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Shevaun McGrath is a partner in the firm’s Toronto office, Co-Head of McCarthy Tétrault’s National Private Equity Group and a member of the firm's Senior Leadership Team, as National Leader of Strategic Initiatives. An accomplished deal-maker, Shevaun was named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada (Canadian Lawyer 2024), for her expertise in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets. She advises domestic and foreign companies, both public and private, on their M&A, divesture and capital raising activities. In her private equity practice, Shevaun represents institutional investors in their investment activities, including direct investments, investments in private equity and other alternative investment funds and fund formation. Shevaun has acted on some of Canada’s most high-profile transactions including advising the Investors Committee in the C$33B Canadian asset-backed commercial paper crisis and Vista Equity Partners’ US$4.4B take private of DH Corporation, one of the largest take privates in Canada.
Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”) acquired all of the outstanding shares of Toronto-based DH Corp. (TSX: DH) (“D+H”), a leading provider of technology solutions to financial institutions globally, by way of a plan of arrangement for $25.50 per share in cash, for a total enterprise value of approximately $4.8 billion, including the assumption of D+H’s debt.
On January 3, 2017, Acasta Enterprises Inc. (“Acasta”) completed its $1.2-billion qualifying acquisition of Apollo Health & Beauty Care Partnership (“Apollo”) and JemPak Corporation (“JemPak”), two of North America’s leading private-label consumer staples businesses, and Stellwagen Group (“Stellwagen”), a best-in-class commercial aviation finance advisory and asset management business, based in Ireland and the United States. Concurrent with closing, Acasta completed ...
Nelson Education Ltd. (Nelson), Canada’s leading education publishing company, completed a sale of substantially all of its assets to 682534 N.B. Inc., now operating as Nelson Education Ltd., in exchange for the compromise and release of approximately US$270 million of first lien secured debt obligations.
