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CCCA_V4No1_Col-DealDevelop-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No2_Col-News-V1.qxd 2/3/10 1:55 PM Page 40 AND TransCanada Corporation (con’d) Date: Closed September 30, 2009. On the Deal: For TransCanada: in-house by Christine Johnston, Vice President, Finance, and Bruce Nysetvold, Senior Legal Counsel; David Lefebvre, David Taniguchi, Kristi Kasper, Ben Hudy and April Kosten (securities), and David Weekes (tax), Stikeman Elliott LLP. For the underwriters: Scotia Capital Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc., BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., TD Securities Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc., National Bank Financial Inc., HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. and UBS Securities Canada Inc.; Kent Kufeldt, Don Tse, Chris Wolfenberg and Jason Metcalf (securities), and Craig Maurice and Dion Legge (tax), Macleod Dixon LLP. Christine Johnston, TransCanada Corporation Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. and TriStar Oil & Gas Ltd. Details: Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. (“Petrobank”) and TriStar Oil & Gas Ltd. (“TriStar”) completed a strategic combination creating a new publicly listed company, PetroBakken Energy Ltd. (“PetroBakken”). Petrobank capitalized PetroBakken with its Canadian Business Unit assets and $400 million of cash. PetroBakken then acquired all the outstanding shares of TriStar. In return, Petrobank received 109.8 million common shares of PetroBakken (approximately 64% of PetroBakken’s anticipated shares out- standing). Consideration to TriStar shareholders consisted of a combination of PetroBakken common shares and cash. Date: Closed October 1, 2009. On the Deal: For Petrobank and PetroBakken: Andrea Hatzinikolas, General Counsel of Petrobank; Andrew D. Grasby, Michael J. Bennett (business law), Yves Comtois (competition), Douglas S. Ewens (tax), Peter C. Keohane (energy), Robert W. Nearing (tax) and Douglas T. Yoshida (litigation), McCarthy Tétrault LLP. 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 the lenders: Kevin Fougere with Robert MacGregor and Kristin Long, Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP. For PetroBakken: Daniel Sears and Josh Stachniak, McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Power Financial Corporation Details: Power Financial Corporation issued six million Non-Cumulative First Preferred Shares by way of a prospectus supplement to its base shelf prospectus for gross proceeds of $150 million. Date: Closed October 9, 2009. On the Deal: For Power Financial: in-house counsel Edward Johnson and Stéphane Lemay; Ernest McNee, Eric Moncik, Freda Kwon and Kym Zelinski (securities), and Jeffrey Trossman and Jeffrey Shafer (tax), Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. For the underwriters: BMO Capital Markets, Scotia Capital and RBC Dominion Securities; Solomon Sananes and David Millette (corporate and securities), and Jules Charette (tax), Ogilvy Renault LLP. Industrial Alliance Details: Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc. closed a public offering of 4,000,000 Non-Cumulative Class A Preferred Shares Series E for gross proceeds of $100 million. Date: Closed October 15, 2009. On the Deal: For Industrial Alliance, in-house by Douglas Carrothers, Vice-President, Legal Services and Corporate Secretary, and Jennifer Dibblee, Director, Corporate Affairs, Legal Department; Marc Rochefort, Michel Servant, Benoit Mallette and Guillaume Lavoie (corporate and securities), and Philip Nolan (tax), Lavery, de Billy L.L.P. For the underwriters: Scotia Capital Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc., National Bank Financial Inc., BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc., TD Securities Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc., Casgrain & Company Limited, Dundee Securities Corporation, HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc., Industrial Alliance Securities Inc. and Laurentian Bank Securities Inc.; Peter Villani, Gagriel Castiglio and Christian Jacques (corporate and securities), and Gilles Douglas Carrothers, Industrial Alliance Carli (tax), Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. GENIVAR Income Fund Details: GENIVAR Income Fund completed a public offering of 3,809,500 units of the Fund for gross proceeds of approximately $100 million. Date: Closed October 16, 2009. On the Deal: For GENIVAR Income Fund: in-house by Anne-Marie Laberge, Senior Legal Advisor, Corporate Affairs, and Louis-Martin Richer, Chief Legal Officer; Steeve Robitaille, Maxime Turcotte, Vanessa Coiteux, Marie-Ève Ferland (corporate/securities), and Luc Bernier and Pierre-Louis Le Saunier (tax), Stikeman Elliott LLP. For the underwriters: BMO Capital Markets, CIBC World Markets Inc., National Bank Financial Inc., Raymond James Ltd., TD Securities Inc., Canaccord Capital Corporation, Desjardins Securities Inc., Laurentian Bank Anne-Marie Laberge, GENIVAR Income Fund 40 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association SPRING 2010