Our Mergers and Acquisitions Group

BLG's entire Mergers and Acquisitions Group consists of over 130 lawyers who practice in this area, including securities law, competition, tax and other specialists, and members of our Corporate Commercial Group who deal with private M&A.  Members of our Securities and Capital Markets Group focus on public M&A including take-over bids, amalgamations and mergers, plans of arrangement, reorganizations including income trust reorganizations, and spin-offs and sales.  We represent all types of "players" in such transactions, including buyers, sellers, targets, investment bankers, boards of directors, special committees, commercial banks providing acquisition financing, merchant banks, institutional investors, buyout funds and arbitrageurs.  Borden Ladner Gervais' mergers and acquisitions practitioners offer clients experience and expertise coupled with an unwavering commitment to achieve client objectives on a timely and efficient basis.

Our Services in Mergers and Acquisitions

We advise on negotiated and unsolicited mergers and acquisitions transactions effected by way of asset purchases and sales, take-over bids, arrangements, amalgamations, asset or securities distributions or divestitures, spin-offs or otherwise.  Our mergers and acquisitions practitioners can draw on available business, corporate and securities law experience and expertise as well as other resources of the firm in areas such as antitrust and competition, employment and labour, IP and IT, environmental, litigation, pensions and benefits,  and tax to form a team dedicated to servicing our clients' M&A needs

Our Experience in Mergers and Acquisitions

Representative Transactions

Our recent M&A experience includes advising  :

• PowerStream Inc. in its $800 million amalgamation with Barrie Hydro
• CanElson Drilling in its $78 million merger with EMR Drilling Inc.
• Bonterra Energy Income Trust in its acquisitions of Silver Wing Energy Inc. and SRX Post Holdings Inc. and conversion from income trust to corporation, in transactions with an aggregate value of approximately $472 million
• Toronto Hydro Corporation in its $200 million sale of Toronto Hydro Telecom Inc. to Cogeco Cable Canada Inc.
• Eldorado Gold Corporation in the $70 million sale of Sao Bento Gold Limited to AngloGold Ashanti and in its $148 million acquisition of Frontier Pacific Mining Corporation by way of takeover bid
• A special committee of the board of Medisys Health Group Income Fund in its $48 million going private transaction by way of insider bid
• Finning International Inc. in its $135 million acquisition of Collicutt Energy Services Ltd. by way of takeover bid
• NovaGold Resources Inc. in its successful defence against Barrick Gold Corp.'s $1.8 billion hostile takeover bid
• An independent committee of Countryside Power Income Fund in its $218 million acquisition by Fort Chicago Energy Partners
• Infor Global Solutions European Finance, SARL , in its $237 million acquisition of Workbrain Corporation
• Centurion Energy International Inc. in its $1.14 billion acquisition by Dana Gas PJSC
• CertainTeed Insulation Canada, Inc. in its acquisition of the assets of OFI Income Fund.
• PBS Coals in its acquisition by an affiliate OAO Severstal Resources by way of take-over bid in a transaction valued at $1 billion.
• Teck Cominco Limited in its acquisition of assets of Fording Canadian Coal Trust valued at $14 billion (as tax counsel).
• Hewlett-Packard Company in its $13.9 billon merger with Electronic Data Systems Corporation.
• Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management in respect of its acquisition by Royal Bank of Canada for $1.36 billion.
• Global Copper Corp. in connection with its acquisition by Teck Cominco Ltd. for $415 million by way of plan of arrangement.
• Northern Peru Copper in respect of its acquisition by China Minmetals Non-Ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. and Jiangxi Copper Company Ltd. for $455 million.
• Precision Drilling Corporation in the sale of its energy services and international drilling divisions to Weatherford International Ltd. for $2.3 billion.
• UE Waterheater Income Fund and UE Waterheater Operating Trust in connection with their $1.7 billion sale of assets to Alinda Capital Partners LLC.
• Nautic Partners LLC in its acquisition of the assets of Canada Cartage Diversified Income Fund.
• Golden Gate Capital and its US$1 billion acquisition of Geac Computer Corporation Limited by way of plan of arrangement.
• ID Biomedical Corporation in respect of its acquisition by GlaxoSmithKline PLC for approximately $1.7 billion.
• Co-operators Group Limited in connection with its acquisition of Addenda Capital Inc. for $306 million.