Background
Mr. Roberts is a partner at our Calgary office. He was admitted to the Alberta bar in 1978 after graduating with an LL.B. from the University of Alberta in 1977. Prior to that, Mr. Roberts majored in Finance and received a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calgary in 1974.
Areas of Practice
· Mr. Roberts began his career as a general commercial lawyer and as a result of acting for a number of public companies has become a public company lawyer with extensive experience in Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions.
· Most of his experience has been in oil and gas exploration and oil and gas service companies.
Professional Experience
· Mr. Roberts practices in the Corporate/Securities areas with a broad range of experience including:
- Acting for various corporations, having a wide range of activities including oil and gas well drilling and other services both nationally and internationally, oil and gas exploration and development, diversified trucking, environmental waste and service and supply;
- Involvement in various financing arrangements such as prospectus type financings, bank loan agreements (and security instruments), private placements of special warrant and share capital (including a number of flow-through share issuances);
- Acting on major asset purchase sale transactions both nationally and internationally as well as advising companies on general corporate legal matters on a day-to-day basis such as matters of employment agreements, stock option plans and public company annual meetings;
- Experience in mergers and acquisitions of public companies including numerous take over bids (both hostile and friendly), amalgamations and plans of arrangement;
- Familiar with corporate governance issues as a result of being a director of an oil and gas service company whose shares trade on both The Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange and acting as secretary and director of oil and gas exploration companies.