Our Team

Thomas has recently been involved in representing

• Canada Development Investment Corporation (through Canada GEN Investment Corporation) as a selling shareholder in General Motors’ initial public offering, the largest IPO in North American history
• Cognos in its 
  • 2008 US$4.9 billion sale to IBM, the largest global acquisition ever undertaken by IBM
  • 2007 C$339 million acquisition of Applix
• Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in its takeover bid for Agricore United and its sales of assets to Cargill Limited and James Richardson International
• Fairfax Financial Holdings in its
  • 2010 purchase of a 39% stake in Gulf Insurance Co. for US$208 million
  • 2010 purchase of Fibrek’s common shares in connection with a C$40 million rights offering following SFK Pulp Fund’s conversion from an income trust to a corporation
  • 2010 C$275 million offering of senior notes
  • 2010 US$200 million offering of subordinate voting shares
  • 2010 US$1.4 billion acquisition of Zenith National Insurance
  • 2010 offerings of three series of preferred shares for aggregate gross proceeds of C$750 million
  • 2009 C$200 million offering of preferred shares
  • 2009 universal shelf prospectus in Canada and the United States for the offering of up to US$2 billion of securities
  • 2009 US$1 billion going-private transaction of Odyssey Re Holdings
  • 2009 US$1 billion offering of subordinate voting shares
  • 2009 going-private transaction of Advent Capital (Holdings) PLC
  • 2009 proposed recapitalization and DIP financing for AbitibiBowater
  • 2009 C$686 million going-private transaction of Northbridge Financial
  • 2008 purchase of 69% of the outstanding shares of Ridley Inc. by private agreement
  • 2008 purchase of Mega Brands’ C$64 million senior unsecured convertible debentures
  • 2008 investment in AbitibiBowater by way of the purchase of US$350 million of convertible debentures
  • privatization of Cunningham Lindsey Group, a leading global provider of independent insurance claims services, and the subsequent sale of a 51% interest in Cunningham Lindsey's operating businesses to private equity funds managed by Stone Point Capital LLC
  • 2005 US$300 million offering of subordinate voting shares
  • 2004 US$200 million offering of 7.75% senior notes due 2012
  • 2004 US$114.7 million cash tender offer for outstanding senior notes due 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2027
  • 2004 US$300 million offering of subordinate voting shares
  • 2004 US$204.6 million debt exchange offer
  • 2004 and 2007 universal shelf prospectuses in Canada and the United States for the offering of up to US$750 million of securities
• TLC Vision Corporation in its
  • 2010 restructuring by Charlesbank
  • 2008 dissident proxy battle
  • 2007 recapitalization and tender offer
  • acquisition of TruVision
  • merger with Laser Vision Centers
  • equity investment in Vascular Sciences Corporation
• Crosbie & Co., the financial adviser to Northland Power Income Fund's independent trustees in Northland Power Income Fund's 2009 merger with Northland Power
• the underwriters in Tim Hortons’ US$772 million initial public offering
• Medisys Health Group in its
  • acquisitions of Ontario medical imaging clinics
  • C$11 million combined treasury and secondary offering of trust units on a private placement basis
  • conversion to a publicly traded income trust
• Custom Direct Income Fund in its
  • C$199 million sale to a fund managed by Edgestone Capital Partners
  • C$126.5 million initial public offering
• Manulife Financial in its 2001 offering of C$1 billion of innovative exchangeable trust securities and its 2009 offering of C$1 billion of innovative Tier 1 notes
• Scotia Capital, RBC Dominion Securities and TD Securities as underwriters to Scotiabank Capital Trust’s initial public offering of C$750 million of innovative exchangeable trust securities and a new issue of C$750 million of innovative exchangeable trust securities
• TD Securities and RBC Dominion Securities as underwriters to TD Capital Trust’s issue of C$350 million of innovative exchangeable trust securities
• Odyssey Re Holdings in its US$308.5 million initial public offering