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Shouldice, Robert R. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
(604) 640-4145 rshouldice@blg.com
Mr. Shouldice practises corporate and commercial law. He is widely
recognized in the areas of acquisitions, mergers and divestitures,
infrastructure, energy transactions and projects, transportation-sector
projects, corporate reorganizations and corporate governance matters.
He actively advises clients on LNG, power generation, port terminal
and light rapid transit projects and transactions.
Selley, David J. Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
(604) 661-1718 dselley@farris.com
Mr. Selley practises corporate and commercial transactions, securities,
corporate finance, M&A and banking law. He has experience drafting and
negotiating securities offering, loan and finance documents. His energy
clients have included FortisBC, BC Hydro and Westcoast Energy and
alternative energy including Day4 Energy. He represents publicly traded
companies and venture issuers.
Sebastiano, Rocco M. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-5859 rsebastiano@osler.com
Mr. Sebastiano, also an engineer, is Chair of Osler's Energy (Power) Group.
He has advised on major projects such as Maritime Link, Lower Mattagami,
Bruce Nuclear Refurbishment, York Energy Centre, East Windsor Cogeneration
and South Kent Wind.
Scott, Trevor R. Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
(604) 661-1732 tscott@farris.com
Mr. Scott has extensive experience advising energy companies on
matters including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings,
restructurings, corporate governance and shareholder activism.
Scott, Richard Dentons Canada LLP
(416) 863-4370 richard.scott@dentons.com
Mr. Scott focuses on M&A, reorganizations & corporate finance transactions,
including multinational transactions in Canada, the US, the UK and other
countries. He has significant experience in managing large take-over bids
& corporate reorganizations.
Scobie, Jeff Lawson Lundell LLP
(403) 218-7517 jscobie@lawsonlundell.com
Mr. Scobie specializes in domestic and international oil and gas, and energy-
related projects and transactions. With in-depth knowledge of Liquefied
Natural Gas (LNG), Gas-To-Liquids (GTL) and other forms of energy,
he advises on the structuring, development, financing and operation
of major global projects. He is a former General Counsel of Qatar Petroleum.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
Securities (Canada) Inc., FirstEnergy Capital Corp.,
Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd. and Peters &
Co. Limited acted as underwriters on this offering.
TransCanada also announced, on March 17, 2016,
that it had obtained US$10.3 billion of committed
debt bridge financing from a syndicate of lenders. e
proceeds from the offering and the bridge facilities will
support TransCanada's proposed acquisition of Co-
lumbia Pipeline Group, Inc. for US$13 billion.
TransCanada was represented by its in-house counsel
Chris Johnston, Lisa Grams, Tara Shaw, Jane Brindle
and Meghan Lindsay, and assisted, with respect to Ca-
nadian matters, by a team at Blake, Cassels & Gray-
don LLP including Ross Bentley, Dan McLeod, Trev-
or Rowles, Nav Dhaliwal and Vladimir Cvijetinovic
(corporate/securities), Michael McIntosh and Andrew
Kolody (banking) and Jeffrey Trossman, Sabrina Wong
and Carrie Aiken (tax), and with respect to US matters,
by a team at Mayer Brown LLP including Michael
Hermsen and Nicole Puza (corporate/securities) and
James Barry (tax).
e underwriters were represented, with respect
to Canadian matters, by a team at Norton Rose Ful-
bright Canada LLP including Kevin Johnson, QC,
Marcus Archer, Kathleen Cowick, Jason Giborski
and Nathan Hillier (corporate/securities) and Dion
Legge (tax) and, with respect to US matters, by a team
at Paul, Weiss, Riind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
including Christopher Cummings, Stephen Centa and
Ronnie Ollo (corporate/securities), William O'Brien
(environmental Law), and David Mayo and Amir Coo-
per (tax). e syndicate of lenders under the debt bridge
financing commitments was represented by a team at
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP including Rich-
ard Borden and Matthew Longstaff.
PARAMOUNT RESOURCE AND PEMBINA
GAS SERVICES LP COMPLETE SALE OF
MUSREAU FACILITY, CLOSE MIDSTREAM DEAL
CLOSING DATE: APRIL 20, 2016
On April 20, 2016, Paramount Resources (Paramount)
completed the sale of sour gas processing assets in
north western Alberta to Pembina Gas Services Lim-
ited Partnership, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary
of Pembina Pipeline Corporation (Pembina) for cash
and other considerations.
As part of the transaction, Paramount and Pembina
have entered into a 20-year midstream services agree-
ment that secures Paramount's priority access to sold
capacity at the Musreau Facility. Under the terms of
the transaction, Pembina has acquired Paramount's
preliminary engineering studies, licenses and surface
rights with respect to a proposed sour gas processing fa-
cility and additional sour gas processing assets, and has
agreed, at Paramount's election, to provide additional
capacity on agreed terms.
Concurrent with the acquisition, Pembina an-
nounced an offering of common shares through a syn-
dicate of underwriters co-led by Scotia Capital Inc. and
