Cases
Representative Work
Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
secondary offerings involving common shares, preferred shares, exchangeable shares, warrants, limited-partnership units, special warrants,
debt securities ranging in size up to $1 billion. Initial Listings
ongoing listings compliance on various stock exchanges including the TSX, TSX-V
AIM. Also Canadian counsel on a recent Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing. Take-over Bids (friendly
hostile) involving private
public companies with transaction sizes in excess of $1 billion. Plans of Arrangement of a wide variety including conventional take-over bids (shares/cash), public newco spin outs
cross-border take-over bids. A significant number of brokered
non-brokered private placements throughout Canada
the United States, with subscription proceeds of up to $500 million. Day-to-day corporate activities including stock option plan preparation
grants
preparation of annual corporate disclosure materials (NI 51-101 oil & gas disclosure, Annual Information Forms, Management Information Circulars). Preparation
negotiation of conventional
frontier domestic oil & gas agreements, including purchase
sale contracts, farm-out agreements, joint operating agreements, construction, ownership
operations agreements
International concession agreements, production-sharing contracts
finance-
production-sharing contracts (Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Argentina). Wide variety of financing agreements associated with domestic
offshore oil & gas assets.
