Expertise

Client Work

Cirque du Soleil in New Partnership with Dubai World

Acted for Cirque du Soleil in the acquisition of a 20% stake by Istithmar World and Nakheel, units of Dubai World.  More

RBC to Offer Up to ZAR 15M Royal Bank of Canada Fixed Rate Deposit Notes in the Uridashi Market

Canadian counsel to Royal Bank of Canada in connection with the offering in Japan of up to ZAR 15m Fixed Rate Deposit Notes due November 1, 2010.  More

Royal Bank of Canada Completes Issue of ZAR 30M Fixed Rate Deposit Notes in Uridashi Market

Counsel to RBC in issuing ZAR 30,000,000 (approx. CDN$4,398,000) Royal Bank of Canada Fixed Rate Deposit Notes due November 15, 2011.  More

Polaris Geothermal Closes $27M Debenture Private Placement

Counsel to Jacob & Company Securities Inc. in its role as agent, on the offering of 27,000 units of Polaris Geothermal Inc.  More

Riverside Company Acquires Herb Thyme Farms

Counsel to The Riverside Company in its $51m acquisition of Herb Thyme Farms, Inc.  More

Basell Sells its Corunna Site to Shell Chemicals

Counsel to Basell Canada in connection with the sale of certain assets to Shell Chemicals Canada.  More

Domtar Enters Agreement to Sell its Forest Products Business for Approximately $285M

Counsel to Domtar Corporation in its agreement for the sale of its forest products business to the newly created Conifex Inc. for approximately $285 million including an estimated $50 million of working capital.  More

Royal Jubilee Hospital Public-Private Partnership Project Financed for $206M

Counsel to Dexia Crédit and Depfa Bank, as lenders, for the Royal Jubilee Hospital public-private partnership project.  More

Visa Canada Integrates with Visa International

Represented Visa Canada in Visa enterprise's 2007 global restructuring program.  More

Four Seasons Hotels Privatization

Four Seasons Hotels Inc. was taken private by affiliates of Cascade Investment, L.L.C., Kingdom Hotels, and Isadore Sharp in a transaction valued at US $3.8 billion.  More

The Shumka Group Acquires Various Insurance Claims and Risk Management Services from CGI Group

Counsel to The Shumka Group in an acquisition creating the largest independent insurance services company in Canada.  More

AIM SOP Phase I LP Completes $75M Financing of Four Wind Farm Projects

Counsel to AIM SOP Phase I LP and AIM on all stages of the development and financing of the Projects.  More

Babcock & Wilcox Acquires Intech and Ivey-Cooper Services

Acted as counsel to Babcock & Wilcox in its acquisition of Intech and Ivey-Copper Services.  More

RBC Issues Samurai Bonds

Acted as Canadian Counsel to RBC in its issuance, in Japan, of Yen Bonds.  More

Videotron Completes US$455 Million Private Placement of Senior Notes

Counsel to Videotron Ltd., the third largest cable operator in Canada, in connection with its completion of a US$455 million private placement of senior notes.  More

The Brock Group Acquires All Outstanding Securities Of Steeplejack Industrial Group Inc.

Acted as Canadian counsel for The Brock Group in connection with its successful $122 million acquisition of all of the outstanding securities of Steeplejack Industrial Group.  More

Toronto Community Housing Corporation Closes Private Placement of Series A Debentures

Represented Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) in the private placement of a principal amount of $250,000,000 of 4.877% Series A Debentures due May 11, 2037.  More

Yellow Pages Group Acquires Telephone Directories Business of Aliant Directory Services

Assisted Yellow Pages Group Co. (YPG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yellow Pages Income Fund, in its acquisition of the telephone directories business of Aliant Directory Services.  More

Shell Canada Sells Quebec Thermoshell Interests to Chauffage P. Gosselin

Represented Chauffage P. Gosselin in its purchase of Shell Canada's Thermoshell residential, commercial, and agricultural heating fuels business in Quebec.  More

Infrastructure Ontario Transaction for New Durham Courthouse

Acted as counsel to Infrastructure Ontario in a design-build-finance-maintain (DBFM) transaction for a new Durham Courthouse comprised of 33 courtrooms, three motions rooms, and two conference/settlement rooms.  More

Goldman Sachs Capital Partners Finances CanWest MediaWorks Purchase of Alliance Atlantis Communications

On January 10, 2007 Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and CanWest MediaWorks announced CanWest MediaWorks' agreement to purchase Alliance Atlantis Communications.  More

Garda Acquires ATI Systems International

Represented Garda in its $395 million cross-border acquisition of ATI Systems International to become the second largest cash handling company in North America.  More

Yellow Pages Group Acquires Print and Online Directory and Directory Data Services Business of MTS Allstream

Represented Yellow Pages Group (YPG) in its $275 million acquisition of the print and online directory and directory data services business of MTS Allstream, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manitoba Telecom Services.  More

