MDA LTD. Completes
Initial Public Offering
April 7, 2021
MDA Ltd. announced the
successful closing of its previously announced
initial public offering of common shares (the
“Common Shares”) of the Company (the
“Offering”). Pursuant to the Offering, MDA
issued 28,571,500 Common Shares at a price of
$14.00 per Common Share for gross proceeds to
the Company of approximately $400 million.
The Common Shares are
listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the
symbol “MDA”.
The Offering was made
through a syndicate of underwriters led by BMO
Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley Canada Limited
and Scotiabank, as joint bookrunners, with
Barclays Capital Canada Inc., RBC Dominion
Securities Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp., CIBC
World Markets Inc., National Bank Financial Inc.
and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., as
underwriters.
Goodmans LLP and Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP acted as legal
counsel to the Company, and Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt LLP and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison LLP acted as legal counsel to the
underwriters.
The Company has granted to
the underwriters an option, exercisable, in
whole or in part, at any time and from time to
time for a period of 30 days after closing of
the Offering, to purchase from the Company up to
4,285,725 Common Shares (representing 15% of the
number of Common Shares sold in the base
offering) at a price of $14.00 per Common Share,
for the purpose of covering the underwriters’
over-allocation position, if any.