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AnorMED Inc.
Result: Kingsdale was successful in convincing
AnorMED shareholders not to tender into the original Genzyme
bid. This bought sufficient time for AnorMED to attract a friendly
superior bid from Millennium Pharmaceuticals.
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Baker Brothers LLC
Result: Kingsdale?s efforts resulted in 74%
of votes in favour of replacing AnorMED?s board with a slate
of candidates nominated by Baker Brothers.
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Bolivar Gold Corporation
Result: The transaction received a 76.6% approval
from Bolivar’s Common Shareholders and 82% approval from
Warrant and Option Holders.
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Goldcorp Inc.
Result: The transaction received 65% approval
based on 62.57% of outstanding shares voted.
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Goodwood Inc. & Mason Capital Management
Result: The transaction received 63% shares voted of the total shares issued and outstanding. This was the most decisive win by a dissident group in Canadian history.
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Leitch Technology Corporation
Result: The transaction received 54% shares
voted of the total shares issued and outstanding. The dissident
group was defeated by a vote of 81.8% in support of keeping
the current board.
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Mosaid Technologies
Result: With Kingsdale’s leadership and
solicitation efforts, ISS voted in favour of the current management
and recommend ded its clients vote the same. Immediately prior
to the shareholder meeting Mosaid management and the dissident
group negotiated a compromise whereby the current board would
be re-elected and four new members, chosen by the dissidents,
would make up the new ten member board..
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Royal Dutch Shell plc.
Result: Royal Dutch Shell held firm on its
offer and received the support of sufficient Shell Canada investors
that the transaction was successfully concluded.
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Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Inc.
Result: Kingsdale's dedicated efforts and innovative
approach paid off as approximately 81.6 per cent of the Agricore
United shareholders tendered into the offer.
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Tiverton Petroleum
Result: Over 45% of the outstanding shares
supported the merger with Arsenal Energy by way of Plan of Arrangement.
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Xstrata Inc.
Result: As Depositary, Kingsdale helped Xstrata
successfully acquire all of Falconbridge’s outstanding
shares, completing the largest cash transaction in Canadian
history, and creating the fifth-largest diversified mining company
in the world.
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Yamana Gold
Result: With an increase in Yamana’s
offer price, Meridian’s board accepted a revised offer.
Yamana went to Meridian shareholders once again, and with the
communications support of Kingsdale, won sufficient shareholder
approval to make the hard-fought combination a reality.
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Waterford Finance & Investment
Limited
Result: Despite the delay and in spite of the
letter from the Algerian Minister, the overwhelming support
for Waterford’s nominees held firm; leading to a negotiated
settlement which included the election of the entire dissident
slate of Directors (with two subsequent resignations in favour
of two incumbent nominees) and FCP CEO’s resignation with
his replacement named prior to the meeting.
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