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Wright, J. Craig Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(613) 787-1035 cwright@osler.com
Mr. Wright focuses on corporate finance and M&A. He advises Canadian and
foreign companies, investors and underwriters on private and public company
matters, and on all aspects of Canadian securities regulation.
Zinkhofer, Bernhard J. McMillan LLP
(604) 691-7483 bernhard.zinkhofer@mcmillan.ca
Mr. Zinkhofer is an accredited CPA and lawyer who has since 1984
represented publicly listed mining companies with operations ranging
from grassroots exploration to seasoned producers. His experience has
involved a wide variety legal matters including title review, joint operation
agreements, permitting, and environmental issues, project financing,
senior debt and equity financing and M&A.
Zverina, Tom Torys LLP
(416) 865-7674 tzverina@torys.com
Mr. Zverina's practice focuses on debt financing and secured transactions.
He acts for a range of investors in the mining space and has extensive
experience in the complex structuring of international mine finance trans-
actions, including construction and acquisition loans, stream agreements,
royalty arrangements and the negotiation of intercreditor arrangements
among stakeholders.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
first-ever leveraged buyout of a large, operating
mining company.
Dominion was represented by its General
Counsel, Malinda Kellett and Stikeman Elliott
LLP with a team that included Sean Vanderpol,
Mike Devereux, John Lee, Rishi Dhir and Spen-
cer Burger (M&A), Michael Kilby and Ashley
Piotrowski (regulatory), Peter Hamilton and
Meaghan Obee Tower (banking), Eliot Kolers,
Samaneh Hosseini and Genna Wood (litigation),
Dean Kraus and Lindsay Gwyer (tax).
Dominion's board was represented by Paul,
Weiss, Riind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
with a team including Adam Givertz, Dale Sarro,
Aaron Abramson, Harrison Cruikshank, Ian
Hazlett, omas Holber and Christian Kurtz
(corporate); Scott Sontag and Zachary King (tax);
and Andrew Gordon, Jonathan Gordon, Harlan
Rosenson and Ryan Streit (litigation).
Washington was represented by Blake, Cas-
sels & Graydon LLP with a team including
Geoffrey Belsher, Susan Tomaine, Alex Mac-
Millan, Vladimir Cvijetinovic and Rich Turner
(M&A), Samantha Rossman and Aletha Utley
(banking), Julie Soloway, Joshua Krane and Pe-
ter Flynn (Investment Canada), Jeffrey Tross-
man, Josh Jones and Shavone Bazarkewich (tax),
Tim Andison (debt capital markets), Roy Millen
and Sam Adkins (Aboriginal), Tony Crossman
and Nardia Chernawsky (environmental), Mi-
chael Howcro (employment), Jeremy Forgie
and Adam Ngan (pensions), Seumas Woods and
Ryan Morris (litigation) and Kyle Misewich,
Lauren Akin, Michael Stewart, Riley Graydon
and Luke Hills (corporate).
Washington was also represented by Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, with a team
that included Stephen Arcano (M&A), David
Reamer, Mark Ramsey and Orley Granot (bank-
ing), Michael Zeidel, Adam Waitman and Deni
Li (corporate finance), and Sally urston and
Sherry Xie (tax).
e lenders in the acquisition debt financing
were represented by Cahill Gordon & Reindel
LLP with a team of Adam Dworkin, Sean Da-
vis, Kristopher Villarreal, Enia Gyan and Rashid
Ahamed for the senior secured credit facility and
Josiah Slotnick, Elizabeth Yahl, Jennifer Chau,
Kelly Mink and Kristina Bergess for the senior
secured notes, and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
LLP with a team that included Joyce Bernasek
and Jeremy Burgess (banking), Alan Hutchison
and Patrick Sullivan (corporate), Michelle Lally
(competition), Jennifer Fairfax and Patrick Welsh
(environmental) and Greg Wylie (tax).
ALAMOS GOLD
COMPLETES ACQUISITION
OF RICHMONT MINES
On November 23, 2017, Alamos Gold Inc. (Alamos) completed its previously
announced acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Richmont
Mines Inc. (Richmont) pursuant to a plan of arrangement. Under the terms
of the arrangement, Richmont common shares were exchanged on the basis of
1.385 Alamos common shares for each Richmont common share. Upon clos-
ing, Alamos has approximately 389,059,503 Class A shares outstanding with
former Alamos shareholders and former Richmont shareholders owning ap-
proximately 77 per cent and 23 per cent of the pro forma company, respectively.
Alamos was represented by in-house counsel Nils Engelstad. Torys LLP
provided external support in Canada and the US, with a team including
Kevin Morris, Janan Paskaran, Braden Jebson, Michael Jason and Sharon Au
(corporate/M&A), Omar Wakil (competition), Andrew Wong and David
Mattingly (tax), Don Roger (real estate), Andrew Gray (litigation), and Andy
Beck and Chris Bornhorst (securities).
Richmont was represented by Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in Can-
ada with a team including Bradley Freelan, Brian Graves, John Turner, Frank
Mariage, Janie Harbec, Myroslav Chwaluk, David Steinhauer, Mariko Rivers,
Jeremy Mandel and Russell Lindzon (corporate/M&A/mining), Alain Rien-
deau and Brandon Farber (litigation), Huy Do (competition) and Mitch aw
(tax). Richmont was supported in the US by Jenner & Block LLP with a team
led by Martin Glass.
