Bailey Szoke Associate | Calgary

Prior to joining Blakes, Bailey was involved in the following representative matters:

• A private equity firm in its acquisition of a roofing company and a systems integration company, including upstream fund structuring and formation, and senior lender financing arrangements

• An investment firm in its acquisition of a metal fabricators business, including upstream fund structuring and formation, and senior lender credit arrangements

• A midstream infrastructure company in its C$400-million acquisition of oil batteries and related midstream infrastructure, and related commercial arrangements, including a long-term take-or-pay handling agreement and support for future infrastructure development

• A growth fund in its partnership with a resource company to develop up to C$2-billion of carbon capture and sequestration infrastructure on steam-assisted gravity drainage oil sands facilities

• A private equity firm in its investment in a manufacturing group

• A consortium in acquisition, commercial, project development, and project financing matters supporting advancement to a positive final investment decision regarding a US$3.4-billion LNG project; a floating LNG facility in British Columbia within the traditional territory of an Indigenous community, which will be the world’s first Indigenous majority-owned LNG project

• The underwriters in a C$1.28-billion bought deal offering of subscription receipts by a pipeline corporation

• An energy company in its C$120-million sale of assets in west-central Alberta

• An energy producer in its C$1.7-billion sale of Montney assets to another energy company, and in the spin-out of additional Montney assets into a newly-formed subsidiary

• A mining company in its C$1-billion sale of its interest in an oil sands project and certain associated downstream assets to other energy companies

• A private investment firm in its C$660-million acquisition of a significant interest in a Canadian natural gas liquids pipeline system from two major partners

• A global corporation, as Canadian counsel, in its acquisition of a pet food company from an investor group

• An energy company in its business combination with another oilfield company to form a new entity, and related C$65-million private placement

Bailey is a member of the Law Society of Alberta, the Canadian Bar Association and the Calgary Bar Association.

Admitted to the Alberta Bar – 2023
JD, University of Calgary – 2022
BA, University of Calgary – 2019