Lawyer Profile
Jeffrey E. Sharpe
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation, Negotiation and Leadership, 2016 University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Laws, 1994 Bar admission: Alberta, 1995 and British Columbia, 2023
Lead counsel successfully representing Inter Pipeline Ltd. (IPL) in a precedent-setting case before the Alberta Securities Commission. The case addressed Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P.'s use of total return swaps in its takeover bid of IPL. The decision is the first time that a Canadian securities regulator has directly addressed the use of total return swaps within the context of takeover bids following the changes to the Canadian takeover bid regime in 2016. Re Bison Acquisition Corp., 2021 ABASC 100
Lead counsel in the successful defence to Wood Group's Supreme Court of Canada application for leave to appeal from the Court of Appeal judgment re: 2018 ABCA 305. Canadian Natural Resources Limited v. Wood Group Mustang (Canada) Inc. (IMV Projects Inc.) (2019)
Lead counsel in connection with three successful appeals and one cross appeal before Court of Appeal. Canadian Natural Resources Limited v. Wood Group Mustang (Canada) Inc. (IMV Projects Inc.), 2018 ABCA 305
Lead counsel in the successful application to have a $96 million arbitration stayed. Canadian Natural Resources Limited v. Flatiron Constructors Canada Limited, 2018, ABQB 613
Lead counsel in the successful leave application to have the Court of Appeal reconsider its earlier decision in Bedard v Amin, 2010 ABCA 3. Canadian Natural Resources Limited v. Wood Group Mustang (Canada) Inc. (IMV Projects Inc.), 2018 ABCA 122
Lead counsel in the successful defence of an application brought by a dissident shareholder seeking public interest orders under the Alberta Securities Act relating to proxy solicitation processes utilized in a hostile proxy contest. PointNorth Capital Inc., 2017 ABASC 121
Successful leave applications and appeal to Supreme Court of Canada concerning the proper interpretation of the right to payments arising under an Incentive Agreement registered by caveat on title to land for a designated heritage building and the proper statutory interpretation as to priority of interest governed by the Personal Property Security Act, R.S.A. 2000 c. P-7. Heritage Capital Corp. v. Equitable Trust Co., 2016 SCC 19
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1995 (AB)