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JANUARY 2013
BIG DEALS
Administrative Agent with JP Morgan Secu-
rities LLC, Barclays Bank Plc, Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and
Royal Bank of Canada acting as Co-Syndi-
cation Agents, Joint Bookrunners and Joint
Lead Arrangers, Wells Fargo Bank serving as
Co-Syndication Agent, and SunTrust Bank
and Union Bank acting as Co-Documenta-
tion Agents.
Lionsgate was represented by its internal
legal team (Wayne Levin, David Friedman,
Jim Gladstone and Adrian Kuzycz) and by
O'Melveny & Myers
LLP (Patrick Lawler &
Sheri Linzell) as well as by Drinker Biddle
& Reath LLP (Judith Reich and Ian Gold-
stein) and Chaffe McCall L.L.P. (Mandy
Mendoza Gagliardi & Philip Sims). Lions-
gate was represented on Canadian matters
by Heenan Blaikie LLP with a team led by
Jim Russell and including Allen Garson, Joel
Cabelli, Ed Wooldridge, Eva Schmieg, Jodie
Sourlis, Michael Shedletsky, Jayme Alter and
Louis-Philippe.
JPMC was represented in the US by Mor-
gan Lewis & Bockius LLP (Richard Pe-
tretti, Andrew Costello & Sharmila Achari)
and in Canada by Fraser Milner Casgrain
LLP (Barbara Farina, Maria Pavelis, Heidi
Clark, Jennifer Dezell, Jill Macgillivray and
Colin Yeo).
BROOKFIELD OFFICE
PROPERTIES COMPLETES
CONSTRUCTION FINANCING
FOR BAY ADELAIDE CENTRE
EAST TOWER
CLOSING DATE: SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
BAC East Above Grade Sub LP, a subsidiary
of BPO Properties Ltd., closed with e To-
ronto-Dominion Bank, e Bank of Nova
Scotia, Bank of Montreal and Sumitomo
Mitsui Banking Corporation of Canada on
the establishment of credit facilities total-
ling $350 million for the construction of Bay
Adelaide Centre's East Tower in Toronto.
e Toronto-Dominion Bank is acting as
administrative agent for the lenders. Imme-
diately prior to the closing of the credit facili-
ties, Brookfield reorganized the ownership of
Bay Adelaide Centre to, among other things,
incorporate a parcel of land at the corner of
Yonge and Adelaide Streets into the Bay Ad-
elaide Centre site.
BAC East Above Grade Sub LP and its af-
filiates were represented in-house by a team
that comprised Deborah Rogers and Ame-
lia Nasrallah and externally by Goodmans
LLP, with a team that comprised Jeffrey
Shore, Stephen Belgue and Bradley Hennick.
e lenders and the agent were represent-
ed on the financing by a team from Bennett
Jones LLP that comprised Paul Mantini, Ju-
liana Abdo and Colin Andrews.
CORRECTION
In the "Big Deals" entry, "Maple Group
Acquires TMX Group, CDA and Alpha
Group" (October 2012, p. 26) Tony Hoff-
mann's name was misspelled. Hoffmann is
Legal Counsel for CDS.
Lexpert regrets the error.
