gordon g. raman

GORDON G. RAMAN
Associé
T 416.367.6232
F 416.361.7311
Toronto
[email protected]
http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/gord
on-raman/16/602/202
Fusions et acquisitions
Financement des entreprises et valeurs mobilières
Valeurs mobilières, marchés financiers et sociétés ouvertes
Comités de gouvernance et comités spéciaux
Marché des capitaux d’emprunt
Formation / Admission au Barreau
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
LLB, University of Toronto, 1996
Gordon Raman is a partner at the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.
Gordon practises in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and
corporate governance, advising senior management and boards of public and private
companies in M&A transactions. He also advises issuers and underwriters in corporate
finance transactions of equity and debt securities, including high-yield securities and
green bonds. Gordon assists both issuers and investors in capital investments in private
companies and private equity firms in fund formation and investments. In addition,
Gordon works with technology companies.
MBA, University of Toronto, 1996
B.Eng. (summa cum laude) in
Engineering Physics, focus on optics
and solid state electronics, McMaster
University, 1991
Ontario, 1998
Activités professionnelles
Member, Canadian Bar Association,
Business Law and Technology Law
sections
Gordon is the former Chair of the Toronto committee dealing with the recruitment and
training of summer and articling students. He is actively involved in conducting
workshops for both students and associates in various areas of corporate law.
Gordon was seconded for a period to a large technology company in order to provide
day-to-day legal advice and to assist in developing a process for the provision of
continuing legal advice to the company. As part of his MBA studies, he completed an
exchange program at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris in France.
Member, American Bar Association
Adjunct Professor of Law, Osgoode
Hall Law School, 2012
Adjunct Professor of Law, University
of Western Ontario, 2011
REPRESENTATIVE WORK

Advising Balfour Beatty PLC on Canadian aspects of sale of Parsons
Brinckerhoff Group Inc. to WSP Global Inc.

Advising ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. in its acquisition of M+W
Process Automation GmbH and ProFocus LLC.
Director, Children's Aid Foundation

Past-President, Canadian Club of
Toronto
Advising North American Energy Partners Inc. on sale of its Piling Division to
Keller Group Plc.
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Advising on the spin-off of Hewlett Packard Enterprise from Hewlett-Packard
Company (now renamed HP Inc.).
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Advising on the demerger of Agilent Technologies from Hewlett-Packard.
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Advising Hewlett-Packard on the Canadian integrations of its acquisitions
including Compaq, EDS, 3Com and Palm, Inc.
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Acting for the acquiror on a takeover bid of Tiberion Minerals Ltd.
Activités communautaires
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Advising YMG Capital Management Inc. in its acquisition by Fiera Capital
Management Inc.

Advising on the acquisition of Addenda Capital Inc. by The Co-operators Group
Limited.
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Acting for Parsons Brinkerhoff Inc. in its acquisition of Halsall Associates
Limited.
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Advising ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. in connection with its
acquisition of the sortimat Group in Germany and certain businesses of
Assembly & Test Worldwide.

Advising on an acquisition of a Canadian subsidiary of a US defence
contractor.
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Assisting Dragon Capital in its proxy contest with respect to a Canadian public
company.
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Advising Chartwell Seniors Housing Real Estate Investment Trust on its initial
public offering and five subsequent follow-on offerings.

Advising the underwriters on the initial public offering of Medical Facilities
Corporation and two of its follow-on offerings.

Advising the underwriters on the initial public offering of Northstar Healthcare
Inc.
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Advising North American Energy Partners Inc. in its cross-border initial public
offering and its $225 million high-yield note offering.

Advising North American Energy Partners Inc. in a bought deal secondary
offering of its shares by a significant shareholder.
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Advising Raymond James Ltd. in a north-bound MJDS offering of the shares of
CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc.
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Advising Raymond James Ltd. in a bought deal secondary offering of the
shares of DIRTT Environmental Solutions Ltd.
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Advising Loblaw Companies Limited in the establishment of its MTN Program
in 2009.
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Advising Kellogg Canada Inc. on the issuance of $300 million Cdn of senior
notes.
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Advising the underwriters on a $138 million offering by Coalcorp Mining Inc.

Advising in transactions regarding initial public offering of units of income trusts
involving telephone companies and power generation projects.
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Advising an optical component company in raising capital from venture capital
investors.
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Advising on investments by the venture capital arm of a multinational company
in a Canadian technology company.

Advising management shareholders in connection with an acquisition by a
private equity firm of a company in the food services industry.
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Co-Author, "Firms in Regulatory Purgatory over Takeover Changes," The
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
Co-Author, "It's Proxy Time!" BLG Securities and Capital Markets Bulletin,
February 2016.

Co-Author, "Outsiders On the Inside: A Cross Border Insider Trading Case
Study," BLG Securities & Capital Markets Bulletin, October 2015.

Co-Author, "Poison Pills are Dead…or Are They? Has the CSA Eliminated the
Need for Poison Pills?,” BLG Securities & Capital Markets Bulletin, April 2015.

Author, "CSA Finds Antidote for Poison Pill Debate," BLG Securities & Capital
Markets Bulletin, September, 2014 (with Colin Cameron-Vendrig).
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Author, Acquisition Structures, Practical Law's Private Acquisitions MultiJurisdictional Guide - Country Commentary - Canada, Thomson Reuters 2014.
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Co-Author, "Green Bonds – The New Colour of Money," BLG Securities &
Capital Markets Bulletin, January 2014.

Author, "A Question of Transparency; Lululemon Athletica Inc.," BLG Securities
& Capital Markets Bulletin, November 2013.
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Co-Author, "Does the Standstill Remain after the Train Leaves?," BLG
Securities & Capital Markets Bulletin, December 2012.
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Co-Author, “Sino-Forest – Indemnities for Advisors are Deep in the
Wilderness,” BLG Securities & Capital Markets Bulletin, November 2012.
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Co-Author, “The Facebook IPO: Danier Revisited,” BLG Securities & Capital
Markets Bulletin, June 2012.
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Speaker, "Compliant use of Forward-Looking Information," Federated Press
Preparing the MD&A Course, September 2014 and September 2015.
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Speaker, “Board Risk Oversight in M&A’s and Takeovers,” Federated Press
7th Board Risk Management Course, April 2012.
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Speaker, “The Board’s Risk Oversight Role in M&A Transactions and
Takeovers,” Federated Press Board Risk Management Seminar, June 2009.
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Speaker, “Going Private Transactions,” The Legal and Business Guide to
Private Equity Transactions program at Osgoode Hall Law School, January
2009.
RANKINGS & RECOGNITIONS
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Recognized in the 2016 edition (and since 2013) of The Canadian Legal
Lexpert® Directory (Corporate Mid-Market, Private Equity).
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