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34 www.lexpert.ca Big Deals COMPILED BY ZENA OLIJNYK AND KIEZZSA CRUZ > MINING DEALS Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP acted as external counsel for Kirkland Lake Gold with a team that included Jamie Litchen, Jay Goldman, Jeffrey P. Roy, Paul M. Stein, Jonathan Sherman, Jonathan Chandler, Michael Rosenbloom, Shannon Scrocchi, ea Gaertner, Layla Makhzoumi, Brian P. Dominique, Ann Watterworth, Zahra Nurmohamed, Tera Li Parizeau, Jennifer Wasylyk, Lauren Grossman, Stephanie Voudouris, John M. Picone, Lara Jackson, Caitlin Russell, Arend Hoekstra, Kimberly Dodson, Rebecca Lee, and Joel Matson. Dorsey & Whitney LLP acted as US counsel for Kirkland Lake Gold with a team that included James Guttman, Kendall Fisher, John Hollinrake, Jude Gee, Megan Baker, Matthew Olson, Nicholas Arruda, and Marianne O'Bara. Clayton Utz acted as Australian US counsel for Kirkland Lake Gold with a team that included Elizabeth Humphry, Tyson Ginn, Brett Cohen, Armin Fazely, Luke Cros, Cameron Forbes, and Peter Feros. Davies Ward Philips & Vineberg LLP acted as external counsel for Agnico Eagle Mines Limited with a team that included Patricia L. Olasker, Jennifer Longhurst, Marc Pontone, Joseph DiPonio, Ghaith Sibai, Mathieu Taschereau, Julie Colden, John D. Bodrug, Jim Dinning, Matthew Milne-Smith, Gabriella Lombardi, and Nir Servatka. Gilbert + Tobin acted as Australian counsel for Agnico Eagle Mines Limited with a team that included Liya Wu, Deborah Johns, and Wes Bainbridge. ELECTRIC ROYALTIES ACQUIRES NET SMELTER REVENUE ROYALTY ON NORTHERN NORWAY'S RANA NICKEL PROJECT CLOSING DATE: JANUARY 27, 2022 On January 27, 2022, Electric Royalties Ltd. completed its acquisition of a 1-percent net smelter revenue royalty on the Rana nickel project. e Rana Project comprises four exploration licenses totalling 25 square kilo- metres in the Rana mafic-ultramafic intru- sion in Northern Norway, including the past producing Bruvann Nickel mine. Electric Royalties Ltd. is a royalty company set to take advantage of the demand for a wide range of commodities that will benefit from the drive to electrification. McCarthy Tétrault LLP advised Electric Royalties Ltd. with a team led by Roger R. Taplin that included Patrick Deutscher and Xinya Wang. EUROVIA CANADA ACQUIRES PUBLIC WORKERS CONTRACTORS FROM NORTHERN GROUP OF COMPANIES CLOSING DATE: JANUARY 05, 2022 On January 05, 2022, Eurovia Canada Inc. acquired a group of public works contractors in the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia from Northern Group of Companies. Eurovia Canada Inc., headquartered in Quebec, constructs transport infrastructure and urban developments and is a subsidiary of VINCI Construction. McCarthy Tétrault LLP advised Eurovia Canada with a team co-led by Mathieu Leblanc and Louis-Nicolas Boulanger that included Isabelle Pépin-Lapointe and Ahmed Kisserli (Business); Dominic érien and Erin Keogh (Competition); Daphné Anastassiadis (Litigation); and Florence Gagnon (Real Property and Planning). McInnes Cooper served as opposing counsel. SKEENA RESOURCES CLOSES $30.9- MILLION NON-BROKERED PRIVATE PLACEMENT OFFERING CLOSING DATE: DECEMBER 23, 2021 On December 23, 2021, Skeena Resources Limited ("Skeena") announced the closing of a structured non-brokered private placement offering of 1,471,739 flow-through common shares at a price of $21.00 per flow-through common share for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $30.9 million to Franco- Nevada Corporation ("Franco-Nevada"). As part of the transaction, Skeena agreed to grant Franco-Nevada a right of first refusal over the sale of a 0.5-percent net smelter return (NSR) royalty over the Eskay Creek gold- silver project ("Eskay Creek"), and the parties amended the terms of Franco-Nevada's existing 1.0-percent net smelter return royalty over the Eskay Creek gold-silver project. Skeena Resources is a Canadian mining exploration company focused on revital- izing the past-producing Eskay Creek gold- silver mine located in Tahltan Territory in the Golden Triangle of northwest British Columbia, Canada. McCarthy Tétrault LLP advised Skeena Resources Limited with a team led by Daniel Bornstein that included Glynnis Morgan, Robin Mahood, Lance Williams, and Kyle Riddell (Business).