Alan Bowman

Alan has provided tax advice in the following transactions:

• Newmont Mining Corporation in its $10 billion acquisition of Goldcorp Inc.
• Essar Steel Algoma Inc. in its restructuring under the CCAA and sale of substantially all of its assets to Algoma Steel Inc. 
• Altria Group, Inc. in its $2.4 billion strategic investment in cannabis producer, Cronos Group
• a joint venture between prominent businessman and philanthropist, Larry Tanenbaum O.C., and Junior Bridgeman, a former NBA player, renowned entrepreneur and owner of Kansas City-based Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, in the joint venture’s acquisition of Coca-Cola Refreshments Canada Company from a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company
• Aryzta in the $850 million sale of its North American bakery business to funds of Lindsay Goldberg
• Berkshire Partners LLC in its $1 billion acquisition of VetStrategy
• MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) in its sale from Maxar Technologies Inc. to a consortium led by Northern Private Capital for $1 billion
• MDA in its initial public offering of its common shares
• Thomas H Lee Partners in the sale of Give & Go to Mondelez
• Shaftesbury Inc. in its acquisition by AMC Networks
• Miller McAshphalt in its $931 million acquisition by Colas Canada
• Cott Corporation in its US$1.25 billion sale of its traditional beverage manufacturing business to Refresco
• Coeur Mining in its US$250 million acquisition of Denham Capital’s JDS Silver and B.C. Silvertip Mine

He has also advised on numerous acquisitions and dispositions by private equity funds and other public/private transactions.