Overview

This is a second stage transaction (to make BPO wholly-owned with the exception of non-exchanging convertible preferred shareholders) occurring pursuant to a CBCA Plan of Arrangement and on essentially the same terms as the previous February 2014 offer (so that there is an option to receive exchangeable units of a subsidiary LP of BPY) except that BPO shareholders also will have the option of having their BPO shares redeemed by BPO itself for cash or BPY units.

Previous Offer

. On May 16, 2013, Plazacorp acquired 88.5% of the units of KEYreit pursuant to its April 10, 2013 offer to purchase all the KEYreit units for $8.35 cash, or 1.7041 Plazacorp shares, or a combination thereof (subject to proration), per KEYreit unit. See previous Circular.

Overview

The Circular proposes a second-stage acquisition transaction following the acquisition of 74.6% of the common shares of Fibrek by RFP Acquisition. RFP Acquisition is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Resolute (formerly named AbitibiBowater Inc.), which is a Delaware corporation.

Offeror

The Offeror is an Ontario LP whose LP units are owned equally by an affiliate of KingSett Capital, and OPB Trust, an associate of OPB. A majority of the shares of the GP of the Offeror are owned by KingSett Capital, with the balance by OPB Trust.

Offer by Liquor Stores for all the units of Liquor Barns on the basis of .53 of a Liquor Store unit for each Liquor Barn unit. Those Canadian Liquor Barn unitholders who wish rollover treatment make a "Merger Election" at the time they deposit their units to the Offer. The offer relies on the right under the Liquor Barn declaration of trust to proceed on the basis of a written resolution of 2/3 of the Liquor Barn unitholders (the "Special Resolution") approving a merger of Liquor Barns into Liquor Stores as described in s.

Cash offer by Bidco of Brookfield, CPPIB and ARCA Investments for all the units of O&Y REIT. A subsequent transaction is proposed under which, following the take-up of the tendered units, the declaration of trust for the REIT would be amended to make the units redeemable for the offer price, to be paid for out of the sales proceeds of the REIT assets to the acquisition group.

Overview

Cominar REIT through 10 Newco subsidiaries is offering cash or (at the Canmarc unitholder's option) Cominar units for Canmarc units, subject to the total number of Cominar units being capped at 16M but with no potential proration of the cash consideration. The Canmarc Units would be acquired through separate corporate subsidiaries as Cominar is a s. 108(2)(b) unit trust.

Overview

The Trust is to acquire all of the outstanding shares of VKY (a.k.a.,VisionSky) under an Alberta Plan of Arrangement, on the basis of 0.125 of a Trust unit for each share, so as to result in VKY shareholders holding approximately 12.3% of the Trust units. The newly-formed Trust completed a private placement of Trust units in November 2012 for proceeds of $7.4M in order to acquire U.S. oil exploration assets, utilizing the structure described below.

Overview

Offer by Plazacorp for units of KEYreit. The consideration is a combination of cash and Plazacorp shares (with the ability to make an s 85 election), with such consideration being at the election of the KEYreit unitholder but with the overall cash and share proportions fixed at 50-50. The consideration (valued at $8.35 per KEYreit unit) represents a 35% premium over the closing price when the rival Huntingdon offer was announced. (The Huntingdon offer was varied and extended, most recently, on April 1, 2013.)