Recent Experience
Counsel to a syndicate of underwriters led by CIBC World Markets Inc. in connection with a $600 million bond offering made by the Province of Alberta.
Counsel to a syndicate of underwriters led by CIBC World Markets Inc. in connection with a $600 million bond offering made by the Province of Alberta.
Counsel to a syndicate of underwriters led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in connection with a $1 billion bond offering made by the Province of Alberta, completed in August 2016.
Counsel to a syndicate of underwriters led by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in connection with a $1 billion bond offering made by the Province of Alberta, completed in August 2016.
Counsel to Aecon Group Inc., in connection with its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Lockerbie & Hole Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $200 million.
Counsel to ATCO Group, in connection with the sale of its retail energy business to Direct Energy Marketing Limited.
Counsel to Avalon Exploration Ltd., in connection with the sale of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Avalon to Twin Butte Energy Ltd. in a transaction valued at approximately $89 million.
Counsel to Avalon Resources Ltd., in connection with a take-over bid (cash and shares) made by Atlas Energy Ltd. for the common shares of Avalon in a transaction valued at approximately $60 million.
Counsel to Beau Canada Exploration Limited, in connection with a $381 million (aggregate) take -over bid by Murphy Oil Corporation.
Counsel to Berens Energy Inc., in connection with the sale of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Berens to PetroBakken Energy Ltd. and a wholly-owned subsidiary of PetroBakken Energy Ltd. in a transaction valued at approximately $336 million.
Counsel to Canadian Pacific Hotels and Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust, in connection with its $586 million offering of REIT units and $300 million offering of debentures of Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust.
Counsel to Carfinco Income Fund, in connection with its reorganization, by way of a plan of arrangement, into a mutual fund trust, Carfinco Income Fund.
Counsel to Carfinco Income Fund, in connection with public offerings of $6 million of trust units (2006) and $11.5 million of trust units (2007).
Counsel to CIBC World Markets Inc., lead to a syndicate of underwriters, in connection with public offerings of $100 million of convertible debentures (2005) and $252 million of subscription receipts (2007) by Progress Energy Trust.
Counsel to Eagle Energy Inc. in connection with the successful defense against activist investors in a proxy contest for control of its board of directors.
Counsel to Edge Natural Resources LLC, in connection with the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares and warrants of Canamax Energy Ltd. by a group of investors including Edge, senior management and certain other shareholders in a going private transaction valued at approximately $82 million.
Counsel to Edge Natural Resources LLC, in connection with the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares and warrants of Canamax Energy Ltd. by a group of investors including Edge, senior management and certain other shareholders in a going private transaction valued at approximately $82 million.
Counsel to Enerflex Systems Ltd., in connection with its reorganization, by way of a plan of arrangement, into a mutual fund trust, Enerflex Systems Income Fund.
Counsel to Extendicare Inc. and Extendicare REIT, in connection with a $1.6 billion reorganization resulting in the distribution of Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. to Extendicare shareholders and the conversion of the remaining business of Extendicare into a Canadian real estate investment trust, Extendicare REIT.
Counsel to Gienow Windows & Doors Income Fund, in connection with its $165 million initial public offering of trust units, $80 million private placement and $65 million credit facility.
Counsel to Global Thermoelectric, in connection with its cross border sale to FuelCell Energy, Inc.
Counsel to Marathon Oil Corporation, in connection with its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Western Oil Sands Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately U.S.$6.9 billion.
Counsel to Moffat Communications Limited and Mr. Randal Moffat, in connection with the $1.2 billion acquisition of Moffat Communications by Shaw Communications.
Counsel to NAL Energy Corporation, in connection with the sale of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of NAL to Pengrowth Energy Corporation in a transaction valued at approximately $1.9 billion.
Counsel to Penn West Energy Trust, in connection with its acquisition of C1 Energy Ltd.
Counsel to PointNorth Capital in connection with its successful proxy contest for renewal of the board of directors of Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd.
Counsel to Precision Drilling Trust, in connection with its acquisition of all of the common stock of Grey Wolf, Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $2 million.
Counsel to Precision Drilling Trust, in connection with the completion of a US$172.5 million cross-border public offering of 46,000,000 trust units at a price of US$3.75 per trust unit.
Counsel to Repsol S.A., in connection with its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding common and preferred shares of Talisman Energy Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $15.1 billion.
Counsel to Sinopec Group, in connection with its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares and convertible debentures of Daylight Energy Ltd. in a transaction valued at approximately $2.9 billion.
Counsel to Teine Energy Ltd., in connection with the issuance of US$350 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.875% senior notes due 2022.
Counsel to TELUS Corporation, in connection with its proposed reorganization into an income trust, which would have been the largest income trust conversion in Canadian history.
Counsel to the special committee of Berkana Energy Corp., in connection with the offer by Quatro Resources Inc. to acquire all of its outstanding common shares following the announcement by Murphy Oil Canada of its intention to sell its 80 percent shareholdings in Berkana.
Counsel to the underwriters in connection with multiple bond offerings by the Province of Alberta in aggregate principal amount of approximately $23 billion.
Counsel to Total Energy Services Ltd., in connection with its reorganization, by way of plan of arrangement, into a mutual fund, Total Energy Services Trust.
Counsel to WCE Holdings Inc., the parent company of the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, in connection with the sale of all of its issued and outstanding shares to Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $50 million.
Counsel to Zedi Inc., in connection with the sale of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Zedi to senior management, certain shareholders and other investors in a going private transaction valued at approximately $1.9 billion.
