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Veilleux, Niko Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(514) 904-5636 nveilleux@osler.com
Mr. Veilleux's practice focuses on public and private M&A, corporate
finance, securities and private equity/venture capital, notably complex
cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions. He advises on corpor-
ate governance matters as well.
Vézina, Sébastien Lavery, de Billy, L.L.P.
(514) 877-2964 svezina@lavery.ca
M. Vézina practises securities and mining law. He advises on corporate
finance, partnerships and revenue-based financings. He is involved in all
phases of the mining cycle, from exploration, project development and
extraction, to mine closure.
Weisz, Jonathan B. Torys LLP
(416) 865-8157 jweisz@torys.com
Mr. Weisz's practice focuses on project finance, project development
and secured lending in the mining, energy and infrastructure sectors.
Wiseman, David L. Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-6266 dwiseman@goodmans.ca
Over 20 years in bank and asset-based lending, high-yield debt, project
finance and debt restructurings representing lenders, borrowers and
sponsors on domestic, cross-border and international finance deals.
Clients include Eurasian Resources, Hudson Resources, Ganfeng Lith-
ium, Conuma Coal, Diacore/Amulet, Ivanhoe, KKR, Mandalay Resources,
J.J. Nickel, SkyPower, CJF Capital and Western Coal.
Woodside, Tina M. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-4584 tina.woodside@gowlingwlg.com
Ms. Woodside is a Firm Managing Partner at Gowling WLG. She has
over 25 years of experience as a senior corporate and securities lawyer,
specializing in corporate finance, M&A and corporate governance,
with particular emphasis in the mining industry.
Wortley, Stephen D. McMillan LLP
(604) 691-7457 stephen.wortley@mcmillan.ca
Mr. Wortley is Co-chair for the China Practice Group and Public M&A.
His practice focuses on securities and corporate matters. His experience
includes national and international prospectus offerings and advising
both SOEs and SMEs. He has spoken extensively about Hong Kong
Stock Exchange listings by Canadian firms and on alternative investment
structures in the Canadian mining industry.
producer with mining, development and exploration
operations in Turkey, Greece, Romania and Brazil.
Eldorado is listed on the Toronto and New York
Stock Exchanges.
Yintai Resources Co. Ltd. is engaged primarily in
non-ferrous metals mining and is publicly listed on the
Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP acted as Canadian
legal counsel to Yintai with a team that included Mi-
chael Laffin, Zaichi Hu, Robert Kwauk, Bruce Rose-
Innes and Jackie Anderson. Jingtian & Gongcheng
Law Firm acted as Chinese counsel to Yintai with a
team that included Xiaofeng Cheng, Wenting Jiang,
Chaohui Wang, Zhiwei Xu and Yingping Chen.
Eldorado's legal team, led by Dawn Moss, included
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (Josh Lewis, Lata
Casciano and Barinder Sidhu) as Canadian counsel;
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP (Tony Damian and
Malika Chandrasegaran) as Australian counsel; Mor-
rison & Foerster LLP (Paul McKenzie and King Lai)
as Hong Kong counsel; and Jun He LLP (Audrey Chen
and Henry Shi) as Chinese counsel. Borden Ladner
Gervais LLP acted as legal counsel to Eldorado's Spe-
cial Committee led by Fred Pletcher and Julie Bogle.
MAVERIX METALS COMPLETES ROYALTIES
ACQUISITION FROM GOLD FIELDS
On December 23, 2016, Maverix Metals Inc. (Maverix)
completed the acquisition of a portfolio of 11 royalties
(the GF Royalties) from Gold Fields Netherlands Ser-
vices BV (Gold Fields) a wholly owned subsidiary of
Gold Fields Limited, and certain affiliates. As part of
the transaction, Maverix issued to Gold Fields a total
of 42,850,000 common shares from its treasury and
10 million common share purchase warrants exercis-
able within five years at a price of US$1.204 ($1.60) per
Maverix common share.
Concurrently with the closing of the transaction, 10
million Maverix common share purchase warrants hav-
ing an exercise price of US$0.546 ($0.70) per Maverix
common share were exercised by the holder thereof
(the Holder) for aggregate proceeds of US$5,460,000
(the Warrant Exercise). e Warrant Exercise was car-
ried out as part of an early warrant exercise incentive
arrangement pursuant to which Maverix issued to the
Holder 6,500,000 Maverix common share purchase
warrants with an exercise price of US$1.204 ($1.60) per
common share of Maverix and expiring on July 8, 2021.
Maverix was represented in-house by Oggy Talic, Ex-
ecutive Vice President and General Counsel. In Cana-
da, the company's external counsel was Blake, Cassels
& Graydon LLP with a team led by Bob Wooder and
including Trisha Robertson, William (Bill) Maclagan,
Ashley Baker, Daniel Cherniak and Luke Hills. Pablo
Mir and Heleny Caratazos of Bofill Mir & Álvarez
