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Story, Craig A. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(403) 266-9098 cstory@stikeman.com
Mr. Story's domestic and cross-border practice embraces corporate
and securities law, including public and private capital market offerings,
private-equity and venture capital funds (both fund creation and portfolio
company investments/divestitures), mergers and acquisitions and corporate
governance. His industry experience includes energy, oil & gas, service,
midstream and financial services.
Stein, Paul M. Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
(416) 869-5487 pstein@casselsbrock.com
Mr. Stein's practice focuses on M&A and corporate finance, mainly in the
mining sector. He represents Canadian and international companies in friendly
and hostile take-over bids, joint ventures, financings and going public
and private transactions.
Spitznagel, QC, Perry Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3153 spitznagelp@bennettjones.com
Mr. Spitznagel is Vice Chairman of Bennett Jones, Calgary Managing
Partner and a member of its Partnership Board, and has a transactional
and advisory practice focusing primarily on mergers and acquisitions
and corporate governance.
Spencer, David A. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-2054 spencerd@bennettjones.com
Mr. Spencer's practice focuses on M&A, corporate governance and corporate
finance. Representative experience includes acting for Repsol in its acquisition
of Talisman for $15 billion, for Flint Energy in its acquisition by URS for $1.2
billion and for SMART Technologies in its $600-million cross-border IPO.
He is also a director of Parkland Fuel, a TSX-listed company.
Smith, QC, Lawrence E. (Laurie)
Bennett Jones LLP (403) 298-3315 smithl@bennettjones.com
Lead regulatory Counsel to oil/gas pipelines, LNG exports, Alberta's largest
gas distributor. Appeared before Supreme Court of Canada, federal/provincial
Appeal Courts; testified before House of Commons/Senate Committees, NAFTA
Chapter 11 panel, California Energy Commission. Past member Montréal
Neurological Institute Advisory Board; current member Royal Military College
Board of Governors.
Smit, Carrie B.E. Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-4230 csmit@goodmans.ca
Ms. Smit is head of the firm's Tax Group. Practice focuses on corporate
commercial transactions, cross-border mergers, corporate reorganizations,
debt restructurings, domestic and international debt financings, international
tax planning and private-equity investments.
LEXPERT RANKED LAWYERS
all of the assets of Bombardier's Transportation busi-
ness segment.
Furthermore, concurrently with the closing of the
acquisition of a 30 per cent stake in BT Holdco and,
as previously announced, Bombardier has issued to
CDPQ warrants exercisable for a total number of
105,851,872 Class B shares (subordinate voting) in the
capital of Bombardier. e warrants are exercisable for a
period of seven years from the closing date at an exercise
price per share equal to US$1.66, being the US dollar
equivalent of C$2.21at the date of execution of the sub-
scription agreement.
Bombardier's in-house team was led by Daniel Des-
jardins, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and
Corporate Secretary, and included Chantal Robitaille,
Head of Legal Services, Corporate Office and Assis-
tant Secretary, Nicholas Cerminaro, Director, Legal
Services, Corinne Bélair, Senior Legal Counsel, Caro-
lyn Nguyen, Senior Legal Counsel, and Simon Fugère
Nadeau, Legal Counsel, for Bombardier Inc., and Syl-
vie Bourdon, Vice President, Group Governance and
Vice President, General Counsel, Group Contracts, Le-
gal Affairs, Bids Approval & Intellectual Property, Mi-
chaela Kay, Director Group M&A, Corporate Affairs
& Anti-Trust, Carsten Carl, Director Contracts & Le-
gal Affairs, and Sophie Laviolette, Director, Contracts
and Legal Affairs, for Bombardier Transportation.
Norton Rose Fulbright acted as counsel to Bom-
bardier through its offices in Canada, the United King-
dom and the United States, among others. Norton
Rose Fulbright's team included Paul Raymond, Eric
Stevens, Peter Wiazowski, David Millette, Mathieu
Deschamps, Marc Tremblay, Francis Legault, Amélie
Métivier, Jules Charette, Jonathan Charron, Richard
Wagner, Catherine Simard, David Crandall, Andrei
Molchynsky, Zachary Frenkiel and Melanie Josepo-
vici in Canada, Mark Lloyd Williams, Si Xuan Cai,
Ian Giles, Edward Hunnisett and Dominic Stuttaford
in the United Kingdom, and Chris Hilbert and Larry
Francescki in the United States.
CDPQ's legal team was led by Marie Giguère, Execu-
tive Vice-President, Legal Affairs and Secretariat, and
Sophie Lussier, Senior Director, Legal Affairs, Invest-
ment. McCarthy Tétrault LLP acted as Canadian
counsel to CDPQ, with a team that included Patrick
Boucher, Stéphanie Lee, Sonia Struthers, Philippe
Bélanger, James Farley, Jocelyn Perreault, Richard
O'Doherty, Mathieu Dubord, John Boscariol, Chris-
tian Meighen, Marie-Soleil Landry, Charles-Antoine
Soulière, Isabelle Nazon, Christopher Belval, Louis-
Philippe Samson and Jacob Stone. David McAusland
acted as senior strategic advisor. Freshfields Bruck-
haus Deringer LLP acted as UK, German, US and in-
ternational counsel to CDPQ, with a team that was led
by corporate partners Laurie McFadden, Richard ex-
ton and Heiner Braun and corporate senior associates
Keir MacLennan and Hendrik Braun. e Freshfields
team also included Rafique Bachour (antitrust), Helen
Lethaby (tax), Andrew Murphy and Howard Klein
