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CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS OF IMPORTANCE
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Samara (corporate) and Sean Coughlin (real
estate); and in the United States by Schulte
Roth & Zabel LLP with a team that includ-
ed Joel Simon and Jae Kim (finance).
Energy & Power Pipelines
Automotive Materials
Utilities Financials Health Research
Media & Entertainment Recreation & Leisure Advertising & Marketing
E-Commerce Construction & Engineering
Consumer Staples
L.V. LOMAS LTD. COMPLETES
SALE TO IMCD GROUP
CLOSING DATE: AUGUST 31, 2017
On August 31, 2017, L.V. Lomas Ltd. was ac-
quired by IMCD N.V., a market leader in the
sales of speciality chemicals and food ingre-
dients globally. e terms of the transaction
were not disclosed.
IMCD, headquartered in Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, acquired 100 per cent of L.V.
Lomas, the Brampton-based Canadian and
US specialty and ingredients distributor.
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
acted for the owner of L.V. Lomas Ltd. with
a team that included Scott Conover, Jack
Yu (M&A), Christopher Steeves (tax), Huy
Do (competition), Ross Gascho (benefits),
Alix Herber (employment), Sarah Goodwin
(intellectual property), Pierre-Olivier Char-
lebois (environmental), Aaron Stefan (bank-
ing and finance) and Paul Casuccio (indirect
tax). Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
acted as US counsel to the owner of L.V. Lo-
mas Ltd. with a team that included Russell
Cohen (antitrust), Blake Ilstrup (corporate/
securities), Mitchel Pahl (compensation/ben-
efits), Grady Bolding (tax) and Laura Larsen
(corporate/securities). e Fasken Martineau
and Orrick teams worked hand in hand with
L.V. Lomas' senior management and its legal
team led by Sarah Stewart, General Counsel.
IMCD was represented in Canada by
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP with a
team that included Michael Stevenson, An-
drew Clark and Whitney Robinson (M&A),
Paul Stepak (tax), Jennifer Ruddick (bank-
ing), Jordan Schubert (employment), and
in the US by ompson Hine LLP with a
team that included Tony Kuhel, William
Henry and Zohra Sayedy (M&A) and Jim
Koenig (tax).
INTEGRA GOLD AND ELDORADO
GOLD COMPLETE $590M
PLAN OF ARRANGEMENT
CLOSING DATE: JULY 10, 2017
On July 10, 2017, Integra Gold Corp. (In-
tegra) and Eldorado Gold Corp. (Eldorado)
completed a plan of arrangement pursuant
to which Eldorado acquired all of the Integra
shares that it did not already own. Pursuant
to the plan of arrangement, Integra share-
holders will collectively receive approximate-
ly $129 million cash and 77 million shares of
Eldorado (representing approximately 10 per
cent of the total issued shares of Eldorado,
post-completion of the arrangement). Integra
will continue as a wholly owned subsidiary of
Eldorado and Integra shares will be de-listed
from the TSX-V.
e arrangement, which was approved by
the shareholders of Integra at its special meet-
ing on July 4, 2017, subsequently received ap-
proval from the Supreme Court of British
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