Lawyer

Laurence Babin

• Acted as counsel to the shareholders of Groupe ABS Inc. and its subsidiaries, a Quebec-based consulting engineering firm offering services in materials monitoring and engineering, metallurgy, geotechnics, environment, geophysics, building science and rock mechanics, in the sale of the majority of their shares to Groupe Ginger, a French company specializing in engineering;
• Acted on behalf of Corbec Group in connection with the formation of a joint venture with Fabrimet Group for the acquisition of the shares of Galvanisation Quebec Inc. and the construction and operation of a hot dip galvanizing plant in Quebec;
• Acted on behalf of Groupe Champagne, a door and window sales and installation company, in its acquisition of the assets of A&D Prévost, a company specializing in architectural aluminum systems, in the context of an investment solicitation and sale process implemented by Restructuration Deloitte Inc. following the filing of a notice of intention by A&D Prévost, under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act;
• Acted on behalf of Renaud-Bray in its acquisition of Omer DeSerres, Lamarche Importation and Cadres Verbec, corporations specialized in the retail of art, leisure and office supplies, and offering framing and laminating services;
• Acted on behalf of Polara, a Quebec-based company of the Girardin group specializing in the electrification of transportation, in its acquisition of shares in Cléo Innovations inc., a subsidiary of Hydro-Québec specializing in charging stations (2024);
• Acted on behalf of Novolecs in the acquisition of the assets of Stace, a factory specializes in the design and manufacture of low and medium voltage auxiliary equipment, serving a large local and international customer base (2024);
• Acted as counsel for the shareholders of Transit Truck Bodies Inc., a company specialized in high-quality truck bodies, in connection with the sale of the company to Morgan Truck Body, LLC, a leader in the North American light and medium-duty van market (2024);
• Acted on behalf of Damotech, one of North America’s leading specialists in pallet racking safety, in the investment by Mountaingate Capital, a Denver-based private equity firm, to support its growth in Canada and the United States (2023);
• Acted on behalf of KSH Solutions Inc., a Montréal-based consulting, engineering, and EPC/EPCM services company specializing in the pulp and paper, chemicals, biorefinery, energy, water and environment and chemical sectors, and its shareholders in the sale of the shares of KSH Solutions Inc. to AFRY Group Finland OY (2023);
• Acted as counsel for Datatonic Holdings Ltd, a U.K.-based company in the context of its acquisition of Montreal Analytics Inc., a Quebec-based company specialized in providing consulting services focused on the strategy, planning, development and implementation of data platforms to growing businesses in the context of an exchangeable share structure (2023); 
• Acted on behalf of Sunshine Biopharma Inc. (NASDAQ: “SBFM”), a pharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of oncology and antiviral drugs, in its acquisition of Nora Pharma Inc., a Canadian pharmaceutical company offering generic and specialty drugs and one of North America’s fastest growing generic pharmaceutical companies (2022);
• Acted on behalf of Groupe Soucy and JLD-Laguë, supported by Champlain Financial Corporation, in its acquisition of Location Sauvageau and Location Légaré (2022);
• Acted on behalf of Resonetics LLC, as Canadian counsel, in its acquisition of AGILE MV, a Montreal-based medical device development company. (2022);
• Acted on behalf of Notarius, a Quebec-based and Canadian leader and provider of solutions that safeguard the long-term reliability of electronic documents, in its acquisition by Portage CyberTech Inc., a subsidiary of Converge Technology Solutions Corp., a software-enabled IT & Cloud Solutions provider. (2022);
• Acted on behalf of Difuze Inc. a Canadian leader in the postproduction, versioning and distribution of audiovisual content, in its acquisition of SpeakEasy DV Inc. a company specialized in video description (2022);
• Acted on behalf of Archimed in Québec through MED III as part of its investment in Corealis Pharma, a North American CDMO. This partnership will allow the leading CDMO in the Americas to provide oral pharmaceutical dosage formulations and clinical supply manufacturing of growth accelerator (2022);
• Acted on behalf of Marshall Fields International BV, an Amsterdam-based holding company, in its acquisition of CannTrust Equity (2022);
• Acted on behalf of Energere Inc. a company specializing in energy efficiency and intelligent street lighting in its sale to Ainsworth Inc., a subsidiary of GDI Integrated Facility Services Inc. (2022);
• Acted on behalf of Andlauer Healthcare Group (TSX: AND) in its acquisition of all the shares of Unité de Support Logistique (LSU) Inc. (2022);
• Acted as Canadian counsel to GTCR LLC, a Chicago-based U.S. investment fund, and Jet Support Services Inc. in its acquisition of the shares of Traxxall, an aviation maintenance software company (2022);
• Acted on behalf of the acquiring group in the going private transaction of Sportscene Group Inc. owning, among others, La Cage-Brasserie Sportive restaurants (2022);
• Acted on behalf of Dye & Durham as Québec counsel in its acquisition of Telus Solutions in Finance (2021);
• Acted on behalf of Epsilyte Holdings LLC, a leading materials supplier, in its acquisition of StyroChem Canada Ltd, a North American producer of expandable polystyrene (2021).