LEXPERT MAGAZINE
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JUNE 2018 19
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CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS OF IMPORTANCE
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On March 20, 2018, Blue Point Capital
Partners closed the acquisition of Spec-
tor & Co. Blue Point Capital Partners is
a private-equity firm managing over $1.5
billion in committed capital that focuses
on investing in and growing lower mid-
dle-market companies.
e transaction was announced on April
4, 2018. Spector & Co. is a leading indus-
try supplier of writing instruments, jour-
nals and other business gis to the North
American promotional products industry.
Blue Point was represented by Stikeman
Elliott LLP with a team that included Ma-
rio Nigro, Kim Le, Julien Lefebvre (M&A),
Frank Mathieu, Adam Drori (tax), Howard
Rosenoff, Léa Bénitah-Bouchard (financ-
ing) and Natasha vandenHoven and Al-
lyson Marta (benefits). Debt financing was
provided by TD Bank, while CIBC acted
as the financial advisor to Spector & Co. in
connection with the transaction.
Spector & Co. was represented by
Karambatsos Law yers with a team that
included Chris Karambatsos, Diana
Lyrintzis, Aviad Grunbaum and Clau-
dia DeMinico.
BOMBARDIER
CLOSES $638.4M
PUBLIC OFFERING
CLOSING DATE: MARCH 23, 2018
On March 23, 2018, Bombardier Inc.
(Bombardier) completed its public offer-
ing (the Offering) of 168,000,000 Class B
shares (subordinate voting) (the Shares) at
a purchase price of $3.80 per Share for total
gross proceeds of $638.4 million. Bombar-
dier intends to use the net proceeds of the
Offering to supplement its working capital
and for general corporate purposes, consis-
tent with Bombardier's continued proac-
tive approach to capital management.
e syndicate of underwriters for the
Offering was led by Credit Suisse Securi-
ties (Canada), Inc., National Bank Finan-
cial Inc., UBS Securities Canada Inc. and
TD Securities Inc. Bombardier's in-house
team was led by Daniel Desjardins, Se-
nior Vice President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary, together with
Corinne Bélair, Director, Legal Services,
Nicholas Cerminaro, Director, Legal Ser-
vices, Simon Fugère Nadeau, Legal Coun-
sel, Daniel Khazzam, Legal Counsel and
Sibylle Ferreira, Legal Counsel. Norton
Rose Fulbright acted as counsel to Bom-
bardier through its offices in Montréal,
New York, London, Hamburg and Hong
Kong. Norton Rose Fulbright's team in-
cluded Paul Raymond, Solomon Sananes,
Amélie Métivier, Lady Africa Sheppard
and Pierre-François Tétreault in Mon-
tréal, Chris Hilbert and James Lacey in
New York, Jacqueline Heng, Si Xuan Cai
and Isabel Hershman in London, Klaus
von Gierke and Katharina von der Heyde
in Hamburg and Winnie Chan in Hong
Kong. Jules Charette advised regarding
Canadian tax matters, and Michael Fla-
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