LEXPERT MAGAZINE
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JULY/AUGUST 2017 29
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CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS OF IMPORTANCE
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iela Stolman, Chloe Clifford and Katherine
Zuber (corporate), Linda Curtis and Me-
lissa Barshop (finance), and a team in Ger-
many that included Daniel Gebauer (real
estate), Marcus Geiss (corporate), Johanna
Hauser (corporate), Julia Langer (antitrust),
Jens Murach (antitrust), Annekatrin Pelster
(corporate), Wilhelm Reinhardt (corporate),
Sonja Ruttmann (corporate), Hans Martin
Schmid (tax), Jan Schubert (corporate), Mi-
chael Walther (antitrust) and Mark Zimmer
(labour & employment).
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP acted as
Canadian counsel to SCI and its subsid-
iary with a team led by William Jones that
included Jason Saltzman, Whitney Bell
and Andrew McLean (corporate), Brennan
Carroll and Tamila Ivanov (real estate), Lu-
Anne Morrow and Todd Keeler (IP), Davit
Akman and Zirjan Derwa (antitrust), Rob
Weir, Naomi Calla and Adam Pennell (la-
bour & employment), Sonia Mak and James
Fu (pension & benefits), Rick Coburn and
Aimee Collier (environment), and Howard
Silverman and Rachel Belanger (credit).
Latham & Watkins LLP, Debevoise &
Plimpton LLP and Stibbe acted as counsel
to CD&R. e Latham & Watkins team
was led by Frankfurt partner Oliver Felsen-
stein and Washington, DC, partner Paul
Sheridan, and included Leif Schrader, Joseph
Simei, Susanne Decker, Rohith Parasura-
man, Alina Gansen, Christoph Clausen and
Christoph Vaske (corporate), Georg Weiden-
bach (antitrust), Jennifer van Driesen and
Dominic Newcomb (finance), David Della
Rocca (employment) and Andrea Ramezan-
Jackson (tax). e Debevoise & Plimpton
team was led by Paul Bird and included
Gary Friedman and Matthew Saronson. e
Stibbe team was led by Hans Witteveen and
included Manon Cremers, Pieter Schütte,
Rein van Helden, Paul Vestering, Michael
Molenaars, Emile Bongers, Steven Hijink,
IJsbrand van Straten, Dennis Mollema and
Lieke Stroeve.
GARDA WORLD SECURITY
CORP. CLOSES PRIVATE
OFFERING OF SENIOR NOTES
CLOSING DATE: MAY 8, 2017
GW Honos Security Corp., an affiliate of
Garda World Security Corp., completed on
May 8, 2017, a private offering of US$500
million aggregate principal amount of 8.75
per cent (Notes).
e offering of the Notes was made in a
private transaction in reliance upon an ex-
emption from the registration requirements
of the Securities Act of 1933 in the United
States and pursuant to the prospectus exemp-
tion of the Securities Act (Québec) for distri-
bution of securities to persons established
outside Québec.
Garda World Security Corp. is one of the
largest privately owned security companies in
the world.
Séguin Racine, Attorneys acted as Ca-
nadian legal counsel for GardaWorld, with
a team consisting of Pierre-Hubert Séguin,
Éric Archambault, Stéphane Palardy and
Louis-Philippe Lacasse.
Simpson acher & Bartlett LLP acted
as US legal counsel to GardaWorld with a
team led by Kenneth Wallach, Brian Rosen-
zweig, Yu Mizutani and Samantha Fox.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore acted as US le-
gal counsel to Citigroup and Barclays acting
as Joint Book-Running Managers and Glob-
al Coordinators, with a team led by William
Fogg, Benjamin Perina, Zachary Savrick and
Ryan Farha.
McCarthy Tétrault LLP acted as Cana-
dian legal counsel to Citigroup and Barclays
as Joint Book-Running Managers and Glob-
al Coordinators, with a team led by Patrick
Boucher, Laure Fouin and Angelo Discepola.
Telecommunications Telecommunications Telecommunications
TELUS CORP. COMPLETES
US$500M AND C$325M
DEBT OFFERINGS
CLOSING DATE: MARCH 6, 2017
On March 6, 2017, TELUS Corp. completed
an offering of US$500 million of senior un-
secured 3.70-per-cent 10-year notes, matur-
ing on September 15, 2027 (the US Notes), as
well as an offering of C$325 million of senior
unsecured 4.70-per-cent 31-year notes, ma-
turing March 6, 2048 (the Canadian Notes).
e US Notes were offered through a syndi-
cate of underwriters led by Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, RBC
Capital Markets, LLC, BMO Capital Mar-
kets Corp., and CIBC World Markets Corp.
e Canadian Notes were offered through
a syndicate of agents led by CIBC Capital
Markets, BMO Nesbitt Burns and RBC
Capital Markets.
TELUS was represented in-house by Mo-
nique Mercier, Executive Vice-President,
Corporate Affairs and Chief Legal & Gover-
nance Officer, Christopher Main, Associate
General Counsel and Assistant Corporate
Secretary, Dennis Wong, Associate General
Counsel, and Sena Byun, Senior Counsel;
and in Canada by Norton Rose Fulbright
Canada LLP with a team that included
Pierre Dagenais, Seemal Patel, Jenny Yoo and
Victoria Riley (corporate and securities) and
