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JULY/AUGUST 2016 25
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CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS OF IMPORTANCE
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Nancy Smith (banking) and Bill Maslechko
and Lindsay Cox (securities).
Murphy was represented by Murphy's in-
house legal team consisting of Walter Comp-
ton (Executive Vice President and General
Counsel), Mike Jackson (Senior Attorney)
and iago Cooper (Attorney) and by Ben-
nett Jones LLP with a team that included
Vivek Warrier, Kieran Ryan, Domenic
Puglia (energy), Will Osler (securities), Phil
Backman (banking), Darcy Moch (tax) and
Beth Riley (competition).
Consumer Goods Consumer Goods
NEWELL ACQUIRES
JARDEN FOR US$15.4B
CLOSING DATE: APRIL 15, 2016
JEFFREY BROWN
STIKEMAN ELLIOTT LLP
JASON GUDOFSKY
BLAKE, CASSELS
& GRAYDON LLP
On April 15, 2016, Newell Rubbermaid Inc.
(Newell) completed its acquisition of Jarden
Corporation (Jarden) for US$15.4 billion,
creating a global consumer-products com-
pany called Newell Brands.
Newell was represented in the US by Bob
Profusek, Lizanne omas and Erik Belen-
ky (M&A), David Wales, Ryan omas,
Laura Malament (anti-trust and competi-
tion) of Jones Day, and Mario Ponce, Nick
Ramphal, Brian Steinhardt (M&A), John
Creed (tax) of Simpson acher & Bartlett
LLP; and in Canada by Jeffrey Brown and
Justine Johnston (competition/regulatory)
of Stikeman Elliott LLP.
Jarden was represented in the US by Clif-
ford Neimeth, Alan Annex, Gary Silverman
(M&A), and Stephen Pepper (anti-trust &
trade regulation) of Greenberg Traurig,
LLP and Mitchell Hollander and Robert
Lawrence of Kane Kessler, P.C.; and in
Canada by Jason Gudofsky and Kate Mc-
Neece (competition) of Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP.
Consumer Services Energy & Power Pipelines
Aerospace & Defence Automotive Materials
Utilities Financials Health Research
Media & Entertainment Recreation & Leisure Advertising & Marketing
E-Commerce Construction & Engineering
Consumer Staples
TRANSCANADA CLOSES
$4.4B OFFERING, OBTAINS
US$10.3B OF DEBT
BRIDGE FINANCING
CLOSING DATE: APRIL 1, 2016
On April 1, 2016, TransCanada Corpora-
tion closed a bought deal offering of sub-
scription receipts in Canada and the United
States for aggregate gross proceeds of $4.4
billion, which, at the time, constituted the
largest bought deal offering in Canadian his-
tory. RBC Dominion Securities Inc., TD
Securities Inc., BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc.,
CIBC World Markets Inc., Scotia Capi-
tal Inc., National Bank Financial Inc., J.P.
Morgan Securities Canada Inc., Wells Fargo
Securities Canada, Ltd., Merrill Lynch Can-
ada Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Canada
Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (Canada), Inc.,
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Securi-
ties (Canada) Inc., FirstEnergy Capital Corp.,
Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd. and
Peters & Co. Limited acted as underwriters
in respect of this offering. TransCanada also
announced, on March 17, 2016, that it had
obtained US$10.3 billion of committed debt
bridge financing from a syndicate of lend-
ers. e proceeds from the offering and the
bridge facilities will support TransCanada's
proposed acquisition of Columbia Pipeline
Group, Inc. for US$13 billion.
TransCanada was represented by its in-
house counsel Chris Johnston, Lisa Grams,
Tara Shaw, Jane Brindle and Meghan Lindsay
and assisted, with respect to Canadian mat-
ters, by a team at Blake, Cassels & Graydon
LLP including Ross Bentley, Dan McLeod,
Trevor Rowles, Nav Dhaliwal and Vladimir
Cvijetinovic (corporate/securities), Michael
McIntosh and Andrew Kolody (banking)
and Jeffrey Trossman, Sabrina Wong and
Carrie Aiken (tax), and with respect to US
matters, by a team at Mayer Brown LLP in-
cluding Michael Hermsen and Nicole Puza
(corporate/securities) and James Barry (tax).
e underwriters were represented, with
respect to Canadian matters, by a team at
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP in-
cluding Kevin Johnson, QC, Marcus Archer,
Kathleen Cowick, Jason Giborski and Na-
than Hillier (corporate/securities) and Dion
Legge (tax) and, with respect to US matters,
by a team at Paul, Weiss, Riind, Whar-
ton & Garrison LLP including Christopher
Cummings, Stephen Centa and Ronnie
Ollo (corporate/securities), William O'Brien
(environmental Law), and David Mayo and
Amir Cooper (tax). e syndicate of lenders
under the debt bridge financing commit-
ments was represented by a team at Norton
Rose Fulbright Canada LLP including
Richard Borden and Matthew Longstaff.
Consumer Services Energy & Power Pipelines
Aerospace & Defence Automotive Materials
Utilities Financials
Media & Entertainment Recreation & Leisure
IMPERIAL PARKING
CORPORATION ACQUIRES
US-WIDE REPUBLIC PARKING
CLOSING DATE: APRIL 8, 2016
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP)
-backed Imperial Parking Corporation
(Impark) completed the acquisition of Re-
public Parking System and Republic Park-
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