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

  • Among the representative Mergers and Acquisitions transactions in which Borden Ladner Gervais has been involved are the following:
    • Acting for Precision Drilling Corporation in the sale of its energy services and international drilling divisions to Weatherford International Ltd. for $2.3 billion.
    • Acting for Golden Gate Capital and its US$1 billion acquisition of Geac Computer Corporation Limited by way of plan of arrangement.
    • Acting for ID Biomedical Corporation in respect of its acquisition by GlaxoSmithKline PLC for approximately $1.7 billion.
    • Counsel to special committee of Creo Inc. in connection with the US$988 million acquisition of Creo by Eastman Kodak Company.
    • Acting for Weyerhauser Company Limited in the sale of its  B.C. coastal business to Brascan Corporation for $1.2 billion.
    • Acting for Producers Oilfield Services in its acquisition by Mullen Group Income Fund by way of $2 billion plan of arrangement.
    • Acting for Cominco Ltd. in connection with its $1.1 billion combination with Teck Corporation.
    • Acting for Husky Energy in connection with its $3.1 billion merger with Renaissance Energy.
    • Acting for Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board in connection with its $2.3 billion acquisition of Cadillac Fairview Corporation.

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