Award recipients 2009
2009 winners
2009 Private Equity Mid-Market Award
TorQuest Partners Inc. and FirstOnSite Restoration L.P.
Recipient advisors: Stikeman Elliott LLP • Deloitte & Touché LLP • KPMG LLP • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP • Bank of Montréal • Bank of Nova Scotia • National Bank Financial Target advisors: CCC Investment Banking • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
2009 Industrials Industry Award
Aecon Group Inc.
Recipient advisors: Bennett Jones LLP • TD Securities • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Target advisors: Macleod Dixon LLP • Dorsey & Whitney LLP • GMP Securities L.P. • KPMG LLP
2009 Private Equity Award
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Recipient advisors: Rothschild • Goldman Sachs JBWere • Spectrum Value Partners • Gibson Quai-AAS • Allens Arthur Robinson • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP • KPMG LLP • URS Corporation Target advisors: Macquarie Bank Limited • Clifford Chance LLP • Freehills • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
2009 Deal Team of the Year Award
Crescent Point Energy Corp.
Recipient advisors: McCarthy Tétrault LLP • Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP • BMO Capital Markets • Scotia Capital Inc. • CIBC World Markets Inc. • RBC Capital Markets • FirstEnergy Capital Corp. • National Bank Financial • Peters & Co. Limited • Deloitte & Touché LLP
2009 IPO of the Year Award
Dollarama Inc.
Recipient advisors: Stikeman Elliott LLP • Ogilvy Renault LLP • Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP • RBC Dominion Securities Inc. • CIBC World Markets Inc. • Credit Suisse Securities (Canada), Inc.
2009 Mining Industry Award
Eldorado Gold Corporation
Recipient advisors: Macquarie Capital Advisors • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP • Freehills • Deloitte & Touché LLP • KPMG LLP • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP • Link Market Services Limited • Valiant Trust Company Target advisors: Goldman Sachs • JBWere Pty Ltd. • Allens Arthur Robinson • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP • Ernst & Young LLP • Grant Samuel & Associates Pty Limited • Registries Limited
2009 Consumer Business Industry Award
Groupe Aeroplan Inc.
Recipient advisors: RBC Capital Markets • Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. • Ogilvy Renault LLP • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP • Stikeman Elliott LLP • Royal Bank of Canada Target advisors: Petsky Prunier LLC
2009 Value Creation Award
Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd.
Recipient advisors: TD Securities • Haywood Securities Inc. • Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. • UBS Securities Canada Inc. • Saether Capital Corp. • McCarthy Tétrault LLP • Deloitte & Touché LLP • Toronto-Dominion Bank • Bank of Montréal • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce • Bank of Nova Scotia • Royal Bank of Canada • Société Générale (Canada Branch) • BNP Paribas (Canada) • Alberta Treasury Branches • Union Bank, Canada Branch • HSBC Bank Canada • Credit Suisse, Toronto Branch • Canadian Western Bank Target advisors: Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd. • BMO Capital Markets • CIBC World Markets Inc. • GMP Securities L.P. • National Bank Financial
2009 Information Technology Industry Award
Sierra Wireless Inc.
Recipient advisors: CIBC World Markets Inc. • TD Securities • Lazard • Linklaters LLP • Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Target advisors:Merrill Lynch • Jones Day
2009 Energy Industry Award
Suncor Energy Inc.
Recipient advisors: CIBC World Markets Inc. • Morgan Stanley • Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP • Shearman & Sterling LLP • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Target advisors: RBC Capital Markets • Deutsche Bank • Macleod Dixon LLP • Torys LLP • Deloitte & Touché LLP
2009 Strategic Deal of the Year Award
Suncor Energy Inc.
Recipient advisors: CIBC World Markets Inc. • Morgan Stanley • Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP • Shearman & Sterling LLP • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Target advisors: RBC Capital Markets • Deutsche Bank • Macleod Dixon LLP • Torys LLP • Deloitte & Touché LLP
2009 Utilities Industry Award
TransAlta Corporation
Recipient advisors: Goldman Sachs • RBC Capital Markets • Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP • Ernst & Young LLP • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce • Bank of Nova Scotia • HSBC Bank Canada • Royal Bank of Scotland • Longview Communications Target advisors:FirstEnergy Capital Corp. • Societé Générale • Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
2009 Global Expansion Award
Viterra Inc.
Recipient advisors: Torys LLP • Genuity Capital Markets • Freehills • Macquarie Capital Advisors • Deloitte & Touché LLP Target advisors:Johnson Winter & Slattery • JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Deloitte & Touché LLP
2009 Mid-Market Award
Worldlynx Wireless LP and Mistral Equity Partners LLC
Recipient advisors: Genuity Capital Markets • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP • McCarthy Tétrault LLP • Aird & Berlis LLP • DLA Piper US LLP • Van Doorne N.V. • Deloitte & Touché LLP • Grant Thornton LLP • Straighthink Inc. • G.C. Anderson Partners, LLC • Kent Thexton • Randall Reynolds • Lance McIntosh • Bank of Montréal • TD Commercial Banking Target advisors: McCarter Grespan Beynon Weir • Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP • Lockington Lawless Fitzpatrick LLP • Mosher Chedore Barrister & Solicitors • Aird & Berlis LLP • Ernest H. Cutler Law Office • Giffen & Partners • Bingham, Robinson, MacLennan Ehrhardt Teed LLP • Cunningham Swan Carty Little & Bonham LLP • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP