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Vaux, Robert Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-6265 rvaux@goodmans.ca
Mr. Vaux practises corporate/securities law, focusing on public/private M&A,
corporate finance and governance matters, including proxy contests. He is
Co-Chair of Goodmans' Corporate Securities Group and an Adjunct Professor
at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. He has a reputation for assisting
in the structuring of novel and sophisticated transactions and dealing
with complicated issues.
Vanderpol, Sean Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5523 svanderpol@stikeman.com
Mr. Vanderpol is Co-Head of the Capital Markets and Public M&A Groups in
the Toronto office. His practice focuses on public companies, with emphasis
on public M&A transactions, as well as public corporate finance transactions
and public governance and compliance issues. He is a member of the
Law Society of Ontario and a previous member of the Securities Advisory
Committee of the OSC.
Vandenberg, Edward Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(613) 787-1110 evandenberg@osler.com
Partner in the business law department and a member of the firm's
Technology Business Group, Mr. Vandenberg is based in the Ottawa office
where he practises corporate and securities law with an emphasis on private
equity financing, mergers & acquisitions and venture capital fund formation.
His practice concentrates almost exclusively on emerging technology
companies and private equity funds.
Urbani, Michael G. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(604) 631-1340 murbani@stikeman.com
Mr. Urbani is a partner in Stikeman Elliott Vancouver's Corporate
and Securities Group. He has a diversified corporate practice focused
on corporate finance, securities, M&A and corporate governance. He acts
for private and public entities and investment dealers in public financings
and private placements in Canada and the United States, as well
as on take-over bids and M&A.
Turner, John S.M. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(416) 865-4380 jturner@fasken.com
Mr. Turner is Leader of the firm's Global Mining group and the Securities,
Mergers & Acquisitions group. His practice is focused in the resource sector,
where he has been involved in many leading corporate finance and mergers
& acquisitions deals. He represents issuers and underwriters in transactions
involving resource companies active throughout the globe.
Turcotte, Maxime Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-2421 mturcotte@stikeman.com
Partner in the Corporate Group. He specializes in providing corporate advice
(often with cross-border or international components) in the context of
private/public M&A, corporate finance transactions and projects. He has
extensive experience working on significant public/private M&A transactions
in various industries such as professional services, energy, infrastructure,
healthcare and insurance.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
min Arfa (financing) of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen
& Katz; and in Europe by Xavier Doumen, Alex-
andra Tuil and Marion Salus of Hogan Lovells
(Paris) LLP.
Tembec was represented in Canada by Pierre-
Yves Leduc, Amy Chao, David Tardif, Aniko Pel-
land, Marc-William Carrothers, Valérie Trudeau
and Charles Ouimet (M&A), Jeffrey Brown and
Michael Laskey (competition), Franco Gadoury
and Adam Drori (tax), and Howard Rosenoff and
Léa Bénitah-Bouchard (financing) of Stikeman
Elliott LLP; in the United States by Ted Lacey,
Kimberly Petillo-Décossard, Ross Sturman, Joseph
Rosati, Elai Katz, Glenn Jr. Waldrip, Mark Gel-
man of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP; in Europe
by Alec Burnside, Marjolein De Backer, Nicola
Mariani of Dechert LLP; and in China by Natalie
Yeung and Paddy Law of Slaughter and May.
Oaktree was represented by Patricia Olasker,
Steven Harris and Geoff Rawle (M&A) of Davies
Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.
Norton Rose Fulbright advised Bank of
America, the lenders to Rayonier with a team
that included Michele Friel, Peter Wiazowski and
Amanda Plastina.
ORLA MINING ACQUIRES
GOLDCORP'S CAMINO ROJO PROJECT
CLOSING DATE: NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Orla Mining Ltd. (Orla) (TSX-V: OLA) acquired
the Camino Rojo Project, a gold and silver ox-
ide heap leach project located in Zacatecas State,
Mexico from Goldcorp Inc. (TSX: G, NYSE: GG)
(Goldcorp) for 31.9 million common shares of Orla
(a 19.88-per-cent interest in Orla) and a 2-per-cent
net smelter royalty. Orla and Goldcorp have also
entered into an option agreement regarding the
potential development of multiple sulphide op-
erations at Camino Rojo in which Goldcorp will,
subject to the applicable sulphide project meeting
certain thresholds, have an option to acquire a
60-per-cent or 70-per-cent interest in the applica-
ble sulphide projects.
Orla was represented by Goodmans LLP with
a team that included Kari MacKay, Grant Mc-
Glaughlin, David Coll-Black and Alex Ginther
(corporate/mining) and Alan Bowman (tax); and
in Mexico by Mauricio Herias of VHG Servicios
Legales S.C.
Goldcorp was represented internally by Ran-
dall Chatwin, Vice President, Assistant General
Counsel, Andrew Spencer, Legal Counsel, Abel
Martinez, Legal, Goldcorp Mexico, and Alejan-
dro Guevara, Legal, Goldcorp Mexico. Cassels
Brock & Blackwell LLP acted as external coun-
sel to Goldcorp with a team that included Darrell
Podowski, John Christian and Stefanie Sebanc
(securities/mining/M&A); and in Mexico by
Todd y Asociados, S.C. with a team that includ-
