Damian Rigolo

• CNH Industrial CNH Industrial in its agreement to acquire Hemisphere GNSS for $175 million

• TELUS International TELUS International in its US$1.225 billion acquisition of WillowTree

• Drax Group Drax Group in the acquisition of Princeton Standard Pellet Corporation’s pellet plant

• LifeWorks LifeWorks in its $2.9 billion acquisition by TELUS

• Verisk Analytics Verisk Analytics in its acquisition of Opta

• Inkbox Ink Inkbox Ink in its US$65 million acquisition by BIC

• Angus Systems Angus Systems in its acquisition by MRI Software

• Goldman Sachs Asset Management Goldman Sachs Asset Management in its US$250 million investment in Hydrostor

• Microsoft Microsoft in its acquisition of Xandr

• Kinross Gold Corporation Kinross Gold Corporation in its US$1.4 billion acquisition of Great Bear Resources

• OpenChannel OpenChannel in its acquisition by Stripe

• Kira Talent Kira Talent in its majority stake investment by ETS

• TransUnion TransUnion in its $638 million acquisition of Sontiq

• Microsoft Microsoft in its acquisition of Two Hat

• VTS VTS in its acquisition of Lane Technologies

• TopBuild TopBuild in its $1 billion acquisition of Distribution International

• The Legault Group Mondou in its acquisition of Ren’s Pets

• Absorb Absorb in its US$500 million acquisition by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe

• Loopio Loopio in its US$9 million Series A financing

• Drax Group plc Drax Group plc in its acquisition of Pinnacle Renewable Energy

• Animalcare Animalcare in its agreement with Kane Biotech to form STEM Animal Health Inc.
• Closing Folders Closing Folders in its acquisition by iManage

Select Reported Deals:

• Procera Networks Inc., an affiliate of Francisco Partners, in the C$562 million acquisition of TSX-listed network policy control solutions company Sandvine Corporation by way of plan of arrangement in Ontario
• The Carlyle Group with regard to Canadian aspects of its acquisition of Arctic Glacier Group Holdings, Inc. from H.I.G. Capital
• Trilantic Capital Partners with regard to Canadian aspects on its investment in a Canadian services business
• Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries in their agreement to sell producing oil and gas assets in the Deep Basin area of western Alberta and British Columbia for US$374 million
• JP Morgan Chase & Co. as Canadian counsel in the sale of its physical commodities business to Mercuria Energy Group Limited, a global energy and commodities trading company, for C$3.5 billion
• Devon Energy Canada in the disposition of some of its Canadian conventional assets to Canadian Natural Resources Limited for C$3.125 billion
• Spud Energy Pty. Limited in the reverse take-over of Jura Energy Corporation
• Golden Crescent Investments Ltd. an affiliate of Citadel Capital, in its proposed sale of National Petroleum Company Egypt Limited, to Sea Dragon Energy Inc.

Other Work:

• Advises a diverse range of clients on employment standards, wrongful dismissals and human rights issues
• Represents management in labour arbitrations, and in labour relations board matters
• Provides critical guidance to and advocates for companies in respect of occupational health and safety concerns
• Advises clients in the employment and labour aspects of business transaction and acquisitions