Alex C. Roberts

Partner
About

Alex C. Roberts has a corporate finance practice with a focus in the areas of banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, ‎joint ventures, private equity, corporate reorganizations and restructurings and general corporate commercial law. ‎

He routinely handles multijurisdictional secured and unsecured lending transactions with an emphasis on asset-based and ‎corporate lending, acquisition financings, project finance and structured finance. ‎

He also acts for public and private companies and private equity funds in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ‎ventures, as well as complex corporate and tax reorganizations and restructurings.‎

Bar admissionsOntario, 1996

EXPERIENCE

FINANCE
  • Counsel to G3 Global Group in connection with two term loan syndicated credit facilities in excess of $1 billion
  • Counsel to the borrowers in connection with a global $300 million syndicated credit facility established by Canadian ‎Imperial Bank of Commerce as agent for a global tire and rubber manufacturing company ‎
  • Counsel to TD Bank and Credit Suisse in connection with an $85 million structure equipment finance transaction ‎involving export credit insurance
  • Counsel to the lenders and the purchaser in respect of a $75 million purchase and sale and subsequent leasing ‎transaction of two flight simulators and three flight training devices from and to a TSX listed corporation in the ‎aeronautics industry
  • Counsel to the lenders in connection with a $43 million project financing transaction in respect of the 27 MW wind farm ‎in the Province of Newfoundland
  • Counsel to the lenders in connection with a $250 million project financing of the Contracted Flying Training and ‎Support Contract by the Government of Canada for the provision of primary flight training services to the Canadian Air ‎Force
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
  • Counsel to Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Company and its Canadian subsidiary in connection with the ‎‎$250 million acquisition of a controlling interest in The Canadian Wheat Board as a result of its commercialization‎
  • Counsel to Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Company and its Canadian subsidiary in connection with the ‎establishment of a joint venture for the development, construction and operation of a new state of the art grain ‎handling terminal in British Columbia
  • Counsel to Saudi Agricultural & Livestock Investment Company in connection with its establishment of operations and ‎joint venture arrangements in Canada with a NYSE listed company
  • Counsel to CBI Health Group and its management shareholders in connection with its acquisition by OMERS Private ‎Equity from Callisto Capital LLP
  • Counsel to a Canadian private equity fund in connection with its $90 million acquisition financing of a Canadian ‎healthcare business purchased from a U.S. public company and $63 million senior credit facility and $10 million ‎subordinated debt arrangements in connection therewith
  • Counsel to a TSX and NASDAQ listed corporation in the telecommunications industry in respect of $225 million ‎divestiture of fibre optic cable throughout parts of Canada and the U.S.‎
Languages
  • English
  • Italian
Education
  • LL.B., University of Western Ontario, ‎‎1994‎
  • B.A., University of Waterloo, 1991‎

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Law Society of Ontario
  • Canadian Bar Association

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