Stephanie C. Stimpson
Stephanie has a diverse commercial practice working with clients on corporate/commercial, banking and project development and finance matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Stephanie clerked for Judge Stephen Trott at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and then practised environmental and natural resource law in Denver, Colorado.
Stephanie became a partner of the firm in 2004.
- University of Montana, Juris Doctor (cum laude), 1995
Editor-in-Chief, Montana Law Review, 1995 - Georgetown University, B.Sc. Business Administration (cum laude), 1991
- Alberta, 2000
- Colorado State, 1997
- Montana State, 1995
- Law Society of Alberta, called to the Bar in 2000
- Colorado Bar Association, called to the Bar in 1997
- Montana Bar Association, called to the Bar in 1995
- Canadian Bar Association – business section
- Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
- Commercial counsel to oil and gas and oil sands companies in respect of domestic and international transactions and contractual arrangements.
- General corporate advice to private and public companies.
- Acted on $800 million project financing for oil sands project
- Acted for lenders on financing of oil and gas equipment company, including multi-jurisdictional security package and negotiation of intercreditor arrangements with second-lien lenders
- Acted for US lenders on financing $300 million acquisition of midstream companies
- Acted for US institutional investors in US$550 million project financing of ethylene plants
- Counsel for several oil and gas companies on large syndicated loans and private placements through all stages of financing, from deal structuring to completion
- Counsel for institutional investors on several cross-border private placements of high-yield notes, including negotiation of intercreditor arrangements with bank lenders
