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Cross-Border Securities and Corporate Finance

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Securities and corporate finance transactions have become increasingly complex and challenging particularly in the midst of fluctuating market conditions. Adding multiple jurisdictions only increases those challenges. Partnering with Dentons means you work with an innovative thinker that can deliver strategic legal coverage for your transaction around the world in all aspects of securities transactions and regulation, corporate finance and capital markets. We regularly coordinate this type of legal work for clients all over the world and we can do the same for you.

Dentons' lawyers have vast experience representing issuers, underwriters, selling and controlling shareholders and other market participants across borders and involving multiple jurisdictions. You will receive sound advice in all of the jurisdictions involved in your public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, compliance with securities laws and disclosure, the filing requirements of stock exchanges and dealings with oversight bodies.

With our strong roots throughout the world, Dentons can leverage sophisticated local knowledge in each region and coordinate that expertise for you across jurisdictions to provide seamless and effective legal work and strategic advice.

Experience

Capital Power US Financing LP: Advising on a private placement offering of US$295 million of long-term senior unsecured notes. This deal was featured in LEXPERT's November 2011 issue.
Confidential client: Advising on the sale of an independent pharmacy banner business conducted by Drug Trading Company Limited and all of the shares of its independent franchise retail pharmaceutical business carried on by Medicine Shoppe Canada Inc. to McKesson Canada Corporation for CA$925 million.
McEwen Mining Inc.: Advising on the cross-border offering of approximately $112 million of its common stock. The common stock was issued by way of a prospectus supplement that was filed under US Gold's shelf registration statement, which was previously filed with securities regulatory authorities in the US and in Canada under the northbound multijurisdictional disclosure system.
National Oilwell Varco, Inc.: Advising on a transaction where CE Franklin announced that it had entered into an arrangement agreement with wholly owned NoV subsidiary, NoV Distribution Services ULC (NDS), pursuant to which NDS has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of CE Franklin for consideration of C$12.75 in cash per common share. The total consideration payable is approximately C$240 million.
Tembec Industries Inc.: Advising on a variety of transactions, notably the $98.5 million sale of its OSB business to Jolina Capital Inc., the acquisition of St-Anne-Nackawic Pulp Mill by AV Nackawic Inc. (controlled by Tembec Inc. and by Aditya Birla Group of Mumbai) and the joint reorganization with Domtar of key sawmills in Northeastern Ontario. This last transaction required innovative real estate structures in order to address environmental liability matters.

Insights

Climate Reporting Has Arrived in the US

March 13, 2024

On March 6, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted by a 3-2 vote new rules requiring domestic and foreign public companies to disclose certain climate-related information in their registration statements and annual reports. The adoption of the final rules comes nearly two years after the Commission first proposed them.

California Court Strikes Down Second Board Diversity Law

June 7, 2022

United States: On May 13, 2022, the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles held in Crest v. Padilla, Case No. 19STCV27561, that California Senate Bill (SB) 826, requiring publicly held corporations with principal executive offices located in California to have a minimum number of women on their boards, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution.

SEC goes green, proposes long-awaited climate-related disclosure rules

March 30, 2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed long awaited rules which, if adopted, would require domestic and foreign public companies to disclose material climate-related information in their registration statements and periodic reports.

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