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Acted for The Royal Canadian Mint in its $600-million initial public offering of exchange-traded receipts under the Mint's new Canadian Gold Reserves program. This innovative offering was made in accordance with exemptive relief from the prospectus requirement and provides investors with direct ownership in physical gold held at the Mint's facilities.
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Acted for Pershing Square Capital Management LP and certain other institutional investors in Sears Canada Inc. in connection with their successful efforts to oppose Sears Holdings Corporation's insider bid and related efforts to squeeze out the minority shareholders of Sears Canada, including proceedings before the Ontario Securities Commission and the Ontario courts.
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Acted for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, a leading global bank headquartered in China, in its acquisition of 70% of The Bank of East Asia (Canada), a Canadian chartered bank, in a deal valued at $80 million.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in its acquisition of Comaplex Minerals Corp.'s Meliadine gold project, by way of a "spin-off" plan of arrangement in which Comaplex shareholders received Agnico-Eagle shares and, except for the largest Comaplex shareholder, shares of Geomark Exploration Ltd., a newly-created company that holds Comaplex's non-Meliadine assets.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in its negotiated share exchange takeover bid for Cumberland Resources Ltd. valued at $710 million.
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Acting for Hebei Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. in connection with its proposed strategic investment in Alderon Iron Ore Corp. and its Kami iron ore project in an aggregate amount of $194 million.
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Acted as Canadian counsel for a syndicate of underwriters led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch in connection with a US$80-million cross-border follow-on public offering of common shares of YM BioSciences Inc.
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Acted as Canadian counsel for JP Morgan Securities LLC and a syndicate of investment dealers in the US$200-million private placement by Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. of secured second-priority notes due 2016.
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Acted for Royal Bank of Canada in connection with the establishment of its $2-billion senior note program in 2011, and ongoing representation of Royal Bank of Canada in connection with takedowns of structured products under its senior note program, including pre-clearances of "novel" specified derivatives with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers in Québec.
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Acting for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in the proposed acquisition of Grayd Resource Corp. for $275 million.
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Acted for MHR Fund Management LLC in connection with its US$77-million acquisition of common shares of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. from Carl Icahn.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with the renewal of its US$500-million base shelf prospectus.
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Acting for Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc. in its negotiated takeover bid for Alternative Fuel Systems (2004) Inc., a leading developer of natural gas vehicle engine controllers and associated components.
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Scotia Capital Inc. and RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in a $200-million public offering of Non-cumulative Rate Reset shares of Manulife Financial Corporation.
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Acted for MHR Fund Management, significant shareholder of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., in connection with the unsolicited takeover bid made by Carl Icahn for Lions Gate and in connection with the successful defence of oppression proceedings commenced by Icahn in British Columbia against MHR and Lions Gate in relation to certain refinancing transactions undertaken by Lions Gate.
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Acted as Canadian counsel for the initial purchasers, BofA Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, in a US$255-million private placement of senior secured notes due 2018 issued by Tembec Industries Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tembec Inc.
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Acted for Pershing Square Capital Management LP in connection with the sale of its 17.6% interest in Sears Canada Inc. to Sears Holdings Corp. for $559.8 million.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with the private placement to institutional investors in the United States and Canada of an aggregate of US$600 million guaranteed senior unsecured notes due 2017, 2020 and 2022 with a weighted average yield of 6.59%.
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Acted as Canadian counsel for BofA Merrill Lynch, TD Securities Inc. and Scotia Capital Inc. in a $300-million underwritten private placement by Metropolitan Life Global Funding I of 2.625% fixed rate notes due December 3, 2012, secured by a funding agreement issued by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
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Acted for Actuate Corporation in its acquisition of Xenos Group Inc., a TSX listed enterprise software company.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with the renewal of its US$500-million base shelf prospectus.
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Acted as Canadian counsel for JP Morgan Securities Inc. in a US$236-million private placement of senior secured second-priority notes due 2016 issued by Lions Gate Entertainment Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.
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Acted as Canadian counsel to Banc of America Securities LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in a US$450-million offering by Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. of 8.75% senior notes due 2016 concurrently in the U.S. and Canada.
