Representative Engagements

Our practice has worked diligently to provide the necessary and appropriate solutions to our clients' environmental business issues. Significant matters have included:

Corporate

• Agrium Inc., a major supplier of agricultural products and services in North and South America, in its merger of equals with Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., a Canada-based crop nutrient company, to create an integrated global supplier of crop inputs with an enterprise value of approximately $36 billion.
• Baytex Energy, a Calgary-based oil and gas acquisition, development and production company, in its Cdn.$1.8 billion acquisition of Aurora Oil & Gas, an Australia-based oil and gas exploration and production company and in its private offering in the United States of $800 million of high yield debt securities.
• Bicent Power Company LLC, an affiliate of Beowulf Energy and Natural Gas Partners, in connection with an agreement to acquire Northwestern Corp.’s 30 percent interest in Colstrip Unit 4, a 740 MW coal-fired facility, for $404 million in cash.
• Cenovus Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EnCana Corporation, in connection with Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $3.5 billion of senior notes.
• GENCO Distribution System, a Pennsylvania-based logistics provider, in its $1.4 billion acquisition by FedEx Corp.
• Hewlett-Packard Company in its $1.05 billion acquisition of the global printer business of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
• Husky Energy in connection with a public offering of $1.5 billion of debt securities.
• KPS Capital Partners, LP in its acquisition, through a newly formed affiliate, of C&D Technologies, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based technology company that produces and markets systems for the power conversion and storage of electrical power, and its affiliates.
• NorthStar Realty Finance Corp., a New York-based diversified commercial real estate company, in its $4 billion acquisition of the outstanding shares of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II.
• Oceanbulk Shipping LLC and Oceanbulk Carriers LLC, international dry bulk shipping companies and portfolio companies of Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., in a stock-for-stock sale to Star Bulk Carriers Corp., a Greece-based dry bulk shipping company. The transaction created the largest diversified U.S. listed dry bulk company, and resulted in Oaktree’s ownership of 61.3% of Star Bulk’s shares of common stock.
• Qualcomm Incorporated in the acquisition by its subsidiary of NXP Semiconductors N.V., a Netherlands-based provider of secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, for approximately $47 billion.
• Russell Hobbs in the completion of a transaction with Spectrum Brands, Inc. which brings Russell Hobbs' network of well-respected family of small appliance brands into Spectrum's portfolio to form a new global consumer products company with an estimated $3 billion in annual revenues.
• The Underwriters in numerous offerings of investment-grade debt totaling $9.75 billion by TransCanada Pipelines Limited, a Canadian natural gas, oil and energy company.

Litigation

• Exxon Mobil in a major environmental dispute relating to natural resource damage.
• Tronox Chemical, where we represented various parties involved in the chapter 11 proceedings
• AbitibiBowater (now Resolute Forest Products), where we represented various parties involved in the chapter 11 proceedings.
• Viacom in an environmental insurance coverage action that involved coverage claims against more than 80 insurers at more than 45 sites across the country.