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John E. Piasta

Partner

Co-Head of Capital Markets Practice

Co-Head of Capital Markets Practice |

T: 403.298.3333

Calgary

Piasta John
 
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T: 403.298.3333


Calgary

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

John Piasta's practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital markets transactions, including cross-border financings, and corporate governance matters. In the course of his practice John regularly:

  • acts for issuers and investment dealers in respect of private and public debt and equity offerings, financial advisory services and regulatory compliance;
  • advises clients in connection with corporate and asset acquisitions or dispositions; and
  • acts for public and private entities in relation to ongoing corporate and securities law compliance as well as governance and securityholder matters.

Prior to joining Bennett Jones, John clerked at the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench and Court of Appeal in Edmonton.

John is the Chair of the Advisory Committee of I Can for Kids. I Can for Kids provides non-perishable food packs, fresh produce and other nutritious items to feed insecure children and youth in Calgary during the summer months. John is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Calgary French and International School Society and a past Alberta Co-Chair of the Shevchenko Foundation. He is a past editor of the Alberta Law Review and a former executive director and member of the board of directors of Student Legal Services of Edmonton.

Education

University of Alberta, BComm, 1997 University of Alberta, LLB, 2000 

Bar Admissions

Alberta, 2001

Recent Experience

Cenovus Energy Inc., in its $23.6-billion acquisition of Husky Energy Inc.
Parkland Corporation, in its $400-million private placement of senior unsecured notes due 2028.
The syndicate of underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC in Liberty Utilities Co.'s offering of US$600-million of 2.050% Senior Notes.
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., led by a syndicate of agents, Scotia Capital Inc. and CIBC Capital Markets, in the bought-deal offering of common shares in the amount of $633-million and the concurrent financing of $350-million.
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.
Chorus Aviation Inc., with its $86 million 5.75% senior unsecured debenture offering.
Devon Energy Corporation, with the sale of its Canadian business, Devon Canada Corporation, to Canadian Natural Resources Limited for $3.8 billion.
Cresco Labs Inc., in its $55 million "at-the-market" distribution of subordinate voting shares via a short-form prospectus supplement.
Gibson Energy Inc., with its $3-billion short-form base shelf prospectus filing.
A syndicate of agents, led by BofA Merrill Lynch, in Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp.’s public offering of US$350 million aggregate principal amount of 6.20% fixed-to-floating subordinated notes.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, in its US$500million cross-border offering of senior notes.
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.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, in its $300-million note offering.
A syndicate of agents, led by BofA Merrill Lynch, in Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp.'s registered-fixed-to-floating subordinated notes southbound MJDS offering.
Parkland Fuel Corporation completes US$500 million senior note offering.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with its $662-million common share private placement offering and $500-million 5.625-percent high-yield note private placement offering to partially fund Parkland's proposed acquisition of Chevron Canada's Canadian integrated downstream fuel business for $1.460 million plus an estimated $186 million in working capital. 
Cenovus Energy Inc., with its $17.7-billion acquisition of ConocoPhillips’ Deep Basin conventional assets in Alberta and British Columbia and 50-percent interest in the FCCL Partnership.
Total Energy Services Inc., with its unsolicited takeover of Savanna Energy Services Corp. 
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with its disposition of the commercial assets of Pioneer Fuels, an Ontario- and Atlantic Canada-based residential and commercial fuels distributor.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with its 5.75-percent $300-million high-yield note offering in connection with Parkland's proposed acquisition of the majority of the Canadian business and assets of CST Brands Inc.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with its $230-million public offering of subscription receipts in connection with Parkland's proposed acquisition of the majority of the Canadian business and assets of CST Brands Inc.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with its $500-million universal shelf prospectus and $110-million "at-the-market" distribution of common shares via short-form prospectus supplement.
Newalta Corporation, with its aggregate $54-million offering of common shares via short-form prospectus offering and concurrent private placement.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with its acquisition of the On the Run/Marche Express franchise system in Canada from Imperial Oil.
Cenovus Energy Inc., with its US$5-billion universal shelf prospectus.
Gibson Energy Inc., with completing issue of a $230-million equity financing and a $100-million offering of unsecured subordinated convertible debentures for total gross proceeds of $330 million.
Cenovus Energy Inc., with its cross-border, $1.5-billion public offering of common shares.
Newalta Corporation, with the sale of its Industrial Division to Revolution Acquisition LP, a company formed by Birch Hill Equity Partners, for cash proceeds of $300 million.
Pine Cliff Energy Ltd., with its acquisition of shallow gas assets in Alberta and Saskatchewan from Nexen Energy for $100 million.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with its 6.0-percent $200-million high-yield note offering in Canada.