SNC-Lavalin Sells Subsidiary, SNC Technologies, to General Dynamics

Acted for SNC-Lavalin in connection with the sale of its subsidiary, SNC Technologies (an ammunition system integrator), to General Dynamics in a transaction valued at $315 million.  More

Rio Tinto Acquires Alcan

Ogilvy Renault represented Alcan in its recently completed US$38.1 billion offer of acquisition.  More

Yellow Pages Group Acquires TBayTel

Acted as counsel to Yellow Pages Group Co. in the $17M acquisition of the telephone directories business of TBayTel.  More

KR Wind Holdings (Canada) Inc. Completes Purchase of 2064807 Ontario Inc., a private holding company for R.J.S. Mechanical Inc. and Q.C. Enterprise Inc.

The vendors, Robert and Janice Scoffield, were represented by Ogilvy Renault LLP with a team comprised of Michel Carle, Anthony Milazzo, Sarah Crossley and Fiorella Bellissimo.  More

Europe's Best Acquired by J. M. Smucker

Represented Europe's Best Inc. The acquired business is expected to add approximately $70 million in net sales to The J.M. Smucker Company.  More

Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited Acquires Brooklyn Power Corporation and South Shore Power Services Incorporated

Counsel to Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited. The acquisition ensures the environmentally beneficial supply of steam for the paper mill, as well as the supply of new renewable electrical power into the Nova Scotia power system.  More

Montréal Exchange Floor Traders Claims Dismissed

Ogilvy Renault succeeded in obtaining the dismissal of a multi-million dollar claim.  More

Royal Bank of Canada's Sale of $4 Billion of Six-Year Extendible Notes

Acted as Canadian counsel to RBC in connection with the sale of $4B of six-year extendible notes in a 144a private placement.  More

TVA Group Repurchases $51M in Class B Non-Voting Shares

Acted as counsel to TVA Group Inc. in its $51,000,000 offer to repurchase up to 3,000,000 of its Class B Non-Voting Shares under a substantial issuer bid.  More

Hydro-Québec's Request for Proposals and Award of Wind Farm Contracts with a Potential Investment Value of $5.5 Billion

Represented Hydro-Québec during the process that led to it being awarded 15 contracts to develop wind farms.  More

National Bank of Canada Completes Public Offerings of Over $200M in Preferred Shares

Represented the syndicate of underwriters in connection with the public offering by National Bank of Canada of Preferred Shares.  More

Kendle International Inc. Acquires DecisionLine Clinical Research Corporation

Represented Kendle in its acquisition of DecisionLine through a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary.  More

Acklands-Grainger Purchases Excel F.I.G.

Represented AGI in its purchase of Excel F.I.G, a distributor of industrial supplies in the area of Granby, Quebec.  More

RBC Offers $1B Medium Term Notes

Represented RBC in its public offering in Canada of $1 billion of Series 12 fixed/floating rate Medium Term Notes.  More

Petaquilla Minerals Closes Brokered Private Placement of Units Through Casimir Capital

Acted as counsel to Casimir Capital LP, the agent, in the US $32,250,000 offering of units of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd.  More

Vista Gold Corp Completes Offering of $US30M Secured Notes

Acted as counsel to the agent, Casimir Capital LP, pursuant to their agency agreement with Vista Gold Corp.  More

Quebecor Media Take-over Bid for Osprey Media Income Fund

Acted as counsel to Quebecor Media Inc. in its $517 million take-over bid for Osprey Media Income Fund, one of Canada's leading publishers of daily and non-daily newspapers, magazines, and specialty publications.  More

Cerberus Bid to Privatize BCE Inc.

Represented Cerberus Capital Management L.P. in its bid to privatize BCE Inc., Canada's largest telecommunications company. The eventual successful bid from another group was ultimately for $51.7 billion.  More

World Wide Mineral Commences Arbitration Against Republic of Kazakhstan

Represented World Wide Mineral Ltd. in its commencement of a new arbitration against the Republic of Kazakhstan and its nuclear agency, JSC National Atomic Company Kazatomprom.  More

Publications

Summary of the Quebec Court of Appeal Decision in the BCE Matter

On May 21, 2008, the Court partially allowed the debentureholders' appeal and set aside the Superior Court's approval of the plan of arrangement, casting a great deal of doubt on the likelihood that the transaction can be completed as planned.  More

Lobbyist Registration: New Rules and Burdens Coming on Canada Day

The long-awaited amendments to the federal Lobbyists Registration Act are now scheduled to come into effect on July 1, 2008.  More

Doing Business with Foreign States and State Companies

Doing business with foreign states can be very attractive for Canadian firms. States can award lucrative contracts on a scale uncommon in the business world.  More

The Challenges of Governing, a speech by Derek Burney

"The Challenges of Governing" is a speech from Derek Burney, Senior Strategic Advisor at Ogilvy Renault LLP, given at the Deloitte National Public Sector Industry Conference, Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, on November 15, 2006.  More

