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Xanadu in its cross-border de-SPAC transaction

On November 3, 2025, Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. (Xanadu) announced its going-public transaction by way of a business combination with Crane Harbor Acquisition Corporation (Crane Harbor), a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The transaction...

Lead Office: Toronto Date Announced: November 3, 2025 Value: US$3 billion

Trilogy in its take-private of Indigo Books & Music

On April 2, 2024, Indigo Books & Music Inc. announced that, based on the unanimous recommendation of an independent committee of its board of directors, it has entered into an arrangement agreement with Trilogy Investments L.P. and Trilogy Retail Holdings Inc. (personal holding companies of...

Lead Office: Toronto Date Closed: -- Value: -

Q4 in its acquisition by Sumeru Equity Partners

On February 1, 2024, Q4 announced the completion of its previously announced plan of arrangement. Pursuant to the arrangement, an entity controlled by Sumeru Equity Partners acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company for $6.05 in cash per common share. Certain shareholders...

Lead Office: Toronto Date Announced: February 1, 2024 Value: -

Lead investor in its strategic placement in Aimia

On October 13, 2023, Aimia announced a strategic investment by way of a private placement by several arm's length, seasoned strategic investors, including current and former Fortune 500 company CEOs and executives. Mithaq Capital was subsequently unsuccessful in its application to the...

Lead Office: Toronto Date Closed: October 13, 2023 Value: -

Facebook Inc. in the successful dismissal of the plaintiff’s appeal from an order denying certification of a proposed class action

On March 1, 2022, the Divisional Court dismissed the plaintiff’s appeal from an order denying certification of a putative privacy class action against Facebook, Inc. The decision addresses the “some basis in fact” standard and reinforces the principle that a...

Lead Office: Toronto Date Closed: March 1, 2022 Value: --

GitHub Inc. in its class proceeding concerning an alleged data breach involving the information of credit card applicants

In April 2021, Osler represented GitHub Inc. in a proposed class proceeding concerning an alleged data breach involving the information of credit card applicants. The plaintiffs added GitHub Inc. after the plaintiffs' counsel won the carriage of the proposed class proceeding. GitHub...

Lead Office: Toronto Date Closed: April 6, 2021 Value: -

Facebook, Inc. in the successful dismissal of certification of a proposed class action

Osler successfully defeated the certification of a proposed class action against Facebook, Inc. and Facebook Canada Ltd. The plaintiff claimed that an entity known as Cambridge Analytica obtained information about Canadian Facebook users from a Cambridge University professor named Dr. Kogan. The...

Lead Office: Toronto Date Closed: February 16, 2021 Value: -

BP p.l.c. in Kaynes v BP

On January 20, 2021 the Court of Appeal for Ontario released its decision in Kaynes v BP, effectively ending a decade-long securities class action. This action arose from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in 2010, with the plaintiff claiming that Canadian BP shareholders suffered...

Lead Office: Toronto Date Closed: January 20, 2021 Value: -

Husky Energy Inc. in its $23.6 billion agreement with Cenovus Energy Inc. to create a new integrated energy leader

On October 25, 2020, Cenovus Energy Inc. and Husky Energy Inc. announced they have entered into an agreement through which they will create a new integrated Canadian oil and natural gas company. The transaction will combine Cenovus and Husky in an all-stock transaction valued at $23.6...

Lead Office: Calgary Date Closed: January 4, 2021 Value: $23.6 billion