Why Sanabe?

Sanabe's principals have over forty-five years experience advising the building products, paper and packaging and renewable energy industries in the United States, Canada, Europe and South Africa on dozens of transactions including:

• Buy and sell side advisory
• Restructurings
• Debt recapitalizations
• Debt and equity financings
• Principal/Merchant banking transactions

The boutique structure enables us to give senior level attention to all of our clients' projects.

Since establishing Sanabe, we have acted for a variety of American and Canadian clients, including Ainsworth Lumber, Catalyst Paper, Cellu Tissue Holdings, Domtar, Finch, Pruyn, Huttig Building Products, Interfor, Kruger, Longview Fibre, Menasha Packaging, NewPage, Smurfit-Stone Container (Ad-Hoc Group of Preferred Equity Holders) and Wellspring Capital Managment/Neucel Specialty Cellulose.

Before establishing Sanabe, we worked at some of the leading investment banks in the United States and Canada, including Morgan Stanley, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Credit Suisse First Boston and Burns Fry Limited.

Examples of clients with whom we have completed transactions over the years include:

• Badger Paper Mills
• Bowater/Great Northern Paper
• Curtis Papers' Port Huron Mill
• Finch, Pruyn & Company
• Longview Fibre
• NewPage Little Quinnesec Hydroelectric Facility
• Repap Enterprises
• Smurfit-Stone Container (Ad-Hoc Group of Preferred Equity Holders)
• St. Laurent Paperboard
• Synergics Energy Services Hydroelectric Assets

Other clients have included: Noranda Forest, Sappi, Avenor, Stone Container and Enzo-Gutzeit (Stora Enso).