Mergers & Acquisitions
MLT’s comprehensive, expertise-based practice model is ideally suited to the mergers & acquisitions field. Our M&A lawyers regularly collaborate with other lawyers in our firm who have specific and specialized expertise in corporate structures, business operations, corporate finance, competition law, intellectual property, environmental and regulatory compliance, tax, trusts and executive compensation, to provide our clients with efficient and specialized advice tailored to their individual business and transactional needs.
MLT has an active mergers and acquisitions practice. We have been involved in numerous significant private and public transactions involving Saskatchewan, Alberta and international acquirers or target companies. Several of these transactions have required the creation of complex or innovative partnerships or joint venture relationships and have involved multiple jurisdictions beyond Western Canada. Our experience includes work for publicly-traded and privately-held corporations in the financial services, communications, oil & gas, agribusiness, and natural resources sectors, on transactions ranging in scope from small family business transactions to large multinational transactions, including for example the $1.6 billion acquisition of Saskferco Products by Yara International.
We regularly advise business clients in a manner that covers the entire cycle of business transactions. Our services include structuring, legal due diligence, and the negotiation of letters of intent, offers to purchase, and agreements of purchase and sale. We have provided legal advice on acquisitions, mergers, takeovers, divestitures, reorganizations, leveraged and management buy-outs and hostile takeover bids.
Key Contacts
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Aaron
Runge306.347-8490Regina -
Lynn
Hnatick306.975-7104Saskatoon -
Douglas
Ballou780.969.3501Edmonton
Our Team
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- Counsel on Saskferco Products LLC $1.6 billion sale to Yara International ASA (named the 2008 Canadian Inbound Acquisition of the Year by Lexpert Magazine).
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- Counsel to Meadow Lake Pulp Ltd. on its successful Companies’ Creditors Arrangements Act restructuring of over $800M of debt and the eventual sale of the mill to one of the world’s largest pulp and paper producers.
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- Counsel to Concentra Financial Services Association on the structuring, negotiation and documentation of a major merger and other strategic transactions.
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- Counsel to Access Communications Cooperative on a $125 million acquisition of cable systems in Saskatchewan (2009).
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- Acted for a Scottish public company on its acquisition of a polymer manufacturing facility in Edmonton from AT Plastic, Inc.
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- Counsel to Canadian-headquartered global agribusiness on its acquisition of a $64 million canola crushing facility and related assets (2009).
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- Alberta counsel to a diversified technology and manufacturing company on its acquisition of Matrikon Inc., an Edmonton based IT company, for $144 million (2010).
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- Counsel to Crown Investments Corporation of Saskatchewan on its 50% investment in the NewGrade Energy Inc heavy oil upgrader in Regina and the disposition of that interest in 2007 for $386 million, and for the Canadian and US public and private government guaranteed financings for that project totalling in excess of $500 million.
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Legal advisor on competition law matters to Concentra Financial Services and CUETS on acquisition of credit card acquiring issuing business by First Data Resources (2008) and credit card issuing business by MBNA Canada Bank (2007).
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- Counsel to the vendors in the $42 million sale of an engineering operation.
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- Lead Saskatchewan counsel in the sale of a potash mine operation.
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- Represented the Administrative Agent on $125 million syndicated revolving and operating credit facilities to an Alberta-based oil & gas exploration income trust.
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- Lead counsel on the sale of a $100 million Canadian oil services company including its US subsidiary (2007/2008).
- Thursday Jan 6th 2011 Doug Ballou and Aaron Runge Among Lexpert/ALM's Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada