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Year called to bar: 1999 (ON)
Lara Jackson is experienced litigation counsel who focuses on complex commercial litigation, securities litigation, and class action defence. Lara represents clients in a broad range of highly contested commercial cases, including cross-border civil and regulatory proceedings. Lara has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, all levels of court in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon, and the Capital Markets Tribunal. She is an active member of the legal community as a Director with The Advocates' Society, a pro-bono volunteer with Pro Bono Ontario and the LSO Duty Counsel Program and a past member of the OSC Securities Proceedings Advisory Committee, OBA Council and the OBA Civil Litigation and Class Actions executives.
American Lithium Corp. completed its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Plateau Energy Metals Inc. by way of a statutory plan of arrangement under the provisions of the Business Corporations Act (Ontario)
On April 18, 2019, Newmont Mining Corporation (“Newmont”) completed the acquisition of Goldcorp Inc. (“Goldcorp”) to create the world’s leading gold company.
On July 10, 2017, Integra Gold Corp. (Integra) and Eldorado Gold Corp. (Eldorado) completed a plan of arrangement pursuant to which Eldorado acquired all of the Integra shares that it did not already own.
On July 10, 2015, Newmarket Gold Inc. (Newmarket) and Crocodile Gold Corp. (Crocodile Gold) combined by way of a court approved plan of arrangement under the <i>Business Corporations Act (Ontario)</i>, creating a new gold industry consolidator solidly positioned to acquire high quality gold assets in the world’s most desirable mining jurisdictions. The combined entity has been named Newmarket Gold Inc. and its common shares are trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the new symbol “NMI”. The transaction is valued at approximately $185 million.
On June 22, 2015, Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL), through an indirect wholly owned subsidiary, acquired all of the common shares of Allana Potash Corp. (Allana) (a company that focuses on the acquisition and development of potash assets with its principal asset being the Danakhil potash project in Ethiopia) it did not own. The transaction was valued approximately $164 million and was completed, pursuant to a court approved plan of arrangement under the <i>Business Corporations Act</i> (Ontario), for cash and securities of ICL.
