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CCCA_V6No3_Col-DealDevelop-FIN_CCCA_V6No1_Col-DealDevelop-V1.qxd 9/18/12 2:18 PM Page 40 AND KingSett and CREIT (con’d) AND On the Deal: In connection with the acquisition and financings: Simon Crawford, Michael Kershaw, Ron Barron, Adam Kalbfleisch (competition) and John Batzel (employment), Bennett Jones LLP; Hayden Solomons and Christie McNeill, Aird & Simon Crawford, Hayden Solomons, Christie McNeill, Rick Dawson, Paul Logan, Bennett Jones LLP Aird & Berlis LLP Aird & Berlis LLP Blake, Cassels & Blake, Cassels & Berlis LLP; Ron Sorokin and Graydon LLP Graydon LLP Jonathan Calvert, Witten LLP. For the vendor: Rick Dawson, Paul Logan and Jay Geers, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. For London Life Insurance Company: Robert Stemp, Mike Hrabok and Rob McCulloch, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. For Royal Bank of Canada: Paul Avis and Fred Gjoka, McMillan LLP. Jay Geers, Robert Stemp, Paul Avis, Fred Gjoka, Blake, Cassels & Borden Ladner McMillan LLP McMillan LLP Graydon LLP Gervais LLP Gfi Informatique Details: Members of the GFI Solutions management team in partnership with Investissement Québec, Capital régional et coopératif Desjardins and Fonds de solidarité FTQ bought out the 62.4 per cent stake held by French IT firm Gfi Informatique S.A. in GFI Solutions Group Inc. (“GFI Solutions”) at an aggregate price of $75-million. Fonds de solidarité FTQ and GFI Solutions management members already held stakes of 31.1 per cent and 6.7 per cent, respectively. Following the transaction, Fonds de solidarité FTQ holds 38.4 per cent of shares, Investissement Québec 27.6 per cent, Capital régional et coopératif Desjardins 19.7 per cent, and GFI Solutions management mem- Éric Gosselin, Shahir Guindi, Frédéric Boucher, McCarthy Tétrault LLP Osler, Hoskin & Fasken Martineau bers, 14.3 per cent. Harcourt LLP DuMoulin LLP Date: Closed March 1, 2012. On the Deal: For GFI Solutions: in-house by André Goyer; Éric Gosselin, Laurent Gauthier and Monique Handfield; Madeleine Renaud and Marilyn Leblanc (competition) and Richard O’Doherty (financial services), McCarthy Tétrault LLP. For Capital Régional et Coopératif Desjardins and Investissement Québec: in-house by André Dessureault and Lilia Pouliot; Shahir Guindi, Éric Blondeau, Raphaël Amram, Marie-Ève Desjardins and Pierre Fournier-Simard (corporate and M&A); François Auger, Alain Fournier and Julia Qian Wang (tax); Étienne Massicotte and Maxime Laverdière (financial services); and Peter Glossop and Matthew Anderson (com- petition), Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. For Fonds de solidarité FTQ: in-house by Yvan Nantel, Senior Legal Counsel. For Gfi Informatique S.A.: Frédéric Boucher, Jean Michel Lapierre, Robert Paré and Rebecca McLeod (corporate and M&A), Gilles Carli (tax), Jean-Philippe Mikus (intellectual property), Martin Racicot and Francis Trifiro (banking) and Douglas New (competition), Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP. Fiera Capital Corp. Details: Fiera Capital Corp., formerly known as Fiera Sceptre Inc. (“Fiera”), and National Bank of Canada (“National Bank”) announced the closing of a trans- action under which Fiera acquired substantially all of the assets of Natcan Investment Management Inc. (“Natcan”) from the Bank for $309.5-million, subject to reduction (“the Acquisition”). In return, the Bank, through Natcan, received 19,732,299 Class A subordi- nate voting shares of the share capital of Fiera Etienne Massicotte, David McAusland, Guy Masson, Carol Pennycook, Osler, Hoskin & McCarthy Tétrault LLP Stikeman Elliott LLP Davies Ward Philips & (the “Class A Shares”), representing approximately Harcourt LLP Vineberg LLP 56.11 per cent of the issued and outstanding Class A 40 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association FALL 2012