Shaw Communications closes $1.25 billion senior note offering
Client
Shaw Communications Inc.
On October 1, 2009, Shaw Communications Inc. (TSX: SJR.B) (NYSE: SJR) announced that it had closed its offering of $1.25 billion principal amount of 5.65% senior unsecured notes due 2019. The senior notes were made available in Canada and the United States, under Shaw’s previously filed shelf prospectus, pursuant to an agency agreement with TD Securities Inc. acting as lead agent.
Shaw is a diversified communications company whose core business is providing broadband cable television, High-Speed Internet, Digital Phone, telecommunications services and satellite direct-to-home services.
Fasken Martineau served as special regulatory counsel to Shaw in this transaction with a team consisting of Joel Fortune, Laurence Dunbar, Scott Prescott and Stephen Whitehead.
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