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China Construction Bank, in its application to establish a foreign bank branch in Canada (Schedule III bank)
Glencore International, in its acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Viterra for approximately $6.1 billion by way of a plan of arrangement and the sale of certain assets of Viterra to each of Agrium and Richardson International for aggregate proceeds of approximately $2.6 billion
Citibank, N.A., in opposition to a motion brought by BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited under the Plan of Compromise and Arrangement, which restructured the $32 billion third-party asset backed commercial paper market – Re Metcalfe & Mansfield Alternative Investments II Corp
Raleigh Wind Power Partnership and its sponsor, Invenergy Wind North America LLC, in its $179,000,000 project financing of the Raleigh Wind Energy Project
Project developer, in securing land rights for wind projects in Saskatchewan, Ontario and Nova Scotia
CIBC Mellon Trust Company, Computershare Trust Company and BNY Trust Company, in the $35 billion restructuring of the third party ABCP in accordance with The Montreal Proposal
EllisDon Corporation, in the $104.1 million alternative financing and procurement transaction involving the redevelopment of the Mississauga and West Toronto campuses of Trillium Health Centre
McKenna Gale Capital, in a $50 million equity and subordinated debt investment in Barrett Xplore Inc., a private New Brunswick corporation engaged in fixed wireless and satellite internet services
Omstead Foods Limited, in the divestiture of their commercial fish products division. The sale was structured as an asset sale and required significant expertise in real estate, employment, pensions, union/management, environmental and corporate law
Credit Suisse, Canadian counsel for the administrative and collateral agent in advice on loan agreements, Canadian security documents and title insurance matters surrounding a US$226.5 million first lien credit agreement
BFA Securities Inc., in conjunction with Royal Bank of Canada, acted for the arranger of financial products in the establishment and structuring of a "Partly Paid Share" program
BFA Securities Inc., in the establishment and structuring of a $480 million "strip bond" program
Cadbury Trebor Allan Inc., in its acquisition of Adams from the global confectionary and manufacturing division of Pfizer Inc. for US$4.2 billion
JP Morgan Chase Bank, in property advice on the Canadian aspects of an $800 million multi-jurisdictional syndicated loan facility secured by, inter-alia, real properties located in various Canadian jurisdictions
JP Morgan Chase, as agent, in the establishment of a US$675 million credit facility to be utilized by borrowers worldwide
MDS Proteomics Inc., (biotechnology), counsel to debtor, in its $100 million debt, in the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act proceedings
Canadian counsel to Credit Suisse, in its amended and restated senior secured credit facilities to Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. including a seven-year $1.625 billion term loan facility, seven-year $50 million synthetic letter of credit, and five-year $225 million revolving credit facility
Centrica plc, a leading provider of energy and essential services in the U.K. under AA and British Gas brands, in its $1 billion acquisition of Enbridge Services Inc., which more than doubled the customer base of Centrica's Canadian business
Deutsche Bank, in representing the bondholder in an oppression claim against Sherritt International Corporation in the New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench
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