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CCCA_V6No4_Col-DealDevelop-FIN_CCCA_V6No4 11/26/12 4:51 PM Page 43 Postmedia Network Inc. (con’d) AND Date: Closed Aug. 16, 2012. On the deal: For PNI and PNCC: In-house by Jeffrey Haar, Executive Vice President, Legal and General Counsel of PNI; Celia Rhea, Michael Bertrand, Mark Spiro, Gesta Abols, Meenu Khindri-Patel, Ronna Weatherly and Brad Hennick (corporate/securities), and Ira Barkin (real estate), Goodmans LLP. For the underwriters: D’Arcy Nordick, Aaron Fransen, Meaghan Obee Tower, Courtney Wilson, Christen Daniels and Anne Ramsay (corporate/securities), and Melissa Schyven (real estate), Stikeman Elliott LLP. Celia Rhea, D’Arcy Nordick, Goodmans LLP Stikeman Elliott LLP Intact Financial Corporation Robert McDowell, Sean Farrell, Brian Facey, Julie Soloway, Kevin Rooney, Jeffrey Singer, Fasken Martineau McMillan LLP Blake, Cassels Blake, Cassels Heenan Blaikie LLP Stikeman Elliott LLP DuMoulin LLP & Graydon LLP & Graydon LLP Details: Intact Financial Corporation, through a wholly owned subsidiary, completed its acquisition of all of the issued and outstand- ing shares of Jevco Insurance Company from The Westaim Corporation, for a purchase price of $530-million. The acquisition and transaction-related expenses were financed with the proceeds from a $237-million subscription receipt issuance, a medium term note offering and a portion of IFC's excess capital. Date: Closed Sept. 4, 2012. On the deal: For IFC: In-house by Françoise Guénette, Senior Vice-President, Corporate and Legal Services, Chantal Denommée, Vice- President, Legal Services and Compliance, Maryann S. Besharat, Senior Counsel, Danistan Saverimuthu, Senior Counsel, Richard Ungar, Senior Counsel, Guylaine Boudreau, Legal Counsel, Mathieu Grenier, Legal Counsel, Carinne Hébert-Sabourin, Legal Counsel, and Simon Picard, Legal Counsel; Robert McDowell, Koker Christensen, Marvin Mikhail and Caitlin Fell (M&A and regulatory), Rosalind Cooper (environmental), Peggy McCallum (pensions), Armand Benitah (intellectual property), Andrew Alleyne and Gabriel Stern (information technology), Dugan Edmison (real estate), Arun Krishnamurti, Jessica Schnurr and Juho Song (corporate), Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP; Sean Farrell, Stewart Ash, Eric Friedman, Mary-Ann Haney, Kim Poster, Ryan Morris, Wendy Chun and Stephen Genttner, McMillan LLP; Brian Facey, Julie Soloway and Kevin MacDonald, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. For WED: Kevin Rooney, Corey MacKinnon, Ora Wexler, Mark Jadd and Lesley Kim, Heenan Blaikie LLP; Gordon Goodman, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. For the underwriters: Jeffrey Singer, Stuart Carruthers, Jeff Hershenfield, Ryan Kirvan and Anas Youssef, Stikeman Elliott LLP. Maple Group Acquisition Corporation Details: Maple Group Acquisition Corporation (“Maple”) (since renamed TMX Group Limited) completed its acquisition of TMX Group Inc. (“TMX Group”) pursuant to an integrated two-step acquisition transaction, valuing TMX Group at approximately $3.8-billion (the “Maple Acquisition”). The Maple Acquisition comprised an offer (the “Offer”) by Maple to acquire a minimum of 70 per cent and a maximum of 80 per cent of the outstanding TMX Shares in exchange for $50 in cash, followed by a plan of arrangement completed in accordance with the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) pursuant to which the remaining shareholders of TMX Group (other than Maple) exchanged their TMX Group shares for common shares of Maple on a one-for-one basis. In addition, on Aug. 1, 2012, (following the initial expiry of the Offer on July 31, 2012, and the take up of a majority of the shares of TMX Group), Maple completed the acquisition of The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited (“CDS”) and Alpha Trading Systems Inc. and Alpha Trading Systems Limited Partnership (collectively, “Alpha”). The acquisition of CDS was completed by way of an amalga- mation of CDS with a subsidiary of Maple, pursuant to which the holders of common shares of CDS were paid a total of $167.5- million. In addition, the previously outstanding preferred shares of CDS were redeemed for total proceeds of $6.1-million. The outstanding securities of Alpha were purchased from the Alpha security-holders for an aggregate consideration of $175-million. As a condition to the Maple Acquisition and the acquisitions of CDS and Alpha, as applicable, Maple and TMX Group negotiat- ed comprehensive recognition and other orders with the Ontario Securities Commission, Autorité des marchés financiers, British Columbia Securities Commission and Alberta Securities Commission, providing the terms under which Maple will operate the HIVER 2012 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 43