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Shaw Communications closes C$300M senior note offering

Date Closed

February 19, 2016

Lead Office

Toronto

Value

300.00 Million CAD

On February 19, 2016, Shaw Communications completed an offering of C$300 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes. The senior notes were made available in Canada under Shaw’s previously filed short form base shelf prospectus. The net proceeds will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes, which may include directly or indirectly funding payment of a portion of the purchase price for the previously announced acquisition by Shaw of WIND Mobile.

The notes were sold through a syndicate of agents led by TD Securities, and including CIBC World Markets Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc., Scotia Capital Inc., National Bank Financial Inc. and AltaCorp Capital Inc.

Shaw Communications, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, is a diversified communications and media company that provides broadband cable television, high-speed Internet, home phone and other telecommunications and satellite services and content.

McCarthy Tétrault LLP advised the agents with a team led by David Woollcombe that included Matthew Appleby, Lama Sabbagh and Diego Beltran (Business), Gabrielle Richards (Tax) and Grant Buchanan (Communications).

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