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Tremblay, Richard G. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-6441 rtremblay@osler.com
Mr. Tremblay focuses on corporate taxation, with an emphasis on
international taxation (foreign affiliates, tax treaties and transfer pricing),
as well as on the resolution of disputes with Canadian federal and provincial
revenue authorities. He's recognized for his tax experience in capital markets,
M&A and cross-border structuring. He is a regular contributor
to Tax Management International.
Thornton, Robert I. Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP
(416) 304-0560 rthornton@tgf.ca
Mr. Thornton, a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and an IIC
director, is named "Lawyer of the Year " in the 2018 edition of Best Lawyers
in Canada for Toronto Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law. He has
been described as "a leading light," "one of the most innovative in the field"
and "pound for pound one of the top lawyers in town."
Thivierge, Manon Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(514) 904-8198 mthivierge@osler.com
Ms. Thivierge focuses her practice on domestic and cross-border corporate
income tax law, with particular emphasis on the taxation of mergers
& acquisitions, financings and corporate reorganizations as well as on
personal tax and estate planning. She is the author of numerous publications
on income tax matters, and frequently speaks on this subject.
Taylor, Ashley John Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5236 ataylor@stikeman.com
Mr. Taylor is a partner in the Litigation Group. He focuses on insolvency
law and represents debtors, court-appointed officers, secured lenders
and purchasers. He has frequently appeared before the Ontario Superior
Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal focusing on Companies' Creditors
Arrangement Act proceedings, receiverships and bankruptcies.
Tay, Derrick C. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-7330 derrick.tay@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Tay leads the firm's corporate restructuring practice. His primary focus is
on the restructuring and reorganization of complex debtor corporations, and
he has deep experience in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions.
Story, Craig A. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(403) 266-9098 cstory@stikeman.com
Mr. Story's domestic and cross-border practice embraces corporate and
securities law, including public and private capital market offerings, private-
equity and venture capital funds (both fund creation and portfolio company
investments/divestitures), mergers & acquisitions and corporate governance.
His industry experience includes energy, oil & gas, service, midstream
and financial services.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
transaction, and Chris Anderson of Davies Ward
Phillips & Vineberg LLP provided tax advice
to Axium on the transaction. Dan Wolfensohn
and Elise Beauregard of Davies Ward Phillips
& Vineberg LLP's Montréal office advised with
respect to Québec security issues.
TransCanada was represented internally by
omas Hwang, Senior Legal Counsel. Trans-
Canada was represented externally by Osler,
Hoskin & Harcourt LLP with a team consisting
of Jake Sadikman, Dan Kolibar, Marissa Kirsh,
Adrian Hartog, Wendy Kao, Suzanne Herceg and
Shuli Rodal.
One group of institutional lenders providing
the credit facilities was represented by McCarthy
Tétrault LLP with a team consisting of Stephen
Furlan, Lynn Parsons, Mary-Jeanne Phelan, Ja-
cob Stone, Christopher Zawadzki, William Mc-
Cullough, David Woollcombe, Heloise Apeste-
guy-Reux and Joanna Rosengarten and another
group of institutional lenders was represented by
Stikeman Elliott LLP with a team consisting of
Sterling Dietze and Guillaume Blais.
RAYONIER ADVANCED MATERIALS INC.
ACQUIRES TEMBEC INC.
CLOSING DATE: NOVEMBER 20, 2017
On November 20, 2017, Rayonier Advanced Ma-
terials Inc. (Rayonier AM), a Florida-based lead-
ing global supplier of high purity cellulose, an-
nounced it had completed its friendly acquisition
of Tembec Inc. (Tembec), a Québec forestry firm,
for approximately US$962 million. e transac-
tion, as originally proposed, was opposed by Oak-
tree Capital Management Inc. (Oaktree), whose
funds beneficially owned 19.9 per cent of Tembec.
e value of the consideration was ultimately in-
creased by 17 per cent and Oaktree agreed to sup-
port the revised transaction. e revised transac-
tion was carried out by way of a court-approved
plan of arrangement.
Rayonier AM was represented in Canada by
McCarthy Tétrault LLP with a team led by Cle-
mens Mayr and Hadrien Montagne, that included
Louis-Charles Filiatrault, Konstantin Sobolevski,
Martin iboutot, Anastassia Chtaneva, omas
Étienne and Xin Gao (M&A), Nathalie Gagnon
and Diana eophilopoulos (labour & employ-
ment), Cindy Vaillancourt (environment), Oliver
Borgers, Dominic érien and Jonathan Bitran
(competition/antitrust), Mary Pagonis (real prop-
erty), Simon Potter, Marc Dorion, Jean Charest,
François Giroux, George Vegh and Marc-Alex-
andre Hudon (regulatory/court approval), and
Christian Meighen, Marie-Soleil Landry, Lor-
raine Allard, Andrew Haikal and Quentin Lageix
(tax). Rayonier AM was represented in the United
States by David Lam, Iliana Ongun and Kathleen
Iannone (M&A), and Michael Benn and Benja-
