Patrick Menda

Recent representative transactions include acting for:

• Valsoft Corporation on a US$100-million minority investment by Viking Global Investors

• A U.S. private equity fund on its sale of Sustana Group

• General Dynamics on its investment in Laflamme Aero Inc.

• PIPP Mobile Storage on its acquisition of Greenhouse Growers Ltd. and its affiliates

• Graybar Canada Limited on its acquisition of Groupe Electro-Mag Ltd.

• Intact Financial Corporation on its acquisition of specialty insurer The Guarantee Company of North America and Frank Cowan Company Limited for C$1-billion

• A U.S. private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of BioVectra Inc.

• A U.S. private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of Rideau Recognition Solutions

• Altium Packaging Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Consolidated Container Company, on its acquisition of Plastique Micron Inc.

• Maple Leaf Foods in connection with its acquisition of Viau Food Products Inc.

• A U.S. private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of Recochem Inc.

• Groupe LAUAK in connection with the purchase of the aerospace tube manufacturing division of Bombardier Inc.

• A U.S. private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of Spinrite L.P.

• Transurban Group in relation to its acquisition of the A25 toll road bridge in Quebec, Canada from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners

• A global defense company in relation to the sale of its commercial flight training unit to CAE Inc.

• Infolytica Corporation in relation to its acquisition by the Siemens/Mentor Group

• Novacap Industries on its sale of Laces Group to ONCAP

• A U.S. private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of Altasciences Company

• ECU Silver Mining Inc. on its plan of arrangement transaction with Golden Minerals Company

• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board with its private placement in GENIVAR Inc.

• Novacap Industries on its acquisition of Hallcon Corporation

• Health Montreal Collective Limited Partnership in connection with its public-private partnership (P3) with the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal for the design, construction, finance, operation and maintenance of the new Université de Montréal hospital centre in Montreal, Quebec, the largest P3 hospital project in Canadian history

• Novacap Industries on its acquisition of Laces Group

• Novacap Industries on its acquisition of Le Groupe Master

• Novacap Industries on its acquisition of PIPP Mobile Storage

• Accès Recherche Montréal Limited Partnership in connection with its P3 with the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal for the design, construction, finance, operation and maintenance of the new medical research centre of the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec

• A major Canadian institutional investor with its acquisition, through a consortium formed together with BluEarth Renewables Inc., of ACH Limited Partnership, a subsidiary of Resolute Forest Products (formerly AbitibiBowater Inc.) and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

• Belron Canada Incorporated on a series of share and asset acquisitions throughout Canada

Patrick is recognized in:

• Chambers Canada: Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business 2024 (Private Equity: Buyouts, Corporate/Commercial)
  

• Lexpert Special Edition: Mining 2023

• The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2023 (Corporate Mid-Market, Corporate Commercial Law, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions)

• Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2023 (Private Equity: Buyouts)

• The Best Lawyers in Canada 2023 (Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law)

• The 2016 Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada (Corporate Lawyers to Watch)

• Co-author: Ability to Communicate in French: Disclosure to the Quebec Enterprise Registrar Now in Effect
  Blakes Bulletin on Corporate & Commercial, June 21, 2023.

Admitted to the Quebec Bar – 2003
LLB, Université de Sherbrooke – 2002
BA (Political Sciences), Concordia University – 1999