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Story, Craig A. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(403) 266-9098 cstory@stikeman.com
Mr. Story's domestic and cross-border practice embraces corporate
and securities law, including public and private capital market offerings,
private-equity and venture capital funds (both fund creation and portfolio
company investments/divestitures), mergers and acquisitions and corporate
governance. His industry experience includes energy, oil & gas, service,
midstream and financial services.
Stark, John E. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(604) 631-1395 jstark@stikeman.com
Mr. Stark is a senior counsel in Stikeman Elliott's Vancouver office where
he is a member of the Corporate and Securities practice group and the
firm's Global Mining Group. He has an extensive practice in business law
that includes mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance
transactions, and complex corporate reorganizations.
Smith, John Lawson Lundell LLP
(604) 631-9120 jsmith@lawsonlundell.com
Mr. Smith's commercial practice spans the full range of public and private
transactions across many industry sectors including terminal operations,
mining, forestry and consumer products, and significant work on governance
and fiduciary matters. He has extensive experience in operational and
infrastructure matters for public- and private-sector organizations.
Smit, Carrie B.E. Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-4230 csmit@goodmans.ca
Ms. Smit is head of the firm's Tax Group. Practice focuses on corporate
commercial transactions, cross-border mergers, corporate reorganizations,
debt restructurings, domestic and international debt financings, international
tax planning and private-equity investments. She is a a former Governor
and Executive Committee member of the Canadian Tax Foundation.
Smellie, James H. Gowling WLG
(403) 298-1816 james.smellie@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Smellie's practice focuses on energy regulatory matters, administrative
law and litigation. With extensive experience before federal and provincial
regulatory tribunals, he has represented a wide range of stakeholders
in the energy industry.
Singer, Marvin J. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(416) 203-4426 marvin.singer@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Singer specializes in securities, corporate and resource law. He has
worked with both international and domestic clients on all aspects of
resource projects — from acquisition through to debt and equity financings
and project development and completion. His practice regularly involves
projects throughout the Western hemisphere, Africa, South America
and the former Soviet Union.
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ic, Executive Vice President and General Counsel.
In Canada, the company's external counsel was
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP with a team
led by Bob Wooder and including Trisha Rob-
ertson, 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 Johnson Lo acted
as Australian counsel. Lennox Paton acted as
British Virgin Islands counsel with a team in-
cluding Robert McIntyre and Fiona Forbes.
Pellerano & Herrera acted as Dominican Re-
public counsel with a team including Paloma
Grullón and Luis Pellerano.
Gold Fields's in-house team consisted of Alan
Gibson, Vice President, Head of Legal, Corpo-
rate Development, and Laura Noonan-Crowe,
Senior Legal Counsel. Fasken Martineau
DuMoulin LLP acted as Canadian counsel
with a team including Brian Graves, Myroslav
Chwaluk, Doug New and Christopher Steeves.
Gonzalo Grez of Cariola 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.
APOTEX HOLDINGS INC.
COMPLETES SALE
OF ACCUCAPS INDUSTRIES
TO CATALENT PHARMA SOLUTIONS
CLOSING DATE: FEBRUARY 16, 2017
On February 16, 2017, Catalent Pharma Solu-
tions Ltd. announced the completion of its pur-
chase of all of the shares of Accucaps Industries
Ltd. from Apotex Holdings Inc. for an undis-
closed price.
Accucaps is a developer and manufacturer of
over-the-counter pharmaceutical sogels and op-
erates two state-of-the art sogel development,
manufacturing and packaging facilities in Wind-
sor and Strathroy, Ontario. e acquisition com-
plements and enhances Catalent's global network
of 11 sogel technology facilities.
Apotex Holdings Inc. was represented by Tor-
kin Manes LLP, with a team led by Jeffrey Cohen
and including Sammy Redlick and Adrian Myers.
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP provid-
ed tax counsel to Apotex, with a team led by Elie
Roth and including Andrew Ellis.
Catalent was represented by Fried, Frank,
Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, with a team
led by corporate partners Steven Epstein and
Matthew Soran and including tax partner Mi-
chael Alter and corporate special counsel Brian
Blitz and by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in
