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Arthur J. Peltomaa

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Art analyzes and provides solutions for intricate and challenging legal issues in both transactional and litigation contexts.

As the firm's Opinions Counsel, Arthur Peltomaa provides advice and assistance to lawyers, clients of the firm and to members of the profession generally, including corporate general counsel and their staff.

Art's practice ranges from advice on corporate governance and shareholder dispute matters to assistance with the design of innovative transaction structures, including domestic and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions and insolvency restructurings. He has a special interest in issues relating to lawyers' professional responsibility and conflict of interest regulation.

A former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Ontario and a former teaching fellow at the Osgoode Hall Law School, Art has also worked as a consultant to the Law Reform Commission of Canada. Art is the author of Annual Review of Corporate Law (Carswell, 1996), a book on developments in Canadian corporate law, and has written papers and articles on a broad range of legal topics. He is recognized in Lexpert's Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada.

Education

Brock University, BA, 1974 Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 1977 Osgoode Hall Law School, LLM, 1981 Institute of Art and Law, Diploma in Intellectual Property and Collections, 2019 

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 1981

Recent Experience

Research In Motion Limited, in its $150-million acquisition of Certicom Corp.
CIBC Mellon Trust Company, Computershare Trust Company and BNY Trust Company, in the $35 billion restructuring of the third party ABCP in accordance with The Montreal Proposal.
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc., in the sale of Movie Distribution Income Fund's 49 percent indirect interest in Motion Picture Distribution LP.
Health Care Property Investors Inc., in its $1.4-billion offer to acquire all of the outstanding units of Sunrise Senior Living Real Estate Investment Trust.
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc., in the $2.3-billion sale of all the outstanding shares of the company by way of plan of arrangement to Canwest, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and EdgeStone Capital Partners.
Infrastructure Ontario and Niagara Health System, in the alternative financing and procurement transaction for a new acute care hospital and cancer centre in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Research In Motion Limited, in the successful resolution of shareholder litigation connected to RIM's review of historical option practices.
Senior bondholders of Stelco Inc. (steel), the largest group of affected creditors, in a $3-billion reorganization of Stelco under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and the issuance of new senior floating rate notes thereunder.
Sun-Times Media Group Inc., Chicago-based newspaper group formerly known as Hollinger International, in the various multi-jurisdictional court and regulatory proceedings against the former CEO, Ravelston Corporation Ltd., and Hollinger Inc., among others.
Hollinger International and the Special Committee of Hollinger International before the Ontario Securities Commission in its successful opposition to Ravelston's effort to privatize Hollinger Inc. Representation of Hollinger International in Ravelston's ensuing insolvency proceedings.
Natsource CF Corporation, in the completion of a series of transactions involving the forward purchase and syndicated onward sale of approximately 44 million certified emission reductions expected to be created by a nitrous oxide decomposition project in China.
Warrant holders of ID Biomedical, in the successful blocking of a $1.7-billion buyout of ID Biomedical by GlaxoSmithKline.

Recent Recognition

Lexpert Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada
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