Amar Leclair-Ghosh

Biography

Amar Leclair-Ghosh's areas of specialty include mergers and acquisitions, public financing, private placements, privatizations and general corporate matters. He is Montréal Chair of our Business Law Group and Co-Chair of our Private Mergers and Acquisitions Team.

Mr. Leclair-Ghosh works with major Canadian public companies, international corporations and family-held businesses pursuing growth by way of acquisitions. He represents clients in a variety of industries including financial services, forestry and wood products, and food retailing.

Year of Call

• Quebec Bar 1993

Law School

• LL.B., Université de Montréal, 1992

Selected Client Work

• Kruger Inc. in connection with the acquisition of all of the units of Maison des Futailles, L.P. held by Société des alcools du Québec and Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ) for an amount of approximately $68.8 million and concurrent investment in Maison des Futailles, L.P. by Kruger and the Fonds (2006)
• the special committee of the board of directors of Lafarge Canada Inc. in connection with the privatization of Lafarge North America Inc. and Lafarge Canada Inc. by Lafarge S.A., a transaction with an aggregate value of US$3 billion (2006)
• Mittal Canada Inc. (a subsidiary of Mittal Steel Company N.V.) in connection with the purchase by Mittal of Norambar Inc., Stelfil Inc. and Stelwire Inc. from Stelco Inc. for $30 million and the assumption by Mittal Canada of $28 million of debt, in the context of Stelco's restructuring proceedings (2006)
• Media Groupe Inc. in connection with equity and bank financing of approximately $13 million (2005)
• Metro Inc. in the context of a controlled auction process in connection with the acquisition by a subsidiary of Metro of all of the issued and outstanding shares of The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company from The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. for a total purchase price of C$1.7 billion, consisting of $1.2 billion in cash and $500 million in the form of treasury Class A Subordinate Voting Shares of Metro (2005)
• the underwriting syndicate led by National Bank Financial in connection with a $200 million offering of First Preferred Shares, Series 16 by National Bank of Canada (2005)
• Laurentian Bank of Canada in connection with the $59 million privatization by way of statutory amalgamation of B2B Trust, a trust company subsidiary of Laurentian Bank (2004)
• the underwriting syndicate led by National Bank Financial and Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon in connection with the $55 million initial public offering of Adaltis Inc. (2004)
• Bombardier Capital in connection with the divestiture of various financial assets by Bombardier Capital in favour of General Electric Capital Corporation (2003)

Memberships and Activities

• Canadian Bar Association