Lobbyists Registration: New Canadian Federal Government Requirements on the Horizon for Business Enterprises

The Lobbyists Registration Act (the "Act")[1] applies to all persons who lobby the Government of Canada, whether for the benefit of their company or organization, or for the benefit of clients.  More

New Federal Legislation Relating to Non-Profit Corporations

Virtually all existing federal non-profit corporations are incorporated under, and subject to, PartII of the Canada Corporations Act.  More

Peoples v. Wise: Long-Awaited Guidance on Directors' Duties to Creditors

Directors face important challenges in this post-Enron world of stricter regulation and growing shareholder activism. Now, more than ever, they need firm guidance to help them comply with their legal duties.  More

Important Assets: Owning & Maximizing Value

In 1982, 65% of the market value of S&P companies in the U.S. was made up of tangible assets. However, in 1998, tangible assets accounted for only 15% of the market value whereas 85% of the market value was assigned to intangible assets.  More

British Columbia Business Corporations Act to Come Into Force

On October 31, 2002, the British Columbia government approved the new Business Corporations Act (the "New Act"), which, as amended in October 2003 by the Business Corporations Amendment Act, 2003 and the Business Corporations Amendment Act (No. 2), ...  More

Media Highlights

Raising Capital on the TSX and AIM - Canadian and UK Experts Look at the Facts

Most Canadian companies have historically listed on domestic exchanges. But recently, there has been a trend of smaller, growing companies listing on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange (LSE)...  More

Terence Dobbin Featured in Financier Worldwide

Terence S. Dobbin, a partner in Ogilvy Renault's Business Law practice, was invited to write a guest column in November's UK-based Financier Worldwide magazine.  More

Counsel to Counsel Profiles Ogilvy Renault's Partnership with Domtar on Innovative Cross-Border Combination

Ogilvy Renault co-chair Norm Steinberg and counsel Claude Fontaine are highlighted in the October issue of Counsel to Counsel magazine for their key roles in creating the landmark cross-border combination between Domtar Corp. and Weyerhaeuser Co. in ...  More

Symmetry Holdings to acquire Novamerican Steel for US$582.2 million

Symmetry Holdings Inc. and Novamerican Steel Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Symmetry will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Novamerican for US$585.2 million, or $56 per share, in cash.  More

Domtar to sell its forest products business for approximately CDN$285 million

Domtar Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement for the sale of its forest products business to the newly created Conifex Inc. for approximately CDN$285 million including an estimated CDN$50 million of working capital.  More

Ogilvy Renault's M&A, Corporate Finance and Technology Practices strengthened by addition of Jay Lefton

Ogilvy Renault LLP is pleased to announce that Jay A. Lefton will be joining the firm as a partner in its Business Law Group in Toronto, July 1, 2007.  More

Ogilvy Renault LLP Represents Montréal Exchange in its Original Stock Exchange Listing

Today, the common shares of Montréal Exchange (MX), Canada's financial derivatives exchange, began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol MXX.  More

Ogilvy Renault LLP Represents Montréal Exchange in its Strategic Partnership with New York Mercantile Exchange

Ogilvy Renault LLP represented Montréal Exchange (MX) in its strategic partnership with New York Mercantile Exchange announced on March 23, 2007.  More

Ogilvy Renault LLP and Séguin Racine, Attorneys advising Garda in its acquisition of ATI Systems International to become second largest cash handling company in North America.

Ogilvy Renault LLP, along with Garda World Security Corporation's long-time legal counsel, Séguin Racine, Attorneys (Laval, Québec), are representing Garda in connection with its proposed acquisition of ATI Systems International to become the second ...  More

Ogilvy Renault represents Bowater Incorporated in merger with Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.

Ogilvy Renault, LLP acted as Canadian legal adviser to Bowater Incorporated (NYSE: BOW) in connection with its merger of equals with Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.  More

Ogilvy Renault Represents Four Seasons Founder

The Four Seasons Hotel announced on November 6, 2006, that it had received a proposal to pursue a transaction through which it would be taken private.  More

Ogilvy Renault LLP Represents Domtar in Largest Fine Paper Deal in North America

Ogilvy Renault acted as counsel to Domtar Inc. in their $3.3-billion (U.S.) combination with Weyerhaeuser Co.  More

Ogilvy Renault LLP and BioScience Managers Land on MaRS

Ogilvy Renault LLP, one of Canada's top law firms, and BioScience Managers, an international venture capital firm, are pleased to announce the opening of the Bioscience Exchange @ MaRS.  More

Ogilvy Renault Appoints Renaud Coulombe As Montréal Chair of Business Law Group

Ogilvy Renault LLP is pleased to announce that Renaud Coulombe has been appointed as Chair of the Business Law Group in the Montréal office.  More