Our Montreal office is advising National Bank Financial Markets, The Bank of Nova Scotia and RBC Capital Markets, as co-lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, on the financing of the proposed acquisition by Alimentation Couche-Tard of approximately 2,200 European convenience stores from TotalEnergies for €3.1bn (C$4.5bn). 
 
Under the deal, Alimentation Couche-Tard, a Canadian global leader in convenience and mobility whose brands include Circle K, will buy all of TotalEnergies' retail assets in Germany and the Netherlands, as well as a 60 percent stake in the French company's stations in Belgium and Luxembourg.