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CCCA_V4No1_Col-DealDevelop-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No2_Col-News-V1.qxd 2/3/10 1:55 PM Page 39 H ere are the highlights of some of the many mergers, acquisitions, financings and other deals taking place in corporate Canada over the last few months. Each of the entries below has been provided by a Canadian law firm involved in each deal. YPG Holdings Inc. Details: YPG Holdings Inc. completed a public offering of 7,500,000 Cumulative Rate Reset First Preferred Shares, Series 3, for aggregate gross proceeds of $187.5 million on a bought deal basis at an offering price of $25 per share. An additional issue of 800,000 Cumulative Rate Reset First Preferred Shares, Series 3, further to the underwriters exer- cising their over-allotment option was completed on September 28, 2009, for aggregate gross proceeds of $20 million and, as a result, YPG Holdings Inc. issued 8,300,000 Series 3 shares for aggregate gross pro- ceeds of $207.5 million. François D. Ramsay, Marie-Josée Lapierre, Adam Sargon Yellow Pages Group Yellow Pages Group Yellow Pages Group Date: Closed September 23, 2009. On the Deal: For YPG Holdings Inc. and Yellow Pages Income Fund: in- house by François D. Ramsay, Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary, Marie-Josée Lapierre and Adam Sargon; André Roy, Jean Marc Huot, Robert Carelli, Olivier Proulx, Zev Zelman and Myra Khanna (corporate/securities), and Luc Bernierand Christian Meighen (tax), Stikeman Elliott LLP. For the underwriters: CIBC World Markets Inc., Scotia Capital Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc., BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., TD Securities Inc., National Bank Financial Inc., HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc., Canaccord Capital Corporation, Raymond James Ltd., Dundee Securities Corporation and Blackmont Capital Inc.; Peter Villani, Catherine Isabelle and Jean-François Séguin (corporate/securities), and Gilles Carli (tax), Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. TransCanada Corporation ISTOCKPHOTO Details: TransCanada Corporation completed an offering of 22,000,000 preferred shares pursuant to a prospectus supplement, dated September 22, 2009, to a shelf prospectus dated September 21, 2009, for gross proceeds to TransCanada of approximately $550 million. PRINTEMPS 2010 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 39