 Bennett Jones Alixe A.L. CameronPartner • Co-Head of Commercial Real Estate Practice Calgary camerona@bennettjones.com Education University of Calgary, BA, 1998 Bond University (Australia), JD, 2004, cum laude Bond University (Australia), Post Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, 2005, with honours Bar Admissions Roll of Solicitors, Queensland, Australia, 2005 Alberta, 2007 Overview Alixe Cameron has a corporate commercial law practice with a focus on commercial real estate, including the acquisitions, dispositions, or leasing of all types of commercial, industrial, farm and development properties. She advises clients in relation to their development of bareland and conventional condominium projects, and assists clients with their distressed, restructuring or foreclosure real estate matters. Alixe regularly advises one of Canada's leading national retailers in relation to their acquisition and dispositions of their owned retail and commercial developments and their numerous retail leasing projects across Western Canada. She often works for tenants and landlords in other commercial, retail, industrial, farm and office leases. Alixe also represents clients in the agribusiness, food and beverage sector, including cattle producers, farmers, ranchers, food and beverage retailers and breweries. She has significant experience with the Foreign Ownership of Land Regulations in relation to controlled lands in rural Alberta, including obtaining Orders in Council from the applicable ministry. Alixe also assists with restructuring and insolvency matters, including significant and complex receiverships, CCAA reorganizations and distressed acquisitions and dispositions of land of all sizes and varieties throughout Alberta. In addition to her practice, Alixe has lectured at a local learning institution on Alberta real estate law. She is or has been a director on a number of corporations, both charitable and private. Prior to joining Bennett Jones, she practised with a firm in Queensland, Australia. In her off time, Alixe enjoys training and riding her horses in local show jumping competitions and spending time with her husband and three (giant) dogs. Experience • Heidelberg Materials North America in its binding purchase agreement to acquire the Edmonton, Alberta, assets of BURNCO, a successful fifth-generation family-owned construction materials company • O’Leary Products through it’s affiliate Numberco in the $70-billion dollar acquisition and development of Wonder Valley, a high profile data centre project in Alberta • G2S2 Capital, under its banner Armco Alberta, in its acquisition of Bow Valley Square, an iconic four-tower, LEED Platinum-certified office complex in the heart of downtown Calgary • Acciona Wind Energy Canada in the acquisition of the 280 MW Forty Mile Wind Project in Alberta from the RES Group • Danube Farming Ltd. in its sale of 203 acres of bare land in the City of Calgary. • TriWest Capital Partners in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, ZyTech Building Systems LP, to Dick's Lumber, a banner of RONA Inc., a portfolio investment of Sycamore Partners. • The purchaser in a single purchase of over 11,000 acres of active farmland throughout Alberta and British Columbia, plus numerous other transactions for the same client totaling over 20,000 acres in the past few years. • The purchaser of the last bareland retail property located within the Deerfoot Meadow Shopping Centre for future development. • Negotiated and completed the purchase and assumption of debt of an office tower in downtown Edmonton, Alberta. • The purchaser on the real estate matters with the acquisition of the coal assets of Grande Cache Coal. • The tenant in the negotiations of a 100,000ft2 downtown Calgary office lease. • A public foreign-controlled corporation with the acquisition of controlled land in rural Alberta. • Assisted with the disposition of various distressed properties as part of a CCAA monitored process. Acted for the vendor in multiple dispositions of future development lands within Calgary and Edmonton city limits • Aided with the reorganization of a working cattle farm to ensure compliance with the Foreign Ownership of Land Regulations. • Stone Canyon Industries Holdings LLC and Kissner Group Holdings, as Canadian counsel, in their US$3.2-billion agreement to acquire K+S Aktiengesellschaft's North and South American salt business, including Morton Salt and Windsor Salt. • Cenovus Energy Inc. in its $23.6-billion proposed acquisition of Husky Energy Inc. • CST Canada Coal Limited in its acquisition of coal assets of Grande Cache Coal LP and Grande Cache Coal Corporation for aggregate consideration of approximately US$433.9 million. |