Toronto, ON, Canada - February 8, 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada - Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP announced that J. Michael McIntosh has joined the Financial Services Group as a partner in the Calgary office.
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Mr. McIntosh's practice focuses on banking, acquisition finance, structured finance and project finance. Mr. McIntosh also has considerable experience in all phases of corporate and commercial acquisitions and regularly advises on cross-border financings. Recent transactions have included major acquisition financings, private placements, major construction financings and cross-border structured financings.
Some of the types of transactions he was involved in recently include major acquisition financings, private placements, major construction financings and cross-border structured financings, as well as financings of oil sands projects, coalbed methane development, conventional oil and gas reserves, petrochemical plants, pipelines, mining assets and power generating assets. He was lead counsel in connection with the establishment of syndicated credit facilities for Nexen Inc., Baytex Energy Ltd., Canadian Oil Sands Limited, Enbridge Inc., Enbridge Income Fund, TransAlta Corporation, Rangeland Pipeline Company, Canadian Hydro Developers, Inc., Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. and Fording Canadian Coal Trust. He was also co-lead counsel to the lenders for TransCanada's Keystone Project credit facility.
Mr. McIntosh was lead counsel to the lenders to Western Oil Sands Inc. in the financing of Western's joint venture participation in the Athabasca oil sands project with Shell Canada Limited and Chevron Canada Limited. In addition, he was lead counsel to the lenders to Nexen Inc. in the financing of Nexen's acquisition of the North Sea assets of EnCana Corporation and also was lead Canadian counsel to the lenders to Kinder Morgan, Inc. in the financing of its acquisition of Terasen Inc.
More recently, he was lead counsel to the lenders in the financing of Husky Energy's acquisition of U.S. refining assets and was lead counsel to the lenders in the financing of Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited's acquisition of TransAlta Power, L.P. ■