Our Team

Chambers & Partners’ Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011—Leading lawyer in corporate/M&A

Legal Media Group/Euromoney's IFLR1000 The Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers 2011—Leading Canadian lawyer in capital markets

Practical Law Company’s Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2010—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

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC’s IFLR 1000, Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms 2008—Leading lawyer in capital markets

Kevin has recently represented

• GMP Securities in connection with 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