Geoffrey M. Sherrott


T: 604.661.1060
F: 604.689.5177
E: gsherrott@ekb.com

Assistant:   Karen Meier  
T: 604.661.1058

Practice Areas

Business
Environmental
Mining
Securities

Profile

Geoffrey M. Sherrott is a partner at Edwards, Kenny & Bray LLP.

Mr. Sherrott advises private and public companies on a wide range of commercial and corporate issues and has particular experience in dealing with securities and environmental law issues.

Representative Experience

  • Advises private companies on a wide range of business issues including shareholders agreements, agreements for the purchase and sale of land and businesses, licence agreements, loan and security documents, property leases and banking documents

  • Advises companies listed on the TSX and the TSX Venture Exchange on all disclosure and compliance matters

  • Securities law counsel for a Canadian mining company in a series of private placements of a total of US$730 million in debt instruments to US institutional investors and the subsequent qualification of those securities under the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system

  • Securities law counsel for a Canadian mining company in the issue of US$468 million in common shares to Canadian and US investors

  • Acts for clients in negotiating settlements addressing the costs of cleaning up contaminated sites in British Columbia, including the costs of addressing long-term acid mine drainage from old mine sites

  • Advises clients on how best to address the environmental risks involved in acquiring real property in British Columbia

Professional & Community Activities

Mr. Sherrott is a contributing author of Buying and Selling a Business – Annotated Precedents, published by the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (CLE). He is also the author of a chapter on equity financing for private companies in the CLE practice manual Advising British Columbia Businesses.

Education & Bar Admission

University of British Columbia, B.Sc., 1980
University of British Columbia, B.A., 1984
University of Saskatchewan, LL.B., 1993
Called to the British Columbia Bar in 1994

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