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OCTOBER 2017
BIG DEALS
Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP with a team
comprising Christopher Moore, Barbara de
Marigny and Wolfram Pohl; and by Vinson
& Elkins LLP on regulatory matters with a
team comprising Billy Vigdor, Niel Imus and
John Decker.
For the Pattern 2.0 Fund Investment,
Pattern Development 1.0 was advised by
Latham & Watkins LLP with a team com-
prising Barton Clark, Mathew Holt, Daniel
Cote, Cheryl Coe and Valentin Riazanov.
PSP Investments was represented on all as-
pects of the above transactions by an in-house
team comprising Mélanie Bernier, Vice Presi-
dent and Divisional General Counsel Legal
Affairs, and Florence Simard (who was on
secondment from Davies).
For the PEGI Share Acquisition, PSP
Investments was also represented by Da-
vies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP with
a team comprising Franziska Ruf, Olivier
Désilets, and Scott Fisher and Marc Berger.
For the PEGI/PSP JVA, the Initial Project
Acquisitions and the Panhandle 2 Acquisi-
tion, PSP Investments was represented by
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
with a team comprising Nicholas Williams,
Franziska Ruf, Brooke Jamison, Anthony
Spadaro, Marc Pontone, Sarah Powell, Ga-
briella Lombardi, and Pawel Mielcarek and
Jason Stapley.
PSP Investments was provided with tax
advice on all aspects of the above transac-
tions by Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
LLP with a team comprising Peter Glick-
lich, Heath Martin and Marie-Emmanuelle
Vaillancourt; regulatory advice was provid-
ed to PSP Investments by Linklaters with
a team comprising Antonia Sherman, Sima
Ostrovsky and Tara Rudra; and by Davies
Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP with a
team comprising Charles Tingley and Aly-
sha Manji-Knight.
For the Pattern 2.0 Fund Investment,
PSP Investments was represented by Torys
LLP with a team comprising Amy Johnson-
Spina, Jay Romagnoli, and Batya Nadler and
Steven Rotchtin.
For both the Panhandle 2 Acquisition and
certain US regulatory matters, PSP Invest-
ments was also assisted by Andrews Kurth
LLP with a team comprising Timothy Un-
ger, Eric Markus, Stephanie Kroger, Geoffrey
Walker and Kenneth Wiseman.
NORGINE B.V. COMPLETES
PLAN OF ARRANGEMENT,
ACQUIRING MERUS LABS
INTERNATIONAL INC.
CLOSING DATE: JULY 17, 2017
On July 17, 2017, Norgine B.V., a European
specialist pharmaceutical company, acquired
all issued and outstanding shares of Merus
Labs International Inc. (Merus).
e acquisition was completed pursuant
to a plan of arrangement for $1.65 per com-
mon share in cash, including the assumption
of all debt obligations, for a total enterprise
value of approximately $342 million.
Merus' product portfolio includes estab-
lished products in oncology, women's health,
cardiovascular, urology and infectious dis-
eases, which are sold in markets across Eu-
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