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Aaron is recommended in Lexpert's Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada 2009 as a cross-border practitioner to watch. He is also listed as a leading lawyer in energy/corporate law in Real Time News' LawDay 2009.

Aaron has recently been involved in representing

• TMX Group in its proposed 2011 U.S. $6.9 billion merger with London Stock Exchange Group
• Canada Development Investment Corporation (through Canada GEN Investment Corporation) as a selling shareholder in General Motors’ initial public offering, the largest IPO in North American history
• Canada Post on its aggregate $1 billion long-term debt issue, to finance the company's postal modernization program
• Infrastructure Ontario, the Province of Ontario and OPG in IO’s RFP to choose new nuclear technology for the Province of Ontario
• Canada Cartage Diversified Income Fund in its acquisition by companies indirectly owned by Nautic Partners VI, LP and other affiliated investment funds of Nautic Partners, LLC
• Ontario First Nations in its negotiations with the Province of Ontario with regards to gaming
• Ontario Power Generation
  • and the Province of Ontario in the sale of Bruce Power to Cameco, TransCanada Pipelines and BPC Generation Infrastructure Trust
  • on its negotiations with the Province of Ontario on the sharing of risks associated with nuclear waste management and decommissioning OPG’s nuclear stations
  • on its lease of the Bruce Nuclear Facility to Bruce Power, a subsidiary of British Energy plc
• Westcoast Energy in its merger with Duke Energy
• TSX Group in its acquisition of Shorcan Brokers
• a variety of public companies on governance matters, including advice on board and committee mandates and structures, directors’ duties and liabilities, directors’ and officers’ insurance and indemnity agreements, and S-Ox matters
• Canada Cartage Diversified Income Fund in its acquisition of Direct Integrated Transportation and in its initial public offering
• Petro-Canada in the secondary offering by the Government of Canada of its remaining Petro-Canada shares
• New Brunswick Power in the restructuring of the electricity sector in New Brunswick
• Workbrain in its initial public offering of common shares
• Duke Energy in the sale of its ownership interest in Alliance Pipeline to Enbridge and Fort Chicago Energy Partners L.P.
• TSX Group in its initial public offering of common shares
• CanWest Global in its acquisition of WIC