Lawyer Profile
Jay P. Reid
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
University of Alberta, Bachelor of Laws, 1990 University of Alberta, Bachelor of Commerce, with Distinction, 1987 Bar admission: Alberta 1991
Jay's recent transactions include acting for underwriters or the issuing corporations in numerous private and public entity financings, acting for issuers, boards of directors and special committees regarding the reorganization of existing companies, mergers, arrangements and takeover bids involving public entities.
Jay has also presented at various conferences, panels, seminars, and other events, including:
Counsel to Vesta Energy Ltd. (approximately $700 million enterprise value) in its sale to Parallax Energy Operating Inc. by way of Plan of Arrangement.
Counsel to Entropy Inc. and Advantage Energy Ltd. in connection with its strategic investment agreement with Canada Growth Fund Inc. (CGF) pursuant to which CGF agreed to make a direct investment of $200 million in Entropy, along with a 15-year fixed-price carbon credit purchase agreement of up to one million tonnes per annum.
Counsel to Entropy Inc. in respect of the $300 million investment agreement between Entropy Inc. and Brookfield Renewable to scale up the development of Entropy's carbon capture and storage technology.
Acted as an independent Chair of the contested annual general and special meeting of the shareholders of RIFCO Inc.
Counsel to AgJuncation in its $91 million sale to Kubota Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of Kubota Corporation of Japan, by way of a Plan of Arrangement
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1991 (AB)