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Taylor, Ashley John Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5236 ataylor@stikeman.com
Mr. Taylor is a partner in the Insolvency & Restructuring and Litigation Groups
in Toronto. He practises exclusively in insolvency law and represents debtors,
court-appointed officers, secured lenders and purchasers. He has appeared
before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal, focusing
on court-appointed receiverships and bankruptcies.
Tay, Derrick C. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-7330 derrick.tay@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Tay leads the firm's corporate restructuring practice. His primary focus is
on the restructuring and reorganization of complex debtor corporations, and
he has deep experience in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions.
Tardif, Philippe Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
(416) 367-6060 ptardif@blg.com
Mr. Tardif specializes in securities law and capital markets transactions,
including Canadian and cross-border corporate finance transactions and
mergers & acquisitions. He also advises on corporate governance matters
to issuers and self-regulatory organizations, and acts as advisor to special
committees and Boards of Directors.
Swartz, Jay A. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
(416) 863-5520 jswartz@dwpv.com
Mr. Swartz has a diverse commercial practice with particular emphasis
on corporate restructurings, private company acquisitions, banking, debt
financings, financial product development, structured finance, private-
equity funds and corporate governance. He represents borrowers, lenders,
investors, boards and receivers/monitors in complex restructurings
and insolvencies.
Sutcliffe, Stewart Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5511 ssutcliffe@stikeman.com
Mr. Sutcliffe is a partner in the Capital Markets Group and is Head of the M&A
Group in Toronto. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border M&A,
corporate finance transactions and private-equity investments, including PIPE
transactions. He practised in the London office for five years on international
M&A transactions.
Suarez, Steve Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
(416) 367-6702 ssuarez@blg.com
Mr. Suarez is noted as a leading tax lawyer in various international
publications. Practising exclusively in tax, focusing on M&A, inbound and
outbound investment, corporate restructurings and tax controversy. He is
co-Chair of the Toronto Centre Canada Revenue Agency & Tax Professionals
Consultation Group, Canadian correspondent of Tax Notes International
and the creator of miningtaxcanada.com.
LEXPERT RANKED LAWYERS
Canada with a team led by Cheryl Satin, and in-
cluding Geoffrey Belsher, Michael Elder, Kathryn
Houlden (corporate/M&A), Julie Soloway, and in-
cluding Kate McNeece and Brian Facey (competi-
tion/anti-trust), Jeffrey Shafer (tax), Laura Weinrib
(health regulatory), Anna Abbott, Holly Reid (la-
bour & employment), Lindsay McLeod (pension
& benefits), Beth Earon, Patrick Gordon (real es-
tate), Jonathan Kahn (environmental) and David
Feldman (IT).
CANADA GOOSE
COMPLETES IPO
CLOSING DATE: MARCH 21, 2017
On March 21, 2017, Canada Goose Holdings Inc.
completed its initial public offering of 23 million
subordinate voting shares at an initial offering
price of $17.00 per share, which included the ex-
ercise in full by the underwriters of an over-allot-
ment option to purchase up to 3 million additional
subordinate voting shares, for total gross proceeds
of $391 million to Canada Goose and the selling
shareholders. e offering was comprised of a trea-
sury offering by Canada Goose and of a secondary
offering by selling shareholders that included an
investment fund advised by Bain Capital as well
as DTR LLC.
CIBC Capital Markets, Credit Suisse, Gold-
man, Sachs & Co. and RBC Capital Markets
served as joint book-running managers and as rep-
resentatives of the underwriters for the offering.
BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Barclays,
BMO Capital Markets, TD Securities and Wells
Fargo Securities also acted as joint book-running
managers and Baird and Canaccord Genuity acted
as co-managers for the offering.
Canada Goose was represented in-house by a le-
gal team led by David Forrest. Canada Goose was
represented in Canada by Robert Carelli, David
Tardif, Jason Paperman, Laurence Cromp-Lapi-
erre, Jérémie Ste-Marie and Kristofer Lachance
(securities and capital markets), Peter Castiel,
Barbara Sheng, Denise Duiuis and Danial Zep-
petelli (corporate), Frank Mathieu, Éric Lévesque
and Nathaniel Lacasse (tax), Howard Rosenoff
and Elizabeth Labrie (banking) and Stephanie
Weschler (employment) of Stikeman Elliott LLP
and in the US by omas Holden, Rachel Phillips,
Julia Chen and Blair Green (securities and capital
markets) of Ropes & Gray LLP.
e underwriters were represented in Canada
by Desmond Lee, Brian Gray and Lauren Lefcoe
(corporate) and Timothy Hughes and David Dava-
chi (tax) of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and
in the US by John Chory, Ian Schuman, Marc
Jaffe, Adam Gelardi, Jennifer Poh and Wei Cai of
Latham & Watkins LLP.
DTR LLC was represented in Canada by Jef-
frey Cohen, Glen Eddie, Catherine Nicholson and
