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 -
Scott
Exner403.693.4301Calgary -
Douglas
Ballou780.969.3501Edmonton
Our Team
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- Counsel to a REIT on a $70 million acquisition of a significant real estate portfolio in Iqaluit, Nunavut including hotels, leased property, rental properties, development lands, apartments and office buildings. The transaction involved refinancing, leases, land consolidations, fire reconstruction and insurance matters.
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- Counsel to Federated Co-operatives Ltd. on a $138 million acquisition by plan of arrangement, including production facilities and infrastructure, of Triwest Exploration Inc., a Calgary-based oil company.
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- Counsel to Federated Co-operatives Ltd. on the sale of its forestry division operating in British Columbia.
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- Counsel to Viterra Inc. on the sale of its North American Feed Business to a subsidiary of Birch Hills Equity Partners.
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- Counsel to Domtar Inc. on the sale of its Prince Albert pulp mill facility to Paper Excellence Canada Holdings Holdings Corp.
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- Counsel to a Canadian-headquartered global agribusiness on its acquisition of a $64 million canola crushing facility and related assets (2009) and the sale of its feed manufacturing, sales and distribution business in Canada and the US (2012).
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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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- Assisted a major western Canadian helicopter company with a $6.3 million purchase of two leased airport facilities and six aircraft, the assignment of various customer contracts, and employee hiring.
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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 on Saskferco Products LLC $1.6 billion sale to Yara International ASA (named the 2008 Canadian Inbound Acquisition of the Year by Lexpert Magazine).
- Thursday Mar 14th 2013 Dan Anderson Recognized Among Canada's Best by Chambers Global