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O U R G R O U P
TORONTOBarbara R.C. Doherty 416.595.8621 [email protected]
Jay M. Hoffman 416.595.8508 [email protected]
Virginia Huang 416.595.2987 [email protected]
S. Brian Levett 416.595.8167 [email protected]
Kimberly Muio 416.595.2653 [email protected]
Robert M. Stewart 416.595.2963 [email protected]
Steven L. Wesfield 416.595.8606 [email protected]
VANCOUVERDwight D. Dee 604.643.1239 [email protected]
Rupert A. Legge 604.643.1286 [email protected]
Peter J. McArthur 604.643.1219 [email protected]
Gregory C. Smith 604.643.1258 [email protected]
Kevin J. Sorochan 604.643.1251 [email protected]
Ronald H. Stewart 604.643.1201 [email protected]
CALGARYClarke D. Barnes 403.298.2402 [email protected]
Jaime E. Evaskevich 403.298.2468 [email protected]
Bryant D. Frydberg 403.298.2456 [email protected]
David L. Sevalrud 403.298.2440 [email protected]
Gregory P. Shannon 403.298.2482 [email protected]
Jeffrey N. Thom, Q.C. 403.298.2436 [email protected]
EDMONTONRick T.G. Reeson, Q.C. 780.429.9719 [email protected]
KITCHENER-WATERLOOEric N. Schneider 519.593.3200 [email protected]
Robert L. Warren 519.593.3265 [email protected]
Ian C. Wismer 519.593.3232 [email protected]
MONTRÉALTiffany Lee Bianchi 514.871.5481 [email protected]
Guy Charette 514.871.5440 [email protected]
Geneviève Gagnon 514.871.5438 [email protected]
David Johnston 514.871.5471 [email protected]
Michael Kozub 514.871.5436 [email protected]
Pierre Marquis 514.871.5425 [email protected]
Alain Nadon 514.875.5210 [email protected]
Élizabeth Nantel 514.871.5449 [email protected]
David Pineault 514.871.5439 [email protected]
www.millerthomson.com
SECURITIES &CORPORATE FINANCE
PRACTICE GROUP
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N AT I O N A L S E C U R I T I E S & C O R P O R AT E F I N A N C E P R A C T I C E G R O U P
Businesses operating in today’s complex and sophisticated capital markets need access tosecurities expertise to deal with specialized legal issues. The lawyers in our Securities andCorporate Finance Group understand that clients face a challenging and ever-changingenvironment of securities policy and regulation. We have built an experienced team ofsecurities law experts dedicated to helping clients prosper in that environment. Our teamassists a wide variety of clients, including public and private issuers, investment dealers,market intermediaries, governmental agencies and other capital market participants.
We provide a broad range of securities and corporate finance services including: raisingcapital (public offerings and private placements); mergers and acquisitions; take-over and issuer bids; applications to securities regulators; corporate reorganizations; publiccompany maintenance and compliance; registrants and registrations; listings on stockexchanges and over-the-counter markets; and independent committee representation.
Our team services a broad range of clients, from start-ups to publicly listed companies, in a wide variety of industry sectors including brokerage; oil and gas; mining; energy andpower; financial services; automotive; food services; manufacturing, hotel management;specialty publishing; real estate development; cement and concrete production anddistribution; transportation; hospitality and tourism; forestry; telecommunications; datacommunications; e-commerce; sales and marketing services; insurance and insurancebrokerage; biotechnology; health care; and life sciences.
We also offer our clients full service legal support with additional expertise, in the areas of: competition, corporate and commercial, insolvency and restructuring, immigration,environmental, intellectual property and information technology, First Nations, franchising,marketing and advertising patents, trade-marks and copyright, labour and employment,litigation, pension and benefits, financial services, franchising, health, construction,privacy and information protection, real estate, wills, trusts and estates and tax.
R E P R E S E N TAT I V E W O R K
Some recent types of transactions in which our lawyers have been involved include thefollowing:
• issuer’s counsel on numerous seed stage financings
• issuer’s and underwriter’s counsel on numerous initial public offerings and listings onthe Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange
• issuer’s and underwriter’s counsel on private placements of common shares, flow-throughshares, special warrants, convertible debentures, limited partnership and trust units
• issuer’s counsel on numerous reverse take-overs of mining, technology and oil and gas issuers
• counsel to a Canadian public mining company in an acquisition by a U.S. based mining company by way of plan of arrangement
• counsel to the special committee of a TSX-listed oil and gasexploration and development company in connection with theacquisition of a related public company and the concurrentacquisition of oil and gas properties of another related entity
• counsel to public hydroelectric power company acquired bypublic mining company by way of plan of arrangement
• target’s counsel on an insider bid for a TSX Venture Exchangelisted company
• target’s counsel on a friendly take-over bid by a major miningcompany for a TSX listed company
• counsel to numerous companies spinning out assets by way ofplan of arrangement to create new public companies
• counsel to bidder’s counsel on a hostile take-over bid of TSX-listed mining company
• counsel to investment dealers, mutual fund dealers,international dealers, limited market dealers, and financialadvisers on registration and regulatory compliance matters
• agent’s counsel on a fairness opinion to shareholders of acompany
• counsel to public issuer in a going private transaction by way ofplan of arrangement
• counsel to mutual fund manager in connection with the windup of a number of funds
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