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Corporate Finance and Securities

Farris lawyers practising in Corporate Finance and Securities are boardroom-level advisors who regularly advise public and privately held companies on domestic and cross-border matters in all aspects of corporate finance and securities.

We have extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings of equity and debt, disclosure and corporate governance matters, related party transactions, anti-takeover strategies and defences, proxy battles, regulation of listed companies, and income trusts. We also have experience representing clients listed on Canadian and US exchanges with reporting obligations to the Canadian Securities Administrators and the Securities & Exchange Commission.

Representative work:

  • 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 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 Day4 Energy Inc. with respect to its $100 million initial public offering.
  • Acted as counsel for the underwriters or selling investment dealers in connection with the initial public offering of $250 million of senior secured bonds of the independent BC Ferry Services Inc. (May 2004), a second $250 million public offering of bonds (October 2004), a private placement of $250 million in bonds (March 2007), and a further $200 million private placement.
  • Acted as counsel for Terasen Gas (Vancouver Island) Inc. in connection with its initial offering of $250 million of unsecured debentures.
  • Acted for Terasen Gas Inc. with respect to a $250 million offering of medium term note debentures.
  • Acted for Rea Gold Corporation in connection with its three cornered cross-border “Delaware merger” with American Resource Corporation, Inc.
  • 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 in the Canfor Inc. / Canfor Pulp Income Fund $200 million dividend in kind.
  • Acted in the $212 million acquisition of AirSource Power Fund by Algonquin Power Income Fund.
  • Acted as counsel to the Board of Directors of Goldcorp Inc. in transactions with Barrick Inc. and Placer Dome Inc.
  • Acted as counsel to the special committee of the Board of Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. in connection with successfully defending the hostile bid by Coeur d’Alene Mines Ltd. and, subsequently, the successful merger with Goldcorp Inc.
  • Acted as counsel to TELUS in connection with its $6.6 billion acquisition of Ontario-based Clearnet Communications Inc. and related bank financing.
  • 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 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.

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    Robert S. Anderson, Q.C. Partner randerson@farris.com 604 661 9372
    B. R. (Brian) Canfield Partner bcanfield@farris.com 604 661 9362
    Herbert D. Dodd, Q.C. Partner hdodd@farris.com 604 661 9352
    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
    Dean A. O’Leary Partner doleary@farris.com 604 661 9316
    Trevor R. Scott Partner tscott@farris.com 604 661 1732
    David J. Selley Partner dselley@farris.com 604 661 1718
    B. Sunny Aujla Associate saujla@farris.com 604 661 9334
    Raewyn J. Brewer Associate rbrewer@farris.com 604 661 9300
    Tim A. Dickson Partner tdickson@farris.com 604 661 9341
    Ron D. Dueck Associate rdueck@farris.com 604 661 9395
    Thierry O. Keable Associate tkeable@farris.com 604-661-1739
    Aaron D. Lightman Associate alightman@farris.com 604-661-1716
    Kwang Lim Associate klim@farris.com 604-661-1704
    Mohammad A. Manki Associate mmanki@farris.com 604-661-9303
    Jamie R. Matthews Associate jmatthews@farris.com 604 661 9365
    Denise C. Nawata Associate dnawata@farris.com 604 661 1746
    Bo Rothstein Associate brothstein@farris.com 604 661 1747
    Peter M. Roth Partner proth@farris.com 604 661 9382
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    Christopher G. Walker Associate cwalker@farris.com 604 684 9151