Robert J. Engbloom, Q.C.
Practising primarily corporate, M&A and securities law, Bob acts for a significant number of businesses including income and royalty trusts generally and on transactional matters. Bob acts as lead counsel on a wide variety of significant transactions and has extensive experience in providing advice on mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and related party transactions. Bob's practice includes advising boards of directors and special committees on both governance matters and substantive transactions.
Bob also has considerable experience on a broad range of corporate finance matters, representing issuers and underwriters in a variety of public and private financing matters, nationally and internationally. He is a corporate secretary or director of a number of public and private corporations.
Although Bob's practise is primarily in the natural resources and energy areas including considerable experience in the oil sands sector, he acts for a number of clients and on transactions in other industries as well.
Lexpert identifies Bob as a leading lawyer in corporate commercial law, corporate finance, energy and mergers and acquisitions and has identified Bob as one of Canada's top 30 corporate deal makers.
- Queen’s University, LL.B., 1975
- University of Alberta, B.A. (history and economics)
- Alberta, 1976
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Calgary Bar Association
- Member, Calgary Petroleum Club
- Member, Glencoe Club
- Member, Glencoe Golf and Country Club
Sample M&A Work
- Acted for Western Oil Sands Inc. on its sale to Marathon Oil Corporation for cash and exchangeable shares of Marathon together with a spin out of Western's Kurdistan's exploration business by way of a Plan of Arrangement- 2007 - $6.5 billion
- Acted for the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of CCS Income Trust in connection with a management led private equity buy out - 2007 - $3.5 billion
- Acted for TransAlta Power, LP on its sale to CKI Holdings Limited by way of take over bid - 2007 - $600 million
- Acted for Taylor NGL Limited Partnership to AltaGas Income Fund by way of take over bid for cash and units - 2007 - $635 million
- Acted for Petrofund Energy Trust on its merger with PennWest Energy Trust by way of a Plan of Arrangement providing for the exchange of units - 2006 - $11 billion
- Acted for Total S.A. on its acquisition of Deer Creek Energy Limited by way of a cash take over bid which included matching a superior competing proposal by a third party to the Deer Creek Board - 2005 - $1.7 billion
- Acted for Viking Royalty Trust on its merger with Harvest Energy Trust by way of Plan of Arrangement providing for exchange units - 2005 - $4 billion
- Acted for Cequel Energy Inc. on its merger with Progress Energy creating Progress Energy Trust, ProEx Energy Inc. and Cyries Energy Inc. by way of Plan of Arrangement- 2004 - $1.6 billion
- Leading Practitioner, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
- Corporate Commercial
- Corporate Finance
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Oil and Gas
- Chambers Global 2008 Ranking
- Corporate/M&A
- Designated as a "Leading Practitioner", 2008 Lexpert/ALM 500
- Corporate/Commercial
- Corporate Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Oil and Gas
- International Who's Who of Oil and Gas Lawyers, 2007
- Designated as a "Best Lawyer in Canada", 2007
- Corporate Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law
- Natural Resources Law
- Securities Law
- Member, Major Donor Committee, United Way, 2005-2007
- Past Chair, Board of Governors, Foothills Academy Society, 1999
