LEXPERT MAGAZINE
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APRIL 2016 27
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CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS OF IMPORTANCE
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Adrienne O'Reilly, Bruce MacPhail, Jes-
sica Myers (corporate) and Walter Van Dorn
(Dentons US LLP, corporate).
Utilities Financials Health Research
Entertainment Recreation & Leisure Advertising & Marketing
E-Commerce Construction & Engineering
Consumer Staples
BELL CANADA AND
KILMER GROUP ACQUIRE
THE TORONTO ARGONAUTS
CLOSING DATE: DECEMBER 31, 2015
e Kilmer Group jointly with Bell Canada
acquired the Toronto Argonauts Football
Club of the Canadian Football League
(CFL) from sports entrepreneur David Bral-
ey. Financial terms of the transaction were
not disclosed.
Founded in 1873, the Toronto Argonauts
are North America's oldest continuously op-
erated professional football club and the old-
est pro sports team of any kind on the conti-
nent that still operates with its original name.
e Kilmer Group, owned by Toronto
businessman Larry Tanenbaum, has been
helping to build Canadian businesses
through long-term funding and leadership.
is has included areas as diverse as heavy
construction, building products, cable televi-
sion, publishing, electronics manufacturing,
food processing, sports, clinical research or-
ganizations, environmental rehabilitation,
and infrastructure development.
Bell is Canada's largest communications
company, providing consumers and business
customers with wireless, TV, Internet, home
phone and business communications servic-
es. Bell Media is Canada's premier multime-
dia company with leading assets in television,
radio, out of home, and digital media. Bell is
wholly owned by Montréal's BCE Inc.
e Kilmer Group was represented by
Goodmans LLP with a team led by Dale
Lastman that included John Connon and
David Wallace (corporate/M&A), Andrew
Wiseman (real estate) and Mitch Sherman
and Michael Royal (tax).
Bell Canada was represented by an in-
house team which was led by Martin Cos-
sette, Vice-President, Legal and that included
Genevieve Filion.
David Braley was represented by Ross &
McBride LLP with a team led by John Lewis
and which included Paul Pop (corporate/IP)
and Sean Jackson (employment).
Consumer Services Energy & Power Pipelines
Aerospace & Defence Automotive Materials
Utilities Financials Health Research
Media & Entertainment Recreation & Leisure Advertising & Marketing
E-Commerce Construction & Engineering
Consumer Staples
COTT CORPORATION
COMPLETES ACQUISITION
OF AQUATERRA
CLOSING DATE: JANUARY 4, 2016
Cott Corporation completed its acquisition
of AquaTerra Corporation (AquaTerra),
a portfolio company of Birch Hill Equity
Partners Management Inc. (Birch Hill), for
approximately $62 million. e acquisition
was funded using cash on hand and borrow-
ings under Cott's asset based lending facility.
AquaTerra is Canada's oldest and larg-
est direct-to-consumer home and office wa-
ter delivery business that delivers premium
brands of water, coffee and tea, refreshments,
and break room supplies.
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