Brian Gray - Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (2024)

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Brian is Chair of Osler’s Private Equity practice. His practice is focused primarily on complex corporate and transactional matters, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions.

Brian has extensive experience advising on private equity andcross-bordertransactions, and frequently counsels clients on a variety of securities law, corporate governance and strategic matters. In addition to private equity, Brian'sindustry experience includes financial services, manufacturing, automotive, information technology, retail and mining.

Areas of Expertise

• Capital Markets
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Private Client
• Private Equity
• Private Equity and Pension Fund Investments

Representative Work

• iCON Infrastructure

  iCON Infrastructure in its investment in QSL

• First Quality Enterprises LLC

  First Quality Enterprises in its acquisition of Domtar’s Pulp and Paper Mill in Dryden, Ontario

• Canalyst

  Canalyst in its acquisition by Tegus

• Epiq

  Epiq in its acquisition of Simplex Services Inc.

• Frontenac Company

  Frontenac in its acquisition of EFC International

• TransUnion

  TransUnion in its $638 million acquisition of Sontiq

• The Levy Family

  The Levy Family in theScore’s US$2 billion acquisition by Penn National Gaming

• TopBuild

  TopBuild in its $1 billion acquisition of Distribution International

• Higher Logic

  Higher Logic in its acquisition of Vanilla

• Fengate Capital Management

  Fengate Capital in its preferred share investment in eStruxture

• Sokanu Interactive

  Sokanu Interactive in its acquisition by Penn Foster

• Borrowell

  Borrowell in its $25 million financing round

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• Borrowell

  Borrowell’s acquisition of Refresh Financial

• Blackstone Credit

  Blackstone Credit in its partnership with Westland Insurance Group Ltd.

• Newterra Group Ltd.

  Newterra Group Ltd. in its acquisition by Frontenac

• Enterprise Holdings Inc.

  Enterprise Holdings Inc. in its Canadian subsidiary's acquisition of Discount Car and Truck Rentals

• Right-Health Inc.

  Right-Health Inc. in its acquisition by Telus Corporation

• The Bank of Nova Scotia

  The Bank of Nova Scotia in the sale of its Caribbean banking operations to Republic Financial Holdings Limited

• Radicalogic Technologies Inc. (RL Solutions)

  RL Solutions in its acquisition by Datix

• Dominion Voting Systems

  Dominion Voting Systems in its acquisition by its management team and Staple Street Capital

• The Underwriters

  The Underwriters in the US$630 million secondary offering of Canada Goose Holdings Inc.

• Layer 6 Inc.

  Layer 6 in its acquisition by the Toronto-Dominion Bank

• Wells Fargo Securities and BMO Capital Markets

  Wells Fargo Securities and BMO Capital Markets, as representatives for the initial purchasers, in a high yield notes offering by goeasy Ltd.

• Underwriters

  Underwriters in connection with the $337 million secondary offering of Canada Goose Holdings Inc. on the NYSE and the TSX

• Alphora Research Inc.

  Alphora Research in connection with its sale to Eurofins Scientific

• Vector Capital in its sale of Corel Corporation
• ADT Inc. in its sale of ADT Canada to TELUS Communications for $700 million
• Magna International Inc. in the sale of its global fluid pressures and controls business to South Korean automotive parts maker Hanon Systems for US$1.23 billion.
• The underwriters, led by CIBC Capital Markets, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and RBC Capital Markets in the initial public offering of Canada Goose Holdings Inc.
• Hydro One Limited in its initial public offering.
• Hydro One Inc. in connection with its agreement to acquire Great Lakes Transmission LP.
• Royal Bank of Canada in its sale of RBC Royal Bank (Jamaica) Limited.
• Google Inc. in its acquisition of various Canadian technology businesses.
• American Capital, Ltd. in its acquisition of Lennox International Inc.’s business unit, Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning Inc.

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