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CCCA_V4No4_Col-DealDevelop-V2.qxd:CCCA_V1No2_Col-News-V1.qxd 10/27/10 3:55 PM Page 47 Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund (con’d) AND On the Deal: (intellectual property) and Kevin Fougere, Nick Tropak and Colleen Ross (financial services), Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. For SunPower: In-house by Ken Mahaffey, Associate General Counsel; Brenda Hebert, Corinne Pruzanski and Lanette Wilkinson (energy), James Klein (real estate), Larry Cobb (environmental) and Richard Owens (intellectual property), Stikeman Elliot LLP. For MPT and SunPower, on matters relating to the Province of Nova Scotia: Charles Reagh, Stewart McKelvey. For the lenders: Jonathan Weisz, Scott Kraag and Ash Nicol (project finance), Sabrina Gherbaz (real estate), Michael Fortier (environmental) and Edward Fan (intellectual property), Torys LLP. CDP Financial Inc. Details: CDP Financial Inc. (“CDP Financial”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (the “Caisse”), completed an offering of €750 million principal amount of 3.50 per cent guaranteed notes due June 2020. The managers for the offering were Merrill Lynch International, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, Goldman Sachs International, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, National Bank Financial Inc., Royal Bank of Canada Europe Limited and Société Générale. This European offering completes a $8-billion refinancing program launched in November 2009. Date: Closed June 23, 2010. On the Deal: For CDP Financial and the Caisse: In-house by Claude Bergeron, Executive Vice-President, Legal Affairs and Secretariat, Sophie Lussier, Director, Legal Affairs, Financial Markets and Derivatives, and Julie Tremblay, Vitale A. Santoro, Osler, Hoskin Senior Legal Counsel; Sylvain Cossette and Olivier Désilets (corporate finance and securities) and Fred Purkey (tax), & Harcourt LLP Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. For the managers: Vitale A. Santoro and François Paradis (corporate finance and securities) and Mark Brender and Alain Fournier (tax), Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Canada Post Corporation Details: Canada Post Corporation announced the successful completion of its inaugural public debt issue, which included two series of bonds: a $500 million Series 1, 30-year 4.36 per cent bond and a $500 million Series 2, 15-year 4.08 per cent bond. The underwriting syndicate was co-led by TD Securities and RBC Capital Markets and included BMO Capital Markets, Scotia Capital Markets, CIBC World Markets, National Bank Financial and Desjardins Securities. In addition, on June 30, 2010, Canada Post Corporation completed a transaction whereby The Toronto-Dominion Bank and Royal Bank of Canada agreed to provide it with a credit facility in the amount of $400 million. Date: Announced July 12, 2010. Aaron Emes, Andrew Fleming, Torys LLP Ogilvy Renault LLP On the Deal: For Canada Post: In-house by Robert Fabes, Assistant General Counsel; Aaron Emes and Jonathan Reay (corporate and securities), Adam Delean and Vanessa Kee (debt financing), and Bill Estey, Torys LLP. For the underwriters and lenders: Andrew Fleming, Andrew Grossman, George Maughan and Joseph Hillier, Ogilvy Renault LLP. Groupe immobilier santé McGill and McGill University Health Centre Details: McGill University Health Centre (“MUHC”) and Groupe immobilier santé McGill, a part- nership of SNC-Lavalin Inc. and Innisfree PFI Secondary Fund LP, announced the financial clo- sure and official signing of a 34-year partnership agreement to design, build, finance and main- tain the MUHC’s new Glen Campus in downtown Montréal (the “Project”). The Project is being procured by MUHC, through the government agency Infrastructure Québec as a public private partnership project. The consortium for the Project is also comprised of SNC-Lavalin Services Ltd., SNC-Lavalin Operations and Maintenance Inc. and Johnson Controls L.P. The financing for the Project consisted of $764 million long-term senior secured bonds issued by a special pur- pose corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Groupe immobilier santé McGill, which Darryl Brown, Peter Willis, Gowling Lafleur McMillan LLP bonds were underwritten by Scotia Capital Inc. and Casgrain & Company Limited and Dexia Henderson LLP Crédit Local S.A., as well as a $392 million senior secured construction facility made available by seven international banks. Date: Announced July 15, 2010. On the Deal: Infrastructure Québec advised MUHC: In-house by Eve-Marie Le Fort, Claudie Imbleau-Chagnon and Josée Gagnon; Claude Gendron, Andrew Ford, Louis Séguin, Lévy Bazinet, Jean-Philippe Gagné, Nicolas Leblanc, Helmut Johannsen and David Little (project documents), Marc Novello and Angela Onesi (financing), Gilles Carli and Jean-François Perreault (tax), Martin Sheehan and Eric Simard (procurement), Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. For MUHC: In-house by Harris Poulis; Yves Dubois and Morton G. Gross, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. For The Government of Québec: acting through its Executive Director, who was represented in-house by Jean Pelletier. For Groupe immobilier santé McGill: Pierre-Denis Leroux, Linda Brown, Marc Dorion, Richard O'Doherty, Mathieu Dubord, Mary Pagonis, Samantha Cunliffe, Morgan Troke, Matthieu Rheault, Byran Gibson and Sven Milelli, McCarthy Tétrault LLP. HIVER 2010 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 47