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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017
BIG DEALS
Lantic has been in the sugar business for over 100 years. e com-
pany is the leading refiner, processor, distributor and marketer of
sugar products in Canada. As the sole sugar processor in Western
Canada, Lantic supplies over 90 per cent of the demand for refined
sugar in that region. In Eastern Canada, Lantic is one of the two ma-
jor sugar refiners.
LBMT is one of the world's largest branded and private label maple
syrup bottling and distribution companies. LBMT has two bottling
plants in Québec and one in Vermont.
e business is supported by distribution centres in eastern and
western Canada, the US and Australia.
Rogers Sugar and Lantic were represented by Davies Ward Phil-
lips & Vineberg LLP, with a team led by Sébastien Roy (M&A
and securities) and including Nicolas Morin and Vanessa Pendenza
(M&A and securities), Carol Pennycook, Dan Wolfensohn and
Chris Figel (banking), Fred Purkey (tax), and Anita Banicevic and
Alysha Manji-Knight (competition).
LBMT was represented by Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(Montréal), with a team led by Jean-Sébastien Dugas (M&A) and in-
cluding Simon Bisson (M&A) and Leslie Milton (competition).
e syndicate of underwriters in the Offering was represented by
Stikeman Elliott LLP, with a team led by Warren Katz (M&A and
securities) and including Vanessa Coiteux and Carla L'Écuyer (M&A
and securities).
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (Toronto) advised the syndi-
cate of banks with a team that included John Torrey, Angela Onesi,
Jay Choi and Svetlana Samochkine (banking).
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AGT AND FAIRFAX CLOSE $190M
STRATEGIC INVESTMENT TRANSACTION
CLOSING DATE: AUGUST 31, 2017
On August 31, 2017, AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. (AGT) and
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., through certain subsidiaries (col-
lectively, Fairfax) closed their previously announced transaction,
pursuant to which Fairfax agreed to invest $190 million in AGT in
exchange for the issuance by AGT of 5.375-per-cent interest-bearing
securities and common-share purchase warrants.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP acted for AGT with a deal team
that included Kenton Rein and Neil Harris (financial services), Jef-
frey Roy, Jamie Litchen and Matt Gold (securities) and Doug Rich-
ardson (tax).
Torys LLP acted for Fairfax with a deal team composed of David
Chaikof, Janan Paskaran, Laura Sigurdson and Yvan Moquin. Fair-
fax was represented by Tom Rowe, Senior Legal Counsel.
Mayer Brown LLP acted as US counsel to AGT with a deal team
that included David Bakst, Kevin Sheridan and Julie Paret.
CANADA GOOSE COMPLETES SECONDARY
OFFERING OF SUBORDINATE VOTING SHARES
CLOSING DATE: JULY 5, 2017
On July 5, 2017, Canada Goose Holdings Inc. completed its second-
ary offering of 12,500,000 subordinate voting shares for a price of
US$20.75 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of US$259,375,000.
e shares were sold by an investment fund advised by Bain Capital,
DTR LLC, and certain charities and members of management.
CIBC Capital Markets, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs & Co.
LLC and RBC Capital Markets served as joint book-running man-
agers and as representatives of the underwriters for the offering.
BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, BMO Capital Mar-
kets, TD and Wells Fargo Securities also acted as joint book-running
managers and Baird, Canaccord Genuity and Cowen acted as co-
managers for the offering.
Canada Goose was represented in-house by a legal team led by
David Forrest. Canada Goose was represented in Canada by Robert
Carelli, David Tardif, Jeremy Sculnick and Jason Paperman (securi-
ties and capital markets), Peter Castiel and Barbara Sheng (corporate)
and Frank Mathieu and Éric Lévesque (tax) of Stikeman Elliott
LLP, and in the US by omas Holden, 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 securities) and Timo-
thy Hughes and David Davachi (tax) of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
LLP. e underwriters were represented in the US by Marc Jaffe, Ian
Schuman, Adam Gelardi and Samuel Chaffin (corporate and securi-
ties) of Latham & Watkins LLP.
DTR LLC was represented in Canada by Jeffrey Cohen and Glen
