Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Farris has been the only law firm in Vancouver to hold the top ranking in Lexpert for corporate transactions.

Our lawyers practising in Mergers & Acquisitions have led some of the most complex and innovative domestic and cross-border transactions in British Columbia, representing clients across a broad range of industries including telecommunications, utilities, life sciences, technology, clean technology, mining, and energy. Our representative work includes:

Acted for Aspreva Pharmaceuticals Corporation with respect to the sale of Aspreva for US $915 million to the Galenica Group.
Acted for MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. with respect to the proposed sale of its space business to ATK for $1.35 billion.
Acted for Club Penguin with respect to the $700 million sale of Club Penguin to the Walt Disney Company.
Acted for Blast Radius Inc. in connection with the sale of Blast to advertising giant WPP Group.
Acted for AnorMED in the US $585 million contested cross-border acquisition of AnorMED by Genzyme Corporation, the first ever hostile contested bid for a life sciences company.
Acted for BC Gas Inc. in connection with its acquisition of the public minority shareholdings in Trans Mountain Pipe Line Company Ltd.
Acted for Rea Gold Corporation in connection with its three cornered cross-border "Delaware merger" with American Resource Corporation, Inc.
Acted in the $1.4 billion acquisition of Weyerhaeuser’s coastal assets by Brookfield Asset Management.
Acted in the $212 million acquisition of AirSource Power Fund by Algonquin Power Income Fund.
Acted as counsel to White Knight Resources Ltd. in connection with the $100 million unsolicited cross-border takeover bid of White Knight Resources Ltd. by US Gold Corporation.
Acted as counsel to TELUS in connection with its $6.6 billion acquisition of Ontario-based Clearnet Communications Inc.
Acted as counsel to BC TELECOM Inc. in its $10 billion pooling of interest merger with TELUS Corporation.
Acted as counsel to Broadcom Corp. of Irvine, California in its $425 million pooling of interest acquisition of HotHaus Technologies.
Acted as counsel for Inland Natural Gas in its acquisition of the Mainland Gas Division of BC Hydro, one of the largest privatization transactions in Canada.
Acted as counsel for MacDonald Dettwiler in connection with its cross-border pooling of interest merger transaction with Orbital Sciences Corporation, and Patterson Dental Corporation in connection with the cross-border pooling of interest merger transaction with Canadian Dental Corporation.
Acted as counsel for the special committee of the Board of Directors of Burcon Properties in connection with the acquisition of the "Expo Lands" from Concord Pacific. In addition, we acted for the special committee in connection with the merger of Burcon with Oxford Properties.

Our Mergers and Acquisitions Law Lawyers

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Brian R. Canfield	Partner	bcanfield@farris.com	604 661 9362
Mitchell H. Gropper, Q.C.	Partner	mgropper@farris.com	604 661 9322
Elizabeth J. Harrison, Q.C.	Partner	eharrison@farris.com	604 661 9367
Albert J. Hudec	Partner	ahudec@farris.com	604 661 9356
Ross Langford	Partner	rlangford@farris.com	250 869 3868
R. Hector MacKay-Dunn, Q.C.	Partner	hmackay-dunn@farris.com	604 661 9307
Peter C.T. MacPherson	Partner	pmacpherson@farris.com	250 869 3881
Maria K. McKenzie	Partner	mmckenzie@farris.com	604 661 9319
Ronald G. Murray	Partner	rmurray@farris.com	604 661 9306
Bradley A. Newby	Partner	bnewby@farris.com	604 661 9308
Trevor R. Scott	Partner	tscott@farris.com	604 661 1732
David J. Selley	Partner	dselley@farris.com	604 661 1718
Chad G. Anderson	Associate	cganderson@farris.com	604 661 9311
Raewyn J. Brewer	Associate	rbrewer@farris.com	604 661 9300
Nicole M. Cameron	Associate	ncameron@farris.com	604 661 9348
Thierry O. Keable	Associate	tkeable@farris.com	604-661-1739
Jamie R. Matthews	Associate	jmatthews@farris.com	604 661 9365
Denise C. Nawata	Associate	dnawata@farris.com	604 661 1746
Christine J. Oberti	Associate	coberti@farris.com	604 661 9380
Peter M. Roth	Associate	proth@farris.com	604 661 9382
Bo Rothstein	Associate	brothstein@farris.com	604 661 1747
Clayton R. Whitman	Associate	cwhitman@farris.com	604 661 1728