John Conway
Partner
Toronto
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Tel :
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416.307.4222
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Fax :
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416.865.7048
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Professional Activities
John practices in the Capital Markets Group in the firm's Toronto office. His practice focuses on financings (public offerings and private placements), mergers and acquisitions (including plans of arrangement, take-over bids and reverse take-over transactions) and providing ongoing advice to public companies in the area of securities regulatory compliance. John enjoys and has extensive experience negotiating and drafting complex documents including mining joint venture agreements, acquisition agreements, shareholder agreements and shareholder rights plans and has represented both issuers and investment dealers in a variety of equity and debt financings. John has assisted companies to become listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange and has extensive knowledge of stock exchange rules and policies.
Representative Transactions
- Acted for a private Ontario company in its reverse take-over of Anconia Resources Corp. (formerly Citadel Gold Mines Inc.) (TSX-V) (2011)
- Acted for Century Mining Corporation (TSX-V) in its business combination by way of plan of arrangement with White Tiger Gold Ltd. (TSX) (2011)
- Acted for Celeste Copper Corporation (TSX-V) in its acquisition of mining properties in the United Kingdom and concurrent private placement financing (2011)
- Acted for Cadillac Ventures Inc. (TSX-V) in its acquisition of mining properties in Peru and in a brokered private placement financing (2011)
- Acted for Augen Capital Corp. (TSX-V) in various private placement financings (2010/2011)
- Acted (Canadian counsel) for Teck Resources Limited (TSX; NYSE) in its US$750 million offering of senior unsecured notes (2010)
- Acted for Attwell Capital Inc. (TSX-V - NEX) in its friendly take-over by a private BC company (2010)
- Acted for Cadillac Ventures Inc. (TSX-V) in its acquisition of Richview Resources Inc. pursuant to a three-cornered amalgamation (2010)
- Acted for the agents in a C$12.5 private placement by Scorpio Gold Corporation (2010)
- Acted for Century Mining Corporation (TSX-V) in its C$60.75 million debt and equity financings, including a US$33 million prepaid gold forward facility (2009)
- Acted for the underwriters in a C$150 million public equity offering of Osisko Mining Corporation (TSX) (2009)
- Acted for Fralex Therapeutics Inc. (TSX) when it was purchased by Baylis Medical Company Inc., pursuant to a court approved plan of arrangement (2009)
- Acted for the underwriters in a C$402 million bought deal equity financing of Osisko Mining Corporation (2009)
- Acted for ShawCor Ltd. (TSX) in its C$130 million acquisition of Flexpipe Systems Inc. (2008)
- Acted for Detour Gold Corporation (TSX) in its C$65 million bought deal private placement (2008)
- Acted for Teck Cominco Limited in its C$4.1 billion acquisition of Aur Resources Inc. (2007)
- Acted for Detour Gold Corporation (TSX) in its initial public offering (2007)
- Acted for Teck Cominco Limited in its unsolicited bid for Inco Limited (2006)
- Acted for St Andrew Goldfields Ltd. (TSX) in its US$40 million acquisition of the Holloway-Holt Gold Camp from Newmont Canada (2006)
- Acted for Newport Partners Income Fund (TSX) in its initial public offering (2005)
- Acted for Geoinformatics Exploration Inc. (TSX-V) in its equity private placement and RTO transaction (2005)
- Acted for St Andrew Goldfields Ltd. in its acquisition of Heritage Explorations Ltd. (TSX-V) by plan of arrangement (2005)
- Acted for the underwriters in Custom Direct Income Fund's (TSX) C$110 million initial public offering (2003)
- Acted for St Andrew Goldfields Ltd. in various brokered equity private placements (2002 - 2004)
- Acted for the underwriters in public equity and debt financings of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (TSX) (2001 & 2002)
publications and presentations
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