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CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS OF IMPORTANCE
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Newby, Robert Veitch, Nikki Saint-Onge
(corporate), Ronald Murray (securities)
and David Selley (banking).
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TRANSCANADA CLOSES
$3.5B OFFERING
CLOSING DATE: NOVEMBER 16, 2016
On November 16, 2016, TransCanada
Corporation completed its public offering
of Common Shares for aggregate gross pro-
ceeds of approximately $3.5 billion.
TD Securities Inc., BMO Nesbitt Burns
Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc.,
CIBC World Markets Inc., Scotia Cap-
ital Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (Can-
ada), Inc., National Bank Financial Inc.,
Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc.,
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Se-
curities (Canada) Inc., J.P. Morgan Secur-
ities Canada Inc., Wells Fargo Securities
Canada, Ltd., Barclays Capital Canada
Inc., Merrill Lynch Canada Inc., Mizuho
Securities USA Inc., GMP Securities L.P.
and Peters & Co. Limited acted as under-
writers in respect of this offering.
In March 2016, TransCanada Pipelines
Ltd. and TransCanada Pipeline USA Ltd.
entered into a credit agreement with a syn-
dicate of lenders providing for bridge term
loan credit facilities in an aggregate princi-
pal amount of US$6.9 billion for the pur-
pose of financing the acquisition of Col-
umbia Pipeline Group, Inc. (the "Acquisi-
tion"). e net proceeds from the offering
were used to repay a portion of the indebt-
edness incurred to finance the Acquisition.
TransCanada was represented by its in-
house counsel Christine Johnston, Jane
Brindle, Lisa Grams and Kelly Galloway
and assisted, with respect to Canadian
matters, by a team at Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP including Ross Bentley,
Jeff Bakker, Trevor Rowles and Nicole
Cargill (corporate/securities) and Carrie
Aiken (tax) and, on US matters, by a team
at Mayer Brown LLP including Michael
Hermsen and Nicole Puza (corporate and
securities) and James Barry (tax).
e underwriters were represented,
with respect to Canadian matters, by a
team at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada
LLP including Marcus Archer, Kathleen
Cowick, Jason Giborski and Brett Watson
(capital markets), Darren Hueppelsheuser
and Brian Milne (tax) and, with respect
to US matters, by a team at Paul, Weiss,
Riind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in-
cluding Christopher Cummings, Stephen
Centa and Ronnie Ollo.
ORLA MINING COMPLETES
$95M COMBINATION
WITH PERSHIMCO
RESOURCES
CLOSING DATE: DECEMBER 6, 2016
On December 6, 2016, Orla Mining Ltd.
("Orla") completed an amalgamation by
way of a plan of arrangement with Pershim-
co Resources Inc. ("Pershimco") under the
Canada Business Corporations Act. e
new company, which will continue to oper-
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