Our Team

Woodward White’s Best Lawyers in Canada 2009—Tax law

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2008—Consistently recommended practitioner in investment funds and in asset management (tax aspect)

Chambers & Partners’ Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide 2008— Leading practitioner in tax

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2007—Most frequently recommended practitioner in corporate tax; consistently recommended practitioner in investment funds and in asset management

Corrado has recently represented

• Canada Cartage Diversified Income Fund in its acquisition of Direct Integrated Transportation and its initial public offering of C$118 million of trust units
• the underwriters in Tim Hortons’ US$772 million initial public offering
• PBB Global Logistics Income Fund defending against the hostile takeover bid made by Livingston International
• Royster-Clark
  • in its C$325 million initial public offering of income deposit securities in Canada
  • defending against the hostile takeover bid made by Agrium
• Norcast Income Fund in its C$77 million initial public offering of units
• Pizza Pizza Royalty Income Fund in its C$168 million initial public offering of units
• Spinrite Income Fund in its C$202 million initial public offering of units
• Sunrise Senior Living REIT in its C$246 million initial public offering of units and subsequent follow-on offerings
• BFI Canada Income Fund in its C$1.1 billion cross-border combination with IESI
• the underwriters in the initial public offering for Student Transportation of America’s offering of income participating securities
• the underwriters in the initial public offering for Keystone’s offering of income participating securities
• Medisys in its conversion from a public company to an income fund
• Connors Bros. Income Fund in its C$800 million cross-border combination with Bumble Bee Seafoods and follow-on offerings
• Volume Services America in its novel cross-border IDS offering of US$250 million IDS receipts representing shares and debt
• Yellow Pages Income Fund on its C$1 billion initial public offering of trust units and C$1.5 billion and C$1 billion follow-on offerings
• Movie Distribution Income Fund in its C$155 million initial public offering of trust units
• The Consumers’ Waterheater Income Fund in its C$287.5 million initial public offering and related C$500 million private placement of notes by The Consumers’ Waterheater Income Trust
• Davis + Henderson in its initial public offering and secondary offering aggregating approximately C$400 million
• PBB Global Logistics Income Fund in its C$45 million initial public offering and follow-on offering of C$40 million to acquire the Canadian logistics business of Clarke Inc.
• Heating Oil Partners Income Fund in its initial public offering of approximately C$150 million
• Specialty Foods Income Fund in its C$175 million initial public offering
• ACS Media Income Fund on its C$175 million initial public offering of trust units
• MDC Corporation in its 2003 C$126.5 million initial public offering of units of Custom Direct Income Fund, including the over-allotment option
• Great Lakes Carbon and American Industrial Partners in Great Lakes Carbon Income Fund’s C$203.5 million offering of trust units
• O&Y REIT in its 2004 follow-on offering of units of approximately C$125 million
• Barclays Canada in its recent structured product funds, including Barclays Income + Growth Split Trust, Barclays Advantaged Corporate Bond Fund and Barclays Advantaged Equal Weighted Income Fund
• the underwriters in income fund initial public offerings for Chemtrade Logistics (C$130 million), Connors Brothers (C$155 million), Noranda Income Fund (C$260 million), Menu Foods Income Fund (C$129 million), BFI Canada Income Fund (C$175 million), General Donlee Income Fund (C$89 million), UE Waterheater Income Fund (C$415 million), Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund (C$175 million), Macquarie Power Income Fund (C$211 million) and Countryside Power Income Fund (C$149 million)
• the underwriters in the initial public offering of Retrocom Mid-Market REIT and the underwriters in the offering of units of Dundee REIT
• the underwriters in the structured product fund from UBS Global Allocation Fund Trust
• the underwriters in several Brascan SoundVest structured products
• Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board in the C$3 billion acquisition of Bell Canada’s Yellow Pages and telephone directories unit
• Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and the acquisition syndicate in the C$2.5 billion acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart from Imasco/BAT in 2000

“The New Landscape for Canadian Income Trusts: Opportunities for Mergers and Acquisitions,” Private Equity Tax Conference, Boston, June 2007.

“New Tax Regime for Income Trusts,” Northwood Professional Institute’s 2007 Income Securities and Trusts Invitational Forum, Cambridge, Ontario, May 2007.

“Income Trusts and Mutual Fund Developments,” Canadian Tax Foundation Annual Conference, Toronto, November 2006.

“Finding Liquidity Through Income Securities: Cross-Border Opportunities for the U.S. Power Industry,” 12th Annual Power Industry Forum, Washington, D.C., May 2005.

“Transactions Involving Paid-Up Capital,” Canadian Tax Foundation Annual Conference, Toronto, September 2004.