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Wayne Egan
Co-Managing Partner
Michael Dolphin
Partner
Conor Dooley
Partner
Rob Eberschlag
Partner
Susan Han
Partner
Steven Rukavina
Partner
Areas of Expertise
- Aboriginal law
- Anti-corruption and bribery policies and programs
- Commercial
- Compliance
- Corporate governance
- Corporate social responsibility
- Disclosure
- Environmental
- Infrastructure
- Joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Mineral and surface rights
- Partnerships
- Project finance
- Prospecting and permitting
- Securities
- Title
- Tax
Representative Experience
- Acted for Soltoro Ltd. (TSX Venture: SOL) in connection with its successful disposition by plan of arrangement to Agnico Eagle Mines Limited pursuant to which Agnico Eagle acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Soltoro for total consideration of approximately C$32 million.
- Acted for Exall Resources Limited (TSX: EXL) in its merger with Southern Star Resources Inc. (TSX: SSR) to form the $800 million gold exploration company Gold Eagles Resources Limited (TSX: GEA).
- Acted as counsel for a TSX listed company in connection with a dissident shareholder action and contested shareholder meeting.
- Acts for a variety of listed companies in Canada (TSX and TSX Venture) that have raised in excess of $750 million in initial and secondary financing over the past 2 years.
- Acted for Amazon Mining Holding PLC, a TSX-V listed resource company, in connection with its $16 Million initial public offering.
- Acted for First Metals Inc., a TSX listed resource company, in connection with its $10 Million initial public offering.
- Acted for the issuer in the acquisition of a Kazakhstan mining company and subsequent listing on the TSX.
- Lead Canadian counsel to Largo Resources Ltd in connection with the negotiation of a new US$55M facility with the same syndicate of Brazilian commercial banks.
- Lead Canadian counsel to Largo Resources Ltd in connection with equity financings in May 2015 and Jan/Feb 2016 for aggregate proceeds of approximately $111.5M (for aggregate equity raised with Largo of approximately $315M over the past 3 years)
- Lead counsel to Grandview Gold Inc., subsequently PUDO Inc., in connection with the reverse take-over of Grandview by My Courier Depot Inc. and subsequent listing on the common shares on the CSE.
- Counsel to Castle Resources Inc. with secondary offerings raising $32.3M in the aggregate and its acquisition of Granduc copper mine in BC.
- Counsel to First Nickel Inc. in connection with its $11.5M Initial Public Offering and TSX Listing and $20M Convertible Note Offering.
- Counsel to Exall Resources Limited with its $433M merger with Southern Star Resources.
- Acted on over $20 million in flow-through and hard dollar private placement financings for Pele Mountain Resources Inc. (TSX-V: GEM)
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