199 Bay St, Suite 5300, Commerce Court West, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1988
Shawn Neylan is a partner in the Competition & Foreign Investment Group. He counsels and represents businesses with respect to governmental filings, internal investigations and compliance issues and programs with respect to Canadian federal regulatory laws including economic sanctions under the Special Economic Measures Act and the United Nations Act; export control under the Export and Import Permits Act; national security and economic and cultural review processes under the Investment Canada Act; merger control, competitor collaboration and unilateral conduct matters under the Competition Act; and anti-corruption under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act and the Criminal Code. Shawn Neylan is widely endorsed for his vast expertise in competition law and “no nonsense approach in the merger space”, and draws high praise from market commentators, who say “he is very experienced, creative and practical”, according to Who’s Who Legal: Canada. Shawn is a member of the steering groups of the Export Controls and Economic Sanctions, International Anti-Corruption, International Anti-Money Laundering and National Security Committees of the Section of International Law of the American Bar Association (SIL).
On October 1, 2015, Stericycle, Inc. completed its US$2.3 billion acquisition of Shred-it International, the global leader in secure information destruction services. The transaction was financed by Stericycle through a combination of senior unsecured debt consisting of a term loan credit facility, private placement notes and a public offering of mandatory convertible preferred stock represented by depositary shares. The term loan credit facility was provided by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs & Co, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC and other lenders. The mandatory convertible preferred stock offering was underwritten by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman, Sachs & Co, and J.P. Morgan.
On February 27, 2015, Calgary-based Newalta Corporation (Newalta) completed the sale of its Industrial Division to Revolution Acquisition LP (Revolution), a subsidiary of Toronto-based Birch Hill Equity Partners Management Inc. (Birch Hill), for cash proceeds of $300 million. The Industrial Division is comprised of several business streams including major facilities and assets located across Canada. The sale creates a new stand-alone company, Terrapure Environmental, which has its headquarters in Burlington, Ontario.
