Eric Friedman has acted on the following transactions:
- Acted for the Bank of Canada, Canada’s central bank, in connection with the amendment and/or establishment and implementation of the Bank’s Emergency Lending Assistance facility and the Standing Term Liquidity Facility, which facilities provide for liquidity to financial institutions in Canada in specified circumstances
- Acted for CCL Industries Inc., a world leader in specialty label and packaging solutions for global corporations, small businesses and consumers, on the private placement offering of US$600 million aggregate principal amount 3.05% notes, completed in June, 2020
- Acted for Richards Packaging Inc., a leading packaging distributor in Canada, in connection with the financing related to its acquisition of Clarion Medical Technologies Inc., completed in May, 2020
- Acted for Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd., a Canadian gold mining company, in connection with a newly established credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders, with Nation Bank as agent, completed in September, 2019
- Acted for ShawCor Ltd. in connection with its US$500 million credit facilities provided by a syndicate of lenders with the Toronto-Dominion Bank as agent, which facilities are guaranteed by subsidiaries in over 15 countries, completed in March, 2019, and subsequently amended
- Acted for Bellwyck Packaging Solutions Inc. in connections with its credit facilities provided by a syndicate of lenders, with Bank of Montreal as agent, completed in December, 2018, and subsequently amended
- Acted for Canadian Payments Association (d.b.a. Payments Canada), the organization responsible for Canada’s essential payments systems, in connection with a syndicated credit facility in the principal amount of $250 million as part of the modernization of Canada’s payments ecosystem completed in April, 2017
- Acted for CCL Industries Inc., a world leader in specialty label and packaging solutions for global corporations, small businesses and consumers, in connection with a US$450 million term credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders led by Bank of Montreal, completed in February, 2017
- Acted for Septodont Holding, Novocol Pharmaceutical of Canada, Inc. and other related entities in multiple jurisdictions in connection with credit facilities in the aggregate principal amount of €65 million provided by a syndicate of banks led by Bank of Montreal, completed in February, 2017
- Acted for CCL Industries Inc., a world leader in specialty label and packaging solutions for global corporations, small businesses and consumers, on the private placement offering of US$500 million aggregate principal amount 3.25% notes, completed in September 2016
- Acted for SEMAFO Inc. in a US$120 million amended and restated credit facility with respect to the construction of a mining project in Burkina Faso
- Acted for Toronto Port Authority in connection with various credit facilities provided by Bank of Montreal, completed in June 2016
- Acted for CCL Industries Inc., a world leader in specialty label and packaging solutions for global corporations, small businesses and consumers, in connection with its US$1.2 billion credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders led by Bank of Montreal, completed in December, 2015
- Acted for Richards Packaging Inc., a leading packaging distributor in Canada, in connection with the financing related to its acquisition of Healthmark Services Ltd., completed in October, 2015
- Acted for Teck Resources Limited in the completion of a US $1.2 billion revolving credit facility provided by a syndicate of lenders in June, 2015
- Acted for SEMAFO Inc. in connection with a US$90 million term loan provided by Macquarie Bank Limited the proceeds of which were used by SEMAFO Inc. to acquire all of the shares of Orbis Gold Limited pursuant to a public offer in Australia, completed in March, 2015
- Acted for Teck Resources Limited in connection with its revolving credit facility provided by a syndicate of banks, originally in the principal amount of US$2 billion and subsequently increased to US$3 billion
- Acted as Canadian counsel for a syndicate of lenders in respect of two separate asset-based credit facilities in favour of separate operating entities in the specialty chemicals and materials business ultimately under the same control, one in the amount of US$400 million, completed in March, 2013, and the other in the amount of US$270 million, completed in April, 2013
- Acted for ShawCor Ltd. in connection with its US$350 million private placement of unsecured senior notes in the United States, completed in March, 2013
- Acted for ShawCor Ltd. in connection with its US$250 million credit facilities provided by a syndicate of lenders with the Toronto-Dominion Bank and HSBC Bank Canada as agents, which facilities are guaranteed by subsidiaries in over 15 countries, completed in March, 2013
- Acted for ShawCor Ltd. in connection with its C$135 million acquisition of the remaining 60% of Fineglade Limited not previously owned by it, completed in October, 2012
- Acted for Intact Financial Corporation with respect to banking matters relating to its C$530 million acquisition of JEVCO Insurance Company, completed in September, 2012
- Acted for Teck Resources Limited in connection with its US$2 billion public debt offering in the United States, completed in July, 2011
- Acted for a Canadian chartered bank in connection with term loans totaling C$47.5 million to an Ontario-based publicly-traded company with a subsidiary regulated under the federal Trust and Loan Companies Act
- Acted for Richards Packaging Income Fund in its acquisition of The E.J. McKernan Co. for US$30 million in cash and securities convertible into units of the fund
- Acted for CCL Industries Inc. in its issuance of an aggregate of US$130 million of senior guaranteed notes to institutional investors in the United States by way of private placement.
- Acted for Teck Resources Limited in the completion of a private placement offering in the U.S. and Canada of US$4.225 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes, completed in May, 2009