A. Brent Kerr, KC

Representative Work

• Advised on the cross-border acquisition of a technology business for $143 million cash and assumption of debt, 2013
• Advised a Barbados company on its US $1 billion previous metals stream agreement, 2012
• Advised on a common share financing by a Canadian resource company with international assets for $180 million, 2012
• Advised on a $414 million arrangement between two public companies, 2012
• Advised a major Canadian mining company on the tax aspects of its $940 million acquisition of another public company for shares and cash, 2011
• Advised a Canadian public mining company on the tax aspects of its $97.5 million public flow-through offering, 2011
• Advised a Canadian company on the tax aspects of its $40 million merger to create the world's largest, publicly traded lithium production and exploration company, 2010
• Advised a major Indonesian group on the tax aspects of its acquisition of several Canadian pulp mills, 2010 and 2011
• Advised a Canadian public company on the tax aspects of its capital reorganization and spin-out, 2010
• Advised a Chinese state owned enterprise on the tax aspects of its successful $192 million take-over bid of a Canadian public mining company, 2010
• Advised a Canadian mining company on the tax aspects of its acquisition by way of a share-for-share exchange, 2009
• Lead Canadian lawyer for a major US technology company on its $700 million acquisition, 2008
• Advised the successful proponents on the tax aspects of the $1.6 billion Quebec A30 highway project, 2008
• Advised a private Canadian technology company on the tax aspects of the sale of its shares for $1.2 billion, 2000