rosalind morrow

ROSALIND MORROW
Associée
T 416.367.6019
F 416.361.7323
Toronto
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Valeurs mobilières, marchés financiers et sociétés ouvertes
Financement structuré et titrisation
Droit minier
Dérivés
Fusions et acquisitions
Marché des capitaux d’emprunt
Formation / Admission au Barreau
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
LLB, University of Toronto, 1982
Rosalind Morrow is a partner in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. She
practises corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on financial services
and mining sector financings and acquisitions, project and government financings, and
corporate governance. Rosalind is a member of the Firm's Securities and Capital
Markets Group.
B.Ed. (French Immersion Specialist),
University of Toronto, 1978
BA, University of Toronto (Trinity
College), 1977
Ontario, 1984
Activités professionnelles
Member, BLG Diversity Committee
Member, Finance and Investment
Committees, Ontario Bar Association
Past Member, Securities Advisory
Committee to the Ontario Securities
Commission
Past President, Women's Law
Association of Ontario (1992-93)
Rosalind regularly advises issuers, underwriters and investors in connection with debt
and equity offerings and investments, including domestic and trans-border public
offerings and private placements, capital restructurings, and corporate and securities
law compliance. She also regularly represents government and private sector
corporations, investors and lenders in connection with debt offerings, project financings
and public-private partnerships.
Rosalind was seconded to the Ontario Securities Commission in 1988-90 as staff
counsel in the corporate finance, enforcement and takeover bid branches, where she
participated in various policy initiatives including drafting of Commission Notice re Use
of Special Warrants, 12 OSCB 2168.
REPRESENTATIVE WORK

Representing Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation on the structuring
(including risk management strategy) and implementation of its Canada
Mortgage Bond program and the fully underwritten offerings (to date) of over
C$200 billion in CMB bonds since program launch in 2001.

Representing Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation as lead negotiator of
joint venture project with the State Mining Corporation of Tanzania to redevelop the Beckreef Gold Mine in Tanzania.

Representing Canadian Federal Government on its $125-billion emergency
funding program for Canadian banks launched in the 2008 financial crisis
called the Insured Mortgage Purchase Program (comparable to the U.S. TARP
Program).

Representing Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation on the restructuring
of the $32 billion asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market in Canada
and its participation in the Pan-Canadian Investors' Committee overseeing the
Other Directorships: Tanzanian
Royalty Exploration Corporation,
Griffith Laboratories Limited
Activités communautaires
Member, Board of Governors and
Chair, Nominating and Governance
Committee, Trent University
Vice-Chair, The Living City
Foundation (foundation affiliate of
Toronto and Region Conservation
Authority, and the largest
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environmental organization in
Canada)
restructuring (2007-2009).

Representing RFA Capital Corporation on its underwriting of the B and
unrated-piece tranches of an aggregate $2.32 billion (approximate) in
commercial mortgage-backed securities offered by Claret Trust, Column
Canada Issuer Corporation, Solar Trust, Merrill Lynch Financial Assets Inc.,
Schooner Trust and Real Estate Asset Liquidity Trust (2002-present).

Representing Clarington Corporation, an independent mutual fund company,
on its $280- million takeover by Industrial Alliance in January 2006 and initial
public offering in March 2005 by way of primary and secondary offering.

Representing Sprint Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri in restructuring of all
equity and $2.6 billion in senior debt of Call-Net Enterprises Inc., the TSX-listed
parent of Sprint Canada Inc. by way of Court-approved plan of arrangement.

Representing Sprint Corporation in the proxy contest for control of Call-Net
Enterprises Inc. (Toronto Stock Exchange– and NASDAQ-listed parent of
Sprint Canada Inc.) launched by Crescendo Partners, L.P. of New York.

Representing Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the C$800 million
syndicated bank financing and C$400-million refinancing by way of public bond
offering of its Canadian Broadcasting Centre project in downtown Toronto.

Representing dissident holders of US$65 million in gold bonds of Canadian
Pacific Limited in connection with that company's C$6 billion debt and equity
restructuring, in which the dissidents were successful in obtaining substantial
amendments to the restructuring in their favour.
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Author, “Bank of Canada Makes History with New Monetary Policy
Announcement,” Securities Mosaic and Practical Law Company, May 2009
(with S.J. Redican).

Author, “Canadian Banks' Use of Government Aid Declining,” PLC Global
Finance – Canada, April, 2009.

Author, Origins of the Financial Crisis in Canada – Impact of Government in
Intervention, Impact on Capital Markets, and Credit Default Swaps and
Derivatives,” PLC Global Finance – Canada, February 2009.

Speaker, “New Secondary Market Civil Liability – Where Are We?”
Professional Women's Symposium Association Conference: “Ethics – A
Professional and Personal Interface,” October 2007.

Speaker, “Are Two Jurisdictions Enough? An Update on MJDS, Nasdaq and
Stock Exchange Initiatives,” Strategy Institute Conference: “Avoid the Pitfalls of
Continuous Public Disclosure,” June 2000.

Speaker, “Canadian Government Financial Support Programs for Canadians
Doing Business Overseas,” Pan Pacific Conference: “Making Your Business
Work in the Pacific Rim,” July 1999.

Author, “Regulation of Derivatives in Canada,” The Paribas Derivatives
Handbook 1993/4, Euromoney Publications, January 1994.

Speaker, “Legal Structure of Securities Regulation and Offerings in Canada,”
Canadian Bar Association Conference: "Banking and Securities Law Seminar,"
Warsaw, Budapest and Prague, June 17, 22 and 26, 1993.
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Author, “Derivatives, An International Guide - Special Report on Canada,”
Supplement to International Financial Law Review, Euromoney Publications,
January 1992 (with Lawrence A. Wright).
RANKINGS & RECOGNITIONS

Women’s Law Association of Ontario President’s Award (1994)
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