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Patrick Boucher is a partner in our Business Law Group in Montréal. Mr. Boucher practises in the areas of securities and corporate law, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, take-over bids and public financings.

He has acted as counsel to issuers and underwriters in various public offerings (including initial public offerings) and private placements of publicly listed issuers (including income trusts).

He has also participated in numerous take-over bids and going-private transactions of publicly listed issuers, and has acted as counsel to independent committees in connection with various transactions.

Mr. Boucher appears in the 2010 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada, as a leading lawyer in the area of Corporate Finance. He is listed in the 2006 Lexpert American Lawyers Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada under "Who’s next? 40 Corporate Lawyers to Watch." He is also featured on the National Post’s list of Best Lawyers — Securities Law (February 21, 2007 issue).

Mr. Boucher’s recent experience includes:

• acted for ACE Management, Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement and Fonds de solidarité FTQ in connection with the restructuring and purchase of all equity of Mecachrome International;
• acted for Thallion Pharmaceuticals in connection with the sale of all of its tax attributes to Premium Brands Income Fund;
• acted for the Fonds de solidarité FTQ and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in connection with a private placement to finance an acquisition of Christ Water Technology by GLV Inc.;
• acted for Railpower Technologies in connection with the sale of substantially all of its assets to RJ Corman;
• acted for the special committee of ADS Inc. in connection with the privatization of the company;
• acted for Raymond Chabot in connection with a sale of approximately $1 billion of assets under management of Triglobal Capital Management to Promutuel Capital Trust Company;
• acted for Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in connection with a $40-million investment in Canadian Royalties;
• acted for Fonds de solidarité FTQ in connection with a $20-million investment in Osisko Exploration;
• acted for Railpower Technologies in connection with the issuance of convertible debentures in the aggregate amount of $55 million to the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan;
• acted for Railpower Technologies in connection with a $34.5-million bought-deal prospectus offering co-led by Canaccord Capital Corporation and Sprott Securities;
• acted for Addenda Capital in connection with its $300-million merger with The Co-operators Group;
• acted for ORTHOsoft in connection with its sale to Zimmer Holdings for approximately $50 million;
• acted for Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in the US$17.6-billion take-over of Freescale Semiconductor Inc.;
• acted for Cambior Inc. in connection with its $1.2-billion acquisition by IAMGOLD Corporation;
• acted for Ecopia BioSciences in connection with its merger with Caprion Pharmaceuticals and related transactions;
• acted for Natcan in the negotiation of its agreement to sell its shares of Sears Canada to Sears Holdings;
• acted for CGI Group in its repurchase of shares from BCE in the amount of $859 million;
• acted for Molson Inc. in the merger of equals of Molson and Adolph Coors Company;
• acted for the underwriters in connection with a northbound private placement of $150 million Unsecured Notes by Kimco North Trust III;
• acted for the underwriters in connection with the IPO of Optipress Inc.;
• acted for the underwriters in connection with the IPO of AFT Advanced Fiber Income Trust;
• acted for Concordia University in connection with a private placement of $150 million of Unsecured Debentures of Concordia;
• acted for the special committee in the sale by Bombardier Inc. of its Recreational Products Division;
• acted for the Hockey Company in its IPO;
• acted for CGI Group in its take-over of Cognicase Inc.;
• acted for Ecopia BioSciences in various private placements;
• acted for Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in Dundee Wealth Management Inc.’s take-over of Cartier Partners Financial Group Inc.; and
• acted for ORTHOsoft in its IPO by way of reverse take-over bid.

Mr. Boucher received his BBA (Finance) from the École des hautes études commerciales of Montréal in 1991. He successfully completed the Canadian Securities Course of the Canadian Securities Institute in 1992. He received his LLB from the Université de Montréal in 1994 and was called to the Québec bar in 1996. In March 1999, he completed a six-month articling position at the Commission des valeurs mobilières du Québec, where he worked as an analyst within the capital market department.