1500 Hill Center I
1874 Scarth Street
Regina SK S4P 4E9

Phone: 306.347-8490
Fax: 306.352-5250
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Aaron Runge

Partner Regina

Aaron Runge focuses on private mergers and acquisitions, venture and private capital, corporate finance and securities law. Aaron has acted for buyers, sellers and targetcos on several significant domestic and international M&A transactions. He regularly acts for providers of venture and private capital on transactions involving investees in Saskatchewan and abroad, and acted for several investors and investment funds on the design and implementation of innovative acquisition structures to allow foreign investors to participate in Saskatchewan farmland. He has worked with lenders and borrowers on numerous syndicated credit facilities on structured, leveraged and non-leveraged lease financing arrangements in Canada and the United States, and for senior Saskatchewan issuers placing private and public offerings of debt and equity securities in Canada and the United States.

Representative Work

  • Counsel to various providers of venture and private capital for numerous financing transactions involving mezzanine debt, subordinated debt, near equity and equity instruments.
  • 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).
  • Counsel to CUETS, CUCS and CUCA on sale of CUETS credit card acquiring business to First Data Resources (2008) and credit card issuing business to MBNA (2007).
  • 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.
  • Counsel to Concentra Financial Services Association on the structuring, negotiation and documentation of a major merger and other strategic transactions.
  • Counsel to Access Communications Cooperative on a $125 million acquisition of cable systems in Saskatchewan (2009).
  • Counsel to Big Sky Farms in successful CCAA restructuring of approximately $100 million in secured and unsecured debt in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Iowa (2010).

Leadership

  • Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce, Investment and Growth Committee – Member (since 2008)

Awards & Distinctions

  • One of Canada's Leading 500 Lawyers – Lexpert/American Lawyer Media
  • Selected as one of the Best Lawyers in Canada – Corporate Governance; Corporate Law; Securities Law (since 2010)
  • "Consistently Recommended” for Corporate Mid-Market – Canadian Lexpert Legal Directory (since 2008)
  • Lexis-Nexis / Martindale-Hubbell – "BV Peer Review Rated"
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Education & Qualifications

Saskatchewan Bar (1996)

LL.B. with Distinction (Saskatchewan, 1995)

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