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CCCA_V4No3_Col-DealDevelop-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No2_Col-News-V1.qxd 9/2/10 1:19 PM Page 49 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (con’d) AND Date: Closed April 30, 2010. On the Deal: For CIBC: in-house by Eddy Mezzetta; Ernest McNee, Michael Smith and Kym Zelinski (securities), and Chris Van Loan (tax), Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. For the dealers: Philip J. Henderson and Paul Rakowski (securities), and Jonathan Willson (tax), Stikeman Elliott LLP. Just Energy Income Fund Details: Just Energy Income Fund (“Just Energy”) completed a public offering of $330 million aggregate principal amount of 6.0% convertible extendible unsecured subordinated debentures. The offering was underwritten by a syn- dicate led by RBC Capital Markets, GMP Securities L.P. and CIBC World Markets Inc., as joint book runners, and including National Bank Financial Inc., Scotia Capital Inc. and TD Securities Inc. (collectively, the “Underwriters”). Date: Closed May 5, 2010. On the Deal: For Just Energy: in-house by Jonah Davids, VP & General Counsel; Bill Maslechko, Jeff Oke, Scott Kearl and Michael Eldridge (securities), and Jeff Fortin and Heather DiGregorio (tax), Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP. For the underwriters: Jonathan Grant, Leila Rafi and Jennifer McGoey (securities), and Jerald Wortsman and Patrick McCay (tax), McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Jonathan Grant, McCarthy Tétrault LLP Sun Life Financial Inc. Details: Sun Life Financial Inc. issued $280 million of Non-Cumulative Rate Reset Class A Preferred Shares Series 8R (the “Preferred Shares”). The offering was underwritten on a bought deal basis by a syndicate co-led by Scotia Capital Inc., RBC Capital Markets and TD Securities Inc. and included BMO Capital Markets, CIBC World Markets, National Bank Financial Inc., HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp., GMP Securities L.P. and Laurentian Bank Securities Inc. Date: Closed May 25, 2010. On the Deal: For Sun Life Financial Inc.: in-house by Alec Svoboda; Philip Mohtadi, Matthew Atkey and Sumeet Dang (corporate), and Kathy Moore (tax), Torys LLP. Philip Mohtadi, Barry Ryan, Torys LLP McCarthy Tétrault LLP For Scotia Capital Inc., RBC Capital Markets and TD Securities Inc. and the syndicate of under- writers: Barry Ryan, Ian Michael and Matthew Appleby (business law), and Gabrielle Richards (tax), McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Tahoe Resources Inc. Details: Tahoe Resources Inc. closed its initial public offering of shares in Canada and the acqui- sition from affiliates of Goldcorp Inc. of the Escobal silver project in Guatemala. It also had its shares listed for trading on the TSX on June 8, 2010. Tahoe raised $348 million from the public offering through a syndicate of underwriters led by GMP Securities L.P. The acquisition cost of the Escobal project was US$505 million, which was paid by the issuance to the vendors of an aggregate of 43,686,667 shares of Tahoe, representing 40% of Tahoe’s issued and outstanding common shares on a fully diluted basis at closing, and through the payment to the vendors of US$253,329,708 in cash. Date: Closed June 8, 2010. Maurice Swan, Paul Stein, Stikeman Elliott LLP Cassels Brock & On the Deal: For Tahoe: Barry Finlayson, Amandeep Sandhu and Charlotte Morganti (corporate Blackwell LLP and securities), Ashley Baker, Lance Bredeson and Alexis Cloutier (securities), and Peter Botz (tax), Lang Michener LLP; Monique Dionne, Colby, Monet, Demers, Delage & Crevier LLP. For the underwriters: Maurice Swan, Tess Lofsky, Paul Rakowski and Andrew Grant, Stikeman Elliott LLP. For Goldcorp: in-house by David Deisley, Vice President, General Counsel, and Benjamin Lee, Corporate Counsel; Paul Stein and Jennifer Traub (securities and mining), Ann Watterworth, France Tenaille, Jason Sernoskie and Jamie Firsten (corporate commercial and mining), Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP; Michael Colborne and Michael McLaren (tax), Thorsteinssons LLP. Compiled by Gina Fusco. If you would like to see your company’s deals listed in a future edition of Deals & Developments, send the details to gina.fusco@rogers.com. AUTOMNE 2010 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 49