 Bennett Jones Education Royal Military College, BEng, 1974 Dalhousie University, LLB, 1977 Bar Admissions Alberta, 1978 Overview Bob Booth has a broad commercial practice covering many areas of the energy, resources, and defence and securities fields. Recognized every year since 2005 (Band 1 since 2009 and as an Eminent Practitioner in 2014) in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, Bob represents clients in oil and gas exploration, production and marketing, major pipeline transportation and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, uranium mining and production, electric power generation and transmission, and energy utility businesses. He acts in the purchase and sale of businesses, establishing new businesses, structuring joint ventures and partnerships, and advising management in strategic decision making for Canadian and foreign corporations. He is a director of ATCO Ltd. and CU Inc.; the President, CEO and Chair of the Board of Milit-Air Inc.; a former director of the Canadian Energy Law Foundation and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute; past president of the Royal Military Colleges Club of Canada; and former Honorary Counsel to the Royal Military Colleges Club of Canada Foundation Inc. Bob received the Institute-certified Director qualification (ICD.D) from the Institute of Corporate Directors on March 13, 2009. He entered law school as a Dunn Scholar and was awarded the Oil & Gas Prize upon graduation. Bob is Honorary Counsel to the Conference of Defence Associations, and the CDA Institute. Select Experience • Statoil ASA, in the sale of its Alberta oilsands assets to Athabasca Oil Corporation for the consideration of $435 million cash, 100-million common shares and contingent value payments triggered at oil prices above US$65/bbl WTI. • Privately-held owner, in the development of its proposed in-situ coal gasification and carbon capture and storage project in Alberta. • Major oil and gas company, with all proposed engineering/procurement and construction documents related to planned heavy oil refinery project in Ontario, an ethanol project in Saskatchewan and downstream Oil sands facilities. • Repsol YPF, in all partnership and commercial agreements respecting its 75% interest in the $1-billion Canaport LNG regasification facility at Saint John, New Brunswick. • Idemitsu Kosan and Tokyo Electric Power Company, minority partners
in the Cigar Lake Uranium Project. • Statoil ASA, in its $2.2-billion acquisition of North American Oil Sands Corporation by way of takeover bid. • Alberta Power (2000) Ltd, in the acquisition by
ENMAX Corporation of the Battle River power purchase arrangement
from EPCOR Utilities Inc. • ATCO Gas, in its $550-million sale of Viking assets
to Burlington. • ATCO Power, in its majority interest in the 500-MW
Joffre Cogeneration Project at Joffre, Alberta. • Duke Energy, in the partnership agreement,
operating agreements, transportation services agreements and EPC
contract, and the project financing (bond/bank) in relation to the
Canadian portion of the 1,059-km Maritimes & Northeast System. • Lake Superior Power LP, in its gas supply and power
and steam offtake agreements for its cogeneration facility in Sault
Ste. Marie, Ontario. • ATCO Power, in the $1.5-billion 1000-MW Barking Independent Power Project in London, England. • Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, in the
$5.2-billion offshore Hibernia Development Project. |