Michael T. Waters

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work: Mergers
  Acquisitions: Acted for Canna Farms Limited on its $133 million sale to Vivo Cannabis Inc. (formerly ABcann Global Corporation)
  Acted for Qwave Capital LLC, a U.S. based private equity firm, in connection with its $17 million hostile take-over bid for the TSX Venture Exchange listed online lending company, IOU Financial Inc.
  Acted for The Safaril
  Group, an affiliate of the U.S. based private equity firm K
  ers & Company, Inc., in its acquisition of Mustang Survival Inc.
  Acted for Bonnett's Energy Corp. in its $117 million sale to a syndicate led the U.S. based private equity firm Mill City Capital, L.P.
  Acted for Holloway Lodging Corporation on its $157 million acquisition of Royal Host Inc.
  Acted for Pan American Silver Corp. on its $1.5 billion acquisition of Minefinders Corporation Ltd.
  Acted for Eldorado Gold Corp. on its $2.5 billion acquisition of European Goldfields Limited
  Acted for K+S Aktiengesellschaft on its $434 million acquisition of Potash One Inc.
  Acted for Eldorado Gold Corp. in connection with its $148 million unsolicited take-over bid of Frontier Pacific Mining Corp.
  Corporate Finance: Acted for Teck Resources Limited in connection with a US$525 million gold offtake agreement with RGLD Gold AG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Gold, Inc. on production from Teck's Andacollo mine.
  Acted for S
  storm Gold Ltd. in their US$152 million multi-asset stream transaction with Yamana Gold Inc.
  Acted for Teck Resources Limited in connection with a US$610 million silver stream agreement with Franco Nevada Corporation on production from Teck's jointly owned Antamina mine.
  Acted for Magma Energy Corp. (now Alterra Power Corp.) in connection with its $110 million initial public offering.
  Acted for Northern Property Real Estate Investment Trust
  NorSerCo Inc. in connection with a $66 million bought-deal short-form prospectus offering of stapled units.
  Acted as underwriters' counsel on a $24 million bought-deal short-form prospectus offering of a Great Panther Silver Limited.
  Acted as underwriters' counsel on the $49 million initial public offering of Athabasca Potash Inc. (subsequently purchased by BHP Billiton Canada Inc. for $341 million).
  Investment Fund Management: Acted for a Canadian hedge fund in connection with its participation in a $7.1 million preferred equity financing round in Cooledge Lighting Inc. led by BDC Capital Inc.
  Regularly acts for Canadian
  U.S.-based investment fund managers in connection with the formation
  offering of public
  private investment funds in Canada.