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William L. Hartley
T: 604.661.1007
F: 604.689.5177
E: whartley@ekb.com
| Assistant: | Karen Meier |
Practice Areas
Banking & Financial Institutions
Finance & Leasing
Mining
Profile
William L. Hartley is a partner at Edwards, Kenny & Bray LLP.A solicitor with considerable experience, Mr. Hartley represents domestic and multi-national corporations in Canada. While his principal focus is on representing corporations in acquisitions, dispositions and financings, Mr. Hartley’s practice covers a broad range of matters, including mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures and other significant corporate transactions, as well as general corporate advisory work for both mature and start-up companies.
Mr. Hartley’s extensive portfolio also includes representing commercial banks, other institutional lenders and corporate borrowers in a wide range of financing transactions such as syndicated financings, corporate restructuring, debt securities, loans and hedging products.
Representative Experience
- Ongoing
counsel for a Canadian asset finance company, including its corporate
structuring and finance, securitizations, acquisitions and financings
- Canadian
counsel to a European multi-national corporation in their
US$225,000,000 acquisition of the shares of a Canadian network
management company and its US subsidiary
- Lead counsel for a
Canadian multi-national corporation in the issue of US$300,000,000 of
Canadian originated preferred securities to institutional and private
purchasers in the United States
- Lead counsel for an American "big box" retailer for their investment in a Canadian "big box" retailer
- Lead counsel for an American software company in its corporate reorganization in Canada and the United States
- Lead
counsel for a Canadian mining corporation in the issue of
US$468,050,000 of shares in Canada and the United States, the largest
equity offering of its kind in Canada
- Lead counsel for a
Canadian mining corporation in the issue of US$300,000,000 of debt
securities and US$230,000,000 of convertible debt securities
- Lead
counsel for a Canadian multi-national corporation in the establishment
of a US$750,000,000 standby credit facility with a syndicate of
Canadian and foreign banks
- Lead counsel for Canadian corporations in the establishment of trading agreements for derivative transactions with Canadian and foreign trading partners
Professional & Community Services
Mr. Hartley is a contributing author of Buying and Selling a Business – Annotated Precedents, published by the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia. He is also a member of the Banking Law, Business Law, Law Practice Management, and Real Property sections of the Canadian Bar Association (BC Branch).Education & Bar Admission
University of British Columbia, LL.B., 1982Called to the British Columbia Bar in 1983
