Jamie van Diepen

Jamie’s recent transactional experience includes representing:

• Falfurrias Capital Partners in its acquisition of Executive Platforms
• AP IX Alpha Holdings (Lux) S.a r.l., an affiliate of certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc., in connection with its take-private of ABC Technologies Holdings Inc.
• Macquarie Asset Management on the sale of Ceres Terminals, a leading provider of stevedoring and terminal operation services in North America, to Carrix, a portfolio company of Blackstone Infrastructure Partners
• PNC Riverarch Capital Barr in its acquisition of GeoSpatial Solutions
• Macquarie Asset Management in connection with its joint venture partnership with Porter Aviation Holdings Inc. to develop and finance a new passenger terminal at Montréal Saint-Hubert Airport
• Falfurrias Capital Partners in its acquisition of Brainlabs
• Nuvo Pharmaceuticals Inc. d/b/a Miravo Healthcare in relation to its acquisition by Searchlight Pharma Inc. by way of plan of arrangement
• Training The Street, the world's leading provider of educational resources for financial professionals, in its add-on acquisition of The Marquee Group, Canada's leading provider of financial modeling training and consulting
• Latécoère S.A, a Tier 1 partner of the world's largest aircraft manufacturers, in relation to the acquisition of Avcorp Industries Inc., a Canadian-domiciled publicly traded company that builds major airframe structures for leading aircraft manufacturers, by way of plan of arrangement
• Atria Client Services LLC, a subsidiary of Altria Group, Inc., in its acquisition of multi-substrate heated capsule technology for a total purchase price of US$100.5 million, subject to certain ‎adjustments and holdbacks
• M&M Food Market, a subsidiary of funds managed by Searchlight Capital Partners, in its sale to Parkland Corporation for C$322 million
• ARYZTA AG in the sale of ARYZTA North America to funds managed by Lindsay Goldberg for US$850 million
• AP IX Alpha Holdings (Lux) S.a r.l., an affiliate of certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc., in connection with (i) its acquisition of a majority stake in ABC Technologies Holdings Inc. from ABC Group Canada LP for approx. C$294.3 million; (ii) ABC Technologies Holdings Inc.’s acquisition of dlhBowles, Inc. from MPE Partners, L.P. for approximately US$255 million; (iii) ABC Technologies Holdings Inc.’s rights offering for gross proceeds of C$336.9 million; (iv) ABC Technologies Holdings Inc.’s private placement to the AP IX Alpha Holdings (Lux) S.a r.l. and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., for aggregate proceeds of C$30.6 million; and (v) ABC Technologies Holdings Inc.’s acquisition of Karl Etzel GmbH from the Schürrle family for approximately US$95 million
• Atlantic Power and its special committee in its agreement to be acquired by I Squared Capital for US$961 million
• A fund managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in the US$1.212 billion sale of WCA Waste Corporation to GFL Environmental Inc.
• Brown-Forman Corporation in connection with its sale of the Early Times, Canadian Mist, and Collingwood brands, and the Canadian Mist production assets to Sazerac
• Virtus Industries in connection with its acquisition of Arzon Limited
• Interac Corp. in connection with its acquisition of 2Keys Corporation
• the Special Committee of Kinder Morgan Canada in connection with Pembina Pipeline’s agreement to acquire Kinder Morgan Canada and the Cochin Pipeline for $4.35 billion
• Onex Corporation in its agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of WestJet Airlines Ltd. for CDN$5 billion
• A fund managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in connection with its sale of the Halterm Container Terminal, the largest container terminal in Eastern Canada, to Singapore-based PSA International Pte Ltd.
• Integrated Asset Management Corp. in its sale to Fiera Capital Corporation for total consideration of approximately $74 million
• A fund managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in connection with its sale of Penn Terminals
• the Special Committee of AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. in its $432 million going-private transaction by a group of investors led by certain members of its management and including Fairfax Financial Holdings and Point North Capital
• Altria Group in its $2.4 billion investment in Cronos Group
• Searchlight Capital Partners in connection with its acquisition of Mitel Networks Corporation, a global market leader in business communications, in an all-cash transaction valued at US$2 billion
• Student Transportation Inc. and its Special Committee in connection with its US$1.1 billion acquisition by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Ullico Inc.
• Ceridian HCM Holding Inc. in connection with its US$462 million initial public offering on the NYSE and the TSX, making it the largest technology company (by initial market capitalization) to ever IPO in Canada and giving it an implied valuation of US$3 billion
• Spectra Energy Corp in its stock-for-stock merger transaction with Enbridge Inc. for approximately $37 billion
• InterOil Corporation in connection with its US$2.5 billion acquisition by Exxon Mobil Corporation