Pine Cliff Energy Ltd., with a $60-million short-form prospectus offering of common shares.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with its proposed $378-million purchase of the assets of Pioneer Energy to expand its gasoline retailing operations into Ontario.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with a 5.5-percent $200-million high-yield note offering in Canada.
Newalta Corporation, with a $150-million 5.875-percent Series 3 senior unsecured debenture offering.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, (as Canadian counsel) with its $113-million cross-border acquisition of SPF Energy Inc.
Pine Cliff Energy Ltd., with a $20-million short-form prospectus offering of common shares.
Pine Cliff Energy Ltd., with a $25-million public offering of common shares on a bought deal basis.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with its $95-million acquisition of the assets of Elbow River Marketing Limited Partnership.
Pine Cliff Energy Ltd., with the plan of arrangement whereby Pine Cliff acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Geomark Exploration Ltd.
Newalta Corporation, with a $77-million short-form prospectus offering of common shares.
Cenovus Energy Inc., with its short-form base-shelf prospectus, renewing its $1.5-billion medium term note program.
Newalta Corporation, with a $125-million 7.75-percent Series 2 senior unsecured debenture offering.
Precision Drilling Corporation, with a US$400-million public note offering.
Encana Corporation, with its short-form base-shelf prospectus, renewing its $2-billion medium-term note program.
Parkland Fuel Corporation, with an $86-million short-form prospectus offering of common shares.
Gibson Energy Inc., with its $500-million initial public offering.
Precision Drilling Corporation, with a $200-million high-yield note offering in Canada led by the Royal Bank of Canada.
Parkland Income Fund, with its conversion from an income trust into a dividend-paying corporation by way of court-ordered plan of arrangement.
Precision Drilling Corporation, with a $650-million high-yield note offering in the U.S. led by Credit Suisse.
Newalta Corporation, with a $125-million 7.625-percent Series 1 senior unsecured debenture offering.
Ecopetrol S.A., with the listing of its American Depositary Receipts or ADRs on the TSX.
SMART Technologies Inc., with its initial public offering of 38,830,000 Class A Subordinate Voting Shares in the United States and Canada, for gross proceeds of US$660 million.
EOG Resources Canada Inc., with its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Galveston LNG Inc. (owner of the Kitimat LNG Liquefaction project) for an undisclosed amount.
Encana Corporation, which had an enterprise value of approximately US$50 billion, with its division into two independent publicly traded companies—one new Encana Corporation, an unconventional natural gas company, and Cenovus Energy Inc., an integrated oil company.
Cenovus Energy Inc., with the completion of a US$3.5-billion private offering of debt securities and the subsequent exchange of such debt securities for debt securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933.
Newalta Income Fund, with its conversion from an income trust to a corporation by way of plan of arrangement.
The agents, with Westcoast Energy Inc.'s re-opening of 5.6-percent Medium Term Note Debentures, Series 9 with an issuance of an additional $50 million.
Escavar Energy Inc., with a $25-million plan of arrangement where Alberta Clipper Energy Inc. acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Escavar Energy Inc.
RBC Capital Markets, Peters & Co. Limited and Cormark Securities, jointly led a syndicate of underwriters, with a $80.1-million public offering of common shares and "flow-through" common shares by MGM Energy Corp.
Visa Inc., with its US$19.7-billion initial public offering of shares.
Salamander Energy plc, with its US$220-million acquisition of GFI Oil & Gas Corporation by way of a plan of arrangement.
Encana Corporation, with the public offering of $750-million senior unsecured medium term notes due January 18, 2018.
Marathon Oil Corporation, with its US$6.9-billion acquisition of Western Oil Sands Inc. by way of a plan of arrangement.
Watch Resources Ltd., with its acquisition by Pearl Exploration and Production Ltd. pursuant to a plan of arrangement.
RBC Dominion Securities Inc., as co-lead underwriter, with MGM Energy Corp.'s $178.6-million bought-deal financing of common shares and flow-through shares and subsequent $111.4-million bought-deal financing of flow-through shares and common shares.
Parkland Income Fund, with its $16.3-million acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Joy Propane Ltd.
A syndicate of underwriters, with Progress Energy Trust's $250-million bought deal subscription receipt financing.
Encana Corporation, with the issuance of $500-million aggregate principal amount of medium-term notes.
Parkland Income Fund, with its $135-million acquisition of Neufeld Petroleum and Propane Ltd. and Neufeld Holdings Ltd.
Parkland Income Fund, with its $50-million public offering of trust units on a bought deal basis.
Petrowest Energy Services Trust, in its initial public offering of approximately $150 million, proceeds of which will be used to acquire nine privately held energy services companies in Grande Prairie, Canada and consolidating them into the trust.
A syndicate of underwriters, with a $75-million public offering of debentures by Progress Energy Trust.
Watch Resources Ltd., with the reverse takeover by Energy 51 Inc. by way of shareholder approved amalgamation.
CIBC World Markets Inc., as lead to a syndicate of underwriters, with True Energy Trust's $86.2-million convertible debenture offering.
An underwriting syndicate led by Orion Securities Inc. and including Canaccord Capital Corporation, CIBC World Markets Inc., Westwind Partners Inc. and Acumen Capital Finance Partners Limited, with a prospectus offering by TUSK Energy Corporation of common shares for gross proceeds of approximately $50 million.
Pengrowth Energy Trust, with being the first cross-border equity offering by a Canadian energy trust, issuing 17.5 million trust units for gross proceeds of $245 million.

