EXPERIENCE

Adam’s experience covers a broad range of industries, including financial services, energy, mining and metals, technology, telecommunications, retail and industrial. Notable transactions include representing:

FINANCIAL SERVICES: 

• CDPQ in its $4.3 billion acquisition of USI Insurance Services with KKR, its initial $500 million investment in Sedgwick and in connection with Carlyle’s $6.7 billion acquisition of Sedgwick
• Controlling stockholders in the $2.9 billion going private of AmTrust Financial Services
• Fairfax Financial Holdings in its acquisitions of Zenith National Insurance and First Mercury Financial and its buyout of the minority shareholders of Odyssey Re
• Hub International in its $1.7 billion acquisition by funds affiliated with Apax and Morgan Stanley
• John B. Collins Associates in its acquisition by a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan
• Maiden Holdings in the sale of its U.S. reinsurance business to Enstar
• Mitsui Sumitomo in its acquisition of New York Life’s interest in Max New York Life
• Navacord in the management buyout with MDP RSA in the sale of its Canadian insurance brokerage business to Arthur J. Gallagher
• Sompo Japan Insurance Company in its investment in AmWINS
• Union Bank of California in the sale of its insurance brokerage business to BB&T

ENERGY:

• Ecopetrol in its $1.75 billion its joint acquisition of BP Exploration Company (Colombia) and its acquisition of Enbridge’s interests in the Ocensa pipeline
• Encana in its $7.7 billion acquisition of Newfield Resources and its $7.1 billion acquisition of Athlon Energy
• Nexen Inc. in its $15.1 billion acquisition by CNOOC
• Palladium Equity Partners in its acquisition of Q’Max Solutions
• Suncor Energy in its $15 billion acquisition of Petro-Canada
• Talisman in its $8.3 billion acquisition by Repsol

MINING:

• Aurizon Mines in its defense against an unsolicited offer from Alamos Gold and its acquisition by Hecla Mining
• Dominion Diamond in its $1.2 billion acquisition by the Washington Group
• Franco-Nevada in its unsolicited offer to acquire International Royalty
• Lundin Mining in its $1.1 billion unsolicited offer to acquire Nevsun, its $1.1 billion sale of its interest in Tenke, its $1.8 billion acquisition of 80% of Candelaria and its acquisition of the Eagle Project from Rio Tinto
• Osisko Gold Royalties in the $1.1 billion acquisition of Orion Mine Finance’s royalty portfolio
• Quadra FNX Mining in its C$3.5 billion acquisition by KGHM Polska Miedz
• Romarco Minerals in its acquisition by Oceanagold
• Sterlite Industries, a subsidiary of Vedanta, in its proposed $2.6 billion acquisition of ASARCO out of Chapter 11
• Timmins Gold in its unsolicited offer to acquire Capital Gold and its acquisitions of Newstrike Capital and Caballo Blanco
• Yamana Gold in its joint C$3.9 billion acquisition of Osisko Mining

TECHNOLOGY:

• ATI Technologies in its $5.4 billion acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices
• General Atlantic in its investment in Flipp
• Mitel Networks in its $2.0 billion sale to funds affiliated with Searchlight Capital, its acquisition of ShoreTel, its acquisition of Toshiba’s Unified Communications business, the sale of its mobile division to a portfolio company of Siris Capital, its proposed $2.0 billion acquisition of Polycom, its acquisition of Mavenir Systems and its unsolicited offer to acquire ShoreTel
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in its acquisition of Compass Datacenters with Redbird Capital and its investments in Datapipe, Tierpoint and Ascend Learning
• Stantec in the acquisition of its software division, Innovyze, to EQT Private Equity

OTHER INDUSTRIES:

• Agrium in its $36 billion merger with Potash Corporation
• Birch Hill Equity Partners in the $2.3 billion acquisition of Shred-It International by Stericycle
• Canadian Tire in its acquisition of Forzani Group
• Empire Company in its acquisition of Farm Boy
• Interbank in its acquisition of InkaFarma
• General Atlantic in its investments in Pague Menos Pharmacies and Sanfer
• Glatfelter in its acquisition of Concert Industries from Brookfield
• Maple Group Acquisition Corporation in its C$3.8 billion acquisition of TMX Group
• Medicago in its acquisition by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma
• Stantec in its sale of MWH Constructors to Oak Tree, its acquisition of MWH Global, its acquisition of SECOR and its acquisition of The Keith Companies

ACTIVISM:

• Agrium in its proxy contest with Jana Partners
• AmTrust in its proxy contest and settlement with Carl Icahn
• Dominion Diamond in a threatened proxy contest, engagement and settlement with Washington Group
• Granite REIT in its proxy contest with FrontFour
• Mitel Networks in its engagement and agreements with Elliot Management
• Performance Sports in its proxy contest with its former Chairman
• Shareholder group in its engagement and settlement with Dominion Diamond
• Taseko Mines in its proxy contest with Raging River
• Talisman in its engagement and settlement with Carl Icahn
• Timmins Gold in its proxy contest and settlement with Sentry Investments
• TransCanada in its response to Sandell
• Turquoise Hill in its engagement with Sailing Stone