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Binder, Joel E. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5233 jbinder@stikeman.com
Mr. Binder is a partner and the co-chair of the national Corporate Finance
& Securities Practice Group. Mr. Binder has a broad practice with experience
in corporate finance and public and private M&A representing issuers,
investment dealers, private-equity funds and strategic bidders and targets.
He sits on the TSX Advisory Committee and formerly sat on the Toronto
office's Management Committee.
Bigué, AdE, Ann Dentons Canada LLP
(514) 878-8808 ann.bigue@dentons.com
A former NEB Counsel, Ms. Bigué's administrative, constitutional
and regulatory law practice includes an emphasis on energy and natural
resources law. She also provides advice on Aboriginal and treaty rights
to corporate clients in this context.
Bertoldi, Linda L. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
(416) 367-6647 lbertoldi@blg.com
Ms. Bertoldi is a senior partner and the national leader of BLG's Electricity
Markets Group. She has extensive power sector experience in project structure
and development, project finance, mergers & acquisitions and with natural
gas, cogeneration, district energy, distributed generation, wind, solar, hydro,
biomass, landfill gas and other renewable technologies.
Bennett, Mark T. Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
(416) 869-5407 mbennett@casselsbrock.com
Mr. Bennett's practice emphasizes securities, M&A and corporate
finance in the natural resources sector, including business combinations,
take-over bids, public equity and debt offerings, private placements
and stock exchange listings.
Bell, Alan Bennett Jones LLP
(416) 777-5770 bella@bennettjones.com
Mr. Bell's corporate and securities practice specializes in domestic and cross-
border mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and joint ventures, domestic
financings, and advising board of directors on corporate governance matters.
Basra, Sarbjit S. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
(416) 367-6926 sbasra@dwpv.com
Mr. Basra is experienced in a variety of transactions, including purchases
and sales of businesses, reorganizations, financing from private and public
capital sources and strategic alliances, fund formation and private-equity
investment transactions.
is has led to a difficult deal-making environment,
with some deals being abandoned due to lack of financ-
ing and some deals having to be re-priced because of
more expensive financing terms. On smaller private-
equity deals, says Mercier, private-equity firms have
chosen to equity finance them, with the goal of refi-
nancing with debt once the credit markets recover.
On larger deals, Mercier says purchasers have had
to be creative in replacing high-yield debt. US private-
equity firm Apollo, in its bid to acquire ADT, financed
a portion of the purchase price with preferred stock. In
Canada, "Corus recently pulled its proposed high-yield
debt offering to finance a portion of its Shaw Media ac-
quisition, choosing to wait for improved credit markets
and using temporary bridge financing instead."
In another M&A development, Mercier says there's
much more anti-trust enforcement. A number of deals
in the US, including the proposed acquisition of Time
Warner Cable by Comcast Corporation, have failed
due to this scrutiny. As a result, there's a trend to agree
on an anti-trust strategy upfront that involves agree-
ing, during negotiations, on potential divestitures to
address these issues, as was the case in the Anheuser-
Busch/SABMiller merger.
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