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Durand, Ron Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5542 rdurand@stikeman.com
Mr. Durand is a senior counsel to the firm with respect to tax matters
and a former Head of the Tax Group. He has been involved in numerous
divestitures, mergers & acquisitions, reorganizations, corporate
restructurings and financings.
Dubé, Georges McMillan LLP
(416) 865-7876 georges.dube@mcmillan.ca
Mr. Dubé has extensive public markets experience in corporate finance and M&A
transactions in the domestic and cross-border context. Industries have included real
estate, medical cannabis, mining and technology. He regularly assists with strategic
decisions by boards and often acts for special committees and financial advisors
in the context of change of control and related-party transactions.
Dellelce, Perry N. Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
(416) 361-5899 perry@wildlaw.ca
Managing Partner of Wildeboer Dellelce, one of Canada's leading business
transactions law firms, Mr. Dellelce practises in the areas of securities,
corporate finance and M&A, offering legal and corporate finance experience
combined with hands-on business experience across a range of sectors
including financial services. Recognized by Lexpert® for Technology
Transactions and Global Mining.
Davies, QC, Donald G. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(403) 267-8183 don.davies@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Davies practises energy law, with a focus on the regulatory and litigation
fields. He has acted for both proponents and intervenors in many applications
for the approval of pipeline facilities and for the determination of pipeline
tolls and tariffs. His cases typically involve complex environmental, Aboriginal,
constitutional, jurisdictional, economic and financial issues.
d'Anglejan-Chatillon, Alix Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-3240 adanglejan@stikeman.com
Ms. d'Anglejan-Chatillon is a partner and Co-Head of the Financial
Products & Services Group. She practises principally in the areas of
investment management, the regulation of capital markets and derivatives.
She frequently lectures on derivatives, hedge funds and financial
products regulation.
Cusinato, Curtis Bennett Jones LLP
(416) 777-5774 cusinatoc@bennettjones.com
Mr. Cusinato is a partner practising corporate and securities law,
with a focus on cross-border M&As and capital markets transactions.
He has advised leading public and private companies and private equity
groups on domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, divestitures,
leveraged and management buyouts, going-private transactions and other
private equity transactions.
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world's largest hockey centric retailer; and FGL
(Sport Chek, Hockey Experts, Sports Experts,
National Sports, Intersport and Atmosphere),
which offers the best active wear brands. e
approximately 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets
are supported and strengthened by our Finan-
cial Services division and the tens of thousands
of people employed across the country by the
Company and its local dealers, franchisees and
petroleum retailers."
e cross-border transaction was led for Ca-
nadian Tire by Norton Rose Fulbright's Walied
Soliman, Terence Dobbin and Troy Ungerman,
and included Chris Pearson, Jon Perry, Pierre
Dagenais, Bruce Sheiner, Seemal Patel, Trevor
Zeyl, Robert Corbeil, Saskia Blokland and Jas-
per Geerdes (Corporate, M&A and Securities),
Adrienne Oliver, Brian Milne, Dominic Stutta-
ford and Remco Smorenburg (Tax), Kevin Ack-
hurst and Anastasia Kastelskaya (Competition/
Anti-trust), Chris Hunter (Intellectual Proper-
ty), Robert Percival (Information Technolog y),
Mike Knapper (Regulatory), Lisa Cabel and
Senka Grahovac (Employment & Labour), Mat-
thew Findley (Employee Benefits and Executive
Compensation), Michael Lieberman and Alex
Fane (Real Estate), Noah Schein (Finance), and
Sara Josselyn (Insurance).
Osler advised the underwriters on Canadian
Tire's debt offering to partially fund the acquisi-
tion with a team led by Michael Innes.
Torys with a team led by Laurie Duke acted
for Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan as Canadian
counsel in its sale of Helly Hansen to Canadian
Tire Corporation, Limited.
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Coca-Cola
sale to Kilmer
On September 28, 2018, Coca-Cola Canada
Bottling Limited ("CCCBL"), a joint venture
established between prominent business per-
son and philanthropist Larry Tanenbaum, OC,
and Junior Bridgeman, a former NBA player,
renowned entrepreneur and owner of Kansas City-
based Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company,
completed its previously announced acquisition
of Coca-Cola Refreshments Canada Company
("CCRC") from Coca-Cola Refreshments USA,
Inc., a subsidiary of e Coca-Cola Company
(NYSE:KO).
CCCBL continues to employ 5,800 CCRC
employees and is responsible for all Coca-Cola
bottling and distribution operations across Can-
ada, including the operation of five production