Recent Recognition

The Legal 500 Canada
Recommended, Capital Markets
Lexpert Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada
Recognized as a corporate lawyer to watch
Lexpert/Report on Business Special Edition - Canada's Leading Energy Lawyers
Recognized as a leading lawyer in energy in Canada
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Commercial Law
Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Finance & Securities
Repeatedly Recommended, Mergers and Acquisitions

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February 11, 2021
       

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2021 ISS and Glass Lewis Updates to Canadian Proxy Voting Guidelines

December 17, 2020
       

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October 27, 2020
       

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July 2020
       

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

June 15, 2020
       

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March 30, 2020
       

Blog

Securities Regulators Provide Guidance for AGMs During COVID-19 Outbreak

March 23, 2020
       

Blog

Shareholder Activism in a Time of COVID-19 Uncertainty

March 23, 2020
       

Blog

Review Debt Covenants Before Relying on Proposed CSA COVID-19 Financial Reporting Relief

March 20, 2020
       

Blog

COVID-19 and Annual Shareholder Meetings

March 18, 2020
       

Blog

2020 ISS and Glass Lewis Updates to Canadian Proxy Voting Guidelines

January 28, 2020
       

Blog

ExxonMobil Wins Climate Change Securities Battle Against New York but the War Continues

December 16, 2019
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones is Top-Tier in The Legal 500

November 18, 2019
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones Leads Canada in Energy Law

September 03, 2019
       

Blog

CSA Staff Notice Provides Guidance on Climate Change-Related Risk Disclosure

August 14, 2019
       

Blog

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

May 21, 2019
       

Blog

Rules of Play in the TSX “Sandbox”: Canada’s Top Exchange Clarifies New Securities Listing Initiative

April 25, 2019
       

In the News

Canadian Mining Journal and What’s New for 2019 Proxy Season

February 01, 2019
       

Updates

Summary of Actions Against Exxon Mobil for Securities Fraud

January 30, 2019
       

Updates

2019 ISS and Glass Lewis Updates to Canadian Proxy Voting Guidelines

January 22, 2019
       

Blog

SCC Renders Judgment on Cooperative National Securities Regulator

November 12, 2018
       

Updates

Changes Coming to Non-GAAP and Other Financial Measures Disclosures Regime

October 16, 2018
       

Articles

Getting the Deal Through—Public M&A 2018

August 10, 2018
       

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