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CCCA_V6No1_Col-DealDevelop-FIN_CCCA_V6No1_Col-DealDevelop-V1.qxd 2/13/12 10:55 PM Page 43 Amdocs Limited (con’d) AND Details (con’d): Amdocs entered into an arrangement agreement on June 16, 2011. The arrangement was approved by Bridgewater’s sharehold- ers on August 5, 2011. A final order was issued by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approving the arrangement on August 12, 2011. The arrangement was completed on August 17, 2011. Date: Closed August 17, 2011. On the Deal: For Bridgewater: Andrea Johnson, Charles Spector, Giancarlo Salvo and Rob Davis (corporate/securities); Young Park and James Wishart (litigation); Zahra Nurmohamed (tax) and Sandy Walker (competition), Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP. For Amdocs: In-house by Seth Gerson, senior corporate counsel; David Matlow, Shevaun McGrath and Leah Ramkaran (corporate/M&A); Tom Friedland and Jason Wadden (litigation); Mitch Sherman and Marisa Wyse (tax); Richard Annan (competition); Jana Steele (pensions); Daniel Shapira (real property); and Michelle Dobranowski (employment), Goodmans LLP. Cogeco Cable Canada Inc. Details: Cogeco Cable Canada Inc. (“Cogeco”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Cogeco Cable Inc., a major cable telecommunications company with shares listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares in the share capital of MTO Télécom Inc. (“MTO”), a private telecommunications provider in the Greater Montreal Area and the Province of Quebec. Date: Closed August 31, 2011. On the Deal: For Cogeco: In-house by Pierre Gagné, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Christian Jolivet, vice-president, chief legal officer and secretary, and Annie Miville- Dechêne, senior legal counsel; Neil Kravitz, Alain Roberge, Christopher Karambatsos and Neil Kravitz, Sidney M. Horn, Davies Ward Phillips & Stikeman Elliott LLP Véronique Gaumond-Carignan, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. Vineberg LLP For MTO: Sidney M. Horn, Warren Silversmith, Zev Zelman, Adam Cieply and Alison Bier (cor- porate); Jeffrey Brown and Ashley Weber (antitrust); Jonathan Auerbach (IP); Frank Mathieu and Christine Bergeron (tax); and David Elder (regulatory/telecommunications), Stikeman Elliott LLP. Enbridge Inc. Details: Enbridge Inc. (“Enbridge”) completed its offering of 20,000,000 cumulative redeemable preference shares, series B (“Series B Preferred Shares”) at a price of $25.00 per Series B Preferred Share for a total offering of $500,000,000. The proceeds of the offering of the Series B Preferred Shares will be utilized to partially fund capital projects and reduce short-term indebted- ness of Enbridge and its affiliates incurred in the funding of capital projects and other general cor- porate purposes. The offering was offered by a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Scotia Capital Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and TD Securities Inc., and included BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc., National Bank Financial Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc. and HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. John Osler, Dale Skinner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP Fraser Milner Date: Closed September 30, 2011. Casgrain LLP On the Deal: For Enbridge: In-house by Gillian Findlay and Debra Poon; John Osler (securities), Matthew Lawson (securities), Wilson Acton (securities) and TJ Kang (tax), McCarthy Tétrault LLP. For the syndicate of underwriters: Dale Skinner (securities), Toby Allan (securities), Trevor Korsrud (securities) and Anne Calverley (tax), Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP. National Bank of Canada Details: Pursuant to its US$5-Billion Global Covered Bond Programme, National Bank of Canada (“NBC”) completed an offering in the United States under Rule 144A and Regulation S of an aggregate amount of US$1,400,000,000 Series 2 2.200 per cent covered bonds due October 19, 2016 (the “Covered Bonds”). The Covered Bonds trade on the London Stock Exchange and are irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed as to timely payment of principal and interest by NBC Covered Bond Guarantor Limited Partnership. Barclays Capital Inc., National Bank of Canada Financial Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and RBC Capital Markets LLC acted as lead man- agers for the issuance. Date: Closed October 19, 2011. Marc MacMullin, Rick Fullerton, McCarthy Tétrault LLP Osler, Hoskin & On the Deal: For NBC: In-house by Dominic Paradis, Mélanie Viguié-Bilodeau and Pierre- Harcourt LLP Alexandre Viau; Marc MacMullin, Frédéric Cotnoir, Candace Pallone, Tim Stewart, Tina Benson and Gabrielle Richards and James Morand (tax), McCarthy Tétrault LLP. For the lead managers: Rick Fullerton, Kashif Zaman, Andrew McGuffin and Amanda Heale (tax), Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. PRINTEMPS 2012 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 43