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Canadian LAW AWARDS 2025 58 www.lawawards.ca DEAL AWARDS CAPITAL MARKETS DEAL OF THE YEAR WINNER TC Energy Corporations' C$7.9 billion notes offering for Liquids business spinoff Canadian Law Firm: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (counsel to TC Energy) Non-Canadian Law Firm: White & Case LLP Organizations: RBC Capital Markets; TC Energy Corporation EXCELLENCE AWARDEES Alimentation Couche-Tard's concurrent US$1.5 billion and €1.35 billion notes offerings Canadian Law Firms: Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (for the placing agents); Stikeman Elliott LLP (for Alimentation Couche-Tard) Non-Canadian Law Firms: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (for Alimentation Couche-Tard); Simpson Thacher & Barlett LLP (for the placing agents) Organizations: Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.; J.P. Morgan; PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Wells Fargo Browning West's victory in Gildan Activewear proxy campaign Canadian Law Firm: Goodmans LLP (lead counsel to Browning West, LP) Non-Canadian Law Firm: Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP (US counsel to Browning West) Canada's C$4 billion 10-year Green Bond and additional C$2 billion reopening Canadian Law Firms: BCF LLP (Government of Canada's Translation Counsel); Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (acted for the syndicate of underwriters); Field Law (Government of Canada's Local Counsel (Initial Issuance and Re-Opening) – NWT and Nunavut); Macdonald and Company (Government of Canada's Local Counsel (Initial Issuance and Re-Opening) – Yukon); McMillan LLP (lead law firm – acted as sole outside legal advisor to the Government of Canada); MLT Aikins (Government of Canada's Local Counsel (Initial Issuance and Re-Opening) – Saskatchewan and Manitoba); Stewart McKelvey (Government of Canada's Local Counsel (Initial Issuance and Re- Opening) – Atlantic Provinces) Organizations: BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. (underwriter); Casgrain & Company Limited (underwriter); CIBC World Markets Inc. (underwriter); Desjardins Securities Inc. (underwriter); Laurentian Bank Securities Inc.; Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. (underwriter); National Bank Financial Inc. (underwriter); RBC Dominion Securities Inc. (underwriter); Scotia Capital Inc. (underwriter); The Toronto-Dominion Bank (underwriter) MID-MARKET DEAL OF THE YEAR WINNER Trans Mountain Corporation, Lower Nicola Indian Band, and EPCOR's C$200 million sale of Kingsvale Transmission Line Canadian Law Firms: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP; Dentons Canada LLP (for EPCOR); Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (legal advisor for Trans Mountain) Organizations: EPCOR; Lower Nicola Indian Band Development Corporation; Trans Mountain Corporation EXCELLENCE AWARDEES Canada Growth Fund's C$200 million strategic investment in Entropy and carbon credit offtake agreement Canadian Law Firms: Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP (counsel for Entropy and Advantage); Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (legal advisor for Canada Growth Fund); Torys LLP (counsel for Brookfield Renewable) Organizations: BMO (financial advisor for CGF) Nations Royalty Corp. and Nisga'a Nation's C$100 million royalty agreement Canadian Law Firms: Aldridge and Rosling LLP (co-lead firm for Nisga'a Nation); DuMoulin Black LLP (co-lead firm for Nisga'a Nation); Farris LLP (lead firm for Nations Royalty Corp.) Organizations: Canaccord Genuity Corp.; Deloitte LLP; Fiore Management & Advisory Corp.; Nations Royalty Corp.; Nisga'a Nation OpenGate Capital's C$155 million acquisition of Cineplex Inc.'s Player One Amusement Group Canadian Law Firms: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (counsel to OpenGate Capital); Goodmans LLP (counsel to Cineplex Inc.) Non-Canadian Law Firms: Baker McKenzie (US counsel to Cineplex); Paul Hastings LLP (US counsel to OpenGate) Organization: OpenGate Capital

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