Rosalind Morrow

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work
  Representing Canada Mortgage
  Housing Corporation on the structuring (including risk management strategy)
  implementation of its Canada Mortgage Bond program
  the fully underwritten offerings (to date) of over C$200 billion in CMB bonds since program launch in 2001. Representing Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation as lead negotiator of joint venture project with the State Mining Corporation of Tanzania to re-develop the Beckreef Gold Mine in Tanzania. Representing Canadian Federal Government on its $125-billion emergency funding program for Canadian banks launched in the 2008 financial crisis called the Insured Mortgage Purchase Program (comparable to the U.S. TARP Program). Representing Canada Mortgage
  Housing Corporation on the restructuring of the $32 billion asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market in Canada
  its participation in the Pan-Canadian Investors' Committee overseeing the restructuring (2007-2009). Representing RFA Capital Corporation on its underwriting of the B
  unrated-piece tranches of an aggregate $2.32 billion (approximate) in commercial mortgage-backed securities offered by Claret Trust, Column Canada Issuer Corporation, Solar Trust, Merrill Lynch Financial Assets Inc., Schooner Trust
  Real Estate Asset Liquidity Trust (2002-present). Representing Clarington Corporation, an independent mutual fund company, on its $280- million takeover by Industrial Alliance in January 2006
  initial public offering in March 2005 by way of primary
  secondary offering. Representing Sprint Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri in restructuring of all equity
  $2.6 billion in senior debt of Call-Net Enterprises Inc., the TSX-listed parent of Sprint Canada Inc. by way of Court-approved plan of arrangement. Representing Sprint Corporation in the proxy contest for control of Call-Net Enterprises Inc. (Toronto Stock Exchange-
  NASDAQ-listed parent of Sprint Canada Inc.) launched by Crescendo Partners, L.P. of New York. Representing Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the C$800 million syndicated bank financing
  C$400-million refinancing by way of public bond offering of its Canadian Broadcasting Centre project in downtown Toronto. Representing dissident holders of US$65 million in gold bonds of Canadian Pacific Limited in connection with that company's C$6 billion debt
  equity restructuring, in which the dissidents were successful in obtaining substantial amendments to the restructuring in their favour.