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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.

Client Work

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.

Recognitions & Awards

Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business

Eminent Practitioner, Energy: Oil & Gas: (Transactional) Canada

The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

Consistently Recommended, Energy (Oil & Gas)
Repeatedly Recommended, Infrastructure Law

Best Lawyers in Canada

Recognized for Natural Resources Law

Legal Media Group's Expert Guides - Best of the Best

Recognized as one of the Top 30 Energy Practitioners in the world

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell

Received a BV Distinguished Peer Review Rating

Lexpert Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada

Recognized as one of the leading lawyers in the area of Energy - Oil and Gas

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • Royal Military College, BEng, 1974
  • Dalhousie University, LLB, 1977

Bar Admissions

  • Alberta, 1978

Insights

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Summary of the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act

November 16, 2011
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Robert T. Booth KC & John Lawless
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Canada's Energy Sector Grows

June 1, 2007
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Robert T. Booth KC

News, Events & Speaking Engagements

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Bennett Jones Partners Pay Tribute to Mac Jones in The Calgary Herald

May 13, 2014
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Robert T. Booth KC & Perry Spitznagel KC