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Harrison, QC, Elizabeth J. Farris, Vaughan, Wills
& Murphy LLP (604) 661-9367 eharrison@farris.com
Senior partner Ms. Harrison, QC, practises in the corporate, M&A, and
securities fields. She has represented boards of directors, investment
bankers and public corporations in M&As, prospectus offerings, private
placements, take-over bids, open market transactions, acquisitions
of control, related-party transactions, privatizations, proxy contests
and other securities-related matters.
Halperin, Stephen H. Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-4115 shalperin@goodmans.ca
Mr. Halperin was named among the top 30 M&A, capital markets and
governance lawyers worldwide by Euromoney (only Canadian in all three
categories). He is a peer-selected Toronto corporate governance lawyer
(2019 and four times previously), M&A lawyer (2017) and corporate lawyer
(2015 and once previously) of the year in Best Lawyers in Canada, and has
the highest ranking for the past 18 years in Chambers.
Gropper, QC, Mitchell H. Farris, Vaughan, Wills
& Murphy LLP (604) 661-9322 mgropper@farris.com
Mr. Gropper's practice focuses on complex transactions focused on corporate
finance, reorganizations, M&A and commercial real estate. He has advised
boards of directors on take-over bids, going-private transactions and other
corporate matters.
Grieve, QC, John F. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(604) 631-4772 jgrieve@fasken.com
Mr. Grieve is an internationally recognized insolvency and restructuring
lawyer, with a focus on advising major companies on complex commercial
reorganizations. As the immediate past Chair of the Firm's Global Insolvency
and Restructuring group, (from 2007 to 2017), he has a wealth of experience
in regional, national and international insolvencies and restructuring.
Gregory, John N. Thorsteinssons LLP
(604) 602-4268 jngregory@thor.ca
Mr. Gregory's practice focuses on personal and corporate taxation, corporate
reorganizations, syndications and international tax planning. He advises
a number of private business groups and high net worth families on tax
matters. Their businesses are involved in various sectors including real estate
development and investment, hospitality, agriculture and entertainment.
Graves, Brian Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(416) 865-4517 bgraves@fasken.com
Mr. Graves advises clients on mergers & acquisitions, corporate
finance, commercial and securities law matters. With a particular focus
on cross-border transactions, he works mainly in the mining and natural
resource industries and, in particular, is considered an authority
on metal streaming transactions.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP on Tax matters relating
to the sale.
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Boat Rocker Media Inc.,
included for its acquisition
of a majority stake
in Insight Productions
Boat Rocker Media Inc. has come to describe it-
self as "a global entertainment company that cre-
ates, produces and distributes premium media
content for all platforms and develops brands and
IP for worldwide monetization. Under its banner
are Boat Rocker Studios (which includes Temple
Street, Crooked Horse, Proper, Jam Filled Enter-
tainment and Radical Sheep), Boat Rocker Rights
(which includes Boat Rocker Brands), and Boat
Rocker Ventures (which includes investments in
Industrial Brothers, MarcoPolo Learning, Serial
Box, e Outline, and CAA Creative Labs). A se-
lection of its recent projects includes Orphan Black
(BBC AMERICA, Space), Killjoys (Syfy, Space),
X Company (CBC), Being Erica (CBC, SOAP-
net), Masterchef Canada (CTV)." It was pleased
to join with Insight, a leading television produc-
tion company headquartered in Toronto, in an-
nouncing : "Effective immediately, this invest-
ment enables Insight to increase and diversify
its content offerings and move more aggressively
into digital content while signifying Boat Rock-
er's continued growth in the Canadian market
and around the world."
Goodmans represented Insight Productions
with a team that included Jonathan Feldman,
Emily Ting and Sarah Macchione (Corporate/
M&A), Tara Parker (Entertainment), and Mitch
Sherman (Tax).
Stikeman Elliott acted for Boat Rocker Media
(on Matador Content, LLC; and FremantleMedia's
Kids & Family Entertainment division deals) with
a team led by Simon Romano, Marie Garneau and
including Paul Neville and Martyna Wolska.
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The Cannabis sector
is Deal #10
Most notably, Constellation Brands, the maker of
Corona and Modela beers, increased its stake in
Canopy Growth by an additional $4 billion (on
top of its acquisition of a smaller stake earlier in the
year). CNBC reported:
