 Bennett Jones Ted M. ShoubPartner • Co-Head of Commercial Transactions Practice Toronto shoubt@bennettjones.com Education York University, BA (Hons., Political Science), 1992 University of Toronto, MA (Political Science), 1993 University of British Columbia, LLB, 1998 Bar Admissions Ontario, 2000 Overview Ted Shoub has a corporate commercial practice and advises private companies on mergers and acquisitions, financings, partnership/shareholder/joint venture agreements, distribution and licensing agreements, corporate governance, corporate reorganizations, general corporate matters, as well as day-to-day commercial matters. Ted has worked with clients in a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, agribusiness, professional services, financial services, construction, cannabis, pharmaceuticals and software. Ted has many years of experience in representing licensed professional services firms, such as professional engineering, architecture, land surveying, lighting design, landscape architecture and accounting, including in M&A transactions, as well as providing advice regarding the professional registration of, and ongoing compliance requirements for, professional firms practicing across Canada. Ted is co-head of the firm’s Canada - Israel Initiative, focused on advising Israeli companies looking to raise capital in or make investments in Canada or to expand their businesses into Canada, as well as on Canadian companies looking to invest in Israel or to partner with Israeli companies. Ted is one of the founders of "The Maple & Honey Forum" (LinkedIn), which serves as a premier platform for investing and growing businesses interested in leveraging the Canada-Israel relationship. Prior to joining Bennett Jones, Ted was a partner in another international law firm. Select Experience • Employment Hero Holdings, as Canadian counsel, in its acquisition of Humi Holdings, valued at over C$100 million • Acquisition of IBI Group Inc. by Arcadis NV for $873 million via a plan of arrangement. • Teknaform Inc., a manufacturer of PVC edgebanding products, in its sale to a portfolio company of Incline Equity Partners, a Pittsburgh-based private equity fund. • IBI Group Inc. in connection with its bought deal prospectus offering and concurrent private placement of $46 million aggregate principal amount of 6.50% senior unsecured debentures. • Freed Developments Ltd. in its approximately $330-million acquisition of a portfolio of real property assets of including Horseshoe Valley Resort, Deerhurst Resort and some additional lands from Skyline Investments, together with the purchase of the portion of Muskoka Bay Resort it did not already own. • IBI Group Investment Partnership, in connection with its bought deal private placement of 1,200,000 common shares of IBI Group Inc. for total proceeds of $12,000,000. • Sale of shares of Complete Immigration Medical Centre to Think Research Corporation • Sale of Supply Chain Alliance to Metro Supply Chain Group • Sale of AssessMed to Lifemark Health Group. • OSG Billings Services, as Canadian counsel, in its acquisition of Formost mediaOne. • IBI Group, in its asset purchase of GreenOwl Mobile. • NeoGraft Solutions Inc., in the sale of its hair restoration business to Venus Concept Ltd. • Diversified, in its acquisition of the business of Advanced Presentation Products. • Canadian counsel to Conagra Brands, Inc. in its $10-9 billion acquisition of Pinnacle Foods Inc. • NeoGraft Solutions Inc., on its acquisition of Medicamat • Acal plc on its acquisition of Plitron Manufacturing Inc. • Sale of William Ward Publishing to Black Book (National Auto Research, a division of Hearst Business Media) • Sale of Mr. X Inc. to Technicolor • Cascades Inc., in the acquisition of folding carton converting and paperboard mill assets of Norampac, a division of Cascades Canada ULC • Sale of SENES Consultants Limited and Decommissioning Consulting Services Limited to ARCADIS • CHA Consulting acquisition of Gryphon International Engineering Inc. • TerreStar Networks Inc., as Canadian counsel, in its CCAA recognition proceedings of TerreStar's chapter 11 cases • Cascades Inc., on its acquisition of the tissue division assets of Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd. • IBI Group acquisitions, including: Cardinal Hardy Architects (Montreal), Page + Steele Incorporated (Toronto), Rhon Ernest-Jones Consulting Engineers Inc. (Florida), Young + Wright Architects Inc. (Toronto), Gruzen Samton Architects (New York), Giffels Professional Engineering (US and Canada), CSM Engineering Ltd. (Fort McMurray), Nightingale Architects Limited (UK), MAAK Technologies Group Inc. (Toronto), Dull Olson Weekes Architects (Portland, Oregon), Bay Architects (Houston), Tetra Design, Inc. (California), CRJA Landscape Architects (Boston) and Taylor Young Limited Architects (UK). • Bunzl acquisitions including: Network Paper and Packaging Limited, Marpak Packaging Systems Limited, McCordick Glove & Safety Inc. and Jan-Mar Sales Limited • Sale of Skyservice Airlines Inc. to Gibralt Capital Corporation by way of a corporate plan of arrangement • Cogeco Cable Inc. acquisition of Cabovisão–Televisão por Cabo, S.A. following restructuring under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act • Team, Inc. acquisition of the Aitec group of companies • Lewis-Goetz acquisition of Goodall Rubber • Kaplan, Inc. acquisition of SpellRead P.A.T. • IGM Financial Inc.'s (formerly Investors Group Inc.) indirect acquisition of a majority equity interest in IPC Financial Network Inc. • Amex Bank of Canada's launching of its co-branded Holt Renfrew & Co. Ltd. credit card, involving the transition of the previously existing Holt Renfrew in-store card from Trans Canada Retail Services Company • Enbridge Energy Distribution Inc.'s sale to Fortis Inc. of its 100 per cent interest in Cornwall Street Railway Light and Power Company Limited (Cornwall Electric) • J2 Management Corp.'s acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of A.G. Simpson Automotive Inc., following the restructuring of A.G. Simpson Automotive under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act • Bayer Corporation acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Visible Genetics Inc. by way of a corporate plan of arrangement • Consumers Packaging Inc.'s sale of substantially all of its Canadian glass manufacturing assets to a wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S.-based Owens-Illinois Inc. by way of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act |