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facility were applied to redeem existing notes
and refinance certain other outstanding in-
debtedness and to return capital to Kissner's
equity holders.
e notes offering was completed by Jeff-
eries LLC as sole book-running manager.
Headquartered in Overland Park, Kan-
sas, Kissner is a leading, vertically integrated
producer of bulk rock salt and packaged
specialty de-icing products focused on gov-
ernmental and commercial customers in the
Great Lakes, Great Plains and Midwest and
East Coast regions of the United States and
Canada. Kissner owns and operates two rock
salt mines located in Detroit, Michigan and
Lyons, Kansas. e company, which was es-
tablished more than 130 years ago, is highly
differentiated in its industry and one of the
most cost-competitive producers and dis-
tributors across its markets.
Kissner is owned by Metalmark Capital
and Silvertree, a joint venture between Silver-
hawk Capital Partners and Demetree Salt,
LLC, and certain members of the Kissner
management team.
Kissner was represented by its in-house
legal team led by John Cox, Senior Vice
President, Chief Administrative Officer &
General Counsel. Bennett Jones LLP acted
as Canadian legal counsel to Kissner with a
team led by John Mercury and James Mc-
Clary and including Will Osler, Paul Bar-
beau, Steve Gow and Jordan Primeau (cap-
ital markets and M&A), Darcy Moch and
Marshall Haughey (tax), Karen Dawson and
Noriko Shimura (banking) and Carl Cun-
ningham (employment).
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP acted as US
legal counsel to Kissner with a team led by
John Meade and Derek Dostal and including
Joseph Payne, Eugene Baek (capital markets),
Joseph Hadley, Hilary Dengel, Mayer Stein-
man (credit), Kathleen Ferrell (tax), Betty
Huber (environmental) and Susan Kennedy
(real estate).
White & Case LLP acted as US legal
counsel to Jefferies LLC with a team led by
Jonathan Michels and including Roseanne
Kross, Emily Donohoe and Matthew Jewitt
(capital markets), Ray Simon and Jake Jung
(tax), Sylvia Chin and Kenneth Suh (secured
lending), Julia Rubin (real estate), Seth Ker-
schner (environmental), Robin Heszkel (em-
ployment), Rebecca Campbell and Andrzej
Omietanski (mining) and Amy Bagdasarian
(intellectual property).
McCarthy Tétrault LLP acted as Can-
adian legal counsel to Jefferies LLC with a
team led by Andrew Parker (capital mar-
kets) and that included Richard Higa and
Ian Mak (financial services), Ryan Hornby
and Suraj Rammohan (corporate), Heather
Meredith (restructuring), Pat McCay and
Ryan Walker (tax).
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EMERA COMPLETES
$300M COMMON SHARE
EQUITY FINANCING
CLOSING DATE: DECEMBER 16, 2016
On December 16, 2016, Emera Incorporated
("Emera") completed a bought deal offering
of 6,630,000 common shares at $45.25 per
common share (the "Offering Price") for
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