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

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