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Rosalind Morrow
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Background
Rosalind Morrow is a partner in our Toronto office. Ms. Morrow was called to the Ontario Bar in 1984. She graduated with a Bachelor of Education (French Immersion Specialist) from the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto in 1978, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College in 1977 and received her LL.B. from University of Toronto Law School in 1982.
Areas of Practice
- Corporate and Securities Law, with a particular emphasis on financial services and communications sector financings and acquisitions, project and government financings and corporate governance. Ms. Morrow is a member of the firm's Securities and Capital Markets Law Group.
Professional Experience
- Regularly advises issuers, underwriters and investors in connection with debt and equity offerings and investments, including domestic and trans-border public offerings and private placements, capital restructurings and corporate and securities law compliance.
- Regularly represents government and private sector corporations, investors and lenders (including bank syndicates) in connection with debt offerings; project financings and public-private partnerships.
- Seconded to the Ontario Securities Commission in 1988-90 as staff counsel in the corporate finance, enforcement and take-over bid branches, where she participated in various policy initiatives including drafting of Commission Notice re Use of Special Warrants, 12 OSCB 2168.
Professional and Community Activities
- Member, Board of Governors, Trent University
- Vice Chair, The Living City Foundation (supports the projects of Toronto and Region Conservation Authority)
- Member, Finance and Investment Committees, Ontario Bar Association
- Past Member, Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission
- Past President, Women's Law Association of Ontario (1992-93); recipient, President's Award (1994)·
- Other Directorships: Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation, Griffith Laboratories Limited
Recent transaction experience includes representation of:
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation on the structuring (including risk management strategy) and implementation of its Canada Mortgage Bond program and the fully underwritten offerings (to date) of over Cdn $200 billion in CMB bonds since program launch in 2001.
- Canadian Federal Government on its $125 billion emergency funding program for Canadian banks launched in the 2008 financial crisis called the Insured Mortgage Purchase Program (comparable to the U.S. TARP Program)
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation on the restructuring of the $32 billion asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market in Canada and its participation in the Pan-Canadian Investors' Committee overseeing the restructuring (2007 to 2009)
- RFA Capital Corporation on its underwriting of the B and unrated-piece tranches of an aggregate $2.32 billion (approximate) in commercial mortgage-backed securities offered by Claret Trust, Column Canada Issuer Corporation, Solar Trust, Merrill Lynch Financial Assets Inc., Schooner Trust and Real Estate Asset Liquidity Trust from 2002 to date.
- Clarington Corporation, an independent mutual fund company, on its $280 million takeover by Industrial Alliance in January 2006 and initial public offering in March, 2005 by way of primary and secondary offering.
- Sprint Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri in the restructuring of all of the equity and $2.6 billion in senior debt of Call-Net Enterprises Inc., the TSX-listed parent of Sprint Canada Inc. by way of Court-approved plan of arrangement, the related private placement to Sprint Corporation of an additional 5% of the common equity of Call-Net, and the re-negotiation of its branding and technology license agreement with Call-Net.
- Sprint Corporation in the proxy contest for control of Call-Net Enterprises Inc. (Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ listed parent of Sprint Canada Inc.) launched by Crescendo Partners, L.P. of New York
- Charles Schwab (Canada) on the Canadian tranche of Schwab's underwritten US $345 million equity offering by MP3.com, Inc.
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the Cdn $800 million syndicated bank financing and Cdn $400 million refinancing by way of public bond offering of its Canadian Broadcasting Centre project in downtown Toronto.
- Dissident holders of US$65 million in gold bonds of Canadian Pacific Limited in connection with that company's Cdn $6 billion debt and equity restructuring, in which the dissidents were successful in obtaining substantial amendments to the restructuring in their favour.
Selected publications, papers and speaking engagements
- Bank of Canada Makes History with New Monetary Policy Announcement published May 6, 2009 by Securities Mosaic, May 7, 2009 by Practical Law Company and May 11, 2009 by Lexology (with S.J. Redican).
- Canadian Banks' Use of Government Aid Declining published April, 2009 in PLC Global Finance – Canada.
- Origins of the Financial Crisis in Canada – Impact of Government in Intervention, Impact on Capital Markets, and Credit Default Swaps and Derivatives published February, 2009 in PLC Global Finance – Canada.
- New Secondary Market Civil Liability – Where Are We? (presented at Professional Women's Symposium Association conference entitled “Ethics – A Professional and Personal Interface,” Toronto, October 24, 2007).
- Are Two Jurisdictions Enough? An Update on MJDS, Nasdaq and Stock Exchange Initiatives (presented at Strategy Institute conference entitled “Avoid the Pitfalls of Continuous Public Disclosure,” Toronto, June 27, 2000).
- Canadian Government Financial Support Programs for Canadians Doing Business Overseas (presented at Pan Pacific Conference entitled “Making Your Business Work in the Pacific Rim,” Vancouver, July 26, 1999).
- Regulation of Derivatives in Canada (The Paribas Derivatives Handbook 1993/4 (Euromoney), published January, 1994).
- Legal Structure of Securities Regulation and Offerings in Canada (presented at Canadian Bar Association conference entitled "Banking and Securities Law Seminar," Warsaw, Budapest and Prague, June 17, 22 and 26, 1993).
- Derivatives, An International Guide - Special Report on Canada (with Lawrence A. Wright - Supplement to International Financial Law Review, Euromoney Publications, January, 1992).
