Shannon Skillings

Shannon’s representative work includes acting for:

Public Mergers & Acquisitions

• Rogers Communications Inc. in connection with its C$26 billion acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc., combining Canada’s two largest cable providers.
• Coeur Mining Inc. in connection with its US$1.7 billion acquisition of SilverCrest Metals Inc.
• WildBrain Ltd. in connection with the sale of two-thirds of its television broadcast business, including Family Channel, Family Jr., WildBrainTV and Télémagino, to IoM Media Ventures Inc.

Private Mergers & Acquisitions

• Kensington Private Equity Fund in connection with its C$70 million acquisition of Steelcraft Inc.
• Clairvest Group Inc., and its portfolio company NovaSource Power Services, in connection with the acquisition of the North American operations and maintenance business of First Solar, Inc.
• AMP Solar Group Inc. in connection with a US$374 million strategic growth investment from The Carlyle Group.
• Practice Better, a nutrition practice management platform for Health and Wellness professionals, in connection with its US$35 million sale to Five Elms Capital.
• Squad Security Inc. in connection with its sale to Protos Security, a tech-enabled managed security services provider. 

Corporate Finance 

• Organigram Holdings Inc. in connection with its C$124.6 million follow-on strategic equity investment from BT DE Investments Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of British American Tobacco plc. 
• Greenhouse Juice in connection with its C$10 million equity financing led by InvestEco Capital with additional investment from Export Development Canada (EDC).
• ShipFusion, a leading provider of eCommerce order fulfillment, in connection with a US$40 million growth equity investment from Kayne Partners, the growth private equity group of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.
• VendorPM, a leading property technology company, in connection with its US$20 million Series A financing.

Capital Markets

• MCAN Mortgage Corporation d/b/a MCAN Financial Group in connection with its C$75 million at-the-market offering of common shares.
• MCAN Mortgage Corporation d/b/a MCAN Financial Group in connection with its C$29 million overnight marketed offering of common shares.
• BSR Real Estate Investment Trust in connection with its US$150 million at-the-market equity offering of trust units.
• BSR Real Estate Investment Trust in connection with its US$115 million bought deal offering of trust units.
• a syndicate of underwriters led by RBC Dominion Securities in connection with the C$170.1 million initial public offering of Boat Rocker Media Inc.

Corporate and Commercial Work

• Public and private companies in connection with ongoing securities compliance, corporate governance and commercial matters, including MCAN Mortgage Corporation d/b/a MCAN Financial Group, NovaSource Power Holdings, Inc., NexPoint Hospitality Trust, and Organigram Holdings Inc.
  

Mining Work

• Coeur Mining, Inc. in connection with its agreement with Cormark Securities Inc. to sell 5 million common shares of Victoria Gold Corp. for gross proceeds of approximately C$54.5 million.
• Gold Royalty Corp. in connection with its acquisition of a copper stream on the Vares Silver Project operated by a subsidiary of Adriatic Metals plc from OMF Fund III (Cr) Ltd., an entity managed by Orion Mine Finance Management LP, for US$50 million.
• TCP1 Corporation in its business combination with Atacama Copper Corporation, whereby Atacama acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of TCP1 in exchange for common shares of Atacama in a reverse take-over transaction for proceeds of C$55 million.