199 Bay St, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1999 (ON)
John's practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions for public companies, and advising Canadian and international companies on a wide range of corporate governance and securities law compliance matters. He is regularly engaged by special committees of public companies to advise on complex change of control transactions and also advises on alternative forms of financings including royalty and streaming transactions. John has deep experience in the mining and power and utilities industries, and an active international practice advising clients in Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America.
On July 30, 2019, Toronto Hydro Corporation (THC) renewed its $1-billion medium-term note program pursuant to the filing of a short form base shelf prospectus.
On April 3, 2019, Americas Silver Corporation (“Americas Silver”) completed its acquisition of Pershing Gold Corporation (“Pershing Gold”) by way of an agreement and plan of merger (the “Transaction”).
Stornoway Diamond Corporation announced that it had closed its previously announced financing transactions with US private equity firm Orion Mine Finance, Investissement Québec (through its wholly owned subsidiaries Diaquem Inc. and Resources Québec) (“RQ”), and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec to fund the construction of the Renard Diamond Project, Quebec’s first diamond mine.
BCE Inc. completed its privatization of Bell Aliant Inc. and the integration of its Atlantic Canada affiliate into BCE’s national operations, following its successful offer to purchase all of the outstanding publicly-held Bell Aliant common shares for a combination of cash and BCE common shares valued at approximately $3.95 billion.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce completed the offering of $400 million series 25 class A preferred shares in all Canadian jurisdictions pursuant to its existing shelf prospectus on April 17, 2002.
