Lawyer Profile
James L. Kidd
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
University of Alberta, Bachelor of Laws, 2001 Bishops University, Bachelor of Arts (Honours, Philosophy), 1998 Bar admission: Alberta 2002
James is a corporate securities and M&A lawyer who represents a range of public and private corporations, trusts, limited partnerships and national and regional investment dealers. His clients live in a variety of industries, including in the oil and gas, pipeline, real estate, industrial, finance and mining businesses sectors.
Counsel to Inter Pipeline Ltd. in its acquisition by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P pursuant to a statutory plan of arrangement for $6.8 billion.
Counsel to Inter Pipeline Ltd. in a public offering of $500 million senior unsecured medium-term notes.
Counsel to Tourmaline Oil Corp. in the $1.37 billion acquisition of strategic assets located in the Alberta Deep Basin and the north east British Columbia Gundy area from Shell Canada Energy.
Counsel to Tourmaline Oil Corp in the $750 million financing comprising a $115 million public offering of 3,309,700 subscription receipts and the concurrent private placement offering of 18,274,000 subscription receipts with certain institutional investors for gross proceeds of approximately $635 million
Counsel to Inter Pipeline Ltd. in a $600 million public offering of 22,430,000 subscription receipts.
Counsel to Perpetual Energy Inc. regarding recapitalization transactions, including a $25 million backstopped rights offering, settlement of 7.00% convertible debentures and a successfully contested Alberta Securities Commission hearing. (Re Perpetual Energy Inc., 2015 ABASC 2)
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2002 (AB)