On January 19, 2010, Open Link Financial, Inc. ("OpenLink"), a leading provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and operations processing software solutions headquartered in Long Island, New York, announced that it had acquired dbc SMARTsoftware, Inc., a global provider of software solutions for the agricultural, biofuel and soft commodity industries located just outside of Toronto, Canada. Fasken Martineau advised OpenLink in this transaction with a team led by Andrew Nunes (corporate/IT) and including Brad Freelan, Daniel Fabiano and Paul Braczek (corporate); Alix Herber and Ida Martin (labour/employment); Dan Law (real property); Ron Nobrega (tax); Kevin Holbeche (intellectual property); Gabriel Stern (information technology); Ross Gascho (pensions/benefits); Huy Do (competition); and Roz Cooper (environmental); assisted by law clerk Gina Croce and students-at-law Nick Shkordoff and Lindsey Weppler.