Matthew Santillo, Calgary

About Matthew

Matt practises corporate and securities law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate finance and corporate governance.

Matt has experience representing publicly-traded issuers, private issuers and underwriters on a broad range of matters and transactions, including domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and debt and equity securities offerings.

Matt also regularly assists clients in various industries with general corporate and securities law matters, including corporate reorganizations, corporate governance matters and compliance with continuous disclosure obligations and stock exchange policies.

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Representative matters in which Matt has been involved include:

Mergers & Acquisitions

Enerplus Corporation in connection with its acquisition by Chord Energy Corporation for approximately US$3.76-billion
Strathcona Resources Ltd. in connection with its acquisition of Pipestone Energy Corp. and concurrent listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange to become an approximately C$8.6-billion public company
Pembina Pipeline Corporation on its C$11.4-billion joint venture with KKR & Co. Inc. to merge their western Canadian natural gas processing assets
Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. on its acquisition of Roxgold Inc. for approximately C$1.1-billion
Pembina Pipeline Corporation in connection with its terminated C$8.5-billion acquisition of Inter Pipeline Ltd.
Waterous Energy Fund on its take-over bid acquisition of Osum Oil Sands Corp.

Corporate Finance

Pembina Pipeline Corporation in connection with its MJDS public offering of subscription receipts for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately C$1.3-billion, the winner of the Capital Markets Deal of the Year awarded at the 2024 Canadian Law Awards
Syndicate of underwriters in Advantage Energy Ltd.'s C$209-million public offering of subscription receipts and extendible convertible unsecured debentures
The underwriting syndicate in connection with a C$230-million public equity offering of PrairieSky Royalty Ltd.
Stampede Drilling Inc. in connection with its C$26.6-million public equity offering and concurrent acquisition of drilling rigs and related assets
Pembina Pipeline Corporation in connection with its public offering of an aggregate of C$3.0-billion principal amount of medium-term notes
Suncor Energy Inc. in connection with its public offering of an aggregate of C$1.25-billion principal amount of medium-term notes
Enerplus Corporation on the renewal of its C$2-billion multi-jurisdictional disclosure system (MJDS) cross-border shelf program