Stephen Cooper

Stephen practices corporate and commercial law, with an emphasis on corporate finance and securities and mergers and acquisitions. He works with public and private sector clients in a wide range of industries including natural resources, investment banking, manufacturing and financial services. Before joining Lawson Lundell, Stephen was an associate with a Calgary-based international law firm, and was seconded to Imperial Oil Resources Limited.

Stephen has been involved in a broad range of transactions including public debt and equity financings, private placements, reorganizations, plans of arrangement, amalgamations, take-over bids, private equity investments, and various share and asset acquisitions and divestitures. He also advises public companies on regulatory matters, continuous disclosure and corporate governance practices.

Professional Activities

• Canadian Bar Association (BC), Member
• Canadian Bar Association (BC), Securities Law Subsection, Vice-President
• Vancouver Bar Association, Member
• Vancouver Enterprise Forum, Member

Bar Admissions

• Alberta (2006)
• British Columbia (2009)

Education

• University of Calgary (B.A., B.Sc., 2000)
• Dalhousie University (LL.B., 2005)

Representative transactions include:

• $16 million secondary offering of trust units by leading Canadian restaurant industry income fund. Represented the syndicate of underwriters in this bought deal short form prospectus offering
• Acted for Canadian mining company with African assets in US $200 million private placement and project loan facility involving multiple related commercial agreements
• The $60 million initial public offering and subsequent $36 million short-form prospectus offering by a TSX-listed exploration and production company with South American production assets
• $165 million and $125 million short-form prospectus offerings of units by TSX-listed income trust, and $625 million private placement financing of side-car entity of the trust
• US $1.0 billion senior secured note financing of independent Canadian oil sands company
• Plan of arrangement between two publicly listed energy companies, resulting in entity with $1 billion combined enterprise value
• Take-over bid and subsequent compulsory acquisition by energy trust of private exploration and production company
• Various private placements of common and flow-through shares, for public and private companies
• Reverse takeover of Colombian oil and gas exploration and production company by Canadian-listed shell company, concurrent with $150 million private placement of subscription receipts
• Participated in successful defence of shareholder rights plan in hearings before Alberta Securities Commission in face of creeping hostile takeover bid