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United Kingdom and Europe

Doing business in Canada can be complex. It’s key to have a trusted legal team with a successful track record of helping U.K. and Europe-based clients operate effectively in Canada.

Our experienced, multidisciplinary legal teams provide advice and counsel on Canadian law to thousands of businesses in the United Kingdom and Europe that are directly or indirectly active in Canada. We also regularly work closely with U.K. and European firms to provide Canadian clients with seamless legal support internationally.

We advise our clients on:

  • mergers & acquisitions, including cross-border and financing transactions
  • class actions
  • cybersecurity
  • labour & employment
  • insurance claim defence
  • intellectual property
  • international trade & arbitration
  • investment management
  • regulatory
  • banking
  • electric utilities
  • infrastructure & P3
  • mining
  • oil & gas
  • privacy
  • tax

We act for clients across a broad range of sectors and institutions, including:

  • banks
  • asset managers
  • insurers
  • defence and security
  • aerospace
  • education
  • manufacturers
  • financial services
  • several of Canada's largest pension funds
  • life sciences
  • transportation
  • energy
  • technology
  • infrastructure
  • consumer
  • professional companies

We have Canada’s largest dedicated international trade practice, and are uniquely positioned to provide comprehensive assistance to U.K. and European stakeholders on:

  • the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
  • NAFTA/USMCA
  • the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
  • all other cross-border trade and investment matters, including customs and tariffs, compliance with sanctions and export control laws

Experience

  • Amazon on multiple labour and employment, privacy, class action and competition law matters.
  • Netflix with the complex regulatory advice on all aspects of the company’s operations in Canada, including on the establishment of Netflix Canada and its C$500 million Canadian production investment.
  • Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company, in its indirect share purchase acquisition of the Montana Alberta Tie-Line from Enbridge Inc., a 215 mile, 230-kV merchant transmission line running from Great Falls, Montana to Lethbridge, Alberta, for an approximate purchase price of $200M.
  • Pan American Silver Corp. in its US$1.07 billion acquisition of Tahoe Resources Inc.
  • The Government of Canada in its C$4.5 billion purchase of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline.
  • CanniMed Therapeutics Inc., in its contest for control with Aurora Cannabis, including hearings before the Ontario and Saskatchewan securities commissions, and favourable resolution; its proposed and abandoned acquisition of Newstrike Resources Ltd., by way of a share exchange and its prior $60 million initial public offering.
  • Morgan Stanley and M. Klein & Co. as financial advisers in the $18.3 billion acquisition of Randgold Resources by Barrick Gold.
  • Anheuser-Busch InvBev in the Canadian aspects of its US$23.5 billion note exchange, as well as its record-breaking C$2 billion maple bond offering, and C$1.2 billion private placement of senior unsecured notes.
  • Stone Canyon Industries, LLC in its acquisition from Platinum Equity of BWAY Corp. for US$2.4B.
  • HollyFrontier Corp. in its CDN$1.125B acquisition of Suncor Energy Inc.'s Petro-Canada Lubricants Unit.
  • Caesars Interactive Entertainment in its US$4.4B sale of its Playtika social and mobile games business to Alpha Frontier Limited.
  • Securian Financial Group in its proposed acquisition of the Affinity business of ivari.
  • Dolly Varden Silver Corporation in a simultaneous hearing of the British Columbia and Ontario Securities Commissions after a hostile takeover bid by US-based Hecla Mining Company.
  • Volkswagen, Audi and lead counsel to Porsche on multiple class actions concerning vehicle emissions compliance
  • AmeriPride Services Inc. in its US$1 billion acquisition by Aramark.
  • Cabela's Incorporated in its US$5.5 billion acquisition by Bass Pro Shops.
  • VCA, Inc., in connection with their US$9.1 billion acquisition by Mars, Incorporated

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