EXPERIENCE

His recent representations include:

Private Equity

• Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management in its $6.3 billion acquisition of IGT Gaming and Everi Holdings
• Brightspeed, a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, in its $3.7 billion of new financing and elimination of $1.1 billion of total debt to further invest in its Multi-Gig-Speed Fiber Network and pursue Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (“BEAD”), State and Federal grant funding
• General Atlantic in numerous transactions involving its portfolio companies, including Snapchat, Tory Burch, Buzzfeed, Royalty Pharma, Oak Street Health, Creative Planning, AppDynamics, Mu Sigma, Flipp, Seismic Software, Gympass, QuintoAndar and Joe & the Juice
• Madison Dearborn Partners and HPS Investment Partners in the $13.4 billion sale of their portfolio company NFP to Aon plc and Madison Dearborn Partners as sponsor and DIP lender in the chapter 11 cases of Benefytt Technologies
• Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in numerous transactions, including its $500 million investment in Sedgwick and in connection with Carlyle’s $6.7 billion acquisition of Sedgwick
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in numerous transactions, including its acquisition of Compass Datacenters, its investments in TierPoint and US Farm Trust and in connection with the sale of Ascend Learning to funds managed by Blackstone and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
• Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic as lead consortium members in their $8.7 billion take-private of 58.com
• Golden Gate Capital in its sale of portfolio company 2020 Technologies to Genstar Capital
• Altor in its acquisition of CCM Hockey
• Birch Hill Equity Partners in numerous transactions, including the $2.3 billion acquisition of Shred-It International by Stericycle and its investment in Uni-Select
• Sandler Capital Management in connection with the $2 billion sale of Xplornet Communications to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners
• Farelogix, a portfolio company of Sandler Capital Management, in its sale to Accelya
• Benevity, a portfolio company of General Atlantic, in its sale to Hg Capital
• Silver Lake and General Atlantic in multiple acquisitions by their portfolio company A Place for Mom

Public Company Transactions

• The Special Committee of Independent Directors of Nuvei Corporation in the $6.3 billion take-private acquisition by Advent International and existing shareholders
• Turquoise Hill in its $6.6 billion acquisition by Rio Tinto
• Teck Resources in the $9 billion sale of its steelmaking coal business, Elk Valley Resources, to Glencore and Nippon Steel Corporation
• Yamana Gold in its $4.8 billion acquisition by Pan American Silver and Agnico Eagle and in its terminated $6.7 billion agreement to be acquired by Gold Fields
• Shopify in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Deliverr, Inc.
• Score Media & Gaming in its $2 billion sale to Penn National Gaming
• National General Holdings in its $4 billion sale to The Allstate Corporation
• The controlling stockholders, alongside Stone Point Capital, in their $2.9 billion
  take-private of AmTrust Financial Services
• Intertape Polymer Group in its $2.6 billion sale to an affiliate of Clearlake Capital Group
• Algoma Steel in its $1.7 billion business combination with a SPAC
• Pretium Resources in its $2.8 billion sale to Newcrest Mining
• TransGlobe Energy Corporation in its business combination with VAALCO Energy, Inc.
• Mitel in its $2 billion sale to Searchlight Capital Partners, its $560 million acquisition of Mavenir Systems and its $530 million acquisition of Shoretel
• D-Wave Systems in its $1.6 billion combination with DPCM Capital
• Cenovus Energy in its C$23.6 billion combination with Husky Energy
• Dominion Diamond in its $1.2 billion sale to the Washington Group
• Tricon Residential in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Silver Bay Realty Trust
• Hammerhead Resources in its C$1.39 billion combination with Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation IV to form Hammerhead Energy

Other Private Company Transactions

• Lundin Mining in its $950 million acquisition of a majority stake in Lumina Copper, the $1.1 billion sale of its interest in the Tenke mine and its $1.8 billion acquisition of an interest in the Candelaria mine
• Mitel in connection with numerous transactions, including the carve-out and sale of its mobile division to a portfolio company of Siris Capital
• Maiden Holdings in numerous transactions, including the sale of its U.S. reinsurance business to Enstar and multiple joint ventures
• Millar Western in the restructuring of its debt and sale of control to Atlas Holdings

Activist Defense

• Suncor Energy in the activist campaign by, and settlement agreement with, Elliott Management
• Ovintiv in its engagement, threatened proxy context and settlement with Kimmeridge
• Agrium (now Nutrien) in its proxy contest with Jana Partners
• AmTrust in its engagement and settlement with Carl Icahn
• Dominion Diamond in a threatened proxy contest, engagement and settlement with the Washington Group

Capital Markets and Financing

• The underwriters in Shopify’s IPO and follow-on offerings
• The issuers or underwriters in numerous debt and equity offerings, including offerings by Telus, TransCanada, CNRL, Enbridge, Agrium (now Nutrien), Mitel, Baytex Energy and Alamos Gold
• The issuers or initial purchasers in numerous high-yield bond offerings, including offerings by Quebecor Media, Baytex Energy, Lundin Mining, New Gold, Canbriam Energy, ATS Automation and AuRico Gold
• Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in its investment in Azure Power Global.
• Tricon Residential in a $300 million PIPE investment by a syndicate of investors led by Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust