20 LEXPERT MAGAZINE
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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
BIG DEALS
Columbia on July 7, 2017.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP acted
for Integra with a deal team that included
David Redford, Jeffrey Roy, Jen Poirier and
Samantha Prest (securities and mining), Lara
Jackson and Matt Nied (litigation) and Chris
Hersh (competition).
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP ad-
vised Eldorado with a team that included
Georald Ingborg, Josh Lewis, Sandra Mal-
colm, Michael Coburn and Huy Do.
Insurance Insurance
GALLAGHER BENEFIT SERVICES
(CANADA) GROUP INC.
ACQUIRES THE DIBRINA GROUP
CLOSING DATE: OCTOBER 4, 2017
On October 4, 2017, Gallagher Benefit Ser-
vices (Canada) Group Inc., a subsidiary of
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG), completed
its acquisition of substantially all the assets of
the DiBrina Group. e terms of the transac-
tion were not disclosed.
e DiBrina Group provides human re-
hand in hand with AJG's senior manage-
ment and its legal team led by Samantha
Alfonzo (Chief Legal Counsel) and Valerie
Eisen (Legal Counsel, on secondment from
Fasken Martineau).
Weaver, Simmons LLP advised the Di-
Brina Group in this transaction with a team
consisting of Steve Moutsatsos, Nicholas
Kuchtaruk and Sheena Alexander.
WEST FRASER COMPLETES
US$430M ACQUISITION
OF GILMAN COS.
CLOSING DATE: AUGUST 31, 2017
On August 31, 2017, West Fraser Timber Co.
Ltd. (West Fraser) completed its US$430
million acquisition of the Gilman Group
from the Howard Gilman Foundation.
e Gilman Group consists of six saw-
mills and a finger-jointing facility in Florida
and Georgia with a combined capacity of
700 million board feet of lumber produc-
tion and 900 employees. e transaction
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sources, employee benefits, pension consult-
ing and life insurance consulting and broker-
age services to clients throughout Ontario.
Headquartered in Sudbury, the DiBrina
Group also has offices in Toronto and New
Liskeard, Ont. e addition of the DiBrina
Group represents a material expansion of
AJG's benefits business in Canada.
AJG, an international insurance brokerage
and risk-management services firm, is head-
quartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, has
operations in 34 countries, and offers client
service capabilities in more than 150 coun-
tries around the world through a network of
correspondent brokers and consultants.
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP ad-
vised AJG in this transaction with a team
led by Wojtek Baraniak (M&A/corporate/
insurance regulatory) that included Tracy
Hooey and Garth Foster (securities regula-
tory), Justine Connors (on secondment to
AJG), Jack Yu and Markus Liik (M&A/cor-
porate), and Alix Herber and Avneet Jaswal
(labour & employment).
e Fasken Martineau team worked
