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Overview

Annie Tonken practices corporate and securities law with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and corporate governance.

Annie has represented buyers and sellers in connection with merger and acquisition transactions, including share purchase transactions, plans of arrangement and amalgamations, and acts for issuers with respect to public and private offerings of equity and debt securities. Annie also advises clients on general corporate and securities law matters, including corporate governance, continuous disclosure requirements and other regulatory compliance issues.

Before becoming an associate at Bennett Jones, Annie summered and articled with the firm.

Client Work

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP), as Canadian counsel, in MSIP's acquisition of a 47.5% interest in the Greenlight Electricity Centre, a C$4.6-billion,932 MW combined-cycle power generation project in Alberta set to power a landmark C$13 billion data centre development being advanced by Meta Platforms.  The Centre is co-owned by MSIP with Pembina Pipeline Corporation (47.5%) and Kineticor Asset Management (5%).
Canadian Natural Resources Limited in its C$1.65-billion public offering of medium-term notes
Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition vehicle, as Canadian counsel in its business combination with Xanadu Quantum Technologies, Inc., to create the first publicly traded pure play photonic quantum computing company with an expected pro forma market capitalization of approximately US$3.6 billion

Canadian Natural Resources Limited in its concurrent C$500-million and US$1.5-billion private placements of unsecured notes

Stantec Inc. in its C$425-million private placement of unsecured notes 

DIRTT Environmental Solutions Ltd. in its $30-million aggregate gross proceeds rights offering

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • Queen's University, BSc (Mechanical Engineering), 2015
  • Dalhousie University, JD, 2019

Bar Admissions

  • Alberta, 2020

Insights

Blog

The Impact of COVID-19 on M&A Dealflow

May 20, 2020
Ian C. Michael & Annie B. Tonken
Blog

Shareholder Activism in a Time of COVID-19 Uncertainty

March 23, 2020
William S. Osler KC, Kristopher R. Hanc & Annie B. Tonken