Troutman Sanders Attorneys Highlighted as 2007 Dealmakers
Eight
Troutman Sanders attorneys were highlighted in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s annual Dealmakers section published March 14, 2008.
Aside from a cover article that included photos of five firm lawyers, those mentioned were Saba Ashraf, June Ann Sauntry, Cal Smith, Bo Strauss, David Carter, Michael Damgard,
Heather Ducat and Stephanie Simon.
The section had this to say about Cal Smith’s work on the $1.6 billion merger of Bowater Inc. and Abitibi-Consolidated: “Along with dealing with an already thorny merger of equals, Smith needed
to structure a ‘top hat’ deal that would create a new company atop the two former firms…He orchestrated this cross-border transaction . . . at a time when Canadian national and provincial policies frowned on
such transactions involving that nation’s largest industry. It also came as North American paper manufacturers struggled with a steep downturn in demand.”
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