100 King St W, Suite 6200, 1 First Cdn Pl, PO Box 50, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2006
Ricco Bhasin is a partner in the Corporate department and Co-Chair, Financial Institution Transactions in Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP’s Toronto office. He advises clients on public and private mergers and acquisitions, as well as private equity and pension fund investments and joint ventures and partnerships, with a focus on the banking, financial services and technology sectors. Called to the bar in both Ontario and New York, Ricco works with clients on their Canada/US cross-border and other international transactions. With an ICD.D certification from the Institute of Corporate Directors, he also advises boards and senior leadership on governance, proxy and activist investor issues and ESG matters. An involved and committed member of the community, Ricco sits on the board of the Sunnybrook Foundation, is a member of the Audit Committee and formerly served as vice chair of the board of directors of the William Osler Health System. He is also a mentor in the Western Law BIPOC Mentorship Program, among other charitable and diversity-focused initiatives.
An affiliate of Mattamy Homes Ltd. acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Monarch Corporation, the Canadian operations of US homebuilder Taylor Morrison Home Corporation, for CAD$335 million at closing, subject to customary post-closing adjustments. Immediately prior to the closing, approximately C$235 million of cash at Monarch was distributed to a subsidiary of TMHC for total proceeds of C$570 million from the share sale. The transaction closed following the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including clearance by the Canadian Competition Bureau.
IAMGOLD Corporation completed the sale of its Niobec Mine (Niobec), one of the world’s three niobium producers, for total consideration of US$530 million.
Public Mobile Inc., a telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto and operating a wireless network in Quebec and Ontario, was acquired by TELUS Communications Inc.
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (“First Quantum” or the “Company”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary FQM (Akubra) Inc. (together, the “Offeror”) announced that, as of 5:00 p.m. EST on April 1, 2013, a total of 65,206,044 common shares of Inmet Mining Corporation (“Inmet”), representing 92.74 per cent of the outstanding Inmet shares (on a fully diluted basis), had been validly tendered to the Offeror's offer (the “Offer”) to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Inmet.
On February 13, 2007, Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd. and Harbinger Capital Partners Special Situations Fund, L.P. through their indirect wholly owned subsidiary HCP Acquisition Inc. (together, Harbinger) acquired all of the outstanding trust units of Calpine Power Income Fund (the fund) it did not already own at a price of $13.00 per trust unit for total consideration of approximately $760 million.
