Cognicase Acquires Ezenet

Cognicase Inc., a provider of advanced transaction processing solutions and Internet-based applications, completed its acquisition of all the issued and outstanding shares of Ezenet Corp., on September 24, 2001. The total consideration of the transaction was $54 million.

Cognicase was represented by Executive Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer Benoît Dubé, and by an Ogilvy Renault team that included Paul Raymond, Luc Boucher and Lindsay Matthews (corporate) and Éric Gélinas and Sébastien Gingras (tax) in Montreal and Terence S. Dobbin and Pierre Dagenais in Toronto. Ezenet was represented by Daryl Fridhandler, Gina Ross, Arlene Strom and Jeremy Matthies of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP.

Lawyer(s)

Arlene J. Strom Gina A. Ross Jeremy P. Matthies Daryl S. Fridhandler Paul Raymond Sébastien Gingras Lindsay Matthews Éric Gelinas Pierre R. Dagenais Terence S. Dobbin Luc Boucher