November 20, 2008
 

 
New York
 
 
 
Located in Midtown Manhattan, our New York office opened in 1984.  Today, with approximately 20 lawyers, it is one of only a few Canadian firms practising U.S. law in one of the most significant financial centers in the world.  The office represents a wide range of public and private companies in domestic, cross-border and international transactions.  The office has a particular expertise in assisting non-U.S. companies and individuals in U.S. and global transactions.

Our New York team is focused on corporate mergers and acquisitions, tax, corporate finance and securities transactions and commercial real estate transactions.  The office maintains an outstanding reputation for the efficient handling of challenging cross-border matters that has made the office one of the key elements in the firm's rapid growth in cross-border transactional work.

The New York office is fully integrated into the firm-wide practice structure and draws on the talents and experience of lawyers in all the firm's offices to provide clients with seamless service in the United States and across international borders and to produce timely and effective results for our clients.

A representative selection of recent major transactions in which Davies' New York office has been involved include:
  • Represented Xstrata plc in its successful unsolicited take-over bid for Falconbridge Ltd. in a transaction valued at over C$20 billion.
  • Represented Barrick Gold Corporation on various tax matters in its successful take-over bid for Placer Dome Inc. in a transaction valued at over C$10 billion to form the world's largest gold mining company.
  • Advised BCE Inc. on its sale of Telesat Canada to Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Loral Space & Communications.
  • Represented Tim Hortons Inc., now a $6 billion NYSE-listed company, as special counsel in its $780 million initial public offering in Canada and the United States.
  • Advised a consortium comprised of Westmont Hospitality Group, Cadim Inc. (a division of Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec) and Régime de rentes du Mouvement Desjardins on its acquisition and restructuring of Legacy Hotel REIT in a transaction valued at C$2.5 billion.
  • Advised a joint venture comprised of Westmont Hospitality Group, Cadim Inc. and Citigroup on its acquisition and financing of Red Roof Inns Inc.
  • Advised Barrick Gold Corporation on its sale of a 50% stake in the South Deep mine in South Africa to South African miner Gold Fields Limited.
  • Represented Babcock & Brown in connection with its bid to construct and maintain, together with French construction firm Bouygues, a $1 billion tunnel under Biscayne Bay to the Port of Miami.
  • Advised a consortium comprised of Westmont Hospitality Group, Kimco Realty Corp., Cadim Inc. and Régime de rentes du Mouvement Desjardins on its acquisition and financing of Intown Suites Management Inc.
  • Advised Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited on the acquisition of Cumberland Resources Ltd. in a $700 million share exchange take-over bid and registered securities offerings in the United States.
  • Advised China Minmetals Non-Ferrous Metals Co. Ltd. and Jiangxi Copper Company Ltd. in their C$453 million acquisition of Northern Peru Copper Corp.
  • Represented Tim Hortons on various tax and securities matters before, during and after the spin-off of Tim Hortons by Wendy's.
  • Advised a consortium comprised of Westmont Hospitality Group, Cadim Inc., Régime de rentes du Mouvement Desjardins and Citigroup on its acquisition and financing of Boykin Lodging Company, an NYSE-traded hotel real estate investment trust, in a transaction valued at over $400 million.
  • Advised Starwood Capital and its partners (including Cadim Inc.) on the sale of The Westin Resort, Hilton Head Island and The Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa.
  • Advised the owners of the Copley Place Hotel in Boston in the sale of that hotel to LaSalle Hotel Properties, a public REIT, in a transaction valued at over $300 million.
  • Advised Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited on its acquisition by take-over bid of Riddarhyttan Resources AB (publ).
  • Advised E-Z-EM, Inc., a NASDAQ publicly-traded company, on its merger with Bracco Diagnostics, Inc.
  • Advised Russel Metals Inc. on its acquisition of all outstanding shares of JMS Metals Services, Inc. and several related companies.
  • Advised Neurochem Inc. in a PIPE offering of convertible debentures and warrants.
  • Advised AbitibiBowater, Inc. on the sale of a paper mill and related transportation and energy generation assets.
  • Advised Centerplate Inc. in a registered secondary public offering of IDS securities.
  • Advised major Canadian pension funds in their investments in U.S. private equity, real estate, infrastructure and opportunity funds.
  • Advised Northbridge Equity Partners in connection with the acquisition of  several U.S. businesses by its private equity funds.
  • Advised Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. in its acquisition by Goldcorp Inc.
  • Advised Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. on its acquisition of the Circle K Company and its related Rule 144A offering of debt securities in the United States.
  • Advised Amcor Limited, a publicly traded Australian company, in several acquisitions and dispositions of packaging companies in the United States and other jurisdictions.