 Bennett Jones Education McMaster University, BA (Hons), 2019, Summa Cum Laude University of Ottawa, JD, 2022, Cum Laude Bar Admissions Ontario, 2023 Overview Kalkidan Legesse maintains a corporate and commercial law practice, with a particular emphasis on banking and secured transactions. She regularly represents both borrowers and lenders in a variety of lending matters, including domestic and cross-border debt financings, syndicated loans, acquisition financings and mortgage lending. Before becoming an associate at Bennett Jones, Kalkidan articled and summered with the firm. Select Experience • Canaccord Genuity, as lead agent and sole bookrunner, together with SCP Resource Finance, in a C$18-million brokered private placement of Avalon Advanced Materials • Optiva in connection with a proposed strategic combination transaction with Qvantel by way of a plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act to create a leading, AI-enabled digital BSS provider • Osisko Development in its US$650-million debt and equity financing package to support the development and construction of its Cariboo Gold Project • Asante Gold in its US$500-million financing package, including a C$237-million bought deal private placement of subscription receipts and the restructuring of approximately US$175 million of deferred consideration associated with the purchase of the Chirano mine • SolGold PLC in entering into a US$750-million syndicated gold stream agreement with Franco-Nevada Corporation and Osisko Bermuda Limited. |