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Kathleen L. Keller-Hobson
Partner • Toronto
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Kathleen L. Keller-Hobson
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Kathleen Keller-Hobson is a partner in Gowlings’ Toronto office, practising in the area of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities law generally.
Kathleen has extensive experience in plans of arrangement and take-over bids, going private and related party transactions, special committee advice, private acquisitions and divestitures, reorganizations, shareholder meetings and proxy contests, and joint ventures.
Kathleen’s corporate finance experience includes public and private debt and equity financings, and MTN and commercial programs, in the Canadian, U.S. and European markets. She also has broad experience in secured lending, securitizations, structured finance and derivatives. Kathleen has also been involved in numerous debt restructurings through debtholder meetings and plans of arrangement. 
- Mawarid Mining, a subsidiary of MB Holding Company, in connection with its 9.98% investment in Nautilus Minerals for approximately $49 million.
- TELUS Corporation, in connection with its filing of a $2.5 billion MJDS shelf prospectus and $4.8 billion in offerings of notes in Canada and the U.S.
- Newport Partners Income Fund, in connection with the sale of Elliott Special Risks LP to Markel International Limited for $75 million.
- The underwriters in connection with a $23 million bought deal offering of common shares by COM DEV International Ltd.
- Special counsel to Polyair Inter Pack, in connection with a U.S. private placement of exchangeable secured debentures by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Polyair Corporation.
- Canadian counsel to the European lenders to Logria Corporation, a subsidiary of National Petroleum S.A.E. and an affiliate of Citadel Capital Company, in connection with its acquisition by plan of arrangement of Rally Energy Corporation for approximately $898 million.
- Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc., in connection with its acquisition by way of plan of arrangement by Canwest, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Edgestone Capital Partners for $2.3 billion.
- Special counsel to Steeplejack Industrial Group Inc., in connection with the $122 million acquisition by plan of arrangement by The Brock Group.
- Special Committee of VOXCOM Income Fund, in connection with the $109 million acquisition by way of take-over bid by UE Waterheater Income Fund.
- Sears Canada Inc., in connection with the contested $908 million going private transaction by Sears Holdings Corporation, the controlling shareholder.
- Vernalis plc, with respect to its US$64.5 million acquisition of privately-held Cita NeuroPharmaceuticals.
- Sears Canada Inc., in connection with the sale for net after-tax proceeds of $2.3 billion of its credit and financial services operations to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
- Sears Canada Inc., in connection with its purchase of privately-held Cantrex Group, the largest retail buying group in Canada, and the Corbeil chain of franchised appliance stores.
- Sears Canada Inc. and Sears Canada Bank, in connection with the creation of a new securitization vehicle, commercial paper, senior notes and subordinated notes.
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