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BIG DEALS
Gowling WLG provided counsel to In-
frastructure Ontario and Mackenzie Health
with a team consisting of Merie-Anne Beavis,
Lindsay Wong, Katie Higgins, Leslie Blumer
and Syll Kushner.
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
was counsel to Plenary Health Vaughan LP
with a team consisting of Bob Bauer, Steve
Martin, Will Buchner, Anthony Spadaro,
Emily Uza, and Natasha Lombardi. Lawson
Lundell LLP acted as British Columbia and
Alberta Counsel to Plenary Health Vaughan
LP with a team that included Michael Ma-
caulay, Crispin Arthur, Jyotika Reddy, Gil-
lian Muirhead and Gary Rose.
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
provided counsel to the construction period
Lenders (e Toronto-Dominion Bank and
Alberta Treasury Branches) as well as the
long term institutional bondholders (bonds
underwritten by Toronto Dominion Secu-
rities Inc.), with a team consisting of Brian
Kelsall, Ella Plotkin, Sean Morley, Marc
Lefler, Alex Nikolic (bonds), Jon Holmstrom
(hedging) and Aine O'Connor.
Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer
LLP was counsel to PCL with a team con-
sisting of Donald Lucky, Mark Hildebrand
and Tamara Korassa.
Torys LLP was counsel to Johnson Con-
trols Canada with a team consisting of Tara
Mackay, Josh Van Deurzen and Min Kim.
Johnson Controls, Inc. was advised by Chris-
tine Rittberg of Foley & Lardner LLP.
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
was counsel to Compugen Inc. with a team
consisting of Roger Watkiss, Mike Moher
and Peter Newell.
MAVERIX METALS COMPLETES
ROYALTIES ACQUISITION
FROM GOLD FIELDS
CLOSING DATE: DECEMBER 23, 2016
On December 23, 2016, Maverix Metals Inc.
("Maverix") completed the acquisition of a
portfolio of 11 royalties ("the GF Royalties")
from Gold Fields Netherlands Services BV
("Gold Fields") a wholly owned subsidiary
of Gold Fields Limited, and certain affiliates.
As part of the Transaction, Maverix issued
to Gold Fields a total of 42,850,000 com-
mon shares from its treasury and 10 million
common share purchase warrants exercis-
able within five years at a price of US$1.204
($1.60) per Maverix common share.
Concurrently, 10 million Maverix com-
mon share purchase warrants having an ex-
ercise price of US$0.546 ($0.70) per Maverix
common share were exercised by the holder
thereof (the "Holder") for aggregate proceeds
of US$5,460,000 (the "Warrant Exercise").
e Warrant Exercise was carried out as
part of an early warrant exercise incentive ar-
rangement pursuant to which Maverix issued
to the Holder 6,500,000 Maverix common
share purchase warrants with an exercise
price of US$1.204 ($1.60) per common share
of Maverix and expiring on July 8, 2021.
Maverix was represented in-house by Oggy
Talic, Executive Vice President and General
Counsel. In Canada, the company's exter-
nal counsel was Blake, Cassels & Graydon
LLP with a team led by Bob Wooder and
including Trisha Robertson, William (Bill)
Maclagan, Ashley Baker, Daniel Cherniak
and Luke Hills. Pablo Mir and Heleny
Caratazos of Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana
acted as Chilean counsel. Clayton Utz's
Stuart MacGregor, Jon Prentice and John-
son Lo acted as Australian counsel. Lennox
Paton acted as British Virgin Islands counsel
with a team including Robert McIntyre and
Fiona Forbes. Pellerano & Herrera acted as
Dominican Republic counsel with a team in-
cluding Paloma Grullón and Luis Pellerano.
Gold Fields's in-house team consisted of
Alan Gibson, Vice President, Head of Legal,
Corporate Development, and Laura Noon-
an-Crowe, Senior Legal Counsel. Fasken
Martineau DuMoulin LLP acted as Ca-
nadian counsel with a team including Brian
Graves, Myroslav Chwaluk, Doug New and
Christopher Steeves. Gonzalo Grez of Ca-
riola Diez Perez-Cotapos & Cía acted as
Chilean counsel. Cora Miller of Conyers
Dill & Pearman represented Gold Fields
in the British Virgin Islands. Warman &
Goldblatt acted as Australian counsel with
a team including Lauren Goldblatt, Tim
Warman and Michael Georgiou.
DP WORLD PARTNERS
WITH CDPQ ON US$3.7B
INVESTMENT PLATFORM
CLOSING DATE: DECEMBER 2, 2016
On December 2, 2016, DP World Limited
("DP World") entered into a joint venture
with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Qué-
bec ("CDPQ") to create an investment plat-
form focused on investing in ports and ter-
minals globally (excluding the UAE).
e investment platform totals US$3.7
billion, with DP World holding a 55-per-
cent share and CDPQ the remaining 45-per-
cent and seeded with two of DP World's
Canadian container terminals, in Vancouver
and Prince Rupert, with CDPQ acquiring a
45-per-cent stake of the combined assets for
US$640 million.
DP World was represented in-house by Ian
Le Pelley, Vice President and General Coun-
sel. Linklaters LLP acted as UK and Dutch
counsel to DP World with a team consisting
of David Martin, Robert Ferag and Nicholas
Edwards. Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
acted as Canadian counsel to DP World,
with a team that included Graham Smith,
Kurt Sarno, Max Ettinger, Arash Amouzgar,
Andrew Clark and Austin White (corpo-
rate), Navin Joneja (competition) and Jeffrey
Shafer (tax).
In relation to financing, DP World was
represented in-house by Catherine Mans-
field, by Clifford Chance LLP in the UK,
with a team consisting of Robin Abraham,
Mark Valenzia and Tom Bamford, and by
McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Canada, with
a team that included Linda Brown, Jeffrey
Knowles and Ailbish Skinner.
CDPQ was represented by in-house senior
counsel, François Duquette, and was also
represented by Allen & Overy LLP in the
UK and Netherlands, with a team consisting
of Richard Evans, Claire Coppel and Diana
Nardelli, and by Torys LLP in Canada, with
a team that included Phil Symmonds, Mat-
thew Atkey, David Leith, Simonne Horwitz
and Sharon Au (corporate), Omar Wakil and
Marina Chernenko (competition) and Saira
Bhojani (tax).
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MBARC CREDIT CANADA
COMPLETES OFFERING
OF ASSET-BACKED NOTES
CLOSING DATE: OCTOBER 12, 2016
On October 12, 2016, MBARC Credit
Canada Inc. ("MBARC"), an indirect whol-
ly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG and a
direct wholly owned subsidiary of Mercedes-
