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.
Bennett Jones
