Sam Zadeh

Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

Toronto T:+1 416 216 4084

Sam Zadeh

Sam Zadeh has significant experience in domestic, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations and financings.

Through his broad practice, he represents clients of all sizes, from emerging and high-growth companies to large multinational organizations, in a variety of industries such as financial services, technology, pharmaceuticals, entertainment/media, resources and retail/consumer products.

Sam has acted for domestic and foreign acquirors, private equity sponsors, targets, special committees and boards of directors on all aspects of M&A transactions (both public and private), including statutory plans of arrangement, business combinations, reverse takeovers, going-private transactions, private equity transactions and negotiated acquisitions. He brings extensive experience in financings, representing issuers, underwriters and investors in initial public offerings, domestic and international debt and equity financings, private placements and alternative forms of financing. Sam also advises clients on a broad range of ongoing commercial, corporate governance and regulatory compliance matters.

Sam is a contributing author for a practical guidance on plans of arrangement published by LexisNexis for M&A practitioners.

Professional experience

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Education

J.D., Queen's University, 2015
B.A., York University, 2011

Admissions

Ontario 2016

Representative experience

Sam has acted in the following matters:

Mergers & Acquisitions

Carlsberg Group, in its $144 million cross-border acquisition of Waterloo Brewing Ltd. by way of a plan of arrangement
Genius Brands International, Inc., in its cross-border acquisition of Wow Unlimited Media Inc. by way of a plan of arrangement, including receipt of a significant regulatory approval from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the Investment Canada Act
Novo Holdings A/S, in its cross-border acquisition of Altasciences Acquisition Holdings, LP
Flexiti Financial Inc., in its $155 million cross-border sale (including conditional earn-outs) to CURO Group Holdings Corp. through two simultaneous plans of arrangement and in its concurrent closing of a $500 million credit facility
The board of directors of Agrium Inc., in connection with the company's US$36 billion merger of equals transaction with Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc.

Corporate Finance

Royal Bank of Canada, in several domestic public offerings of subordinated debt and preferred shares (including raising over $9 billion in aggregate of non-viability contingent capital (NVCC) subordinated notes and a $300 million offering of NVCC non-cumulative, 5-year rate reset preferred shares series BO), and in several renewals of its base shelf prospectus and medium-term notes program supplement
Bank of Nova Scotia, in its offerings of: (i)¥33 billion fixed-rate resettable NVCC subordinated notes (marking the first subordinated debt offering by a Canadian bank in Japanese currency under Canada's regime for bank capital); and (ii) ¥12 billion fixed-rate resettable NVCC subordinated notes
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited, in its offering of $600 million aggregate principal amount of unsecured medium-term notes
Visa Inc., in its €3.0 billion cross-border offering of senior notes
Barclays Bank PLC in connection with its investment in FreshBooks and in seed round financings

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