Canada
Catherine Kay
Associate CounselAbout
Catherine Kay is a senior associate and practices primarily in the area of securities and corporate finance.
Catherine has extensive experience in representing companies on a broad range of corporate finance, securities and M&A transactions, including private and public financings, due diligence, shareholder meetings, proxy disputes, reorganizations, corporate governance practices, continuous disclosure compliance and other financing transactions.
Catherine acts for a broad range of private and public companies, listed on the TSX and TSX-V, in a wide range of industries including oil and gas exploration and production, energy services, mining, technology and construction.
Areas of FocusCorporateMergers and AcquisitionsCorporate Venture CapitalEmerging Growth and Venture CapitalEquity Capital MarketsPrivate Equity
Bar admissionsAlberta, 2005Saskatchewan, 2004
EXPERIENCE
- Acted for Trulieve Cannabis Corp. in connection with a USD $350 million private placement offering of 8% secured notes.
- Acted for Trulieve Cannabis Corp. in connection with a further USD $75 million private placement offering of 8% senior secured notes due 2026.
- Acted for Trulieve Cannabis Corp. in connection with a public offering of subordinate voting shares in the United States and Canada for gross proceeds of $287.5 million.
- Acted for a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Canaccord Genuity Corp. and Echelon Wealth Partners Inc. in the $86.4 million bought deal public offering of common shares of Converge Technology Solutions Corp. (TSXV: CTS) (FSE: 0ZB) (OTCQX: CTSDF).
- Acted for a syndicate of underwriters led by Canaccord Genuity Corp. in the $316.9 million bought deal public offering of subordinate voting shares of Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF).
- Acted for the agents in connection with a public offering of common shares of Exro Technologies Inc. (TSXV: EXRO) for gross proceeds of $42 million.
- Acted for the underwriters in connection with a bought deal public offering of common shares of Converge Technology Solutions Corp. (TSX-V: CTS) for gross proceeds of $46.2 million.
- Acted for Canaccord Genuity in the $40.8 offering of subordinate voting shares of Jushi Holdings Inc. (CSE: JUSH) (OTCMKTS: JUSHF).
- Acted for the underwriters in connection with a bought deal public offering of common shares of Converge Technology Solutions Corp. (TSX-V: CTS) for gross proceeds of $34,537,375.
- Acted for Trulieve (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) in connection with a public offering of subordinate voting shares of the Company for gross proceeds of $115.5 million.
- Acted as legal advisors to Canaccord Genuity Corp. and Desjardins Capital Markets, as lead underwriters on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters, in connection with a $21 million “bought deal” public offering for Converge Technology Solutions Corp. (TSXV: CTS) (FSE: 0ZB) (OTCQX: CTSDF).
- Acted for Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) in connection with a public offering of units of the Company comprised of an aggregate principal amount of US $60 million of 9.75% senior secured notes maturing in 2024 and an aggregate amount of 1,560,000 subordinate voting share warrants.
- Acted for Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE:TRUL) in connection with a $65 million private placement of subscription receipts, reverse take-over of Schyan Exploration Inc. and CSE listing.
- Acted for the owners of the Gray Monk winery in respect of the sale of the winery and related assets to Andrew Peller Limited.
- Acted for Iberian Minerals Ltd. in its plan of arrangement and spinout of Enviroleach Technologies Inc. ("ETI") and listing of ETI shares on the CSE.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in its $275 million acquisition of Real Storage with 38 stores across Canada in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. for an aggregate of approximately $160 million of asset purchase transactions in 2018, in 10 distinct acquisitions, for 19 stores, including a $66.5 million acquisition from a private vendor of 2 stores located in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in its $34 million acquisition from Access Self Storage Inc. of one store in Toronto, Ontario, two stores in Quebec and three stores in Nova Scotia.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in its $396 million acquisition of Sentinel Storage with 24 stores across Canada in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in its $135 million bought deal short form prospectus common share financing which included a secondary offering.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in its $66 Million acquisition from Access Self Storage Inc. of three stores in Montreal, Quebec and two stores in Toronto, Ontario.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in its $57.5 Million bought deal short form prospectus common share financing.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in its $15 Million acquisition of one self storage location in Alberta from a private company vendor.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in its $48 Million acquisition from Access Self Storage Inc. of three self storage locations in Montreal, Quebec and one self storage location in Toronto, Ontario.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in its $22 Million acquisition of one self storage location in Alberta from a private company vendor.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in the $51 Million acquisition of eight self storage locations from Access Self Storage Inc. and Cubeit Portable Storage Canada Inc.
- Acted for StorageVault Canada Inc. in the $52 Million acquisition of four self storage locations from Storage For Your Life Solutions Inc.
- Acted for public companies, listed on the TSX, TSX-V and CSE, and private companies in connection with private placement offerings.
- Acted for issuers in connection with restructuring and reorganizing transactions, including acquisitions, arrangements, mergers and other reorganizations.
- Represented brokerages on public and private financings.
- Acted for TSX issuer in connection with dissident proxy campaign.
Languages
- English
Education
- LL.B. (with Distinction), University of Saskatchewan, 2003
- B.Sc. (Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology), University of Calgary, 2000
Memberships And Affiliations
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Law Society of Saskatchewan
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
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