Andrew
J.
Foley
Partner
A partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Canadian Practice Group, Andrew primarily practices in Capital Markets and Securities. Andrew works in the New York and the Toronto offices of Paul, Weiss, and is recognized as a leading lawyer in the area of Capital Markets by
Legal 500. Andrew has served as the U.S. legal representative to the Ontario Securities Commission’s Securities Advisory Council and has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the McGill University Faculty of Law.
Andrew has recently represented the following companies:
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Canadian Natural Resources in connection with the establishment of its debt shelf and various public offerings in the United States of debt securities;
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Canadian Oil Sands in connection with the multiple offerings in the United States under Rule 144A of debt securities;
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Canadian Pacific Railway in connection with the establishment of its debt shelf and various public offerings in the United States of debt securities;
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EnCana and Cenovus in connection with their multi-billion dollar reorganization and financing transaction to create two separate Canadian and U.S. public companies;
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EnCana Corporation and EnCana Holdings Finance Corp. in connection with the establishment of their respective debt shelves and various public offerings in the United States of debt securities;
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GeoGlobal Resources and Oilsands Quest in multiple public and private offerings of equity securities in the United States;
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Harvest Energy, Riverside Forest Products, Taseko Mining, Compton Petroleum, Western Oil Sands, Paramount Resources and Baytex Energy in connection with their respective offerings of high-yield notes with registration rights and various equity offerings;
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Husky Energy in connection with the establishment of its debt shelf and various public offerings in the United States of debt securities;
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Nexen Inc. in connection with the establishment of its debt shelf and various public offerings in the United States of debt securities;
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Pembina Pipeline in its acquisition of Provident Energy and in various equity offerings;
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Pengrowth Energy Corporation in its reorganization transaction, acquisition transaction and its various equity offerings;
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Shell Canada Limited in connection with the Cdn.$8.2 billion acquisition by Royal Dutch Shell of the 22 percent stake in Shell Canada it did not previously own; and
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Silver Wheaton in multiple public and private offerings of equity securities in the United States.
In addition, Andrew has recently represented the following underwriters:
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ABN AMRO, Citi, Deutsche Bank Securities, JP Morgan and RBC Capital Markets in multiple offerings by Petro-Canada of debt securities; and
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Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Citi, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and RBC Capital Markets Corporation in multiple offerings by Talisman Energy of debt securities;
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Canaccord Adams and Piper Jaffray in the $129 million public offering in Canada and U.S. IPO of Dragonwave;
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Citigroup Global Markets, RBC Dominion Securities and TD Securities in Air Canada’s Cdn.$525 million initial public offering in Canada and Rule 144A placement in the United States;
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Citi, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley in multiple offerings by Suncor Energy Inc. of debt securities; and
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Macquarie Capital Markets Canada, Genuity Capital Markets and GMP Securities in the Cdn.$1.56 billion sale of Goldcorp Inc.’s 48 percent stake in Silver Wheaton Corp. in public offerings in Canada and the United States.