Lavery was recognized as a significant player in one of the Top 10 Canadian Corporate Deals, being the acquisition of Canmarc Real Estate Investment Trust by Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust in an amount of $838.2 million, as reported in the January 2013 issue of Lexpert magazine.
In this transaction, a team of Lavery composed of Marc Rochefort, Michel Servant, Guillaume Lavoie and Geneviève Fournier (corporate and securities), and Philip Nolan (tax) represented the syndicate of underwriters led by National Bank Financial Inc. and BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. in connection with equity financings of Cominar totalling nearly $350 million. For more information on the transaction, click here to consult pages 40 and 42 of Lexpert.