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Year called to bar: 2001 (ON)
Chad Accursi is a partner at Cassels. He practises securities law with an emphasis on corporate finance matters. Chad represents public companies, and independent and bank-owned investment dealers, on public and private security offerings, M&A transactions, and general securities compliance matters. He has represented both investment dealers and companies on initial public offerings, stock exchange listings and cross-border inter-listed financings. Chad also has experience advising boards of directors on corporate governance, disclosure matters, and securities law compliance including mineral project disclosure. Chad was recently listed in The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and was selected as one of Lexpert's "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" in 2012. He has also been recognized as a leading lawyer for Natural Resources Law by Best Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 2001.
First Majestic Silver Corp. completed a bought deal offering of 5,000,000 common shares raising total proceeds of $78 million, with Cormark Securities Inc. acting as sole underwriter
Hudbay Minerals Inc. (Hudbay) (TSX: HBM) (NYSE: HBM) completed a bought-deal equity offering of 24 million common shares at a price of $10.10 per share, for gross proceeds of $242 million.
On October 19, 2017, Ero Copper Corp. (Ero or the Company) completed its initial public offering and secondary offering of an aggregate of 23,282,116 common shares (the Shares) for a price of $4.75 per Share for aggregate gross proceeds of $110,590,051 (the Offering). The Shares were sold by way of treasury offering of 10,000,000 Shares by Ero, and secondary offering of 13,282,116 Shares by certain securityholders of the Company (the Selling Securityholders).
On May 12, 2016, First Majestic Silver Corp. completed a brokered private-placement offering on a bought-deal basis, of 5,250,900 common shares (including 684,900 common shares issued pursuant to the exercise in full of an over-allotment option), at a price of $10.95 per common share for gross proceeds of approximately $57.5 million.
On August 9, 2016, Lundin Gold Inc. closed the second tranche of its bought-deal equity offering of 15 million common shares at a price of $5.50 per share.
Lundin Mining Corporation completed the acquisition of an 80 per cent ownership stake in the Candelaria/Ojos del Salado copper mining operations and supporting infrastructure from Freeport-McMoRan Inc., for approximately US$1.8 billion.
Cambior Inc. recently completed a public offering of 21,346,154 special warrants for aggregate proceeds of $27.75 million. A final receipt was issued on March 13, 2002 for the prospectus qualifying the common shares and the common shares purchase warrants issuable upon the exercise of the special warrants.
