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MARCH 2016
BIG DEALS
tate) of Stikeman Elliott LLP.
Audax was represented by its General
Counsel Dan Weintraub (corporate) and
Deputy General Counsels Tamarah Bel-
cyzk (finance), Joshua Aronson (corporate)
and Michael Fondo (tax), as well as Mi-
chael Gans, Tim Phillips, Tom Rowe, Raees
Nakhuda, Josh Whitford and David Bris-
tow (corporate), Paul Stepak and Peter Lee
(tax) and Ian Binnie, Jennifer Hancock and
Shubhreen Kaur (finance) of Blake, Cassels
& Graydon LLP and Jeff Seifman, John Ber-
ger (corporate), Greg Bauer (finance), Rachel
Cantor and Polina Liberman (tax) of Kirk-
land & Ellis LLP.
Antares was represented by Richard Higa
and Ian Mak, Damilola Katibi and Sabrina
Lyon of McCarthy Tétrault LLP. San-
katy was represented by Richard Borins,
Scott Cooper and Jeremy Burgess of Osler,
Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and by Gary
Creem, William Brady, Steven Peck and Pat-
rick Walling of Proskauer Rose LLP.
VASCO COMPLETES
ACQUISITION OF
THE SILANIS ENTITIES
CLOSING DATE: NOVEMBER 25, 2015
On November 25, 2015, VASCO Data Se-
curity International Inc., a leader in authen-
tication, electronic signatures and identity
management, completed the acquisition of
all of the issued and outstanding securities of
the Silanis entities including Silanis Technol-
ogy Inc., the provider of e-SignLive — the
most widely used e-signature solution in
the world. e purchase price of $113 mil-
lion (US$85 million) was paid in cash. e
transaction was effected by way of a statu-
tory plan of arrangement pursuant to s. 192
of the Canada Business Corporations Act and
involved, inter alia, the amalgamation of the
Silanis entities and the acquisition of the
amalgamated entity by VASCO Data Secur-
ity International Inc.
VASCO Data Security International Inc.
was represented by Charlie MacCready, Ed-
ward West, Alex Farcas, Konrad Pola, Ye Xia
(corporate/M&A), Brian Segal, Erik Chris-
tenson, Dominika Korytek, Ena Patel (tax),
Michael Mensik, Heiko Burow, Essien Udo-
kang (intellectual property), Cheryl Elliott,
Adrian Ishak, Andy Boling (employment)
and Sam Kramer and Arlan Gates (regula-
tory) of Baker & McKenzie LLP.
e Silanis entities were represented
by Peter Castiel, Vanessa Coiteux, Alli-
son Jaskolka, Timour Breslavski, Cather-
ine Ouellet Dupuis, William Carrothers
(M&A), Frank Mathieu, Adam Drori (tax),
Frédéric Paré, Rémi Leprévost (litigation),
Stephanie Weschler, Stephanie Pasternyk
(labour), Jonathan Auerbach (intellectual
property) and François Ouimet (financing)
of Stikeman Elliott LLP.
GLOBAL JET CAPITAL
ACQUIRES CORPORATE
AIRCRAFT PORTFOLIO
FROM GE CAPITAL
CLOSING DATE: DECEMBER 4, 2015
On December 4, 2015, Global Jet Capital, a
company providing leasing and lending solu-
tions for large-cabin, long-range private jets,
completed its acquisition of the aircra lease
and loan portfolio of GE Capital Corporate
Aircra in the Americas representing ap-
proximately US$2.5 billion of net assets.
Global Jet Capital was represented in the
US by Kevin Mausert, Christopher Elder
and John Mason Wilkes of Kirkland &
Ellis LLP; by Emily DiStefano, Olga Mil-
ler, Patrick Reisinger and Richard Williams
of Clifford Chance US LLP and by a cor-
porate team from Latham & Watkins LLP
led by Daniel Lennon and Nicholas Luongo
and including Cory Tull, Rohith Parasura-
man, Mariclaire Petty and Mitchell London.
Advice was also provided by David Raab and
Matthew Dewitz (tax); Steve Betensky and
Tiana Hertel (transition services); David
Della Rocca and Matthew Conway (employ-
ee benefits); Jeffrey Chenard, Graeme Smyth,
Kevin Fingeret and Larry Safran (finance);
Marc Williamson, Hector Armengod and
Sydney Smith (antitrust) and Alan Avery and
Pia Naib (banking).
Global Jet Capital was represented in Can-
ada by Ken Ottenbreit, Gordon Cameron,
Kenton Rein, Eliza Dinale, Julien Lefebvre,
and Laura Fraser (M&A and financing),
Paul Collins and Megan MacDonald (com-
petition) and Luc Bernier and Eric Lévesque
(tax) of Stikeman Elliott LLP.
GE Capital's in-house team, in the US,
was led by Elisabeth McCarthy, Amy
Rhodes and Kevin Randall and, in Canada,
by Caroline Boutin. GE Capital was repre-
sented in the US by a Shearman & Sterling
LLP team including John Marzulli, Sean
Skiffington, Richard Fischetti and Andreas
Piepers (M&A), along with William Yaro
(finance), Ethan Harris (tax), Doreen Lilien-
feld (compensation, governance & ERISA),
Douglas Bartner (financial restructuring &
insolvency), Sean Finley (investment funds),
Laura Friedrich (investment funds) and
Nathan Sawyer (M&A). GE Capital was
represented in Canada by Marie-France Ga-
gnon and Gadi Taj Ndahumba of McCarthy
Tétrault LLP.
Consumer Services Energy & Power Pipelines
Aerospace & Defence Automotive Materials
Utilities Financials Health Research
Media & Entertainment Recreation & Leisure Advertising & Marketing
ENBRIDGE ACQUIRES
INTEREST IN UK OFFSHORE
WIND PROJECT
CLOSING DATE: NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Enbridge Inc., through a wholly owned sub-
sidiary, acquired a 24.9 per cent interest in
the 400 megawatt Rampion Offshore Wind
Project in the United Kingdom. Enbridge's
total investment in the Rampion Project is
expected to be $750 million (GBP 370 mil-
lion) inclusive of all interest during construc-
tion, transaction costs and a development fee.
e Rampion Project was developed and is
being constructed by E.ON Climate & Re-
newables UK Limited, a subsidiary of E.ON
SE, one of the world's largest utilities and a
leading developer of wind energy projects.
e Rampion Project provides Enbridge
with a timely and effective entry point to the
European offshore wind business. Enbridge
has invested over $4 billion in renewable
power generation and transmission in the
past decade.
Enbridge was represented internally by
Jim Bell, Senior Legal Counsel, and Mat-
thew Hall, Legal Counsel, from its Calgary
office. Dentons was Enbridge's external legal
advisor with a team in its London office that
included Charles July (energy), Nigel Webber
(corporate) and Max Moore (corporate). Bill
Jenkins and Stephanie Campbell of Den-
tons' Calgary office assisted with certain
Canadian law matters.
E.ON was represented internally by Mir-
iam Bardolet Pou, Legal Counsel, E.ON
Global, Next Generation (Dusseldorf, Ger-
many). E.ON was also represented by Pin-