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Acted as Canadian counsel for a syndicate of underwriters led by J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. in a cross-border US$215-million public offering of common shares by SXC Health Solutions Corp.
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Acted as Canadian counsel for BofA Merrill Lynch and TD Securities Inc. in a $200-million underwritten private placement by Metropolitan Life Global Funding I of two year floating rate notes, secured by a funding agreement issued by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
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Acted for a syndicate of agents co-led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and CIBC World Markets Inc. in a $1-billion offering by Manulife Financial Corporation of 4.896% medium term notes due 2014.
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Scotia Capital Inc. and RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in a $350-million bought deal public offering of rate reset preferred shares of Manulife Financial Corporation.
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Acted for a syndicate of agents co-led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and Scotia Capital Inc. in a $600-million offering by Manulife Financial Corporation of 7.768% medium term notes due 2019.
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters co-led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and CIBC World Markets Inc. in a $450-million bought deal public offering of rate reset preferred shares of Manulife Financial Corporation.
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Acted as Canadian counsel to Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in its merger with Bank of America in a transaction valued at US$50 billion.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in its US$290-million underwritten private placement of units consisting of common shares and share purchase warrants.
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Acted for Merrill Lynch Canada Finance Company in its renewal of its $5-billion medium term note program.
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Acted for a syndicate of agents co-led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and TD Securities Inc. in an offering by Manulife Financial Corporation of $950 million aggregate principal amount of medium term notes.
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Acted for Jinduicheng Molybdenum Group Co., Ltd. and Northwest Nonferrous International Investment Company, Limited, both Chinese state-controlled corporations, in their acquisition of Yukon Zinc Corporation by way of plan of arrangement in a transaction valued at $104 million.
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Acted for China Minmetals Non-Ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. and Jiangxi Copper Company Ltd., both Chinese state-controlled corporations, in their takeover bid for Northern Peru Copper Corp. valued at $455 million.
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Acted for Global Alumina Corporation in connection with the formation of a joint venture with BHP Billiton, Dubai Aluminium Company and Mudabala Development Company for the development of an alumina mining and refinery project in the Republic of Guinea.
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Acted for the founder and controlling shareholder of Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. in the $960-million acquisition of the company by Onex Partners II, LP.
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Acted for Northwest Geological Exploration and Mining Bureau for Non-Ferrous Metals of the People's Republic of China ("NWME") with respect to a joint venture between Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp. and Northwest Non-Ferrous International Investment Company Limited, a Chinese investment company 100% owned by NWME, to form a new Canadian company.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited as it amended its existing credit facility with a syndicate of lenders to increase the amount from US$150 million to US$300 million and the term of the credit facility was extended by two years.
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Acted for a syndicate of agents co-led by Scotia Capital Inc. and RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in a $1.2 billion offering of senior and subordinate debentures of Manulife Finance (Delaware) LP, an indirect subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation. The offering of subordinated debentures was the first innovative Tier 2b capital offering in Canada.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in a US$250 million bought deal cross-border public offering of common shares in Canada and the United States.
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Acted as Canadian counsel to GS Capital Partners V Fund, LP, AIG Knight LLC, Carlyle Partners IV, LP and Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund III, LP in connection with the US$26.5 billion management buyout of Kinder Morgan Inc.
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Acted for Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited in connection with its US$66.8 million acquisition of the Pinos Altos project in Mexico from Industrias Penoles S.A. de C.V.
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Acted as Canadian counsel to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in connection with an underwritten private placement offering by Quebecor Media Inc. in the US and Canada of US$525 million of 7 3/4% senior notes due 2016, issued as part of Quebecor Media's US$1.1 billion refinancing plan.
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Acted for a syndicate of underwriters led by Scotia Capital Inc. in a bought deal public offering of $300 million preferred shares of Manulife Financial Corporation.
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Acted as counsel for a syndicate of banks in the US$2.5-billion credit financing offered to Novelis Inc. and for the initial purchasers in the US$1.4-billion issuance of senior notes, as part of Alcan Inc.'s spin-off of its aluminum rolled products business.