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CCCA_V4No3_Col-DealDevelop-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No2_Col-News-V1.qxd 9/2/10 1:09 PM Page 48 AND Canaccord Financial Inc. (con’d) On the Deal (con’d): Jon Northup, Mitch Sherman and Jarrett Freeman (tax), Joe Conforti (employment) and Richard Annan (competi- tion), Goodmans LLP. For Genuity Capital Markets and the Vendors: Graham Gow, Ian Michael, Jennifer Brent, Danielle Traub, Matthew Appleby and Nicola Geary (business), Douglas Cannon, Brian Pel, Elaine Jewitt-Matthen and Alison Minard (tax), Michael Nicholas (regula- tory) and Oliver Borgers (competition), McCarthy Tétrault LLP; Rob Wortzman, Wildeboer Dellelce LLP. Inmet Mining Corporation Details: Inmet Mining Corporation completed a private placement of $500 million of subscription receipts to Ellington Investments Pte. Ltd., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited. Under the private placement, 9,258,419 subscription receipts of Inmet were issued at a price of $54.0049 each for total proceeds of $500 million. Date: Closed April 23, 2010. On the Deal: For Inmet: Steven Astritis, Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary; Christopher Fowles, Mike Pickersgill and James Miller (corporate/securities), Torys LLP. For Temasek: William Ainley, Jason Saltzman and James Wilson (corporate/securities), Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. Christopher Fowles, Torys LLP North American Palladium Details: North American Palladium (NAP) closed a cross-border bought deal public offering of units for total gross proceeds of approximately $100 million (including $13 million pursuant to a greenshoe exercise). Each unit consists of one common share and one-half of a common share purchase warrant of NAP. The offering was made pursuant to NAP’s short form base shelf prospectus dated February 9, 2010, and a prospectus supplement dated April 21, 2010, relating to the units, which were filed with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada and the United States. The offering was underwritten by Cormark Securities Inc. and Haywood Securities Inc., acting as co-lead underwriters, and Thomas Weisel Partners Canada Inc., Octagon Capital Corporation, Dundee Securities Corporation, GMP Securities L.P., Knight Capital Markets LLC and Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd. Date: Closed April 28, 2010. Simon Romano, Stikeman Elliott LLP On the Deal: For NAP: Trent Mell, Vice President, Corporate Development, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary; Simon Romano, Jeffrey Elliott, Tess Lofsky and Gina You, Stikeman Elliott LLP. For the underwriters: Rob Mason, Amanda Fullerton and Mitchell Thaw, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. Ledcor Environmental Group Ltd. Details: Ledcor Environmental Group Ltd. (“Ledcor”) completed its acquisition of 90% of the issued and outstand- ing shares of Carbon Credit Corp. (“CCC”) from CCC’s founder, Shawn Burns (“Burns”). CCC is in the business of generating high-quality regulatory and voluntary carbon credits from greenhouse gas emissions reduction, avoid- ance and removal activities using its Carbon Credit Asset Management Software. Date: Closed April 28, 2010. On the Deal: For Ledcor: in-house by Candice Alderson; Karl E. Gustafson and Corin Bowman, Lang Michener LLP. For CCC and Burns: John Anderson and Elizabeth Thampy, Stikeman Elliott LLP. John Anderson, Stikeman Elliott LLP Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Details: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce completed the offer and sale of $1.1 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.11% Debentures due April 30, 2020 (subordinated indebted- ness). The Debentures bear interest at a fixed rate of 4.11% per annum (paid half-yearly) until April 30, 2015, and, if not redeemed by CIBC, at the three-month bankers’ acceptance rate plus 1.90% per annum (paid quarterly) thereafter until maturity on April 30, 2020. The offering was made through a syndicate of dealers led by CIBC World Markets Inc., and included RBC Dominion Securities Inc., BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., National Bank Financial Inc., Scotia Capital Inc., TD Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch Canada Inc., Brookfield Financial Corp., HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc., JP Morgan Securities Canada Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc. and Ernest McNee, Philip Henderson, Blake, Cassels & Strikeman Elliot LLP Laurentian Bank Securities Inc. Graydon LLP 48 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association FALL 2010