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Blue Ant Media in its go-public transaction by way of reverse takeover of Boat Rocker Media
Klick Health in the spin out and financing of Sensei Labs division and its acquisition of Peregrine Market Access
Klick Group, the world's largest independent commercialization partner for life sciences, on the growth investment from Linden Capital Partners and GIC
Book4Time in its US$150-million sale to Agilysys
CrowdCare Corporation dba Wysdom.AI in its sale to Calabrio, a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo.
Clearpath Robotics, a leader in autonomous robotics, in its sale to Rockwell Automation
Connected Lab in its acquisition by Thoughtworks
ecobee in the US$770-million acquisition by Generac Holdings Inc. of all of ecobee Inc.'s outstanding securities by way of a plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act
TELUS in numerous private, technology-focused, M&A acquisitions throughout Canada and the United States
Blue Ant Media in its acquisition of numerous
specialty television assets, other M&A matters, credit facilities and convertible
debt financings, shareholder financings and arrangements, employment matters, and intellectual property
matters
ecobee in its $127-million Series C financing that included foreign-based venture capital investors, and related matters, its M&A acquisitions, and convertible note financings
Clearpath Robotics in numerous matters, including financings that included Canadian and U.S.-based venture capital investors, and its credit facility with Silicon Valley Bank
Daisy Intelligence in various financings and related matters, including its Class A round and
its credit facility with Scotiabank
Nuralogix in its formation, acquisition of intellectual property assets, and various financings.
Book4Time in M&A financing and licensing matters, including its acquisition by a U.S. private equity firm
Opus One Energy Solutions in M&A and financings, including its acquisition by GE Digital
Board of Directors of Sears Canada in Sears' CCAA proceedings, one of the largest court-supervised liquidations in Canadian history
Klick Health in connection with various matters including the spin out and financing of Sensei Labs division
Sino-Forest, in all Canadian matters relating to or resulting from fraud allegations made against it after June 2011
Canadian Venture Capital Association, as a former Director, current Secretary and Chair of the
Model Documents Committee, and in numerous legal matters, including negotiating the exemption of venture capital and private equity firms from the Canadian registration regime
RuggedCom, in its defence of an unsolicited take-over bid by Belden
and subsequent supported acquisition by Siemens by way of
takeover bid for approximately $440 million
Alliance Atlantis
Communications (Board and Special Committee), in the $2.3
billion sale of the company by way of plan of arrangement to Canwest, Goldman
Sachs Capital Partners and EdgeStone Capital Partners
Alliance
Atlantis Communications, in the sale of Movie
Distribution Income Fund's 49 percent indirect interest in Motion Picture
Distribution LP
Alliance Atlantis Communications, in the initial
public offering of Atlantis Communications; the combination with Alliance
Communications to form Alliance Atlantis Communications; the $156 million
initial public offering of trust units for Movie Distribution Income Fund; a
$138 million cross-border equity offering in Canada and the US; a $150
million PIPE provided by a German investor; the $75 million acquisition of
TSX-listed Salter Street Films; the US$205 million high yield bond
financing; and other governance, corporate and securities matters
Can Art Aluminium, in its acquisition by TorQuest Equity Partners and its joint venture with Constellium
Board of Directors of AlarmForce Industries, in its $184-million acquisition by BCE
Sym-Tech, in its acquisition by Amynta
Telax Voice Solutions, in its acquisition by Intermedia.Net Technologies
Clipwire Games, in its strategic relationship with AppLovin
Premise LED, in its sale to a strategic acquiror
Venture capital firm, Round 13 Capital, in connection with numerous investments
Connected Lab, in an investment by a venture capital firm and its sale to a strategic acquiror
Sale of a medical clinic to a strategic acquiror
Flo Partners, in its sale to strategic U.S. acquiror
A major U.S. investor in North (formerly Thalmic Labs), in a convertible note financing and M&A matters
Well.ca, a venture-backed private online merchant, in its acquisition by McKesson
Various venture capital investors in the sale of venture-backed Rubikloud
Unata, a venture-backed private software company, in its acquisition by Instacart
Whitecap, on its investment in and disposition of its interest in Clearwater Clinical and Irystec
OrderDynamics, in connection with its sale, and related matters
OMERS Ventures, in its investment in Accerta Analytics
Destiny Solutions, in its sale to private equity firm Riverside Partners
Certain venture capital investors in a financing of Scribblelive
Accelerator One Eleven, in its reorganization
iMD Health, in financing and M&A matters
A not-for-profit association in director election issues and governance matters
A school board in a cyber security breach matter
Leaders Fund, in investments in Influitive, 360incentives, TopHatMonocle and Crowdriff
Round13, in a number of its investments
Sightline Innovations, in financing matters
An investor in a convertible note financing of Q4 Inc.
An Ontario trust company in cyber security and privacy advice
A Canadian bank in cyber security governance advice
Orderit.ca, in its acquisition by JUST EAT Canada
Esna Technologies, a private software company, in its acquisition by Avaya
Surfeasy, a venture-backed private software company, in its acquisition by Opera Software
Point72 Ventures, as Canadian counsel in its investment in Flybits
Cognos, in securities laws matters, director and officer indemnity and insurance program, M&A matters, corporate governance, and other corporate matters
VenGrowth Management, on the sale of the VenGrowth Funds to Covington
Bessemer Venture Partners, as Canadian counsel, in its venture investment in Shopify
QuIC Financial Technologies, a venture-backed private software company, in its acquisition by Markit Group
Cimtek, a venture-backed private engineering services firm, in its acquisition by US-based Circuit Check
RuggedCom, in its $46-million initial public offering,
M&A matters (including its acquisition of an Israeli wireless networks
company), governance matters and general corporate and securities matters
BlackBerry Partners Fund Limited Partners (including Royal Bank of Canada,
Thomson Reuters and Research In Motion), in the formation of
Fund I and Fund II
Canadian Football League, in numerous franchise transactions and Grey Cup and other licensing matters
PSE Sports & Entertainment LP (Jim Balsillie), in its attempt to acquire the Phoenix Coyotes and Pittsburgh Penguins
DALSA, in advising DALSA senior management on the
acquisition by Teledyne
Somerset Entertainment Income Fund (Special
Committee), in the friendly takeover bid by Fluid Music Canada
Burntsand (Board and Special Committee), in
the friendly takeover bid by Open Text
Public Storage
Canadian Properties (Special Committee), in the initially
hostile takeover bid by the controlling unitholder
SMART Technologies,
in its $600 million cross-border initial public offering
Skymeter, in various startup and angel
financings and shareholder arrangements
SkyPower Wind Energy Fund LP,
in the sale of its Terrawinds wind energy project near
Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec and related assets for approximately $300 million
Globalive (WIND Mobile), in distribution agreements
SkyPower, in the acquisition of a minority stake by HSH Nordbank AG
Triversity, a venture-backed private software company, in its acquisition by SAP
DWL, a venture-backed private software company, in its
acquisition by IBM
Formation of private equity/venture capital funds
for Priveq, Ventures West, VenGrowth, McLean Watson and others
Husky Injection Molding Systems, in securities
matters, loan facilities and corporate governance
Workbrain, in
its initial public offering
Critical Path, in
its acquisition of DocSpace in an exchangeable share
transaction
Synacor, Inc., in
its acquisition of Carbyn
Bennett Jones