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CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS OF IMPORTANCE
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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP acted as
Canadian counsel to Teck with a team led by
Fred Pletcher that included Erik Goldsilver,
Michael Waters and Michelle Wilkinson.
Torys LLP acted as counsel to Franco
Nevada with a team that was led by Melissa
Prado that included Philip Mohtadi as well
as Michael Amm.
THE CARLYLE GROUP
ACQUIRES ARRAY CANADA INC.
CLOSING DATE: DECEMBER 7, 2015
On December 7, 2015, TorQuest Partners
(TorQuest) and Array Canada Inc. (Array)
completed the sale of Array to funds man-
aged by e Carlyle Group (Carlyle).
Array is one of the largest North American
providers of visual merchandising solutions
to high-end cosmetic brands. e company
delivers fully integrated store fixtures and
merchandising displays.
Terms of the transaction were undisclosed.
TorQuest and Array were represented
by Brian Pukier, Jonah Mann, Steven Ben-
nett and Rachel Wasserman (M&A), Mi-
chael Kilby (regulatory), Marie Garneau
and Meaghan Obee Tower (banking), John
Lorito and Jill Winton (tax), Kasia Kmiec
(real estate), Nancy Ramalho (employment),
Aiden Talai (pensions/benefits), as well as
Larry Cobb (environmental) of Stikeman
Elliott LLP.
Westerkirk Capital Inc. was represented
by Robert Vaux and Andrea Bettello of
Goodmans LLP.
e Management of Array was repre-
sented by Neill May and Katelyn Rancourt
of Goodmans LLP.
Carlyle was represented by Ilan Nissan,
James Lee, Sarah Kaehler, Grant Manning
and Emily Cai (M&A), Milena Tantcheva,
Jonathan Forgang and John Ilardo (bank-
ing), Eric Willenbacher and Alexander
Plaum (tax), Robert Hale and Timothy Ho-
lahan (employment), Natascha George and
Sarah Bock (benefits), Nathan Brodeur (en-
vironmental), Kerri Garipoli and Jessica Graf
(real estate) of Goodwin Procter LLP.
ENDEAVOUR MINING
COMPLETES LA MANCHA
TRANSACTION
CLOSING DATE: NOVEMBER 27, 2015
On November 27, 2015, Endeavour Mining
Corporation (Endeavour) completed a trans-
action with La Mancha Holding S.àr.l. (La
Mancha), a privately-held gold investment
company held by the Sawiris family group.
As part of the transaction, La Mancha
contributed US$63M in cash, the Ity mine
in Cote d'Ivoire and certain other assets to
Endeavour. Endeavour issued to La Mancha
common shares of Endeavour representing
30 per cent of Endeavour's outstanding share
capital (with a market value of approximately
$78 million as at the closing date).
Endeavour was represented in Canada by
Stikeman Elliott LLP with a team includ-
