IFLR1000 is delighted to announce that the shortlist for the second annual IFLR1000 Canada Awards.
The IFLR1000 Canada Awards reflect months of research into Canada's legal market and showcases the best performers and the most impactful transactions of 2020, along with the teams behind them. The awards aim to recognise and celebrate exceptional performance by law firms, teams and individual lawyers, across the spectrum of corporate finance disciplines. Deals are shortlisted for their market impact, legal innovation, size and complexity. The awards strive to reveal those deals that set new market precedents, defined new legal frameworks or introduced new tools and instruments. All shortlisted transactions fully closed during 2020.The criteria and methodology for IFLR1000 awards can be viewed here.
Winners will be announced on September 21, 2021 at a virtual ceremony available online. Please register for the awards winners’ announcement here.
For more details about the ceremony and coverage of the shortlist and winners, please contact Liam Sharkey: lsharkey@iflr1000.com
Bonavista Energy Corporation C$150 million credit facility
Dye & Durham C$570 million financing
OPG $750 million credit facility
Properly C$100 million credit facility
Starlight Investments and KingSett Capital C$4.9 billion financing
WSP Global $1.2 billion financing
Federation des caisses Desjardins du Quebec C$1 billion 2.856% NVCC bond offering
Prime Structured Mortgage Trust C$450 million Series 2020-1 RMBS
RBC Capital Markets C$1.75 billion NVCC AT1 4.5% LRCN issue
Rogers Communications C$1.5 billion 3.65% bond issue
Russel Metals C$300 million bond issue
TD Bank $1.25 billion Series CBL32 covered bond issue
TD Bank C$3 billion NVCC bond issue
BBTV Holdings TSX IPO
Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation spin-off
GFL Environmental TSX and NYSE IPO
MindBeacon TSX IPO
Nuvei TSX IPO
Subversive NEO IPO
WSP Global $572 bought deal offering
Berkshire Partners C$1.4 billion acquisition of VetStrategy
Equinix C$1.041 billion acquisition of 13 BCE data centres
Equinox Gold/Leagold Mining merger
Great Hill C$126 million acquisition of VersaPay
Hudson's Bay privatization
Kirkland Lake Gold C$4.9 billion acquisition of Detour Gold
NordStar Capital C$60 million acquisition of Torstar
Starlight Group Property/KingSett Capital C$4.8 billion acquisition of Northview Apartment REIT
Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre C$260 million financing
Blue Hill 177MW wind farm $280 million financing
Edmonton Valley Line West LRT extension C$2.6 billion financing
Henvey Inlet 300MW wind farm $1 billion financing
Innavik 7.5MW hydroelectric power plant C$92.8 million financing
Louis-Hippolyte-La-Fontaine Tunnel rehabilitation
Niagara 230MW wind farm C$850 million refinancing
St John's mental health and addictions clinic C$330 million financing
Cirque du Soleil CCAA
Clover Leaf Foods & Bumble Bee Foods CCAA
foodora bankruptcy
James E Wagner Cultivation Corporation CCAA
Just Energy restructuring
Nemaska Lithium CCAA
Sherritt International Corporation restructuring