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• Hootsuite Hootsuite in its $60 million acquisition of Heyday

• IBM IBM in its acquisition of Expertus

• Pier 1 Imports Inc. Pier 1 Imports in its Chapter 11 and CCAA Recognition Proceedings

• Comark Holdings Inc. Comark completes sale transaction and emerges from creditor protection

• Alvarez & Marsal Canada Inc. Alvarez & Marsal Canada Inc., as Receiver to Erwin Hymer Group North America Inc., announces proposed acquisition of Roadtrek RV brand by Rapido SAS

• MindBeacon Software Inc. MindBeacon Software Inc. in its Series A Financing Round

• Imagia Cybernetics Inc. Imagia Cybernetics Inc. in its acquisition of Cadens Medical Imaging
• Blockstream Corporation Blockstream Corporation in its $21 million seed round financing
• TPG Capital Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Cirque du Soleil, including establishing new executive employment arrangements for the leadership team

Select Reported Cases:

• • Canada Bread Company Ltd. as lead counsel in Ontario Labour Relations Board proceedings relating to Teamsters’ attempt to organize the Franchisees’ of Canada Bread in five key depots in the Greater Toronto Area
  • Stanley Black and Decker Inc. as an advisor on a broad range of employment and labour issues including providing business critical legal and strategic advice on HR matters across Canada
  • Foot Locker Inc. as counsel on all employment and labour matters in Canada, spanning a diverse range of issues

CCAA Proceedings:

• • Algoma Steel Inc. and certain senior secured term lenders in Canada in Algoma’s acquisition of substantially all the assets of Essar Steel Algoma in connection to a restructuring under the CCAA
  • Sears Canada Inc. in its CCAA proceedings and related restructuring efforts, which included the enactment of a unique Employee Hardship fund
  • Essar Steel Algoma Inc. as counsel during its CCAA proceedings involving a large primary employer in Sudbury
  • Target Canada in connection with all employee issues relating to its CCAA Proceedings, including the design and establishment of the unprecedented Employee Trust
  • Comark Inc. one of Canada’s leading specialty apparel retailers, in connection with its CCAA proceedings

Other Work:

• • Coordinating resolution of labour relations and employment claims and related restructuring issues in connection with the successful restructuring of a major Canadian corporation with both federally and provincially regulated employees working in multiple union and non-union operations across Canada
  • Employee and labour relations management, including advocating in numerous interest and rights arbitrations, providing collective bargaining agreement interpretation, and conducting bargaining, for a range of private sector and broader public sector employers
  • Providing strategic labour relations and union negotiation advice to a major multi-national manufacturer with respect to its successful out-of-court restructuring
  • Providing legal and strategic advice to a major multi-media Company on provincial-federal transfer of employees, union jurisdiction and bargaining rights, bargaining unit integration, compensation arrangements and other employment and labour matters relating to a $2.3B acquisition
  • Drafting executive compensation and retention arrangements, offer letters, contracts, employee communications and other transaction documents for a leading software company relating to a $4.9B acquisition
  • Preparing and advising on executive compensation arrangements, terminations and workforce restructurings for numerous national and international organizations in the both the private and public sectors
  • Successfully argued for the full dismissal of multiple human rights applications before the new Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
  • Successfully argued numerous employer appeals before the WSIB Appeals Branch and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal