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Our mergers and acquisitions practice involves our lawyers in the full range of transactions. Increasingly, the transactions in which we are involved are multi-jurisdictional in nature and our mergers and acquisitions lawyers are adept at coordinating the requirements of corporate and securities laws, stock exchange rules and other regulatory regimes in multiple jurisdictions in order to successfully implement transactions.
The depth of experience which we bring to mergers and acquistions transactions is considerable and our lawyers have been involved, for one party or another, in many of the largest mergers and acquistions transactions which have been undertaken in British Columbia and Canada.
Our mergers and acquisitions lawyers have expertise and experience in the following areas:
mergers undertaken by way of amalgamation or plan of arrangement requiring shareholder approval;
purchases and sales of shares and assets of private corporations engaged in a variety of industries;
corporate restructurings including related party and going-private transactions;
contested and uncontested take-over bids acting for both bidders and "target" companies;
proxy contests;
acting as special counsel to boards of directors in connection with M&A transactions; and
acting as counsel to financial advisors providing valuation and fairness opinions.
Examples of transactions in which members our M&A lawyers have recently been involved include the following:
acting for a pulp and paper company in its acquisition of another British Columbia-based pulp and paper manufacturer;
acting for a local software developer on its sale to a major United States technology company;
acting as counsel to the special committee of the board of directors of a broadcasting company which was the subject of an uncontested takeover bid;
acting on numerous occasions as counsel to Canada's various leading investment dealers on the provisions of fairness and valuation opinions by those dealers;
acting for a British Columbia mining company which was the target of a cross-border acquisition by one of the world's largest gold mining companies;
acting as counsel to one of Canada's largest financial institutions in a proposed acquisition and de-mutualization of a British Columbia credit union;
counsel to a Singapore-based communications company in a reverse takeover of a satellite telecommunications business; and
counsel to private equity fund managers in connection with several acquisitions in various industries in Canada and the United States.
View a listing of team members in this practice area.
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Resources: Asset & Share Purchase Agreements - October 4, 2007
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