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• Acted for The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited in its acquisition of the Windsor Station complex and other real estate assets from The Canadian Pacific Railway Company for $86 million. As part of the transaction, Canadian Pacific has entered into a long-term lease with Cadillac Fairview to remain the principal tenant of Windsor Station. Windsor Station is located at 1160 De La Gauchetière in downtown Montréal and represents an important heritage property. It houses more than 300,000 square feet of leasable office space.

• Acted for the consortium comprised of Meridiam Infrastructure Managers and Pomerleau Construction which was shortlisted to respond to a request for proposal from the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Agence des partenariats public-privé du Québec for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of the new Montréal concert hall.

• Acted for Goldman Sachs and the other owners in connection with the sale of Place Bonaventure, the Bonaventure Hilton hotel and Dominion Square properties in Montréal.

• Acted for Accès Santé CHUM, a consortium including Fiera-Axium Infrastructure, Acciona S.A., HSBC Specialist Fund Management Limited, Pomerleau inc. and Verreault inc., which was short-listed to participate in a request for proposal from the Agence des partenariats public-privé du Québec and the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal ("CHUM") to design, build, finance and maintain the CHUM's new hospital centre. The CHUM is one of the largest university hospital centres to be procured in North America.

• Acted for Cirvek Fund I, L.P. in its acquisition of 150 Bloor Street West, a 270,000 square foot office building situated in the heart of the high-end Bloor-Yorkville district of Toronto, Ontario, from Northam 150 Bloor Street Development Limited Partnership for a purchase price of approximately $85 million.

• Acting for Claridge Inc. in the sale of Importations DE-RO-MA, owned by Claridge Food Group, to Smart Balance, Inc. for $66 million.

• Acting for Groupe Prével and Claridge Properties in connection with their joint venture for the development of the former Séville Theatre in Montréal, Québéc. The site is being redeveloped as a mixed-use commercial and residential complex, which will include street-level shops and up to 450 housing units in three towers.

• Acted for Dialogic Corporation in connection with its acquisition of Veraz Networks, Inc. in a reverse merger transaction resulting in Dialogic owning approximately 70% of shares and Veraz shareholders owning approximately 30% of the merged company.

• Acted for the Miami Access Tunnel consortium, comprised of Meridiam Infrastructure, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Transfield Services Ltd. for the design, build, finance, operation and maintenance of the US$1.3 billion greenfield Port of Miami Tunnel project. Davies also acted as lead counsel for the consortium on the financing of the Project, with the senior debt financing of US$340 million being provided through a club of 10 international banks and the subordinated debt financing of US$341 million being provided as a 35-year fixed rate loan by the United States Department of Transportation under the federal TIFIA (Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998) program. This project was awarded the 2009 Global PPP Deal of the Year by Project Finance magazine and the 2009 Americas PPP Deal of the Year by each of Project Finance International and Project Finance magazine.

• Acted for the owners of the Ritz-Carlton, Montréal in connection with the sale of the property, and the redevelopment of the property as a boutique hotel and luxury condominiums.

• Acted for London Life Insurance Company and GWL Realty Advisors in the acquisition of the 2001 University office building, located in Montréal, Québec, by HOOPP Realty Inc. in a deal valued at $53.6 million.

• Acted for Amot Investments Ltd. in the acquisition of a 50% interest in Phase 1 of E-Commerce Place, Montréal, Québec.