Friday, December 19, 2014

Bennet Jones: Corporate Finance

Issuers, investors and underwriters draw upon the hybrid set of skills and experience of our corporate finance team. Our clients include public, private and institutional entities, from emerging companies to established multinationals, investment and merchant banks to venture capitalists, provincial governments to foreign exchanges, and hedge funds to pension funds.

Our clients include companies in the oil and gas, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and power industries, to name a few. Our capital-raising efforts have involved prospectus offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities in Canada and internationally. Specific transaction experience includes MJDS offerings, cross-border IPOs, subscription receipts, high-yield debt offerings and financings by royalty trusts and income funds.

As part of our ongoing relationships with clients, we also advise on a variety of risk management, corporate governance and disclosure obligations that require us to interact with securities and exchange commissions, as well as boards of directors, compliance teams, investor relations professionals and shareholders. Leveraging our firm-wide resources, we bring effective communication and seamless integration to the task of helping our clients navigate the complex securities regulatory environment in which they operate.


Experience

- Parkland Fuel Corporation in connection with its private placement by way of offering memorandum of $200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 6.0% Senior Notes, due 2022.

- Canso Investment Counsel Ltd. (Canso) in the financing by Canso of Postmedia Network's $316 million acquisition from Quebecor Media Inc. (QMI) of certain of Sun Media Corp's English language print assets., through the issuance by Postmedia to Canso of $140 million of subscription receipts convertible into an equal amount of additional 8.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2017.

- Veresen Inc. in connection with the public offering of 56,120,000 subscription receipts for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $920 million to be used to partially fund the acquisition of the 50% convertible preferred interest owned by Global Infrastructure Partners in the Ruby pipeline system for US$1.425 billion.

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