One of the leading U.S. law firms in M&A, Sullivan & Cromwell has an extensive history of involvement in Canadian M&A deals, from the groundbreaking Inco rights plan in 1988 to our recent representations of:

• Barrick Gold Corporation in its C$7.3 billion acquisition of Equinox Minerals Limited;
• Kinross Gold Corporation in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Bema Gold Corporation; in its $7.2 billion acquisition of Red Back Mining Inc. (Canada); and in the$220 million sale of its 19% interest in Diavik diamond mine to Henry Winston Diamond Corporation;
• Bank of Montreal, as parent to Harris N.A. (U.S.) in its FDIC-assisted acquisition of Amcore Bank (U.S.) and in its pending $4.1 billion acquisition of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (U.S.);
• Gildan Activewear in its pending $350 million acquisition of Gold Toe Moretz Holdings Corp. (U.S.);
• The special committee to Biovail Corporation in the company’s $3.7 billion purchase of Valeant Pharmaceuticals (U.S.);
• Ares Capital (U.S.) and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board in their $760 million acquisition of Simmons Bedding (U.S.) out of bankruptcy;
• Royal Bank of Scotland (U.K.) in the individual sales of its Chilean and Colombian banking operations to Scotiabank;
• Baker Brothers Investments, L.P. (U.S.), as 23% stakeholder in AnorMED Inc., in AnorMED’s $584 million acquisition by Genzyme Corporation (U.S.);
• Bank of Montreal, as parent to Harris N.A. (U.S.) in its FDIC-assisted acquisition of Amcore Bank (U.S.), and in its pending $4.1 billion acquisition of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (U.S.);
• BP PLC (U.K.) as global coordinating counsel in its entering into several agreements to sell upstream assets in the United States, Canada and Egypt to Apache Corporation (U.S.), worth a total of $7 billion;
• UBS (Switzerland) in its sale of certain IT assets related to its U.S. energy commodities trading business to Scotia Capital Inc. and in the sale of its Canadian commodities business to J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation (U.S.);
• R.R. Donnelley & Sons (U.S.) in its proposed $1.35 billion acquisition of Quebecor World Inc.
• ING Groep N.V. (Netherlands) in the sale of ING Canada Inc.'s 70% ownership interest in ING Insurance International B.V. to an investor group (U.S.);
• World Color Press in its $1.4 billion sale to Quad/Graphics, Inc. (U.S.);
• BCE in its pending $48.5 billion sale to an investor consortium led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Providence Equity Partners—the largest takeover in Canada’s history and the largest buyout ever;
• Alcan in its defense of a $27 billion hostile takeover offer from Alcoa (U.S.) and a $43 billion recommended offer by Rio Tinto (U.K.) and in its $7 billion hostile takeover of Pechiney (France);
• Inco in its $17.8 billion acquisition by Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) (Brazil);
• John Hancock Financial Services (U.S.) in its $11 billion acquisition by Manulife Financial;
• Commerce Bancorp (U.S.) in its $8.5 billion acquisition by Toronto-Dominion Bank; 
• Newbridge Networks in its $7.1 billion acquisition by Alcatel (France); and 
• Moore Wallace in its $6 billion acquisition by R.R. Donnelley & Sons (U.S.).

Sullivan & Cromwell also regularly represents Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and Royal Bank of Canada in numerous M&A transactions.