Our Corporate Finance Group

Our Corporate Finance Group includes some of the most experienced corporate finance and securities practitioners in Canada.  Our practice is primarily transactional in nature.  We are regularly involved in both private and public financings and are active in representing issuers such as major corporations, entrepreneurial companies, partnerships, funds, and income and business trusts, as well as underwriters, selling security holders and various types of investors in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border financings.

Our Services in Corporate Finance

We advise on a broad range of corporate finance matters, including initial and secondary public offerings of equity, debt, preferred and capital securities, trust units, and other instruments.  In providing advice and services to capital markets participants, we are disciplined, creative and flexible and develop innovative solutions to assist in achieving our clients' business objectives.  We offer our capital markets clients experienced, cost-effective and collegial teams of lawyers and professionals which also include, as necessary, other BLG practitioners, such as our tax, banking and structured finance and regulatory colleagues.  We are actively involved in creating and developing sophisticated financial instruments and financing techniques and structures.

Our Experience in Corporate Finance

Representative Transactions

  • The following representative list of transactions is designed to give a picture of BLG's wide scope of practice in corporate finance:
    • Including the IPO, over $20 billion in offerings of mortgaged back securities by Canada Housing Trust No. 1.
    • $6.7 billion conversion of Precision Drilling Corporation to an income trust.
    • $400 million of trust units issued by Oil Sands Sector Fund.
    • $740 million IPO of trust units by Acuity Focused Total Return Trust.
    • $282 million IPO of common shares by Centerra Gold Corporation.
    • $222 million IPO of income participating securities (share and notes) by Medical Facilities Corporation.
    • $141 million IPO of common shares by Miranda Technologies Inc.
    • $300 million debenture offering by Cameco Corporation.
    • $253 million IPO of trust units by Chartwell Seniors Housing REIT.
    • $415 million IPO of trust units by UE Waterheater Income Fund and related offering of $400 million of senior secured notes by UE Waterheater Operating Trust.
    • $200 million of trust securities by HSBC Canada Asset Trust and HSBC Bank Canada.
    • $1.5 billion medium term note program for Loblaw Companies Limited.
    • $323 million IPO of trust units by Sentry Select MBS Adjustable Rate Income Fund.
    • $250 million offering of common shares by Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited.Regulatory Matters

Regulatory Matters

Borden Ladner Gervais also acts as counsel to the Investment Dealers Association of Canada, a national self-regulatory organization for the securities industry in Canada and the Mutual Fund Dealers Association, a national self-regulatory organization for the mutual fund industry in Canada.  The firm has acted for the Canadian Investor Protection Fund, which protects investors in the event of the insolvency of a securities dealer, and The Canadian Securities Institute, which is the national education body of the securities industry.  The firm has also acted for The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited ("CDS") since it was first organized.  CDS provides the principal securities depository and settlement system for the Canadian financial community. BLG is regularly involved with issues of market policy and regulation and conduct of securities dealers and permitted activities of participants in the securities industry.

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