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Background
Rosalind Morrow is a partner in our Toronto office. Ms. Morrow was called to the Ontario Bar in 1984. She graduated with a Bachelor of Education (French Immersion Specialist) from the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto in 1978, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College in 1977 and received her LL.B. from University of Toronto Law School in 1982.
Areas of Practice
- Corporate and Securities Law, with a particular emphasis on financial services and communications sector financings and acquisitions, project and government financings and corporate governance. Ms. Morrow is a member of the firm's Securities and Capital Markets Law Group.
Professional Experience
- Regularly advises issuers, underwriters and investors in connection with debt and equity offerings and investments, including domestic and trans-border public offerings and private placements, capital restructurings and corporate and securities law compliance.
- Regularly represents government and private sector corporations, investors and lenders (including bank syndicates) in connection with debt offerings; project financings and public-private partnerships.
- Seconded to the Ontario Securities Commission in 1988-90 as staff counsel in the corporate finance, enforcement and take-over bid branches, where she participated in various policy initiatives including drafting of Commission Notice re Use of Special Warrants, 12 OSCB 2168.
Professional and Community Activities
- Member, Board of Governors, Trent University
- Vice Chair, The Living City Foundation (supports the projects of Toronto and Region Conservation Authority)
- Member, Finance and Investment Committees, Ontario Bar Association
- Past Member, Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission
- Past President, Women's Law Association of Ontario (1992-93); recipient, President's Award (1994)·
- Other Directorships: Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation, Griffith Laboratories Limited
Recent transaction experience includes representation of:
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation on the structuring (including risk management strategy) and implementation of its Canada Mortgage Bond program and the fully underwritten offerings (to date) of over Cdn $200 billion in CMB bonds since program launch in 2001.
- Canadian Federal Government on its $125 billion emergency funding program for Canadian banks launched in the 2008 financial crisis called the Insured Mortgage Purchase Program (comparable to the U.S. TARP Program)
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation on the restructuring of the $32 billion asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market in Canada and its participation in the Pan-Canadian Investors' Committee overseeing the restructuring (2007 to 2009)
- RFA Capital Corporation on its underwriting of the B and unrated-piece tranches of an aggregate $2.32 billion (approximate) in commercial mortgage-backed securities offered by Claret Trust, Column Canada Issuer Corporation, Solar Trust, Merrill Lynch Financial Assets Inc., Schooner Trust and Real Estate Asset Liquidity Trust from 2002 to date.
- Clarington Corporation, an independent mutual fund company, on its $280 million takeover by Industrial Alliance in January 2006 and initial public offering in March, 2005 by way of primary and secondary offering.
- Sprint Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri in the restructuring of all of the equity and $2.6 billion in senior debt of Call-Net Enterprises Inc., the TSX-listed parent of Sprint Canada Inc. by way of Court-approved plan of arrangement, the related private placement to Sprint Corporation of an additional 5% of the common equity of Call-Net, and the re-negotiation of its branding and technology license agreement with Call-Net.
- Sprint Corporation in the proxy contest for control of Call-Net Enterprises Inc. (Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ listed parent of Sprint Canada Inc.) launched by Crescendo Partners, L.P. of New York
- Charles Schwab (Canada) on the Canadian tranche of Schwab's underwritten US $345 million equity offering by MP3.com, Inc.
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the Cdn $800 million syndicated bank financing and Cdn $400 million refinancing by way of public bond offering of its Canadian Broadcasting Centre project in downtown Toronto.
- Dissident holders of US$65 million in gold bonds of Canadian Pacific Limited in connection with that company's Cdn $6 billion debt and equity restructuring, in which the dissidents were successful in obtaining substantial amendments to the restructuring in their favour.
Selected publications, papers and speaking engagements
- Bank of Canada Makes History with New Monetary Policy Announcement published May 6, 2009 by Securities Mosaic, May 7, 2009 by Practical Law Company and May 11, 2009 by Lexology (with S.J. Redican).
- Canadian Banks' Use of Government Aid Declining published April, 2009 in PLC Global Finance – Canada.
- Origins of the Financial Crisis in Canada – Impact of Government in Intervention, Impact on Capital Markets, and Credit Default Swaps and Derivatives published February, 2009 in PLC Global Finance – Canada.
- New Secondary Market Civil Liability – Where Are We? (presented at Professional Women's Symposium Association conference entitled “Ethics – A Professional and Personal Interface,” Toronto, October 24, 2007).
- Are Two Jurisdictions Enough? An Update on MJDS, Nasdaq and Stock Exchange Initiatives (presented at Strategy Institute conference entitled “Avoid the Pitfalls of Continuous Public Disclosure,” Toronto, June 27, 2000).
- Canadian Government Financial Support Programs for Canadians Doing Business Overseas (presented at Pan Pacific Conference entitled “Making Your Business Work in the Pacific Rim,” Vancouver, July 26, 1999).
- Regulation of Derivatives in Canada (The Paribas Derivatives Handbook 1993/4 (Euromoney), published January, 1994).
- Legal Structure of Securities Regulation and Offerings in Canada (presented at Canadian Bar Association conference entitled "Banking and Securities Law Seminar," Warsaw, Budapest and Prague, June 17, 22 and 26, 1993).
- Derivatives, An International Guide - Special Report on Canada (with Lawrence A. Wright - Supplement to International Financial Law Review, Euromoney Publications, January, 1992).
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