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BIG DEALS
based on Mogo achieving certain quarterly
revenue targets.
Mogo was represented in-house by Lisa
Skakun, Chief Administrative and Legal Of-
ficer, and by John Anderson and Victor Ger-
chikov of Stikeman Elliott LLP.
Postmedia was represented in-house by
Jeffrey Haar, Executive Vice President, Legal
and General Counsel, and Megan O'Toole,
Director, Legal Affairs, by Randy Taylor of
LaBarge Weinstein LLP, and by Michael
Macaulay and Euan Sinclair of Lawson
Lundell LLP.
Telecommunications Telecommunications
SHAW COMMUNICATION
CLOSES $300M SENIOR
NOTE OFFERING
CLOSING DATE: FEBRUARY 19, 2016
On February 19, 2016, Shaw Communica-
tions completed an offering of $300 million
aggregate principal amount of senior notes.
e senior notes were made available in Can-
ada under Shaw's previously filed short form
base shelf prospectus.
e net proceeds are being used for work-
ing capital and general corporate purposes,
which may include directly or indirectly
funding payment of a portion of the pur-
chase price for the previously announced ac-
quisition by Shaw of WIND Mobile.
(As reported in Lexpert's DealsWire of
January 7, Bill Jenkins of Dentons Canada
LLP led the external team advising Shaw
Communications, and Patrick Barry of
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP led
the external team advising WIND Mobile.
e acquisition was announced on Decem-
ber 16, 2015 and closed on March 1, 2016.)
Shaw Communications, headquartered in
Calgary, Alberta, is a diversified communi-
cations and media company that provides
broadband cable television, high-speed Inter-
net, home phone and other telecommunica-
tions and satellite services and content.
Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New
York stock exchanges and is included in the
S&P/TSX 60 Index (Symbol: TSX - SJR.B,
NYSE - SJR).
Shaw was represented in-house by Peter
Johnson, Senior Vice President, General
Counsel & Corporate Secretary, along with
John Reynolds, Vice President & Assistant
General Counsel.
Corporate counsel for Shaw was a team
from Dentons Canada LLP. e Dentons
Canada team was led by Bill Jenkins and was
composed of Toby Allan, Lucas Tomei, Dan
Shea and Jessica Myers (capital markets).
e notes were sold through a syndicate of
agents led by TD Securities, and including
CIBC World Markets Inc., RBC Dominion
Securities Inc., Scotia Capital Inc., National
Bank Financial Inc., AltaCorp Capital Inc.
e agents were advised by McCarthy
Tétrault LLP. e McCarthy Tétrault
team was led by David Woollcombe and
was composed of Matthew Appleby, Lama
Sabbagh and Diego Beltran (business law),
Gabrielle Richards (tax) and Grant Bu-
chanan (communications).
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