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Nurhan Aycan is a partner in Gowlings’ Toronto office and member of the Business Law Group. He advises on public and private company mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance matters as well as private equity and venture capital financings for high growth companies.
Nurhan has assisted numerous companies, underwriters and agents with initial public offerings as well as listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange. He has acted as lead counsel in various transactions, including initial public offerings, Capital Pool Companies, public and private financings (shares, flow-through shares, units, special warrants and convertible debt), business and asset acquisitions and dispositions, amalgamations, plans of arrangement transactions, takeover bids and reverse takeovers. He also counsels public and private issuers on securities law compliance and disclosure issues. Nurhan’s practice also includes joint ventures, distributorships, strategic alliances, offtake arrangements, outsourcing arrangements and other matters of corporate and partnership law.
Nurhan is fluent in English and Turkish.
- Advised Pacific Equity Partners, an Australian private equity fund, and Canadian Stock Transfer in connection with its acquisition of the registrar and transfer agency business of CIBC Mellon.
- Advised Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) in connection with Canadian securities law matters relating to the +$75 million acquisition by private placement of a 17 per cent stake in Denison Mines Corp., a TSX listed issuer, together with an offtake agreement and other commercial arrangements.
- Advised a consortium of Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc., Toshiba Corporation and Japan Bank for International Cooperation in connection with its US$270 million private placement transaction for common shares of Uranium One Inc., together with an offtake agreement and other commercial arrangements.
- Advised Rudy Holding II S.à r.l. (a portfolio company of Platinum Equity) in connection with the sale of Broadleaf Logistics Company (Broadleaf) for (i) 10.25 million common shares in CanWel Holdings Corporation (CanWel) (subsequent to its conversion from an income trust to a dividend paying corporation), (ii) $20 million in cash, and (iii) a secured subordinated promissory note of CanWel in the principal amount of US$18,500,000.
- Advised Italian-Thai Development PLC in connection with its +$100 million acquisition by takeover bid, and subsequent acquisition transaction, of all of the shares of Asia Pacific Resources Limited, a TSX listed issuer.
- Advised Everclear Acquisition Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Behringer Harvard REIT I Inc. in its US$1.4 billion acquisition of all of the assets of IPC Real Estate Investment Trust, a trust publicly traded on the TSX.
- Advised Asia Thai Mining Co., Ltd. in connection with its successful +$150 million acquisition of Pan African Mining Corp, a TSX Venture Exchange listed company, by way of a Plan of Arrangement transaction.
- Acted for General Dynamics Corporation in connection with its +$1.2 billion acquisition of General Motors’ defense business.
- Acted for General Dynamics Corporation in connection with its +$300 million acquisition of SNC Lavalin’s defense business.
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