199 Bay St, Suite 4000, Commerce Court West, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2000 (ON)
Eric's practice focuses primarily on public and private financings, and mergers and acquisitions. He also provides ongoing advice on general securities and corporate law matters to a variety of issuer clients. Eric has acted as counsel to issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in a significant number of public financings and private placements of equity and debt securities. He has also acted for purchasers (including private equity sponsors) and vendors in a wide range of asset and share purchase transactions, and for many issuers in connection with statutory arrangements, takeover bids and reorganizations. These transactions have involved participants in the real estate, financial services, technology and communications and media sectors.
Great-West Lifeco Inc., a subsidiary of Power Financial Corporation, itself a subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada, successfully closed a substantial issuer bid to purchase $2 billion of its common shares
Invesque Inc. (TSX:IVQ.U) (“Invesque”) completed an offering of US$50 million aggregate principal amount of 6.00% convertible unsecured subordinated debentures of Invesque due September 30, 2023.
BSR Real Estate Investment Trust completed its initial public offering of 13,500,000 trust units at a price of US$10.00 per unit for gross proceeds of US$135 million.
On January 23, 2018, H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (H&R REIT) completed a public offering of $250 million principal amount of 3.416 per cent Series O senior unsecured debentures due January 23, 2023.
On November 7, 2016, H&R Real Estate Investment Trust (“H&R REIT”) completed a public offering of $200-million principal amount of 2.923 per cent Series L senior unsecured debentures due May 6, 2022.
HealthLease Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (HealthLease) was acquired by Health Care REIT, Inc. (HCN) for $14.20 (US$13.01) per unit in cash, representing an aggregate transaction value of approximately $1 billion (US$950 million). HealthLease's portfolio consisted of 53 properties (14 in two Canadian provinces and 39 in eight US states) of seniors housing, post-acute care and long-term care facilities.
BCE Inc. completed its privatization of Bell Aliant Inc. and the integration of its Atlantic Canada affiliate into BCE’s national operations, following its successful offer to purchase all of the outstanding publicly-held Bell Aliant common shares for a combination of cash and BCE common shares valued at approximately $3.95 billion.
