Bradley Hayden
Brad is a corporate/commercial lawyer and is the head of the firm's Business Law practice group.
Brad's practice primarily involves the purchase, sale, financing or reorganization of businesses, both domestic and cross-border, with a particular emphasis on private company transactions and commercial and contractual matters. His clients include major national or international transportation and energy service companies, technology enterprises, and a variety of energy-related owner-managed businesses.
Brad served in Macleod Dixon's Moscow office in 1994 and 1995, and since 2003 has been actively and regularly involved in the management of the firm's practice in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He has been involved in international trade, foreign investment, joint venture and privatization transactions in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan. He has participated in complex due diligence projects and international transaction planning.
In 1998 and 1999, Brad was seconded to Canadian Pacific Railway, where he served in the Corporate Secretary Office and reported directly to the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. His responsibilities included matters of corporate governance, Canadian and United States securities compliance, filings and reporting, and continuous disclosure; Board and Executive Committee briefings and transaction approval requests; Board and Shareholder meetings and records keeping for all leaseline and subsidiary companies; and the general administration and management of the Corporate Secretary Office in Calgary, Alberta and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has actively and regularly represented Canadian Pacific Railway since the conclusion of his secondment in 1999.
Brad joined Macleod Dixon as an articling student in 1990, continued as an associate in 1991 and became a partner of the firm in 1998. He became a member of the firm's Executive Committee in 2007.
He was admitted as an English solicitor in October 2008
- University of Calgary, LL.B., 1990
- University of Western Ontario, B.A., 1987
- Canadian Securities Course, 1989
- Alberta, 1991
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Calgary Bar Association
- Instructor, "Business Organizations," Alberta Bar Admission Course, 2000
- Co-author, “Benefits or Burdens? Recent and Expected Changes in Corporate Law Affecting Joint Stock Companies,” East/West Executive Guide, 1995
- Author, “Rejection of the Subsoil Law Amendments,” East/West Executive Guide, 1995
- Co-author, “Amendments to the Subsoil Law Regarding Mineral Licences,” East/West Executive Guide, 1995
