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CCCA_V4No3_Col-DealDevelop-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No2_Col-News-V1.qxd 9/2/10 1:08 PM Page 47 Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited AND Details: Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited completed a private placement of US$115,000,000 6.13% guaranteed senior unsecured notes due 2017, US$360,000,000 6.67% guaranteed senior unsecured notes due 2020 and US$125,000,000 6.77% guaranteed senior unsecured notes due 2022 (collectively, the “Notes”). Date: Closed April 7, 2010. On the Deal: For Agnico-Eagle: in-house by R. Gregory Laing, General Counsel, Senior Vice-President, Legal and Corporate Secretary; Patricia Olasker, Scott Hyman, Robert Murphy, Jennifer Pankratz, Mark O’Brien and Bradley Ashkin (corporate and securities), Neal Armstrong and Paul Lamarre (tax), Bonnie Roe and Paul Watkins (corporate and securities), Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. For the purchasers: Langdon Van Norden Jr., Nicholas Robinson and Jeeseon Ahn, Milbank Tweed Hadley McCloy LLP. Patricia Olasker, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP NIF-T Details: NIF-T, a special purpose trust sponsored by Nissan Canada Inc., completed a public offering of $300,000,000 of Series 2010-1 asset-backed notes. This was the sixth public offering completed by NIF-T since its ini- tial public offering in 2001. The publicly offered notes were acquired by the Business Development Bank of Canada under the Canadian Secured Credit Facility, which was established in early 2009 as part of the Government of Canada's Extraordinary Financing Framework. RBC Dominion Securities acted as the agent for the offering. Date: Closed April 9, 2010. Mark McElheran, Dirk Rueter, Rick Fullerton, Stikeman Elliott LLP McCarthy Tétrault LLP Osler, Hoskin On the Deal: For Nissan Canada Inc. and NIF-T: Mark McElheran, Mike & Harcourt LLP Rumball, Greg Herget, Vic Arora (corporate/securitization), Alan Kenigsberg and Jonathan Willson (tax), and François Ouimet (corporate/securitization), Stikeman Elliott LLP. For Business Development Bank of Canada: in-house by Banu Ozlem Unal, Counsel, Securitization; Dirk Rueter and Mike McConnell, McCarthy Tétrault LLP. For RBC Dominion Securities: Rick Fullerton and Aaron Unterman, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Royal Bank of Canada Details: Royal Bank of Canada (the “Bank”) completed an offering in the United States under Rule 144A in Canada on a private placement basis and in Europe of Covered Bonds under its covered bond programme in an aggregate amount of US$1,500,000,000. The Covered Bonds, due April 14, 2015, have an interest rate of 3.125% per annum payable semi-annually in arrears. The offering was completed pursuant to Final Terms dated April 7, 2010, delivered together with a prospectus of the Bank dated March 26, 2010, and a subscription agreement dated April 7, 2010, among the Bank, RBC Covered Bond Guarantor L.P., Barclays Bank PLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., RBC Capital Markets Corporation, RBC Dominion Securities Inc.(for sales into Canada only), Banc of America Securities LLC, BMO Capital Markets Corp., CIBC Andrew Fleming, Marc MacMullin, Ogilvy Renault LLP McCarthy Tétrault LLP World Markets Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Nomura Securities International, Inc., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., TD Securities (USA) LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as managers. Date: Closed April 14, 2010. On the Deal: For Royal Bank of Canada: in-house by Paul Guthrie; Andrew Fleming, Peter Noble, Susan Mann, Eric Reither, Alana Hunt, Joseph Hillier, Adrienne Oliver and Glenn Hines, Ogilvy Renault LLP. For the managers: Marc MacMullin, Tim Stewart and Gabrielle Richards, McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Canaccord Financial Inc. Details: Canaccord completed its acquisition of all of the partnership interests of Genuity Capital Markets. Pursuant to terms set out in a definitive agreement signed by the parties on March 3, 2010, Canaccord acquired Genuity for consideration consisting of cash of $30 million and 26.5 million Canaccord common shares and up to an additional $28 million of cash as a working capital adjustment subsequent to closing. Canaccord’s shareholders approved the issuance of the common shares at a meeting held on April 22, 2010. The value of the transaction at closing was approximately $352.7 million. Date: Closed April 23, 2010. On the Deal: For Canaccord Financial Inc.: in-house by Martin MacLachlan, Senior Vice-President, Legal Affairs; Stephen Pincus, Michael Partridge, Kari MacKay, Jaclyn Seidman, Lee Waxberg and Lauren MacLeod (business), Meredith Roth (regulatory), AUTOMNE 2010 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 47