Our Team

Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide, 2008-2013—Leading lawyer in corporate/M&A

Lexpert/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, 2013—Leading lawyer in corporate finance and securities

Legal Media Group/Euromoney's IFLR1000 The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms, 2008-2013—Leading Canadian lawyer in capital markets

Practical Law Company’s Which Lawyer? 2010-2012—Recommended Canadian lawyer in capital markets: debt and equity

Real Time News' LawDay 2009—Leading lawyer in securities/corporate law

Martindale-Hubbell’s Peer Review Ratings—Exemplary ethical standards and legal ability

Kevin has recently represented

• Alamos Gold in its unsolicited offer for Aurizon Mines
• Qtrade Financial Group with respect to the investment in Qtrade by Desjardins Group
• CIBC World Markets as the lead underwriter in Regal Lifestyle Communities' C$139 million initial public offering of common shares
• GMP Securities in connection with the going private transaction involving ARMZ and Uranium One, and the business combination of Gran Columbia Gold and Medero Resources
• Northgate Minerals
• in its merger with AuRico Gold, and proposed acquisition of Primero
• in its US$170 million convertible senior notes offering
• in its C$100 million cross-border offering of common shares
• Sherritt International in the restructuring of its joint venture arrangements with Sumitomo and Korea Resources with respect to the C$5.2 billion Ambatovy nickel mine in Madagascar
• Sherritt International in its C$1.416 million acquisition of Royal Utilities Income Fund, its related C$400 million bought deal offering of shares and its C$400 million, C$275 million and C$225 million public offerings of debentures
• Cosmos Capital in its proposed offer for Cossette
• the underwriting syndicated in GMP Capital's C$100 million offering of preferred shares
• 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
• Home Capital Group in its C$60 million offering of convertible debentures, and its acquisition of Payment Services Interactive Gateway
• Algoma Steel
• in its C$1.85 billion acquisition by Essar Steel Holdings
• in its response to a requisitioned shareholders' meeting
• in its C$85 million offering of common shares
• The Carlyle Group
• in its US$1.48 billion acquisition of Goodyear Tire’s engineered products division
• in its US$982 million acquisition of SS&C Technologies
• ZENON Environmental in its C$760 million acquisition by General Electric
• BWAY in its acquisition of Industrial Containers and Vulcan Containers
• the consortium of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, The Carlyle Group and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity in their US$15 billion acquisition of Hertz from Ford Motor Company
• Royster-Clark
• in its US$464 million sale to Agrium
• in its C$325 million initial public offering of income deposit securities
• the underwriting syndicate in Evertz Technologies' C$67 million initial public offering and the underwriting syndicate in Morneau Sobeco Income Fund's C$200 million initial public offering, C$153 million offering of subscription receipts and C$55 million secondary offering of units
• Stuart Energy in its C$155 million share exchange acquisition by Hydrogenics
• Manitoba Telecom Services in its C$1.7 billion acquisition of Allstream (formerly AT&T Canada)
• BMO Nesbitt Burns in the C$158 million cross-border bought deal public offering of common shares by Ivanhoe Mines
• the underwriting syndicate in Keystone North America's C$188 million offering of IPSs and Keystone's securities exchange issuer bid for its subordinated notes
• the underwriting syndicate in Student Transportation of America's C$127 million initial offering of IPSs and subsequent C$60 million, C$42 million and C$60 million secondary offerings
• the underwriting syndicate in Aspreva Pharmaceutical's C$113 million cross-border initial public offering of common shares

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