Transactions
utility assets$79 million
Advisor to ad-hoc group of preferred equity Holders of Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation in the confirmation of the Ch. 11 Plan of Reorganization
$4.5 billion of restructured liabilities
Sale of Maine hydroelectric assets
Sale of Kimberly, WI hydroelectric assets to Kaukauna Utilities
$6 million
Financial advisor
Sale of Niagara, WI hydroelectric assets to Energy Investors Funds and Northbrook Energy
Financial advisor
Growth capital raise for Port Alice, British Columbia dissolving pulp mill
$40 million
Sale of substantially all assets including a 260,000 ton premium paper mill and 161,000 acres of timberland to Atlas Holdings and Blue Wolf Capital Management
Sale of Leavenworth, WA sawmill and associated log supply agreements to Hampton Affiliates
Sale of New Westminster, British Columbia coated paper mill
Sale of Manistique Papers uncoated groundwood specialties mill to Remark Paper/Merit Capital
Sale of Otsego, MI paperboard mill to U.S. Gypsum
Acquisition of Valentine Paper
Strategic Advisor regarding proposed merger with International Paper's Industrial Papers Business
Sale to an affiliate of James Azzar
Acquisition of Crown Pacific sawmill assets
$73 million
Sale of Port Huron, MI mill to Meriturn Partners
Our personnel have completed the following assignments prior to establishing Sanabe:
Strategic Transactions
Sale to Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation
$1.4 billion
Sale to UPM-Kymmene
C$1.3 billion
Sale of Great Northern Paper mill and timberland assets
$450 million
Acquisition of Williamhouse Envelope business and related financing
$130 million
Sale to Corporacion Durango
$120 million
Sale to Georgia-Pacific
$1.5 billion
Sale of timberlands to Rayonier
$710 million
Investment in Mid-American Tissue
$20 million
Sale of timberlands to Plum Creek Timber and concurrent placement
of installment note
$180 million
Sale of Pressure Sensitive Business to Spinnaker Industries
$50 million
Sale to Charterhouse Group
Financial advisor
Acquisition of West Point, VA paper mill from Chesapeake Corporation
$500 million
Sale of Star Forms to CST Office Products
$80 million
Acquisition of Crosse Pointe Papers from Pentair
$205 million
Acquisition of S.D. Warren
$1.6 billion
Financing Transactions
Sole managed Senior Secured Notes offering
$100 million
Co-lead managed Senior and Senior Subordinated Notes offering
$450 million
Secured debt acquisition financing
$305 million
Lead managed Senior Subordinated Debentures offering
$275 million
Lead managed Senior Notes offering
$200 million
Lead managed Senior Notes offering
$125 million
Acquisition financing
(Senior Subordinated Notes and Preferred Stock)
$450 million
Initial public offering
C$348 million
Sale of interest in Eurocan Investments Ltd. to West Fraser Timber Co.
Secondary offering of
51% interest in
Lead underwriter
C$971 million
Pacific Forest Products Initial public offering
C$130 million