Background

Bill Guinan is a partner in our Calgary office. Bill was admitted to the Law Society of Alberta in 1983. He graduated from Dalhousie Law School with an LLB in 1982, at which time he also received an MBA from Dalhousie University. Prior to that Bill obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration from Acadia University in 1977.

Areas of Practice

• Securities and Corporate Finance
• Banking
• Oil and Gas

Rankings and Recognitions

• Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2012 (Natural Resources Law)

Professional Experience

• Represents public oil and gas issuers, listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and on the TSX Venture Exchange, in equity financing transactions, corporate governance matters, mergers and acquisitions as well as in many facets of oil and gas, corporate and commercial law.
• Represents private oil and gas corporations in many facets of oil and gas, corporate and commercial law.
• Represents Canadian chartered banks in both single lender and syndicated debt financing transactions.
• Represents both publicly traded and private limited partnerships in various facets of commercial law.

Professional and Community Activities

• Member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of Alberta.
• Author of 'Purchase and Sale of Common Facilities: Compliance with Third Party Rights and Other Key Issues' published by Insight Seminars in August, 1995 and author of 'Restrictions on Alienation - Compliance with Third Party Rights Upon the Sale of Oil and Gas Properties' published by the Legal Education Society of Alberta in February, 1990.
• Past and present Director and/or Corporate Secretary for a number of public and private corporations, including issuers listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange, many of which are engaged in the oil and gas industry.