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Issuers, investors and underwriters draw upon the hybrid set of skills and experience of our corporate finance team. Our clients include public, private and institutional entities, from emerging companies to established multinationals, investment and merchant banks to venture capitalists, provincial governments to foreign exchanges, and hedge funds to pension funds.

Our clients include companies in the oil and gas, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and power industries, to name a few. Our capital-raising efforts have involved prospectus offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities in Canada and internationally. Specific transaction experience includes MJDS offerings, cross-border IPOs, subscription receipts, high-yield debt offerings and financings by royalty trusts and income funds.

What Clients Say

"The team is deeply experienced. They don’t just present risks, they present solutions. They are commercial, experienced and engender a high level of trust with the client."

As part of our ongoing relationships with clients, we also advise on a variety of risk management, corporate governance and disclosure obligations that require us to interact with securities and exchange commissions, as well as boards of directors, compliance teams, investor relations professionals and shareholders. Leveraging our firm-wide resources, we bring effective communication and seamless integration to the task of helping our clients navigate the complex securities regulatory environment in which they operate.

What Clients Say

Bennett Jones LLP is a key player in both high-end and mid-market deals, with its top-notch reputation in the energy and natural resources sectors a significant driver of its most high-profile transactions.

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  • John E. Piasta John E. Piasta, Partner
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Recent Experience

Apollo Global Management, Inc., in connection with its joint venture investment of up to US$200 million in Great Bay Renewables, a subsidiary of Altius Minerals Corporation, a publicly traded company listed on the TSX.
Excellon Resources Inc., in its $32.3-million acquisition of Otis Gold Corp by way of a Statutory Plan of Arrangement under the BCBCA.
Magna Gold Corp., in its approximately $19.5-million acquisition of Molimentales del Noroeste, S.A. de C.V., which owns 100% of the San Francisco Mine located in Sonora, Mexico, from Alio Gold Inc.
MEG Energy Corp., in its private placement of US$1.2-billion aggregate principal amount of 7.1250% senior unsecured notes due 2027 in the United States and Canada.
Canadian Pacific Railway, in its public offering of $300-million aggregate principal amount of 3.05% notes due 2050.
Canadian Pacific Railway, in its public offering of US$500-million aggregate principal amount of 2.050% notes due 2030.
United Active Living Inc., in matters related to ownership and operations of assisting living housing projects.
Killam Properties Inc., on matters related to public offering of trust units, purchasing and financing and properties, structuring of joint ventures and credit facilities.
Katanga Mining Limited, in its $7.6-billion rights offering financing backstopped by Glencore to fund debt repayment to Glencore.
New Pacific Metals Corp., in its bought deal short form prospectus offering of common shares for total gross proceeds of $17.25 million, which included the exercise of the over-allotment option granted to the Underwriters in full.
Canso Investment Counsel Ltd., in the private placement by an issuer in the print media industry of $90 million of 12.0% senior secured notes.
Cresco Labs Inc., in a public offering of 7,350,000 units at a price per unit of $10.00 for gross proceeds of $73,500,000.
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.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, in its US$500million cross-border offering of senior notes.

Pender Growth Fund Inc. in $15.3-million public offering.

BDC Capital Inc., in its subscription for 987,763 Class D Preferred Shares of HiFi Engineering Inc for an aggregate subscription price of $5,000,000.
Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd., in the secondary offering of shares held by Orion Resources Partners.
BDC Capital Inc., in an initial subscription for 5,123,475 Class C Preferred Shares First Series of Inventys Thermal Technologies Inc. for US$4,999,999.26 and a subsequent subscription for an additional 2,238,688 Class C Shares and 447,737 share purchase warrants for US$2,839,999.60.
District Ventures, in its equity investment in seven companies as part of its accelerator program.
Gold Flora LLC, in its private placement offering of debenture units for aggregate gross proceeds of over US$14 million.
TerrAscend Corp., in its non-brokered private placement of common shares for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $69 million.
Canso Investment Counsel Ltd., in providing equity and debt financing to ClearStream Energy Services Inc. for the acquisitions of AECOM Production Services Ltd. and Universal Weld Overlays Inc.
48North Cannabis Corp., in its bought-deal short-form prospectus offering of units for gross proceeds of $28.75 million.
The syndicate of underwriters, led by RBC Capital Markets and CIBC Capital Markets, in the $100 million bought deal offering of common shares of Chorus Aviation Inc.
BSM Technologies Inc., in its approximately $117.3 million sale to Geotab Inc. by way of plan of arrangement.
CIP Capital Management LLP, as Canadian counsel, in its acquisition of People 2.0, Inc.
Kissner Group Holdings LP, completed its acquisition of NSC Minerals Ltd., a market-leading provider of salt products in Western Canada and the North Central United States, from an investor group led by Altas Partners.
RBC Dominion Securities Inc., as lead agent, with Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp.’s US$250,000,000 "at-the-market" distribution of common shares via short-form prospectus supplement.
BMO Capital Markets, in the $60-million financing of Mandalay Resources Corporation, including a public equity offering and bridge loan from CE Mining Fund III L.P.
The underwriters of First Cobalt Corp. led by Canaccord Genuity Corp., in First Cobalt's $31-million bought deal private placement.
McEwen Mining Inc., in its MJDS qualified US$200 million universal shelf prospectus.
Emerald Health Sciences Inc., in its secondary offering of shares of Emerald Health Therapeutics, Inc. by way of a prospectus supplement for gross proceeds of $7 million.
Emerald Health Therapeutics, Inc., in its prospectus offering of common shares to a single institutional investor for gross proceeds of $10.8 million.
First Majestic Silver Corp., in an at-the-market equity distribution agreement with BMO Capital Markets Corp. for the sale of up to US$50.0 million of common shares.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, in its $300-million note offering.
ATCO Ltd., completes private placement of $200M fixed-to-floating subordinated notes.
Algonquin Power Utilities, registered fixed to floating subordinated notes southbound MJDS offering.
48North Cannabis Corp., in its go-public transaction with Kramer Capital Corp.
Coro Mining Corp., in its $47-million series of financing transactions with affiliates of Tembo Capital Management Ltd. and Greenstone Resources LP including a fully-backstopped, discounted rights offering.
Lead counsel to Harvest One Cannabis, a global cannabis company servicing both the medical and recreational cannabis markets, in Canada and internationally, in their C$60 million Canadian listing which was supported by a C$25 million financing, and in C$65 million of subsequent bought deal financings.
Supreme Pharmaceuticals Inc. in connection with a $55 million private placement of convertible debenture units 
Parkland Fuel Corporation completes US$500 million senior note offering.
Veresen Midstream Limited Partnership closes restatement of credit facilities in the aggregate amount of $2,775,000,000.
NEP Canada Corp. sells its Canadian Exploration and Production Operating Subsidiary to Aspenleaf Energy Limited.
Canadian Utilities Limited, in its public offering of $200 million of debentures.
Anamered Investments Inc., in the formation of an investor consortium consisting of Anamered, ANTA Sports Limited, FountainVest Partners and Tencent Holdings Limited, and in the acquisition of all outstanding securities of Amer Sports Corporation.

Recent Recognition

Chambers Canada
Ranked, Capital Markets - Nationwide
The Legal 500 Canada
Recommended, Corporate and M&A
Recommended, Capital Markets
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Most frequently recommended, Corporate Finance & Securities, Calgary
Consistently recommended, Corporate Finance & Securities, Toronto

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