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Worldwide competitive pressures, escalating energy prices and other cost-structure shifts have had a significant impact on Canada’s forest product industry. At Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, we believe that investment capital will once again find the restructured industry, attracted by innovative management and its experience as stewards of a high-quality, long-term fibre supply.
We know the forest products industry intimately, from stumpage to specialty grades, from panels to pine beetles. Each of our offices has the legal expertise that the forest products industry demands: commercial contracts and strategy in fibre supply and finished product distribution, mergers and acquisitions, international trade, environmental, human resources, aboriginal, litigation and insolvency.
But legal expertise is only part of the picture: our clients come back because of our industry knowledge, our commitment to efficient pricing and our ability to serve them in a coordinated fashion across Canada. We look ahead to find legal solutions that maximize their future success. Whether we are advising on the conversion of a sawmill into a reman in the east, negotiating a chip supply arrangement in central Canada, or helping to avoid a strike at a pulp mill in the west, we add value—and we do not waste our clients’ time.
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Counsel to Tembec in the $98.5 million sale of its OSB business to Jolina Capital Inc.
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Counsel to Cascades Inc. in connection with the sale to PaperlinX Canada Limited of Cascades Resources, the Canadian paper merchanting business of Cascades Fine Papers Group Inc. (approximately $81 million)
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Counsel to Tembec Inc. in the acquisition of the St. Anne-Nackawic Pulp Mill by AV Nackawic Inc. (controlled by Tembec Inc. and Aditya Birla Group of Mumbai, India)
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Counsel to Pelton Reforestation Ltd. in its acquisition by PRT Forest Regeneration
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Counsel to borrowers in a syndicated financing by Bowater Incorporated and Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc.
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Acted for Tembec in a joint reorganization with Domtar of key sawmills in Northeastern Ontario
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Counsel to Bank of Montreal and HSBC Bank Canada as underwriters of new credit facilities related to Riverside Forest Products Ltd.'s $100 million acquisition of all shares of Lignum Ltd.
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Assisted in Canadian and U.S. capital markets debt and equity financing
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Restructuring assistance in respect of Canadian operations
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Commercial and aboriginal law advice
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Labour and employment advice
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Fibre supply and commercial litigation
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Advice in respect of corporate governance
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Advice in respect of implementation of the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement
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Forestry infraction litigation
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Advice in respect of energy products and generation
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Insolvency and restructuring advice
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Lead counsel in respect of a provincial government commission of inquiry into the construction of a paper mill
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Regulatory and environmental advice
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