Kirk W. Lamb

First Year of Call
Alberta, 2008

Areas of Practice
Business Law

Description
Kirk’s focus is on:

Advising Canadian and foreign public, widely-held private, closely-held private, owner-manager, and private equity corporations, partnerships, trusts, mutual fund trusts and joint ventures in respect of the following areas:

Mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations

Asset, equity and debt purchase and sale transactions
Consideration consisting of cash, equity, debt, preferred securities, options and warrants, exchangeable securities, convertible securities, contingent value rights, and deferred/conditional/earnout structures
Arrangement agreements and plans of arrangement, takeover bids, exempt takeover bids, pre-acquisition agreements, share purchase and sales, partnership interest purchase and sales, trust unit purchase and sales, asset purchase and sales, hybrid purchase and sales, amalgamation agreements
Pre- and post-closing transactions, corporate/partnership consolidation, asset transfers and consolidation, pre-closing asset packaging and sale transactions, post-closing asset packaging and sale transactions, pre-closing spinouts of exploratory, early stage and established business segments
Corporate and project finance

Equity lines of credit
Preferred return and “waterfall” structures
Investments in shares, partnership interest, trust units, notes, debentures, subscription receipts, units, options and warrants, deposit receipts
Bank, public and private debt financing
Inbound and outbound financing
Inbound and outbound business expansion
Business entity formation and structuring

Corporations, partnerships, trusts, joint ventures
Equity, debt, preferred securities, purchase rights, exchangeable securities, convertible securities
Share class structures, partnership unit structures, partnership agreements, unanimous shareholder agreements, trust indentures, joint venture agreements, option agreements
Employment and employment compensation benefits arrangements

Stock option plans
Restricted and performance share unit plans
Performance shares
Performance warrants
Stock appreciation rights
Phantom share unit plans
Cash bonus plans (deferred and current)
Profit sharing plans
Employee share purchase plans (treasury- and market-based plans)
Retirement compensation arrangements
Employee benefit plans
Employee share trusts
Legal tax due diligence

Corporate history
Tax compliance status
Tax payment status
Audits, reassessments, reviews, investigations, information request letters
Tax returns, assessments, elections, and other filings
Organizational minute/record books
Distributions and shareholder returns
Debt financing arrangements
Closing books relating to material transactions
Acquisitions of control
Internal memos and opinions
Tax accounts, attributes, and pools
Material contracts
Shareholder voting and trust agreements
Employment compensation arrangements