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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018
BIG DEALS BIG DEALS
Liam Kelley (litigation).
Galaxy Digital LP was represented in the
United States by Sullivan & Cromwell
LLP, with a team comprising Joseph Hearn,
John Miller and Bonnie Macfarlane (securi-
ties/corporate), and Davis Wang and Isaac
Wheeler (tax).
Galaxy Digital LP was represented in the
Cayman Islands by Maples and Calder,
with a team comprising Michael Johns, Jo
Cunningham and Sophia Scott.
Bradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc. and GMP
Securities L.P. were represented by Wilde-
boer Dellelce LLP, with a team comprising
Perry Dellelce, James Brown, Geoffrey Cher,
Julie Anderson, Danny Kharazmi, Davia
Wang and Joel Fraser (securities/corporate)
and Katy Pitch (tax).
First Coin Capital Corp. was represented
by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, with a
team comprising Stephen Robertson, Iñaki
Gomez and Salvador Pimentel (securities/
corporate), and Kim Maguire and Robert
Biggar (tax).
Consumer Goods Consumer Goods
H.I.G. CAPITAL COMPLETES
ACQUISITION OF TEXTILES
AMALGAMATED INC.
CLOSING DATE: JULY 16, 2018
On July 16, 2018, H.I.G. Capital, a leading
global private equity investment firm with
more than $25 billion of equity capital under
management, through one of its portfolio
companies Town & Country Holdings, Inc.,
completed the acquisition of Montréal-based
Textiles Amalgamated Inc., a leading sup-
plier of window treatments and hardware.
H.I.G. was represented in the US by
Latham & Watkins LLP with a team that
included Kristen Grannis, Elizabeth Slawsby
and Peter Prial (M&A), Grace Lee and Jo-
seph Curran (tax), and Jennifer Kent and
Claire Bourque (financing); and in Canada
by Stikeman Elliott LLP with a team that
included Mario Nigro and Julien Lefebvre
(M&A), Frank Mathieu and Adam Drori
(tax), Sterling Dietze (financing), and Steph-
anie Weschler and Stephanie Pasternyk (em-
ployment). Debt financing was provided by
Israel Discount Bank of New York, while
Richter Advisory Group Inc. acted as the
financial advisor to Textiles Amalgamated
Inc. in connection with the transaction.
Textiles Amalgamated Inc. was repre-
sented by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
with a team that included Neil Hazan, Vin-
cent Frenette, Joseph Takhmizdjian, Ryan
Tomicic, Kenza Bensaid, Catherine Beauvais
and François Longpré.
Consumer Services Energy & Power Pipelines
Aerospace & Defence Automotive Materials
Utilities Financials Health Research
Media & Entertainment Recreation & Leisure Advertising & Marketing
E-Commerce Construction & Engineering
Consumer Staples
IA FINANCIAL GROUP
COMPLETES PUBLIC OFFERINGS
CLOSING DATE: MARCH 7, 2018
On March 7, 2018, Industrial Alliance Insur-
ance and Financial Services Inc. (iA Finan-
cial Group) completed a bought deal public
offering of 2,500,000 Common Shares (the
Common Shares) and a concurrent bought
deal public offering of 6,000,000 Non-Cu-
mulative 5-Year Rate Reset Class A Preferred
Shares Series I (the Series I Preferred Shares).
On March 12, 2018, iA Financial Group
also closed the over-allotment option, which
was exercised in full, to its offering of Com-
mon Shares.
e Common Shares were priced at
$54.10 per Common Share for aggregate
gross proceeds of $148,775,000 and the Se-
ries I Preferred Shares were priced at $25.00
per Series I Preferred Share for aggregate
gross proceeds of $150,000,000. e Com-
mon Shares and the Series I Preferred Shares
were issued under two distinct prospectus
supplements each dated February 28, 2018
to iA Financial Group's short form base shelf
prospectus dated June 22, 2017.
Both offerings were purchased by a syndi-
cate of underwriters co-led by TD Securities
Inc. and National Bank Financial Inc., and
which also included RBC Capital Markets,
Scotiabank, BMO Capital Markets, CIBC
Capital Markets and Industrial Alliance Se-
curities Inc.
iA Financial Group was represented in-
house by Jennifer Dibblee, Chantale Blais
and Valérie Pelletier. Norton Rose Ful-
bright Canada LLP acted as counsel to iA
Financial Group with a team led by ierry
Dorval and Elliot Shapiro and comprised
of Peter Wiazowski, Emmanuel Grondin,
Weihe Feng (corporate finance and securi-
ties), and Sébastien Gingras and Antoine
Desroches (tax).
McCarthy Tétrault LLP acted as Ca-
nadian counsel to the underwriters with a
team that included Andrew Parker, Charles-
Antoine Soulière, Myreille Gilbert and
Charles-Alexandre Jobin (securities) and
Gabrielle Richards (tax). Paul, Weiss, Rif-
kind, Wharton & Garrison LLP acted as
US counsel to the underwriters with a team
that included Christopher Cummings and
Aaron Abramson.
TRANSURBAN ACQUIRES
A25 TOLL ROAD AND BRIDGE
IN MONTRÉAL
CLOSING DATE: JUNE 5, 2018
On June 5, 2018, Transurban (ASX: TCL)
acquired 100% of the equity interests in
the A25 toll road asset and concession
in Montréal, from Macquarie Infrastruc-
ture Partners.
Transurban has assumed responsibility
for the management and operations of the
A25. e A25 is a 7.2-kilometre toll road and
bridge connecting northern Montreal across
the Rivière des Prairies to commercial and
residential areas. It opened in May 2011 with
a concession to September 2042.
Transurban was represented by Blake,
Cassels & Graydon LLP, with a team in-
cluding Yannick Beaudoin, Patrick Menda,
Angelo Noce, Émilie Cazes, Mathieu No-
lin and Andrew Krolides (corporate), Alain
Massicotte, Clémentine Sallée and Alexis
Beaudin-Fol (infrastructure), Xavier Boulet
(banking), François Auger and Julia Wang
(tax), Marie-Hélène Constantin (regulatory),
Aldona Gudas (employment), Julie Soloway
and Jim Robson (Investment Canada); and
by Hogan Lovells LLP, with a team includ-
ing Joseph Gilligan and Paul Manca.
Macquarie Infrastructure Partners was
represented internally by Louis Paul (Se-
nior Vice President) and Mache Mouzakis
(Senior Vice President) and externally by
Stikeman Elliott LLP, with a team includ-
ing Erik Richer La Flèche, Maxime Turcotte,
Dominique Rolland, Jérémie Ste-Marie and
Vanessa Clusiau (M&A), Luc Bernier and
Éric Lévesque (tax), Jeffrey Brown and Mi-
chael Rosenstock (competition), Yves Mar-
tineau, Pierre Dalphond, Patrick Girard and
Marjorie Bouchard (regulatory), Myriam
Fortin (environment), Hélène Bussières and
Michèle Robichaud (employment), François
Gilbert (financing) and Julie Helms (corpo-
rate services).
