TransactionsAlexis Minerals Completes Offer for Garson Gold Corp.Published: 03/08/2010 By Alexandra Iliopoulos, Philip Long, Christopher B. Norton, John P. Vettese On January 19, 2010, Alexis Minerals Corporation announced its bid to acquire Garson Gold Corp. resulted in over 90% of Garson shares being tendered to the Offer. A total of 171,232,328 common shares of Garson Gold were tendered to the Offer under the bid. Garson Gold shareholders who tendered to the Offer received 0.29 of an Alexis common share for each Garson Gold common share tendered. Alexis plans to commence the statutory procedures required to acquire the remaining Garson Gold shares at the same exchange ratio as of the Offer. Successful completion of such statutory procedures will result in Alexis owning 100% of the Garson Gold common shares. Cassels Brock acted for Alexis Minerals Corporation with a team that included John Vettese (Securities and Mining), Alexandra Iliopoulos (Securities), Jason MacIntosh (Securities), Phillip Long (Securities) and Chris Norton (Tax). |