INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE RANKINGS
FA: Financial Advisor LA: Legal Advisor
CANADA TOP 10 M&A DEALS
July 2015 - June 2016
DATE DEAL VALUE
USD
(MILLIONS)
TARGET
COMPANY
DEAL
DOMINANT
INDUSTRY
BIDDER BIDDER
ADVISORS
SELLER SELLER
ADVISORS
10/05/2016 1 613
InnVest Real Estate
Investment Trust
(InnVest REIT)
Real Estate Bluesky Hotels
and Resorts
LA: McCarthy Tetrault
InnVest Real
Estate Investment
Trust (InnVest
REIT)
FA: CIBC World Markets; RBC
Capital Markets; Trimaven
Capital Advisors
LA: Norton Rose Fulbright;
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt;
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton &
Garrison
02/05/2016 3 112 Manitoba Telecom
Services (MTS)
Telecommu-
nications:
Carriers
BCE
FA: BMO Capital Markets; RBC
Capital Markets
LA: Blake, Cassels & Graydon;
McCarthy Tetrault; Taylor
McCaffrey
Manitoba Telecom
Services (MTS)
FA: Barclays; CIBC World
Markets; TD Securities
LA: Aikins, MacAulay & Thor-
valdson; Paul Weiss Rifkind
Wharton & Garrison; Stikeman
Elliott
02/03/2016 2 216 Rexall Health
Consumer:
Retail
McKesson Corpo-
ration
FA: Goldman Sachs
LA: Davies Ward Phillips &
Vineberg
Katz Group LA: Dentons
03/02/2016 2 232 Rona Consumer:
Retail
Lowe's Com-
panies
FA: CIBC World Markets; RBC
Capital Markets
LA: Hunton & Williams; Stike-
man Elliott
Rona FA: Scotiabank
LA: Norton Rose Fulbright
13/01/2016 1 859 Shaw Media Media
Corus Entertain-
ment
FA: Barclays; RBC Capital
Markets
LA: Blake, Cassels & Graydon;
Borden Ladner Gervais; Mc-
Carthy Tetrault; Osler, Hoskin
& Harcourt
Shaw Communi-
cations
FA: Blair Franklin Capital
Partners; CIBC World Markets;
TD Securities
LA: Davies Ward Phillips &
Vineberg; Goodmans
09/12/2015 2 874 FRHI Hotels &
Resorts
Leisure Accor
FA: Rothschild; Zaoui & Co.
LA: Cassels Brock & Blackwell;
Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier;
Proskauer Rose; Shook Lin &
Bok Singapore
Kingdom Holding
Company; Oxford
Properties Group;
Qatar Investment
Authority
LA: Hogan Lovells International
05/10/2015 4 603 Canadian Oil Sands Energy Suncor Energy
FA: J.P. Morgan
LA: Blake, Cassels & Graydon;
Davies Ward Phillips & Vine-
berg; Sullivan & Cromwell
Canadian Oil
Sands
FA: RBC Capital Markets
LA: Norton Rose Fulbright;
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
10/09/2015 9 014
GE Capital Corpora-
tion (US and Canada
transportation fi-
nance business)
Financial
Services
Bank of Montreal
FA: BMO Capital Markets
LA: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt;
Sullivan & Cromwell
GE Capital Corpo-
ration
FA: Credit Suisse; Goldman
Sachs
LA: Davis Polk & Wardwell;
McCarthy Tetrault; Shearman
& Sterling
15/07/2015 2 300
Shred-It Interna-
tional, Services Stericycle
FA: Bank of America Merrill
Lynch; Goldman Sachs
LA: Davies Ward Phillips &
Vineberg; Davis Polk & War-
dwell; Sidley Austin; Skadden
Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Cintas Cor-
poration; The
Crossroads
Group; Westerkirk
Capital; Birch Hill
Equity Partners
Management
LA: Paul Weiss Rifkind Whar-
ton & Garrison
06/07/2015 2 450
Invenergy Wind
(930 MW of wind
power plants)
Energy TerraForm Power
FA: Citi; Morgan Stanley
LA: Orrick Herrington &
Sutcliffe
Invenergy Wind
FA: Goldman Sachs
LA: McCarthy Tetrault