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Joris has been involved in representing

• IESI-BFC in its US$500 million cross-border stock acquisition of Waste Services to form one of the largest full-service waste management companies in North America
• China Investment Corporation in its C$1.7 billion acquisition of a 17% equity interest in Teck Resources
• Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Funds and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board as U.S. counsel in their acquisition of seven Chilean electric power companies (i.e., hydro, transmission, generation and an integrated utility) from Public Service Enterprise Group for approximately US$870 million and more than US$400 million of assumed debt
• Hindalco Industries, a member of the Aditya Birla Group, as Canadian and U.S. counsel in its 2007 US$6 billion takeover of Novelis; the related C$1.4 billion tender and change of control of Novelis’ existing high-yield notes; and a proposed offering of new high-yield notes
• Van Es Holdings B.V., a Dutch conglomerate, and SHM Holdings, a U.S. company, in their joint sale of the assets and business of a mining machinery business in the United States and in Holland
• Third Avenue Management LLC in a cross-border tender offer for a large block of voting shares of a public Canadian paper company
• Merriman Curhan Ford as the lead underwriter in a proposed initial public offering of common stock by Consonus Technologies
• Third Avenue International Fund in a cross-border registered rights offering and oversubscription arrangement with Catalyst Paper
• the partners of Vollmer Associates LLP, a U.S. construction engineering firm, in the sale of 100% of the partnership interests to Stantec Corporation, a public Canadian company
• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board with respect to its invesment in Northern Star Generation LLC, a holding company for a portfolio of U.S. generation assets
• the owners of Phillips Machine Services company, a U.S. underground mining machinery and services company with operations in the United States and China, in the auction and sale of a majority equity interest
• Novacap II in its cross-border leveraged buyout of a U.S. public company engaged in the manufacturing industry in a reverse merger
• American Electric Power Company as special counsel with respect to a bank receivables credit facility of its wholy owned subsidiary AEP Credit
• Frederick's of Hollywood, a privately owned retail apparel company, in its recapitalization and reverse merger acquisition of Movie Star, an Amex-listed company
• The Hardt Group as special counsel relating to its funding arrangements with a U.S. life-settlements provider
• CMC-Coal Marketing as special counsel with respect to its North America coal marketing arrangements
• UTEX Holdings as special counsel with respect to the construction and operation of a regional processing facility contract with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
• a global supply chain and trading company in funding the purchase of a fuel storage terminal in the United States
• a Swedish company and a Canadian company in a contested cross-border takeover of a Canadian minerals company
• AIG Highstar Capital
• in the sale of certain of its portfolio company interests
• in a secured bank financing and attempt to form an independent transmission company in the southeastern United States
• as fund counsel on various private equity investments in the transportation and power industries
• in a private equity investment in a short line railroad company (a PIPES transaction)
• in an investment in a natural gas storage facility
• a power company
• in its US$6.6 billion strategic merger to form one of the largest utility systems in the United States
• in various debt and equity tender offer transactions
• in its acquisition of a large retail electric provider in the United Kingdom
• in the sale of its gas pipeline subsidiary in a public auction
• in screening and preliminary due diligence activities involving 30 IOUs and MUNIs
• creditors and debtors on a variety of corporate M&A and securities matters related to the restructuring of Global Crossing, Mitsubishi-National Steel, Fruit of the Loom, Safety Components, Viskase, ORBCOMM, Safety Kleen, Ormet, Dairy Mart, Motient and Cornerstone Propane
• an investment bank
  • in various registered and 144 A/B high yield financings
  • in a contested takeover bid for a retail gas utility company following its announced friendly merger with another utility
  • acting as financial adviser in the purchase and sale of various energy and industrial companies
  • in various debt and equity tender offer transactions
• a retail propane master limited partnership in various financing and corporate matters
• a minerals company in the purchase and sale of various coal mines
• a national stock exchange in a proposal to disaggregate its clearing operations joint venture
• a construction engineering company in the development of a cogeneration project in New York
• a private equity firm related to investments in the automobile and OEM sectors
• the board of directors of a leading short line rail service provider on various compensation and corporate governance matters
• a machinery and aerospace company in the sale of its aerospace division and management buy-out

Joris is on the board of contributing editors and advisors of Securities Regulation Law Journal and was an editor of Cornell International Law Journal.

Joris writes frequently for the ABA Electricity Committee Report on restructuring and M&A developments.

March 10, 2009: 37 of Torys' practitioners named as leading lawyers by LawDay

February 18, 2009: Torys receives 2008 Canadian Deal Maker Award

May 7, 2007: "Borders Within Borders," Lexpert 2007 Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada