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Year called to bar: 1987 (BC)
Leo Raffin is a partner in McMillan's Vancouver office. His primary practice areas include securities and corporate law, acting for technology, gaming, industrial, and natural resource issuers. His experience includes public and private offerings, mergers and acquisitions, takeover bids, proxy contests, corporate reorganizations, business alliances, licensing transactions, and corporate governance matters.
On May 2, 2018, Aurora Cannabis completed its $1.23 billion (US$950 million) takeover bid for all of the outstanding shares CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. This transaction represents the largest to date (completed) acquisition for the Canadian cannabis sector.
On August 31, 2017, West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (West Fraser) completed its US$430 million acquisition of the Gilman Group from the Howard Gilman Foundation.
On July 20, 2017, Hytera Communications Co. Ltd. (Hytera) completed its acquisition of Norsat International Inc. (Norsat) (TSX: NII and NYSE MKT: NSAT), by way of plan of arrangement. Pursuant to the arrangement, Hytera Project Corp., a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Hytera Communications, directly acquired ownership and control over 5,848,808 common shares of Norsat, which represents 100 per cent of the issued and outstanding Norsat Shares.
On June 18, 2015, Energy Fuels. (Energy Fuels) completed the acquisition of Uranerz Energy Corporation (Uranerz) in a merger transaction valued at approximately $135 million. The transaction was a unique and complex cross-border transaction involving the acquisition of a US public corporation (Uranerz) by a Canadian public company (Energy Fuels), with both companies being listed on the TSX and the NYSE MKT stock exchanges.
