James L. Kidd

First Year of Call
Alberta, 2002

Areas of Practice
Capital Markets

Description
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.

His focus is on:

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 and reporting matters
Securities regulatory reporting and compliance
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