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227:. The $ 800 million purchase represented GFL's largest acquisition in its company history and was supported by an equity investment of $ 458 million made by a fund managed by Macquarie Group and an additional investment provided by Highbridge Principal Strategies and other co-investors.
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242:(the company and its CEO, Patrick Dovigi, were charged with violation of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act); and an injunction by a Cobb County, Georgia court halting the operation of a landfill. GFL has been sued by municipalities and farmers for its soil dumping practices.
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Contrans Group Inc., giving the company a larger solid waste management presence in Edmonton and Slave Lake, Alberta. Also in 2014, GFL purchased the business operated by
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78 million over its total term. GFL's award of the contract was particularly publicized because it represented one of
Toronto's first moves to privatize and outsource the city's residential garbage collection.
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