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Alison has recently been involved in representing

• Northgate Minerals in its C$100 million cross-border offering of common shares
• Cosmos Capital in its proposed offer for Cossette
• Viterra
  • in its acquisition of ABB Grain
  • in its offering of C$450 million subscription receipts
  • in its offering of C$300 million of 8.5% senior unsecured notes
• Fairfax Financial Holdings on a number of capital markets transactions, including in its 
  • offering of C$194 million preferred shares
  • universal shelf prospectus in Canada and the United States for the offering of up to US$2 billion of securities
  • offering of US$1 billion subordinate voting shares
  • offering of C$400 million of 7.5% senior notes
  • offering of C$200 million of cumulative 5-year rate reset preferred shares
• Bank of Montreal in its offerings of non-principal protected notes
• Sherritt International in its offer to acquire Royal Utilities Income Fund for C$704 million
• Merrill Lynch & Co. in its 2007 C$475 million purchase of a stake in BCE as part of the consortium of Teachers' Private Capital and Madison Dearborn Partners in its C$35 billion acquisition of BCE
• Sherritt International in its C$1.6 billion acquisition of Dynatec
• Algoma Steel in its C$1.85 billion acquisition by Essar Global
• Bell Globemedia in its C$1.7 billion takeover of CHUM

Before joining Torys, Alison worked at a large multinational advertising and communications company. During law school, Alison worked as a research assistant for Professor Sydney Usprich of the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law.

Alison also spent a semester in Stockholm studying European Commission procedure.

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