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CCCA_V3No4_Col-DealDevelop-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No2_Col-News-V1.qxd 11/23/09 9:57 PM Page 41 Golden Gate Private Equity, Inc. (con’d) AND Date: Closed August 3, 2009. On the Deal: For Golden Gate: Simon Romano (corporate), Savvas Kotsopoulos and Andy Gibbons (real estate), Maria Konyukhova (bankruptcy and insolvency), Craig Mitchell and Helve Hess (finance), Tess Lofsky (corporate), Paul Collins (competition), Lorna Cuthbert (labour and employment), Alan Kenigsberg (tax) and Andrea Boctor (pensions), Stikeman Elliott LLP. For Eddie Bauer: Ken Herlin, John Connon and Jonathan Freeman (real estate), Joseph Latham and Chris Armstrong (restructur- ing), and Linda Wu (corporate), Goodmans LLP. For Bank of America: Arnold Cohen and Ciprian Gligor, Ogilvy Renault LLP. Petrobank and TriStar Details: TriStar Oil & Gas Ltd. and Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. announced their strategic combination to create a new publicly listed company, PetroBakken Energy Ltd. (“PetroBakken”), that will be a premier, Bakken-focused, light oil exploration and produc- tion company. Petrobank will capitalize PetroBakken with its Canadian Business Unit assets and $400-million of cash. PetroBakken will then acquire all the outstanding shares of TriStar. In return, Petrobank will receive 109.8 million common shares of PetroBakken’s (approximately 64 per cent) anticipated shares outstanding. Consideration to TriStar shareholders will consist of a combination of PetroBakken common shares and cash. The merged company is expected to have a market cap near $5-billion. Date: Announced August 4, 2009. On the Deal: For TriStar: James Pasieka, Thomas N. Cotter, Mark Franko and Tim Sweeney, Heenan Blaikie LLP; Dallas L. Droppo and Cameron Proctor, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. For Petrobank: Andrew D. Grasby, Michael J. Bennett, Yves Comtois, Douglas S. Ewens, Peter C. Keohane, Robert W. Nearing, Daniel E. Sears and Douglas T. Yoshida, McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Bonavista Energy Trust Ltd. Details: Bonavista Energy Trust Ltd. (“Bonavista”) completed an acquisition of natural gas weighted properties located in Central Alberta for a cash purchase price of approximately $698-million and a bought deal financing of 25,000,000 subscription receipts at a price of $16.85 each, for gross proceeds of approximately $421.25-million, which proceeds were used to pay a portion of the purchase price of the acquisition. Date: Financing closed August 7, 2009; acquisition closed August 20, 2009. On the Deal: For Bonavista: Grant Zawalsky, Shannon Gangl, Lindsay Cox, John Cuthbertson, Alicia Quesnel, Jody Wivcharuk, Stuart Money, Candice Jones and Gina Ross, Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP. For the underwriters: Scott Cochlan, Dan McLeod, Chris Prokop and Katie McDonald, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. Paramount Energy Trust Details: Paramount Energy Trust (“PET” or the “Trust”) (PMT.UN) and Profound Energy Inc. (“Profound”) (PFX) announced that the shareholders of Profound approved the amalgamation of Profound and PET’s indirect wholly owned subsidiary, 1463072 Alberta Ltd. (“1463072”) and that the amalgamation has been completed. The amalgamation constitutes the second stage transaction to the offer dated April 24, 2009, of 1463072, for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Profound. Date: Closed August 13, 2009. On the Deal: For Paramount Energy: John Kousinioris, Brent Kraus, Colin Perry, Rob Staley, Brett Code, Derek Bell, Bruce Hibbard, Kristos Latridis, Sean Mason, Richard Stone and Carolyn Simpson, Bennett Jones LLP. For Profound Energy: Ted Brown and Jay Reid, Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP. Affinia Group, Inc. Details: Affinia Group, Inc. and certain of its U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries entered into U.S. and Canadian senior secured revolving credit facilities in the aggregate amount of $315-million (U.S.) The facilities were agented by Bank of America, N.A. as adminis- trative agent, Barclays Capital and Wells Fargo Foothill, LLC, as co-syndication agents and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as co-documentation agents. The Affinia Group is a leader in the design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of on- and off- highway motor vehicle replacement parts and services. Date: Closed August 13, 2009. On the Deal: For Affinia Group, Inc.: Linda Pieterson, Justin Lapedus, Ana Badour, Ira Cooper, Sheizana Murji and Dan Sears, McCarthy Tétrault LLP. For Bank of America, N.A.: Kevin Morley, David Amato and Ciprian Gligor, Ogilvy Renault LLP. Romarco Minerals Inc. Details: Romarco Minerals Inc. (TSX: R) completed a bought deal prospectus offering of 52,325,000 common shares (including the com- mon shares issued on the full exercise of the over-allotment option granted to the underwriters) at a price of $0.88 per common share for total aggregate gross proceeds of $46,046,000. Romarco intends to use the net proceeds from the financing to, among other things, fund the continued development of the Haile Gold Mine and to purchase the lands adjacent to and around the Haile HIVER 2009 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 41