Our Team

Richard has represented

• TD Bank on its $8.0 billion acquisition of the credit card business of MBNA Canada Bank
• Dell Inc. on its acquisition of a finance business from CIT Group
• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board and its partner on their acquisition of AIG’s Canadian mortgage insurance business
• IESI-BFC on its $1.5 billion cross-border merger with Waste Services Inc. and $900 million cross-border combination with IESI Corporation
• The Woodbridge Company on its $95 million sale of hotels to, and $50 million investment in, Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc.
• TorQuest Capital Partners in its acquisition of control of 4Refuel
• the owners of Village Farms in their reverse takeover of Hot House Growers Income Fund  
• various U.S. companies on their proposed initial public offerings by way of income securities offerings in Canada and the United States
• Connors Bros. Income Fund on its $650 million cross-border combination with Bumble Bee Seafoods
• Concert Productions International on its sale of control to Live Nations
• FPI on its U.K. acquisition of The Seafood Company
• TD Bank on its $430 million acquisition of the Stafford and Letco groups, two Chicago-based listed equity options market-making businesses
• Interbrew S.A. on its $105 million acquisition of the United States importation and distribution rights for Bass Ale from Diageo plc
• Centrica plc on the U.S. aspects of its C$1 billion acquisition of Enbridge Services
• SimEx on its acquisition of Iwerks Entertainment
• MMC Capital (a Marsh & McLennan company) on various venture capital investments, including PeopleStreet, Xanoptix and CCC Network Communications
• InsLogic on its strategic alliance with Ford Motor Credit Company
• Systems Integration Drug Discovery Company on the sale of its Arizona-based combichem business to Discovery Partners International
• LeBlanc & Royle Enterprises on its $170 million sale of Florida-based Lodestar Towers to SpectraSite Communications
• the seller in the $380 million auction of a California-based insurance company
• London Life Insurance Company on its $4.2 billion acquisition of the Canadian life and health insurance business of the Prudential Insurance Company of America
• various bidders, including American Express and SunLife Assurance Company, in auction transactions with purchase prices of more than $100 million
• Coors Brewing Company in its joint venture with The Molson Companies
• Canada Post and the postal administrations of France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands in the merger of their international courier businesses with that of TNT (an Australian conglomerate) to form the joint venture company G.D. Express Worldwide N.V.