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CCCA_V5No1_Col-DealDevelop-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No2_Col-News-V1.qxd 2/2/11 11:37 AM Page 46 AND Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. (con’d) Details: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. For the special committee of the board of directors of Terrane: John Sabine and Abbas Ali Khan, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP. For Royal Gold: In-house by Bruce Kirchhoff and Kevin Rohnstock, and Robert Groves, Davis LLP. Shaw Communications Inc. Douglas Marshall, Robert Chadwick, Kevin McElcheran, David Byers, Mario Forte, Norman Steinberg, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Goodmans LLP McCarthy Tetrault LLP Stikeman Elliott LLP Ogilvy Renault LLP Ogilvy Renault LLP Details: Shaw Communications Inc. closed its $2.0-billion purchase of all of the broadcasting assets of Canwest Global Communications Corp. The transaction involved the acquisition of 100 per cent of the over-the-air and specialty television businesses of Canwest, including all of the equity interests in CW Investments Co., the Canwest subsidiary that owned a portfolio of specialty television channels acquired from Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. in 2007. Collectively, these assets will form Shaw Media, a division of Shaw. The recapitaliza- tion transaction was effected pursuant to a plan of compromise, arrangement and reorganization under the Companies’ Creditors ArrangementActandtheCanadaBusinessCorporationsAct.Theholdersofthe8percentSeniorSubordinatedNotesissuedbyCanwest Media Inc. were repaid US$442.4-million as part of the transaction. The acquisition followed a filing by Canwest, Canwest Media Inc. and certain other broadcasting entities in the Canwest group from protection from their creditors under the CCAA in October 2009. Date: Closed October 27, 2010. On the Deal: For Canwest: In-house by Richard Leipsic and Riva Richard; Douglas Marshall, David Hanick, Ivan Pankoff, Tara Law (M&A), Edward Sellers, Tracy Sandler, Michael De Lellis, Andrea Lockhart, Martino Calvaruso (insolvency), Lyndon Barnes, Jeremy Dacks, Shawn Irving, Duncan Ault (litigation), Michelle Lally (competition), Firoz Ahmed, Kimberley Wharram (tax), Tony Devir, Paul Litner, Stephanie Kauffman (pension & benefits), Sven Poysa (labour & employment) and Rod Davidge (real estate), Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. For the Ad Hoc Committee of the 8 per cent Noteholders: Robert Chadwick, Celia Rhea, Mark Spiro, Michael Bertrand, Logan Willis, Vanessa Yeung, Grant Coad, Gail Jaffe (corporate/M&A/banking/ restructuring),BenZarnett(litigation),RobertMalcolmson,Monique McAlister (CRTC matters), Jana Steele (pensions), Carrie Smit, Alan Bowman and Jarrett Freeman (tax), Goodmans LLP. excellence For Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and its affiliates: Garth Girvan and Vanessa Grant (M&A), Kevin McElcheran, Malcolm Mercer and James Farley (litigation and insolvency), Heather Meredith, ADVICE. REPRESENTATION. OUTCOME. George Gray (bankruptcy & restructuring), Grant Buchanan (regu- You want us on your side. latory), Malcom Mercer and Neil Finkelstein (litigation), Douglas Cannon (tax), McCarthy Tetrault LLP. For the Court-appointed Monitor: David Byers, Ashley Taylor, Maria Konyukhova (litigation & insolvency), Daphne MacKenzie (corpo- rate restructuring), Aaron Fransen, Tariq Rangwala (M&A), John Lorito (tax), Nancy Ramalho (labour & employment), Jennifer Legge (banking) and Andrea Boctor (pensions), Stikeman Elliott LLP. For the special committee of Canwest's board of directors: Mario a g m l a w y e r s . c o m Forte, Norman Steinberg, Ruth Wahl, Ava Yaskiel and Andrea Brewer, Ogilvy Renault LLP. For the management directors of Canwest: Peter Osborne, Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP. 365 Bay Street, Suite 200, Toronto, Canada M5H 2V1 T 416.360.2800 F 416.360.5960 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 Excellence in Commercial Litigation and Competition Law gina.fusco@rogers.com. 46 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association SPRING 2011