Counsel to Explorator Resources Inc. with respect to the $55 million acquisition by Sociedad Punta del Cobre (Pucobre) by way of plan of arrangement of the 83% of Explorator shares not already owned by Pucobre
Counsel to the management shareholders of Pareto Corporation with respect to its acquisition by private equity firm The Riverside Company for $125 million by way of plan of arrangement
Counsel to Copper Canyon Resources Ltd. in connection with its acquisition by NovaGold Resources Inc. by way of plan of arrangement
Canadian counsel to BP in the sale of $7 billion US of assets to Apache Corporation and its affiliates
Counsel to Sasol Petroleum International on its $1.05 billion agreement to acquire from Talisman Energy a 50% stake in their Farrell Creek shale gas assets located in B.C.’s Montney basin
Counsel to Argonaut Gold in relation to its business combination with Pediment Gold Corp., creating a new enterprise valued at approximately $367 million
Counsel to Capital Power on its acquisition of the 275MW Island Generation Facility in British Columbia
Counsel to DragonWave Inc. on its $9.5 million acquisition of Axerra Networks, Inc., a leader in pseudowire technology (2010)
Counsel to Perilya Ltd. on its $184 million take-over bid for GlobeStar Mining Corporation
Counsel to the Special Committee of Terrane Metals Corp. with respect to its $650 million acquisition by Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. by way of plan of arrangement
Counsel to Stillwater Mining Company in connection with its US$118 million acquisition of Marathon PGM Corporation by way of Plan of Arrangement
Counsel to Argonaut Gold Inc. in connection with a $150 million three-part transaction involving a financing through GMP Securities LP to raise $150 million, a business combination with Intuitivo Capital Corp. to become a public company, and the simultaneous completion of a $103 million take-over of Castle Gold Corporation
Canadian counsel to Service Corporation International regarding debenture defeasance in connection with its CDN $290 million acquisition by take-over bid and compulsory acquisition of Keystone North America Inc.
Acted for International Datacasting Corporation in connection with its acquisition of the Tiernan broadcast radio and video products lines from Comtech Tiernan Video, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (August 2009)
Counsel to Aecon Group Inc. in its acquisition of South Rock Ltd., an established construction business in Alberta focusing primarily on the Southern Alberta roadbuilding market
Counsel to Aurea Mining Inc. on merger with Newstrike Capital Inc. by way of plan of arrangement
Counsel to Meridian Gold Inc. in connection with $3.5 billion take-over bid by Yamana Gold Inc., including "poison pill" hearing before the Ontario Securities Commission. Meridian Gold Inc., Re (2007), 30 O.S.C.B. 9307 (O.S.C.)
Acted for SouthernEra Diamonds in the $115 million takeover by Mwana Africa PLC
Acted for the Special Committee of Peru Copper in the $900 million takeover by Chinalco (Aluminum Corporation of China)
Counsel to TD Securities Inc., financial advisor to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Falconbridge Limited, in connection with Noranda Inc’s $3.3 billion acquisition of Falconbridge Limited’s remaining outstanding shares
Counsel to Cascades Inc. in connection with its $560 million purchase of Domtar Inc.'s 50 per cent stake in Norampac Inc. and the related equity financing
Counsel to EPCOR Utilities Inc. in connection with its acquisition from TransCanada of all of its interest in TransCanada Power, L.P. (now EPCOR Power L.P., Canada's largest power income fund) for an aggregate purchase price of $529 million
Counsel to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as a member of the acquiring consortium in its $2.1 billion purchase of O&Y Properties and O&Y REIT
Counsel to Pogo Producing Company in its US$1.8 billion acquisition of Northrock Resources
Counsel to the Canadian subsidiaries of Weatherford International Ltd. in its $2.7 billion acquisition of the Energy Services and International Contract Drilling Divisions of Precision Drilling Corporation
Counsel to NM Rothschild & Sons (financial advisor to The Strategic Committee of the Board of Directors of CP Ships) in the $2.1 billion acquisition of CP Ships Ltd. by TUI AG
Advised Petro-Canada in respect of its acquisition of a 60% interest in the Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership, the entity that owns the Fort Hills oil sands project, and advised in respect of the addition of Teck Cominco as a 15% stakeholder in the same entity
Counsel to Goldcorp Inc. in its US$2.2 billion acquisition by take-over bid of Wheaton River Minerals Ltd.
Counsel to the family of Deirdre Molson Stevenson in the $7.7 billion merger of Molson Inc. and Adolph Coors Co. to create the world's fifth largest brewer