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Themens, Pierre-André Davies Ward Phillips
& Vineberg LLP (514) 841-6448 pathemens@dwpv.com
Mr. Themens, a managing partner of Davies, focuses on all aspects of complex
domestic/foreign project financings and real estate transactions including
acquisitions/dispositions and securitizations for major institutional investors
and pension plans.
Taylor, Ashley John Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5236 ataylor@stikeman.com
Mr. Taylor is a member of the firm's Litigation Group, and practises exclusively
in the area of insolvency law and represents debtors, court-appointed officers,
secured lenders and purchasers. He has appeared before the Ontario Superior
Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal, focusing on Companies' Creditors
Arrangement Act proceedings, court-appointed receiverships
and bankruptcies.
Tay, Derrick C. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-7330 derrick.tay@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Tay leads the firm's corporate restructuring practice. His primary focus is
on the restructuring and reorganization of complex debtor corporations, and
he has deep experience in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions.
Tardif, Philippe Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
(416) 367-6060 ptardif@blg.com
Mr. Tardif specializes in securities law and capital markets transactions,
including Canadian and cross-border corporate finance transactions and
mergers & acquisitions. He also advises on corporate governance matters
to issuers and self-regulatory organizations, and acts as advisor
to special committees and Boards of Directors.
Swartz, Jay A. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
(416) 863-5520 jswartz@dwpv.com
Mr. Swartz has a diverse commercial practice with particular emphasis
on corporate restructurings, banking, debt financings, financial product
development, structured finance, private-equity funds and private company
acquisitions. He represents borrowers, lenders, investors, boards
and receivers/monitors in complex restructurings and insolvencies.
Suarez, Steve Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
(416) 367-6702 ssuarez@blg.com
Mr. Suarez is ranked as a leading tax lawyer in various international
publications. Practising exclusively in tax, focusing on M&A, inbound and
outbound investment, corporate restructurings and tax controversy. He is
co-Chair of the Toronto Centre Canada Revenue Agency & Tax Professionals
Consultation Group, Canadian correspondent of Tax Notes International
and the creator of miningtaxcanada.com.
LEXPERT RANKED LAWYERS
(employment and pensions), Peter Hall (banking) and
Giles Pratt (IP and separation matters).
SHAW COMMUNICATIONS CLOSES
$300M SENIOR NOTE OFFERING
CLOSING DATE: FEBRUARY 19, 2016
On February 19, 2016, Shaw Communications com-
pleted an offering of $300 million aggregate principal
amount of senior notes. e senior notes were made
available in Canada under Shaw's previously filed short
form base shelf prospectus.
e net proceeds are being used for working capital
and general corporate purposes, which may include di-
rectly or indirectly funding payment of a portion of the
purchase price for the acquisition of WIND Mobile.
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 Den-
tons Canada LLP that was led by William 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 that included CIBC World
Markets Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc., Scotia
Capital Inc., National Bank Financial Inc. and Alta-
Corp Capital Inc.
e agents were advised by McCarthy Tétrault
LLP team led by David Woollcombe and composed of
Matthew Appleby, Lama Sabbagh and Diego Beltran
(business law), Gabrielle Richards (tax) and Grant Bu-
chanan (communications).
HYDRO ONE LIMITED COMPLETES
$1.83B INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING
CLOSING DATE: NOVEMBER 5, 2015
On November 5, 2015, Hydro One Limited, the larg-
est electricity transmission and distribution company
in Ontario, announced the closing of its initial public
offering by way of secondary sale pursuant to which
the Province of Ontario offered 81,100,000 common
shares at $20.50 per share for total gross proceeds to the
Province of approximately $1.66 billion.
Pursuant to an underwriting agreement dated Oc-
tober 29, 2015, the Province of Ontario also granted to
the underwriters an over-allotment option to purchase
up to 8,150,000 additional common shares at the offer-
ing price. e sale of the additional common shares was
completed on November 12, 2015, and increased the
gross proceeds from the initial public offering by an ad-
ditional $167 million, resulting in total gross proceeds
to the Province of $1.83 billion.
Hydro One delivers electricity to over 1.3 million
customers across the province of Ontario, and to large
industrial customers and municipal utilities. Hydro
One owns and operates Ontario's approximately
29,000 km high-voltage transmission network and an
approximately 123,000 circuit km primary low-voltage
