 Bennett Jones Education McGill University, BA (Economics),1979, with great distinction Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 1982 Bar Admissions Alberta, 1983 Overview Perry Spitznagel is Vice Chair of Bennett Jones, a former longstanding Managing Partner of the Calgary office and a senior corporate lawyer with extensive national and cross-border experience in a broad range of matters. He has acted for clients in some of the largest transactions in Canada, including many of Canada’s and North America’s largest national and cross-border financings and mergers. He has been recognised by Financial Post Magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in corporate Canada. He is also widely recognised as a leading lawyer in his areas of expertise. Perry is a director of a large private holding company and a director of the Calgary Zoological Society. He is also the longstanding Chair of the Bennett Jones Business Forum, held annually at Lake Louise, Alberta. He has been a director and Chair of WinSport, which manages the legacy assets and programmes of the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics; a member of the Alberta Securities Commission Advisory Committee; Co-Chair of the Pipestone Securities Law Conference; and a director of Alpine Canada, the governing body for alpine ski racing in Canada. A former international ski racer, Perry remains active in skiing. He is a graduate of McGill University, BA (Economics), 1979, with great distinction, and Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 1982. He is a frequent speaker and has chaired national and international conferences on a variety of topics. Perry speaks French and German. Select Experience • Statoil ASA, in its $2.2-billion acquisition of North American Oil Sands Corporation by way of takeover bid. • Gulf Canada Resources Limited, in its
$9.8-billion cross-border sale to Conoco Inc. • Anderson Exploration, in its $7.3-billion cross border sale to Devon Energy. • Encal Energy Limited, in its $1.8-billion cross-border
merger with Calpine Corporation. • Burlington Resources Inc., in its $3.8-billion cross-border acquisition of Poco Petroleums
Limited. • Gulf Canada Resources Limited, in its $2.3-billion acquisition of Crestar Energy Inc. • Global Thermoelectric, in its cross border sale to FuelCell Energy Inc. • ATCO
Group, in the sale of its retail energy business to Direct
Energy Marketing Limited. • Luscar Coal Income Fund, in its $1-billion sale to Sherritt Coal Partnership, following an unsolicited
takeover bid. • Inuvialuit Energy Inc., in its
unsolicited takeover bid for Omega Hydrocarbons Ltd. • Canadian Utilities
Limited, in its public spinout of ATCOR Resources Ltd. • ATCO Ltd., in its public spinout of Akita Drilling Ltd. • ATCO Ltd., in its cross border sale of ATCOR Resources Ltd.
to Forest Oil. • Canadian Pacific Hotels and Legacy Hotels Real Estate
Investment Trust, in its $586-million offering of REIT units
and $300 million offering of debentures of Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment
Trust. • Luscar Coal Income Fund, in its $94-million
offering of units and $100-million offering of debentures. • Merrill
Lynch & Co., as underwriters of US public offerings of US$200 million by
Agrium Inc. • Scotia Capital, in the $600-million initial
public offering of Luscar Coal Income Fund. • ATCO Structures, in its sale of space rental assets to GE Capital. • Canadian
Airlines International, in its US$175-million offering of senior
secured notes. • ATCO Group, in the $300-million offering
of Preferred Shares of CanUtilities Holdings Ltd. • RBC Dominion
Securities, as underwriters in public offerings of $727 million
of Renaissance Energy. • RBC Dominion Securities, in the
$440-million privatization of Petro-Canada and subsequent public offerings of
$250 million of common shares, $100 million of unsecured notes and $150 million
of guaranteed bonds. • RBC Dominion Securities, in the
$875-million privatization of Telus Corporation. |