James L. Kidd

Practice Focus

• Securities and Mergers & Acquisitions
  • James is a transactional-based corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions specialist who represents a broad range of public and private corporations, trusts, limited partnerships and national and regional investment dealers operating in the oil & gas, pipeline, real estate, industrial, finance and mining businesses in relation to such matters as:
    • Public and private brokered and non-brokered offerings of equity and debt securities
    • Initial public offerings and short form prospectus offerings
    • Takeover bids (hostile and friendly), issuer bids (normal course and substantial), mergers, arrangements, amalgamations, acquisitions, reorganizations, reverse takeovers, share exchanges and other business combinations
    • Going public and private transactions;
    • Debenture amendments
    • Private and public company start-ups
    • Stock exchange listing and compliance / reporting matters
    • Securities regulatory compliance / reporting matters
    • Related party transactions
    • Proxy contests and securityholder activism
    • Board and committee advisory and corporate governance matters
    • Security-based compensation arrangements
    • General corporate, partnership and trust matters