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EVENT PARTNER www.lawawards.ca 43 INFRASTRUCTURE & PROJECTS DEAL OF THE YEAR INSOLVENCY & RESTRUCTURING DEAL OF THE YEAR MID-MARKET DEAL OF THE YEAR WINNER Umicore's investment in Ontario, building an EV battery components factory Canadian firm: Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (lead for Umicore) EXCELLENCE AWARDEES Canada Infrastructure Bank's $52 million investment in the Thompson Regional Airport redevelopment project Canadian firms: McCarthy Tétrault LLP (for Canada Infrastructure Bank); MLT Aikins LLP (for Thompson Regional Airport Authority) Organizations: Canada Infrastructure Bank; Thompson Regional Airport Authority WINNER Bank of Montreal's acquisition of LoyaltyOne's AIR MILES reward business Canadian firms: Bennett Jones (for ad hoc group of Loyalty Ventures Inc. lenders); Borden Ladner Gervais (Canadian counsel to Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent); Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP (for LoyaltyOne); Dentons LLP (counsel to American Express); Goodmans LLP (counsel to the monitor); McCarthy Tétrault (counsel to RBC Investor Services Trust); Stikeman Elliott LLP (Canadian counsel to Bread Financial Holdings Inc.); Torys LLP (for BMO) Non-Canadian firms: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (US bankruptcy counsel to Loyalty Ventures); Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (US counsel to Bread Financial Holdings Inc.); Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (US counsel to ad hoc term loan B lenders); Haynes And Boone LLP (US counsel to Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent); Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (US bankruptcy counsel to BMO) Organizations: Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC (financial advisor to LoyaltyOne and Loyalty Ventures); BMO Financial Group; KSV Restructuring, Inc. (CCAA Monitor); Morgan Stanley (financial advisor to BMO); Piper Sandler & Co. (financial advisor to ad hoc term loan B lenders); PJT Partners Inc. (financial advisor to LoyaltyOne and Loyalty Ventures) EXCELLENCE AWARDEES Groupe Selection's financial restructuring under CCAA Canadian firms: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (for Investissement Québec, Otéra Capital Inc., and Timbercreek Mortgage Servicing, Inc.); Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (for Revera Inc., Desjardins, Fonds de Solidarité FTQ, Blackstone, and SmartCentres); Dentons Canada LLP (for Laurentian Bank of Canada); Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (for Scotiabank, CIBC Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP); Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP (for National Bank of Canada); Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (for Groupe Montoni, Royal Bank of Canada); Stikeman Elliott LLP (for Groupe Sélection Inc. et al.); Woods LLP Repsol's restructuring Canadian firm: Bennett Jones LLP (for Repsol Oil & Gas Inc.); Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (for landlords to Repsol Oil & Gas Inc.) Xebec and its affiliates' restructuring under CCAA Canadian firms: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (for National Bank of Canada); Goodmans LLP (for Sullair, LLC, the purchaser of Xebec's California Compression business); McCarthy Tétrault LLP (for Deloitte Restructuring Inc.); Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP (for Export Development Canada); Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (for Xebec) Organizations: Deloitte Restructuring; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Richter WINNER Sagicor Financial Company Ltd.'s acquisition of Ivari Canadian firm: Stikeman Elliott LLP (for Sagicor); Torys LLP (for ivari) Non-Canadian firms: Appleby (for Wilton Re Ltd.); Paul Hastings LLP (US counsel to Sagicor) Organizations: National Bank Financial (lead financial advisor); J.P. Morgan (financial advisor); RBC Capital Markets (financial advisor); ET (financial and due diligence advisor); RSM (assisted with actuarial diligence); Goldman Sachs (financial advisor to Wilton Re Ltd.); Wells Fargo (financial advisor to Wilton Re Ltd.) EXCELLENCE AWARDEES Linamar's acquisition of Mobex Global's Propulsion- Agnostic Business Canadian firm: Aird & Berlis LLP (for Linamar Corporation) Non-Canadian firm: Warner Norcross + Judd LLP (US counsel to Linamar) Organization: Linamar Corporation Skyservice's investment in Fontainebleau Aviation's fixed-based operator at Miami Opa-Locka Executive Airport Canadian firm: McCarthy Tétrault LLP (for Skyservice™) Non-Canadian firms: Cooley LLP; DLA Piper LLP Organizations: William Blair & Company Wonderfi, Coinsquare, and CoinSmart business combination Canadian firms: Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP (for WonderFi); Goodmans LLP (legal counsel to Coinsquare); Wildeboer Dellelce LLP (counsel to CoinSmart) Non-Canadian firm: Dorsey & Whitney LLP (US legal counsel to WonderFi) Organizations: Eight Capital Corp. (financial advisor to CoinSmart); Haywood Securities Inc. (financial advisor to WonderFi); Origin Merchant Partners (financial advisor to Coinsquare) Chiniki and Goodstoney First Nations' energy infrastructure equity partnership with ATCO Canadian firm: Bennett Jones LLP (for ATCO) Organizations: ATCO EnPower Oneida Energy Storage Project Canadian firms: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (for Northland Power); Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (for Aecon Construction Group); Fogler, Rubinoff LLP (for Six Nations); McCarthy Tétrault LLP (for Canada Infrastructure Bank); Torys LLP (for Oneida) Organizations: Aecon Concessions; Canada Infrastructure Bank; Northland Power; NRStor Inc.; Oneida Energy Storage LP; Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation