As a senior partner in the Securities Group and a key member of the Firm's Mining Practice Group, one of the largest and most experienced mining groups in the world, Cam's diverse practice covers the areas of M&A, securities, natural resource, clean tech law. He has extensive experience in representing companies and investment dealers in all manner of public and private corporate finance transactions. He acts as lead counsel for a number of public clients and serves as counsel to a number of investment dealers on corporate finance matters.
Cam was instrumental in providing advice in the formative stages of such multi-billion market cap mining companies as Kinross Gold, New Gold and Allied Nevada Gold, the latter two companies being the top performers in the gold sector in 2011. Cam continued to provide advice to each of these companies though their various growth phases and in developing their policies in the areas of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. He has used his entrepreneurial instincts to assist a number of companies grow from start-ups to mid to large cap companies, including tech companies such as Dell Canada, where he was the incorporating lawyer and first corporate secretary and clean tech companies such as the IPO for Global Water, which Cam advised on its northbound cross-border offering and TSX listing in 2011. While Cam has acted as the lead counsel on many significant cross-border acquisitions, he has also acted in the past several years on smaller M&A transactions where clients had limited in-house resources, including the business combination of Sierra Minerals and Goldgroup Resources and the takeover of Castle Gold by Argonaut Gold, where his innovative structuring ideas were the subject of an article in the "Art of the Deal" section of Lexpert.
In recent months, Cam has acted on a number of transactions involving state-owned and publicly traded Chinese companies acquiring Canadian assets such as the purchase by Yancoal Resources of 19 potash permits in Saskatchewan.
Cam has served as a director for a number of companies listed on the TSX, NYSE, NASDAQ and AIM, and as a director of the Canadian Paraplegic Association (Ontario). He is involved in a number of philanthropic endeavours and is very active in his community. In 2011, Cam was awarded the 2011 Zenith Award by Lexpert in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility by Law Firm that Impacts, for our work with and donations to Omatjete Primary School Project in Namibia.
Cam has been continuously recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada in the area of natural resources law. He is also listed in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and has achieved a BV Distinguished™ rating by Martindale-Hubbell.
Representative transactions on which Cam has acted, include the following:
· Acted as lead counsel on a number of significant business combinations in the natural resource sector, including the merger of New Gold Inc. and Western Goldfields, Inc., the three-way merger of Kinross Gold Corporation, TVX Gold Inc. and Echo Bay Inc. and the acquisition by Hudbay Minerals Inc. of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. Limited
· Acted as lead counsel on numerous cross-border offerings, including offerings for Allied Nevada Gold Corporation, Kinross Gold Corporation and, recently, for New Gold Inc. on a $300 million high yield note offering
· Acted for either the issuer or the underwriter on numerous clean-tech transactions, including GWR Global Water Resources Corp., Timminco Limited and the financing and acquisition by Ram Power, Corp. of three geothermal power companies
· Acted on several reorganizations in which public companies have migrated from the United States to Canada to become foreign private issuers
· Acted for a number of technology companies in the high-tech sector, including Dell Computer, WaveRider Communications Inc. and Image Processing Systems Inc. and sat as a director or officer of such companies
· Represented the Harris family on tax and corporate matters when Charlotte, N.C.-based Nucor Corporation acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Harris Steel Group Inc. for approximately $1.2 billion
Achievements
· The Best Lawyers in Canada 2012 (Natural Resources Law)
· Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2011 (Mining)
· The Best Lawyers in Canada 2011 (Natural Resources Law)
· Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2010 (Mining)
· The Best Lawyers in Canada 2010 (Natural Resources Law)
· Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2009 (Mining)
· The Best Lawyers in Canada 2009 (Natural Resources Law)
· The Best Lawyers in Canada 2008 (Natural Resources Law)
· Martindale-Hubbell, BV Distinguished™ rating
· The Best Lawyers in Canada 2006/2007 (Natural Resources Law)
· Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2005 (Mining)
Associations
· Canadian Bar Association
· Ontario Bar Association
Transactions
Cassels Brock Represents New Gold Inc. in Its $300 Million Offering, 04/13/2012
Cassels Brock Acts for New Gold Inc. in Its Acquisition of Silver Quest Resources Ltd., 02/15/2012
Cassels Brock Acts for New Gold Inc. as New Gold Adds to Its Land Position Around the Blackwater Project Through the Acquisition of Geo Minerals Ltd., 01/10/2012
Cassels Brock Acts for Elgin Mining Inc. in Its Sale of Its Interest in Silver Reef Resources, 11/30/2011
Cassels Brock Represents Yancoal Canada Resources Co., Ltd. as It Acquires Potash Exploration Permits in Canada, 10/25/2011
Cassels Brock Represents New Gold Inc. in Its Proposed Acquisition of Geo Minerals Ltd. and the Expansion of Its Land Position Around Its Blackwater Project, 10/18/2011
Cassels Brock Acts for New Gold Inc. as It Agrees to Acquire Silver Quest Resources Ltd. and Consolidates Ownership of Blackwater Project in British Columbia, 10/18/2011
Cassels Brock Represents New Gold Inc. In Its Acquisiton of Richfield Ventures Corp., 06/03/2011
Sierra Minerals and Goldgroup Resources Complete Business Combination to Form Goldgroup Mining Inc., 06/22/2010
Allied Nevada Completes $283.5 Million Cross-Border Public Offering, 06/11/2010
In The News
09/20/2011 23 Cassels Brock Lawyers Included in Best Lawyers® in Canada 2012
05/19/2011 22 Cassels Brock Lawyers Named in Lexpert's 2011 Directory
08/25/2010 24 Cassels Brock Lawyers Included in Best Lawyers® in Canada 2011
05/25/2010 20 Cassels Brock Lawyers Named in Lexpert's 2010 Directory
Presentations
05/29/2012, Erik Goldsilver to Speak at Global Mining Finance & Law Conference
04/13/2012, Contract Drafting and Negotiating: Pitfalls and Strategies (CCCA 2012 National Spring Conference)
04/09/2012, Effective Due Diligence
03/12/2012, Reprocessing/Refurbishing Regulated Products: MEDEC 2011 MedTech Conference
03/07/2012, Jake Bullen Presents on Minute Book Review Methods at ILCO Advanced Corporate Law Program
03/07/2012, Stephen Selznick to Speak as Part of the 2012 AstraZeneca Guest Lecture Series
02/20/2012, Casey Chisick Reviews 20 Years of Canadian Copyright Law at Israeli-Canadian Workshop
02/09/2012, Issues of Confidentiality, Privacy and Security: 2012 OBA Annual Institute
02/02/2012, Don't Send that Email! - What Canada's New Anti-Spam Legislation Means for You
01/27/2012, Bruce Leonard to Present to the Council of the American Law Institute
Events
Not only do Cassels Brock lawyers take part in other organizations' events, the firm also sponsors many events directly.
Upcoming Events
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06/05/2012, Understanding Bill C-11: The Copyright Modernization Act
06/21/2012, Cassels Brock Announces the International Insolvency Institute's 12th Annual Conference in Paris, France - June 21-22, 2012