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MAY 2018
BIG DEALS
Norton Rose Fulbright represented
Bank of America, N.A. with teams in both
Canada and the United Kingdom. e team
in Canada consisted of Arnold Cohen, Mat-
thew Lippa and Simone Nash. e team in
the United Kingdom consisted of Michael
Black, Alex Dunn, Helen Masri and Char-
lotte Davies.
McGuireWoods LLP represented Bank
of America, N.A. in the United States with a
team consisting of Hamid Namazie, Charles
Scheer, Yoojin Lee and Brian Kim.
Latham & Watkins LLP represented
Mattel, Inc. in the United States with a team
consisting of Glen Collyer, Shane Alexander
and Jonathan Shih.
McCarthy Tétrault LLP represented
Mattel, Inc. in Canada. e McCarthy Té-
trault team consisted of Richard Higa and
Cristina Arantes.
Consumer Services Energy & Power Pipelines
Aerospace & Defence Automotive Materials
Utilities Financials Health Research
Media & Entertainment Recreation & Leisure Advertising & Marketing
E-Commerce Construction & Engineering
Consumer Staples
NOVACAP AND THE CAISSE
COMPLETE INVESTMENT
IN PIVOTAL PAYMENTS
CLOSING DATE: SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
On September 27, 2017, Novacap and Caisse
de dépôt et placement du Québec (Caisse)
completed an investment in Pivotal Pay-
ments (Pivotal), a Québec business that spe-
cializes in payment processing solutions and
merchant services (the Transaction). e
Transaction values Pivotal at approximately
$525 million.
e new shareholders, who have extensive
expertise in international business expan-
sion, will enable Pivotal to pursue its plan to
acquire new payment and fintech solutions
and expand into new markets.
With operations throughout North
America and Europe, Pivotal serves more
than 50,000 merchants and over US$14
billion is transacted on its various platforms
every year.
In addition to the services it provides to
traditional point-of-sale businesses, Pivotal
also offers global e-commerce solutions, ad-
vantageously positioning the company to
benefit from this sector's significant growth
and from integrating with payment-enabled
soware companies.
Novacap and Caisse were represented in-
house by Bruno Duguay and Josiane Tur-
cotte (Legal Counsel to Novacap), Sophie
Lussier (Senior Director, Legal Affairs to
Caisse) and by Fasken Martineau DuMou-
lin LLP with a team composed of Denis
Chaurette, Michel Boislard, Caitlin Rose,
Kiran Singh, Alexandra Lazar and Jonathan
Raizenne (corporate/M&A).
Pivotal was represented by Stikeman El-
liott LLP with a team composed of John
Leopold, Howard Rosenoff, Warren Sil-
versmith, Hélia Taheri and Jordan Dawson
(corporate/M&A), Sylvia Avedis (financ-
ing), Frank Mathieu and Nathaniel Lacasse
(tax), Stephanie Weschler and Stephanie
Pasternyk (employment), Michel Legendre
(benefits) and Jeff Brown (regulatory).
Bank of Montreal, the administrative
agent for the lenders, was represented by
Dentons Canada LLP with a team com-
posed of Joel Cabelli, Marie-Josée Couture,
Jacqueline Rowniak and Catherine Dostaler,
as well as Doug Wingo of Dentons US.
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