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James D. Beeby

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T: 604.891.5326


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Vancouver

  • Education
  • Bar Admissions
  • Recent Experience
  • Recent Recognition
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services
  • Recent Experience
  • Recent Recognition
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services

James Beeby provides clients experienced and innovative advice with their most challenging M&A, corporate finance and private funds formation mandates.

James advises publicly-listed companies, institutional investors, fund sponsors and private enterprises on matters relating to corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital. James has extensive experience advising on public offerings of debt and equity securities, public takeover bids, plans of arrangement, cross-border acquisitions, corporate governance, related party transactions, private acquisitions and divestitures, venture capital investments and private fund formation. James’ practice includes clients in a variety of industries including mining, life sciences, finance and technology.

James has been recognized as a leading practitioner in The Best Lawyers in Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and Who’s Who Legal.

James regularly writes and speaks on matters relating to securities law and private equity and is a member of Practical Law's Corporate M&A and Securities Advisory Board for Canada and of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.

Education

Warwick University (UK), LLB (Hons), 1992 University of British Columbia, LLB, 1996

Bar Admissions

British Columbia, 1997

Recent Experience

Corporate Finance
M & A
Private Equity
Corporate Commercial
Canadian counsel to Jefferies LLC, Oppenheimer & Co and Bloom Burton Securities, as underwriters for a public offering of US$38,990,000 of common shares of Essa Pharma Inc.
First Mining, in its $28.75-million bought deal offering, issuing 57,500,000 units of the Company.
First Majestic Silver Corp. in the $78-million bought deal offering of common shares.
First Majestic Silver Corp., in an equity distribution agreement with BMO Capital Markets Corp. and TD Securities (USA) LLC for the sale of up to US$100.0 million of common shares.
First Mining Gold Corp., in an equity distribution agreement with Cantor Fitzgerald Canada Corporation with respect to an at-the-market offering of up to $15 million of common shares.
Emerald Health Therapeutics, Inc., in an at-the-market equity offering for the sale of up to $39 million of common shares pursuant to an equity distribution agreement with GMP Securities L.P.
Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc. (TSXV: EMH), with the sale of 10,235,000 units of Emerald for gross proceeds of $13,817,250 pursuant to an underwriting agreement between Emerald and Dundee Capital Partners.
First Majestic Silver Corp., with a US$150-million brokered private placement of convertible debentures on a bought deal basis.
Kaminak Gold Corporation, with its $21-million bought deal private placement.
ShaMaran Petroleum Corp., as Canadian counsel, with its $75,421,500 rights offering.
CohBar, Inc., a U.S. biotechnology company, as Canadian counsel, with its US$11,250,000 initial public offering and concurrent listing on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc., with its reverse takeover and listing on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Corex Gold Corporation, in its $50-million combination with Minera Alamos Inc.
Emerald Health acquires Québec-based Licensed Producer Agro-Biotech.
First Majestic Silver Corp., with its US$320-million acquisition of Primero Mining and new stream agreement at San Dimas Mine.
IWG Technologies Inc., with the acquisition of IWG by 1096777 B.C. Ltd., a private British Columbia corporation by way of plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act.
First Mining Finance Corp., with its acquisition of Gold Canyon Resources Inc. and PC Gold Inc., both reporting issuers listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
First Majestic Silver Corp., in the acquisition of SilverCrest Mines Inc., a silver-mining company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
First Mining Finance Corp., in the acquisition of Coastal Gold Mining Corp., a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
The advisory board of a Canadian venture capital fund with committed capital over $100,000,000 in the removal of the Fund's original general partner and the admission of a successor general partner to the Fund and its parallel fund.
The Province of British Columbia, with the formation of the BC Tech Fund Limited Partnership.
Vanedge Capital, in the formation of its second venture capital fund, Vanedge Capital II Limited Partnership, which secured approximately $100 million in commitments in its first closing in January 2016.
Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc. (TSXV: EMH), with the formation of a joint venture with Village Farms International Inc. for large-scale, high-quality, low-cost cannabis production.

Recent Recognition

Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Finance & Securities
Consistently Recommended, Private Equity
Best Lawyers in Canada
Corporate Law
Lexpert Special Edition on Agribusiness & Cannabis
Recognized as one of Canada's leading lawyers in Agribusiness and Cannabis
Lexpert Special Edition on Technology
Recognized as one of Canada's leading lawyers in Technology
Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Finance and M&A Lawyers
Recognized as a leading Finance and M&A lawyer
Who's Who Legal: Canada
Recognized, Private Funds
Who's Who Legal: Private Funds Global Guide
Recognized, Private Funds

Insights, News & Events

Announcements

36 Bennett Jones Lawyers in Lexpert's Special Edition on Finance and M&A

April 16, 2021
       

Blog

Updates to COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic Stimulus for Canadian Businesses

July 23, 2020
       

Articles

CSA Announces Amendments to Rules Applicable to At-the-Market Distributions

July 2020
       

Blog

CSA Announces Amendments to Rules Applicable to At-The-Market Distributions

June 15, 2020
       

Announcements

21 Bennett Jones Lawyers in Lexpert's Agribusiness and Cannabis 2020

June 11, 2020
       

Speaking Engagements

James Beeby on At-the-Market Distributions

June 09, 2020
       

Blog

Environmental, Social and Governance Considerations and the Investor Perspective

June 03, 2020
       

Blog

Further Updates to COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic Stimulus for Canadian Businesses

May 22, 2020
       

Announcements

Fifteen Bennett Jones Lawyers in Lexpert's Special Edition on Technology

May 13, 2020
       

Blog

Innovation Supercluster Initiative and Funding for Canadian Innovations Targeting the Effects of COVID-19

April 29, 2020
       

Blog

Additional Updates to COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic Stimulus for Canadian Businesses

April 24, 2020
       

Blog

Updates to COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic Stimulus Programs for Canadian Businesses

April 16, 2020
       

Blog

COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Economic Stimulus for Canadian Businesses

April 09, 2020
       

Blog

Mining Interest in ATMs Spikes in Canada

December 20, 2019
       

Blog

Proposed Amendments to Rules Applicable to At-the-Market Distributions

May 21, 2019
       

Blog

B.C. Privacy Commissioner Issues Guidance Regarding Cannabis Transactions

November 07, 2018
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2018

November 01, 2018
       

Blog

Securities Commissions Revoke “Northwest Exemption” in Certain Jurisdictions

August 21, 2018
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones Welcomes Vancouver's McCullough O’Connor Irwin

June 01, 2018
       

Articles

The Private Equity Review, 6th edition

2017
       

Articles

Private Equity Fund Formation Overview

December 22, 2016
       

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