partnership, in connection with its bought deal private placement of 1,200,000 common shares of IBI Group Inc. for total proceeds of $12,000,000.
Sale of shares of Complete Immigration Medical Centre to Think Research Corporation
Sale of Supply Chain Alliance to Metro Supply Chain Group
Sale of AssessMed to Lifemark Health Group.
OSG Billings Services, as Canadian counsel, in its acquisition of Formost mediaOne.
IBI Group, in its asset purchase of GreenOwl Mobile.
NeoGraft Solutions Inc., in the sale of its hair restoration business to Venus Concept Ltd.
Diversified, in its acquisition of the business of Advanced Presentation Products.
Canadian counsel to Conagra Brands, Inc. in its $10-9 billion acquisition of Pinnacle Foods Inc.
NeoGraft Solutions Inc., on its acquisition of Medicamat
Acal plc on its acquisition of Plitron Manufacturing Inc.
Sale of William Ward Publishing to Black Book (National Auto Research, a division of Hearst Business Media)
Sale of Mr. X Inc. to Technicolor
Cascades Inc., in the acquisition of folding carton converting and paperboard mill assets of Norampac, a division of Cascades Canada ULC
Sale of SENES Consultants Limited and Decommissioning Consulting Services Limited to ARCADIS
CHA Consulting acquisition of Gryphon International Engineering Inc.
TerreStar Networks Inc., as Canadian counsel, in its CCAA recognition proceedings of TerreStar's chapter 11 cases
Cascades Inc., on its acquisition of the tissue division assets of Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
IBI Group acquisitions, including: Cardinal Hardy Architects (Montreal), Page + Steele Incorporated (Toronto), Rhon Ernest-Jones Consulting Engineers Inc. (Florida), Young + Wright Architects Inc. (Toronto), Gruzen Samton Architects (New York), Giffels Professional Engineering (US and Canada), CSM Engineering Ltd. (Fort McMurray), Nightingale Architects Limited (UK), MAAK Technologies Group Inc. (Toronto), Dull Olson Weekes Architects (Portland, Oregon), Bay Architects (Houston), Tetra Design, Inc. (California), CRJA Landscape Architects (Boston) and Taylor Young Limited Architects (UK).
Bunzl acquisitions including: Network Paper and Packaging Limited, Marpak Packaging Systems Limited, McCordick Glove & Safety Inc. and Jan-Mar Sales Limited
Sale of Skyservice Airlines Inc. to Gibralt Capital Corporation by way of a corporate plan of arrangement
Cogeco Cable Inc. acquisition of Cabovisão–Televisão por Cabo, S.A. following restructuring under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act
Team, Inc. acquisition of the Aitec group of companies
Lewis-Goetz acquisition of Goodall Rubber
Kaplan, Inc. acquisition of SpellRead P.A.T.
IGM Financial Inc.'s (formerly Investors Group Inc.) indirect acquisition of a majority equity interest in IPC Financial Network Inc.
Amex Bank of Canada's launching of its co-branded Holt Renfrew & Co. Ltd. credit card, involving the transition of the previously existing Holt Renfrew in-store card from Trans Canada Retail Services Company
Enbridge Energy Distribution Inc.'s sale to Fortis Inc. of its 100 per cent interest in Cornwall Street Railway Light and Power Company Limited (Cornwall Electric)
J2 Management Corp.'s acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of A.G. Simpson Automotive Inc., following the restructuring of A.G. Simpson Automotive under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act
Bayer Corporation acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Visible Genetics Inc. by way of a corporate plan of arrangement
Consumers Packaging Inc.'s sale of substantially all of its Canadian glass manufacturing assets to a wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S.-based Owens-Illinois Inc. by way of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act
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