Vivian Esmailzadeh Associate | Calgary

About Vivian

Vivian practises corporate and securities law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and continuous disclosure. She has assisted publicly-traded issuers, private issuers and underwriters on a range of matters and transactions, including cross-border transactions, debt and equity securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations and general corporate and securities law matters.

Prior to joining Blakes, Vivian worked as an associate at another leading firm. Vivian has also worked for several years as an engineer at a major American multinational cosmetics company in research and development and scale up manufacturing for a range of new product launches.

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

An energy company with respect to a C$50-million bought deal private placement financing led by strategic US institutional investors
An energy company on a C$5-million non-brokered private placement and concurrent exercise of warrants granted in a prior financing
A syndicate of agents in connection with the offering of subscription receipts of an energy holdings corporation, in conjunction with its reverse takeover transaction
An energy company with respect to its transformational C$525-million asset acquisition and debt recapitalization, including advising with respect to its C$150-million reserves-based lending credit facility and a C$100-million bought deal equity financing
A power generation company on its C$300-million bought deal public offering of subscription receipts and C$100-million concurrent private placement of subscription receipts to partially finance the corporation’s acquisition of two contracted combined-cycle US gas generation facilities
The underwriters on a C$1-billion dual-tranche public offering of subordinated notes to partially fund the purchase price for the issuer’s announced C$19-billion acquisition of three U.S.-based natural gas utilities
A power generation company on its C$350-million public offering of 5.816% medium-term notes due 2028
The Special Committee of an energy company in response to an unsolicited takeover bid, culminating in an acquisition of the company at a valuation of approximately C$15-billion on an enterprise-value basis
An energy company in its acquisition of another energy company for C$1.075-billion via a plan of arrangement
The C$52-million acquisition of a technology solutions company
A confidential client on the C$7.5-million share purchase of a private company
A confidential client on the C$8-million asset purchase of a brewery