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BIG DEALS
team including Leif King (corporate), Faiz
Ahmad (corporate), Kenneth Schwartz (an-
titrust), Michelle Gasaway (capital markets),
Kristine Dunn (banking) and Joseph Penko
(executive compensation and benefits); and
Stikeman Elliott LLP with a team that in-
cluded Jeffrey Brown (competition), Megan
MacDonald (competition), Barbara Sheng
(corporate) and Amy Nugent (banking).
Effective upon closing, the company
amended and upsized its revolving credit
facility to $1.425 billion with an accordion
feature allowing up to $1.8 billion of capac-
ity. Bank of America served as administrative
agent for the transaction.
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
acted as Canadian counsel to Bank of Amer-
ica with a team consisting of Arnold Cohen
and Noah Schein. Latham & Watkins LLP
acted as US counsel to Bank of America with
a team consisting of Abhay Lele, Charlotte
Hagan and Jeffrey Kohn.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP acted
as Canadian counsel to Williams Scotsman
on the revolving credit facility transaction
with a team including by Alexis Levine,
Gabriel Bastien and Christopher Wong.
Allen & Overy LLP acted as US counsel
to Williams Scotsman with a team consist-
ing of Jaimie Hughey, Zachary Frimet and
Lucas Burbank.
TERANET AFFILIATE
COMPLETES ACQUISITION
OF D+H COLLATERAL
MANAGEMENT CORP.
FROM FINASTRA
CLOSING DATE: AUGUST 3, 2018
On August 3, 2018, an affiliated entity of
Teranet Inc., CM Solutions Inc., acquired all
of the issued and outstanding shares of D+H
Collateral Management Corp., a division of
Finastra Holdings Inc.
Teranet is Canada's leader in the delivery
of statutory registry services and is owned by
OMERS Infrastructure, the infrastructure
investment manager of OMERS, which is
the defined benefit pension plan for Ontar-
io's municipal employees.
D+H Collateral Management Corp. is
the market leader in Canadian lien registra-
tion and search, asset recovery services, and
insolvency management.
TD Securities and e Bank of Nova Sco-
tia co-led a senior credit financing in support
of the acquisition.
Teranet was represented in-house by Agos-
tino Russo, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate
Secretary, and Jacqueline Hawkins, Senior
Legal Counsel. Teranet was assisted external-
ly by Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP with
a team led by Ian Palm and that included,
among others, Pam Vermeersch and David
Torchetti (corporate/M&A), Ian Macdon-
ald (competition), Paul Carenza (tax), Chris-
topher Alam, Bahar Hafizi and Leila Burden
Nixon (financial services), Daniel Hayhurst
(pensions), Neena Gupta (employment) and
Anita Nador (IP).
OMERS Infrastructure was represented
in-house by Jennifer Guerard, Managing
Director, Legal, and Matt Segal, Associate
Director, Legal.
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