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Jim has recently been involved in representing

• TD Securities and the other underwriters in Leisureworld Senior Care Corporation’s C$124.8 million bought deal offering of subscription receipts and extendible convertible debentures
• PEER 1 Network Enterprises in its C$635 million sale to Cogeco Cable
• Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners in its successful unsolicited takeover bid for Western Wind
• EnerCare Solutions in its C$250 million offering of senior unsecured notes
• First Capital Realty in its acquisition of Gazit America’s medical office and retail properties as part of Gazit-Globe’s take private of Gazit America
• TD Securities and the other underwriters in Leisureworld Senior Care Corporation’s C$56.4 million bought deal offering of subscription receipts
• Scotiabank in its acquisition of New Orleans based energy investment boutique Howard Weil
• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board in its acquisition with Century Capital Partners of State Automobile Insurance Company’s majority interest in Ohio based BroadStreet Capital Partners
• Hydrogenics Corporation in its private placement to Enbridge
• The Special Committee of Minera Andes regarding the merger between Minera Andes and US Gold to form McEwen Mining
• Northgate Minerals in its C$1.46 billion sale to AuRico Gold
• TMX Group in its proposed US$6.9 billion merger of equals with London Stock Exchange Group
• Scotiabank in its C$2.3 billion acquisition of DundeeWealth
• The Consumers' Waterheater Income Fund in its conversion from an income trust structure to a corporation (EnerCare Inc.)
• Inmet Mining in its US$480 million purchase of the remaining interest in the Cobre Las Cruces copper mine from Leucadia National
• Hydrogenics Corporation in its strategic alliance with North Carolina-based CommScope
• The Consumers' Waterheater Income Fund in its C$50 million bought deal offering of units and convertible debentures
• the underwriters in Mitel Networks Corporation's cross-border initial public offering
• Inmet Mining in its C$500 million private placement of subscription receipts to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings
• The Consumers' Waterheater Operating Trust in its C$240 million offering of senior unsecured notes
• Quad/Graphics in its C$1.3 billion acquisition of World Color Press (formerly Quebecor World)
• Trow Global Holdings in its acquisition of X-nth
• Hydrogenics Corporation
• in its registered direct offering of common shares and warrants
• in its non-dilutive financing and exchange offers for securities of Algonquin Power Income Fund
• International Petroleum Investment Company in its US$2.3 billion acquisition of Nova Chemicals
• Brookfield Renewable Power in the C$75 million sale of its electric distribution business to FortisOntario
• The Consumers' Waterheater Operating Trust in its C$330 million offering of senior notes
• National Bank Financial in its C$35.8 million investment in Wellington West
• an InterTech Group affiliate in its sale of Hudson's Bay Company to NRDC Equity Partners
• The Thomson Corporation in its US$18 billion combination with Reuters Group by way of a dual-listed company structure
• Husky Injection Molding Systems in its C$960 million share acquisition by Onex Partners
• Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in its asset sales to Cargill and James Richardson International
• Hindalco Industries in its US$6 billion acquisition of Novelis
• Public Sector Pension Investment Board in its C$2.8 billion bid to acquire Retirement Residences Real Estate Investment Trust
• E-L Financial in its C$100 million offering of First Preference Shares, Series 2
• Maple Leaf Heritage Investments Acquisition in its C$1.1 billion unsolicited takeover bid for Hudson’s Bay Company
• Resolve Business Outsourcing Income Fund in its C$225 million initial public offering of units

Before joining Torys, Jim spent a summer working at a Halifax firm. During law school, he volunteered with Dalhousie Legal Aid, where he organized workshops on landlord and tenant law.