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Swartz, Jay A.
Davies Ward Phillips
& Vineberg LLP
(416) 863-5520
jswartz@dwpv.com
Mr. Swartz focuses on
domestic and cross-border
insolvencies, private-equity
funds, private company
acquisitions, banking,
debt fi nancings, fi nancial
products development,
structured and project
fi nance, and governance.
emens,
Pierre-André
Davies Ward Phillips
& Vineberg LLP
(514) 841-6448
pathemens@dwpv.com
Mr. emens, a managing
partner of Davies, focuses
on all aspects of complex
domestic/foreign project
fi nancings and real estate
transactions including
acquisitions/dispositions
and securitizations
for major institutional
investors and pension plans.
ompson, QC,
Peter C.P.
Borden Ladner
Gervais LLP
(613) 787-3528
pthompson@blg.com
Mr. ompson's
particular litigation
and administrative
law expertise is in the
regulation of natural gas
and electricity utilities.
Moreover, he appears
at all court levels and
for 25 years managed
BLG's Ottawa offi ce.
Tay, Derrick C.
Gowling Lafl eur
Henderson LLP
(416) 369-7330
derrick.tay@gowlings.com
Mr. Tay leads the fi rm's
corporate restructuring
practice. His primar y focus
is on the restructuring and
reorganization of complex
debtor corporations, and
he has deep experience in
cross-border and multi-
jurisdictional transactions.
omassin, Kim
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
(514) 397-5685
kthomassin@mccarthy.ca
Ms. omassin focuses on
M&A transactions and
project fi nancing in the
energy and infrastructure
areas, including the
implementation of debt
and equity investments
in hydroelectric
projects; acquisitions
and fi nancing; and
commercial transactions.
omson, Kevin J.
Davies Ward Phillips
& Vineberg LLP
(416) 863-5590
kthomson@dwpv.com
Mr. omson is widely
regarded as one of Canada's
leading M&A lawyers.
Involved as lead counsel
in many of Canada's
most prominent hostile
and friendly change-
of-control transactions
and proxy contests,
including extensive mining
sector experience.
LLP; and in Sweden by Björn Welinder
and Maria Stakovska (corporate) of
Lindmark Welinder.
CIBC was represented in Canada by
Joel Scoler, Justin Lapedus and Lama Sab-
bagh of McCarthy Tétrault LLP; and in
the US by Greg Klamrzynski and Cari
Grieb of Chapman and Cutler LLP.
TELUS
ACQUIRES
PUBLIC MOBILE
Closing date: October 23, 2013
Public Mobile Inc., a telecommunications
company headquartered in Toronto and
operating a wireless network in Quebec
and Ontario, was acquired by TELUS
Communications Inc.
TELUS was represented by Michel
Belec, Vice President, Legal Services; and
Pier Fiorino, Vice President, Taxation.
External counsel to Telus was provided by
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in con-
nection with the acquisition with a team
led by Robert Yalden (corporate) and
including Nadir Nurmohamed, Victoria
Au and Amelia Miao (corporate); Scott
Horner (fi nancial services) and Michelle
Lally and Matthew Anderson (compe-
tition law/foreign investment group).
TELUS retained Ian Gamble and Terry
Barnett of orsteinssons LLP with re-
spect to tax advice.
Public Mobile was represented by Bob
Boron, its Senior Vice President and
Chief Legal and Regulatory Offi cer. Mc-
Millan LLP represented Public Mobile
in connection with the acquisition with a
team led by Charles Chevrette (business
law) and Stephanie Robinson (fi nancial
services) and including Bruce McWil-
liam, Enda Wong and Pierre-Christian
Hoff man (business law); Cli on Jarin (fi -
nancial services) and Michael Friedman
and Carl Irvine (tax). With respect to the
competition and antitrust issues, Public
Mobile retained McMillan with a team
of Neil Campbell and Devin Anderson
(competition and antitrust). Public Mo-
bile also retained WeirFoulds LLP's Ni-
kiforos Iatrou and Bronwyn Roe (compe-
tition and antitrust).
Torys LLP represented omvest
Seed Capital Inc., one of the sellers, with
a team led by Guy Berman and Michael
Akkawi (corporate) and including Ricco
Bhasin and Jonah Goldberg (corporate);
Omar Wakil (competition and antitrust)
and Andrew Wong (tax).
Stikeman Elliott LLP represented
Cartesian Capital Group, LLC, one
of the sellers, with a team led by John
Ciardullo (M&A) and including J.R. Laf-
fi n (M&A), Michael Kilby (regulatory)
and John Lorito and Katy Pitch (tax).
e acquisition received the continu-
ing support of ZTE Corporation, and the
Export-Import Bank of China.
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP repre-
sented ZTE Corporation with a team led
by James Mathers (fi nancial services) and
including Shane Pearlman and Vincent
Frénette (fi nancial services); Jennifer He-
fl er (competition and foreign investment
review) and Sean Gosnell (China-Cana-
da cross-border issues).
LIFELABS
ACQUIRES CML
Closing date: October 1, 2013
LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services
completed the acquisition of CML
HealthCare Inc. for $965 million in
cash and the assumption of $255 mil-
lion in debt for a total transaction value
of $1.22 billion. e acquisition was car-
ried out pursuant to a statutory plan of
arrangement under the Business Corpo-
rations Act (Ontario).
Concurrent with the acquisition of
CML by LifeLabs, CML undertook
completion of the divestiture of its di-
agnostic imaging operations, with the
exception of its MRI/CT operations
in Ontario.
Borealis Infrastructure and LifeLabs
were represented in-house by Kath Ham-
mond, Vice President – Legal, and Jen-
