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CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS OF IMPORTANCE
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e financial terms of the deal were not
disclosed.
Medgate is a Toronto-based soware com-
pany, providing subscription soware used
by companies with respect to environmental,
health and safety audits.
Norwest Venture Partners is a Palo Alto,
California-based global venture and growth
equity investment firm. Georgian Partners is
a Toronto-based growth equity firm that in-
vests in business soware companies.
Norwest was represented in the US by
Goodwin Procter LLP, with a team led by
William Davisson and including Luke Rach-
lin, Naina Bhadra, Fred Lim and Ashley
Simms. In Canada, Norwest was represented
by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP with a
team led by John-Paul Bogden and including
Arash Amouzgar, Lindsay Clark and Patrick
Whitehill (corporate), Paul Stepak and Ian
Caines (tax), Simon Finch, Niki Khatami
and Shubhreen Kaur (financial services),
Holly Reid and Lindsay McLeod (employ-
ment and benefits), Emma Costante (compe-
tition) and Bruce Rose-Innes (IP).
Medgate was represented by Fasken Mar-
tineau DuMoulin LLP with a team led by
Craig Brown and including Brad Freelan,
Jessica Catton Rinaldi, Will Shaw, Reid
Crombie, Ryan Mapa and David Steinhau-
er (corporate), Mitchell aw (tax), John
Beardwood, Armand Benitah and Christelle
Gedeon (IT and IP), Christina Hall and
Christian Paquette (labour and employ-
ment), and Murray Braithwaite (research).
For US matters, Medgate was represented
by Ta Stettinius & Hollister LLP with a
team led by Ralph Caruso (corporate).
Georgian Partners was represented by
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP with a team
that included André Perey and Rory ffrench.
BMO Financial Group provided acquisi-
tion financing to Norwest as well as an eq-
uity investment, and was represented by Da-
vies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP with a
team including Joel Scoler, William Buchner
and Devon Comstock (financial services),
Josh Kuretzky (corporate), and Raj Juneja
and Chris Anderson (tax).
SNC-LAVALIN FINALIZES
SALE OF ITS INTEREST
IN MALTA INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT
CLOSING DATE: MARCH 30, 2016
On March 30, 2016, SNC-Lavalin Group
Inc. (SNCL) announced that it had reached
financial close on the sale of its indirect
ownership interest in MMLC Holdings
Malta Limited (formerly, SNC-Lavalin
(Malta) Limited (SNCL Malta)) to an affili-
ate of Flughafen Wien AG (VIE), the oper-
ator of Vienna International Airport and a
company that is publicly traded on the Vien-
na Stock Exchange, for total cash considera-
tion of approximately 64 million euros. e
agreement to sell such interest was previously
announced by SNC-Lavalin on February 1,
2016. SNCL Malta holds a 38.75 per cent
interest in Malta Mediterranean Link Con-
sortium Limited, which, in turn, has a 40 per
cent interest in Malta International Airport
plc, a company that is publicly traded on the
Malta Stock Exchange.
SNCL was represented in-house by Aron
Halpern. SNCL was supported by Norton
Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, who acted
as Canadian legal counsel, with a team
composed of Eric Stevens, Michelle Felsky
and Emil Vanjaka (corporate) and Derek
Chiasson and Antoine Desroches (tax). Ar-
thur Galea Salomone of Galea Salomone
& Associates acted as Maltese legal coun-
sel to SNCL.
VIE was represented in-house by Wolf-
gang Koeberl. VIE was further supported
and represented by CHSH Cerha Hempel
Spiegelfeld Hlawati, who acted as Austrian
legal counsel, with a team composed of Jo-
hannes Aehrenthal, Georg Konrad, omas
Trettnak and Jakob Hartig (corporate) and
Bernhard Kofler-Senoner and Michael May-
er (competition). GANADO Advocates
acted as Maltese legal counsel to VIE, with
a team composed of Max Ganado, Simon
Schembri, Nikolai Muscat Farrugia, Nicho-
las Curmi and Richard Ambery (corpor-
ate). Antonella Penta and Alexandre Martin
(corporate) and Shuli Rodal (competition) of
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP acted as
Canadian legal counsel to VIE.
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ALLTECH ACQUIRES
MASTERFEEDS
CLOSING DATE: JANUARY 8, 2016
On January 8, 2016, Alltech acquired 100
per cent of the outstanding shares of Master-
feeds Inc. from Ag Processing Inc., a farmer-
owned cooperative based in Omaha, Neb-
raska, in order to have complete ownership of
Masterfeeds LP.
Michael Castle II, Vice President and
Chief Legal Officer of Alltech, and Brad
Harris, Corporate Counsel at Alltech, were
assisted by a team from Gowling WLG com-
prising David Petras, Sean Gomes, Michael
Misener and Stephanie Hayes (corporate),
Patrick Jocsak (real estate), Chris Andree
and Katia Diab (employment), John Illing-
