M&A Deal Summary

Yamana Gold Acquires Osisko Mining

On June 1, 2014, Yamana Gold acquired building materials company Osisko Mining for 3.9B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Yamana Gold’s 1st transaction in the Building Materials sector.
  • This is Yamana Gold’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Yamana Gold’s 2nd transaction in Canada.
  • This is Yamana Gold’s 1st transaction in Quebec.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2014-06-01
Target Osisko Mining
Sector Building Materials
Buyer(s) Yamana Gold
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 3.9B USD
Advisor(s) BMO Capital Markets (Financial)
Bennett Jones LLP
Stikeman Elliott LLP (Legal)

Target

Osisko Mining

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Osisko Mining Corporation operates the Canadian Malartic Gold Mine in Malartic, Quebec and is pursuing exploration on a number of properties, notably in Quebec, Ontario and Mexico.

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Buyer

Yamana Gold

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Category Company
Founded 2003
Sector Metals/Mining
Employees5,091
Revenue 1.6B USD (2020)
DESCRIPTION

Yamana Gold is a canadian-based gold producer with significant gold production, gold development stage properties, exploration properties, and land positions throughout the Americas including Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Mexico. Yamana Gold was founded in 2003 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector (Building Materials) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 2 of 2
State (Quebec) 1 of 1
Country (Canada) 2 of 2
Year (2014) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-08-22 Extorre Gold Mines

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Extorre Gold Mines Ltd. is a mineral resource exploration company.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-06-17 Yamana - Amancaya Exploration Project

Chile

Yamana - Amancaya Exploration Project comprises gold-silver exploration properties located 70km east of the city of Tatal in Northern Chile. It includes epithermal gold-silver deposits containing about 407,000 inferred resource of gold equivalent ounces and consisting of eight mining exploitation concessions spread over an area of 1,755 hectares.

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