LEXPERT MAGAZINE
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SEPTEMBER 2016 23
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CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS OF IMPORTANCE
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deep Sandhu and including Bosa Kosoric,
Arman Farahani, Andjela Vukobrat, Barbara
Collins, Ravi Bains (securities and M&A),
Peter Botz, Christine Man (tax), David Mc-
Innes, George Waggott, Allie Ketcham (em-
ployment), Brett Harrison, Mark Skwarok
(litigation), François Tougas, Robin Junger,
Ryan Gallagher (regulatory), Herb Ono (US
securities), and Eric Friedman (banking/
lending). GMP Securities L.P. and Canac-
cord Genuity Corp. acted as financial advi-
sors to Tahoe.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP acted
for Lake Shore Gold with a deal team that
included Jay Goldman, Jeffrey Roy, Nancy
Choi, Kyle Simpson, Caroline Durran (min-
ing, M&A and securities), Christopher Nor-
ton (tax), Robert Cohen (litigation), and
Tom Kapsales and Robert Lysy (real estate).
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP rep-
resented BMO Capital Markets, financial
advisor to Lake Shore Gold. e deal team
from Osler included Alex Gorka, Don Gil-
christ and Jeremy Fraiberg.
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
BRUCE POWER COMPLETES
$1B ISSUE OF SENIOR
UNSECURED NOTES
CLOSING DATE: JUNE 23, 2016
Bruce Power L.P. has established a program
providing for the offering and issuance of an
unlimited aggregate principal amount of se-
nior unsecured notes. In conjunction there-
with, on June 23, 2016, Bruce Power L.P.
issued $600,000,000 aggregate principal
amount of Series 2016-1 Senior Unsecured
Notes, due June 23, 2021, and $400,000,000
aggregate principal amount of Series 2016-2
Senior Unsecured Notes, due June 23, 2026.
e offering represents the first such issuance
in Canada by a nuclear power producer.
Scotia Capital Inc. and TD Securities
Inc. led the agent syndicate, which included
BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., CIBC World
Markets Inc., HSBC Securities (Canada)
Inc., National Bank Financial Inc., RBC
Dominion Securities Inc. and BNP Paribas
(Canada) Securities Inc.
Bruce Power L.P. was advised internally by
a team including Brian Hilbers, Bill Schnurr
and Lynn Mahoney (Legal) and assisted by
a team from McCarthy Tétrault LLP in-
cluding Andrew Parker, Barry Ryan, David
Lever, Jake Irwin and Omar Soliman (corpo-
rate finance), Douglas Cannon and Robert
Nearing (tax), Seán O'Neill, Christopher
Langdon, Peter Brady and Joanna Rosengar-
ten (energy and environmental) and Gordon
Sato (real property).
e agents were advised by Rose Bailey,
Jonathan Weisz, Michael Zackheim, Yinka
Olusoga, Dan Doubilet and Brett Saulnier of
Torys LLP.
Oil & Gas Oil & Gas Oil & Gas
WESTPORT COMPLETES
MERGER WITH FUEL SYSTEMS
CLOSING DATE: JUNE 1, 2016
On June 1, 2016, Westport Innovations Inc.
(Westport) and Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc.
(Fuel Systems) completed a merger under
Delaware law whereby Fuel Systems share-
holders received 2.4755 common shares of
Westport for each share of Fuel Systems com-
mon stock. Fuel Systems was subsequently
delisted from the NASDAQ Stock Market.
e merged company, Westport Fuel Sys-
tems Inc., continues to trade on the NAS-
DAQ Stock Market and on the Toronto
Stock Exchange and has a combined equity
value of approximately $350 million.
Westport was represented in-house by
Salman Manki, Michael Snider and Aman-
da Cinnamon, and in Canada by Bennett
Jones LLP with a team led by Bruce Hib-
bard and consisting of Matt Olson, Tessa
Guenther and Kristopher Simard, and in the
United States by Willkie Farr & Gallagher
LLP with a team led by Matthew Guercio
and consisting of Matthew Haddad, omas
Cantore and Stephanie Moran.
Fuel Systems was represented in Canada
by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP with a
team led by Michael Gans and consisting of
Michael Hickey and Joshua Whitford, and
in the United States by Day Pitney LLP
with a team led by Ronald Janis and consist-
ing of Achilles Kintiroglou. Special counsel
to Fuel Systems was Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP with a team led by
Brian McCarthy and consisting of Michelle
Gasaway and Philip Voss.
Consumer Services Energy & Power Pipelines
Aerospace & Defence Automotive Materials
Utilities Financials
Media & Entertainment Recreation & Leisure
APOLLO GLOBAL
MANAGEMENT ACQUIRES ADT
CLOSING DATE: MAY 2, 2016
On May 2, 2016, Apollo Global Manage-
ment LLC (Apollo) completed its acquisi-
tion of ADT Corp., a leading provider of se-
curity and automation solutions in the Unit-
ed States and Canada, for US$6.93 billion.
Apollo paid US$42 in cash for every ADT
share and will merge the company with Pro-
tection 1, an Apollo portfolio company that
provides installation, maintenance and mon-
itoring of security systems in the US.
Apollo and Protection 1 were represent-
ed by Taurie Zeitzer, Daniel Mun, Daniel
Evans (M&A), Greg Ezring, Tracey Zac-
cone, Brad Finkelstein (finance), Brad Okun,
Alyssa Wolpin (tax) of Paul, Weiss, Rif-
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