Linda Tu, Toronto

About Linda

Linda's practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital markets transactions. She acts for private equity sponsors, public and private companies, boards of directors and special committees, institutional and strategic investors and underwriters on complex transactions.

Linda has extensive experience advising purchasers and sellers, including special committees and boards of directors, in public and private M&A transactions, as well as private equity sponsors and institutional investors on acquisitions, investments and dispositions. Her M&A experience includes acquisitions and divestitures, going-private transactions and strategic investments. She also advises public companies and their boards on securities law, continuous disclosure, corporate governance and other strategic matters.

Linda has represented clients in a wide range of industry sectors, including retail and consumer products, technology, financial services, investment funds, mining, agriculture, cannabis, renewable energy and real estate.

Prior to joining Blakes, Linda practised in the Toronto office of another national firm, providing corporate and securities law advice, and completed a secondment with the Ontario Securities Commission.

Linda also speaks Mandarin Chinese.

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Recent M&A, capital markets, private equity and investment management transactions include advising:

The Special Committee of the Board of Trustees of Minto Apartment Real Estate Investment Trust on its C$2.3-billion going private transaction with Crestpoint Real Estate and Minto Group
Maple Leaf Foods in connection with its "butterfly" spin-off of Canada Packers as a new independent public company
HPS Investment Partners on its C$1.9-billion acquisition of Chorus Aviation's regional aircraft leasing business
TrueContext Corporation in connection with its acquisition by Battery Ventures
Sycamore Partners in connection with its acquisition of the Canadian business of Lowe's Companies
WPT Industrial REIT in connection with its US$3.1-billion acquisition by Blackstone REIT
Cboe Global Markets in connection with its acquisitions of MATCHNow and Neo Exchange
Starlight Investments and KingSett Capital in connection with their C$4.9-billion acquisition of Northview Apartment REIT
Americold Realty Trust in connection with its acquisitions of Nova Cold Logistics and Liberty Infrastructures
Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Alberta Teachers' Retirement Fund Board in connection with their C$1.7-billion acquisition of AltaGas Canada Inc.
Starlight Fund 5 in connection with its US$1.4-billion acquisition by Tricon Capital Group
CCCC International Holding Limited in connection with its proposed C$1.51-billion acquisition of Aecon Group Inc.
HLS Therapeutics Inc. in connection with its going-public transaction by way of reverse take-over
The Stars Group Inc. in connection with its announced C$6.0-billion acquisition of Sky Betting & Gaming
A mining royalty company in connection with its C$152-million multi-asset stream transaction with a Canadian-based gold producer
The underwriters and agents in connection with various public and private offerings including: initial public offerings of LifeSpeak and Propel Holdings; securities offerings of Air Canada and Source Energy Services, a Canadian-based mining company; and various high yield and investment grade notes offerings
Issuers in connection with various IPOs and other debt and equity offerings including secondary offerings of Celestica Inc., common share offerings by Converge Technology Solutions, debenture offerings by ECN Capital, offerings of stapled units of Granite REIT, C$150-million preferred share offerings by a national retailer, a C$220-million common share offering and C$150-million convertible debenture offerings by a renewable power producer, and an aggregate of C$1.8-billion of maple bond offerings for an international brewing company