Herbert I. Ono
Partner
Vancouver
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Tel :
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604.691.7493
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Fax :
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604.893.2398
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Professional Activities
As a partner with the firm's Corporate Finance/Securities Law Group, Herb has a varied cross-border corporate finance and securities practice. He routinely assists clients in negotiating and implementing mergers and acquisitions, corporate spin-offs, cross-border migrations and financing transactions (including U.S. private investment/public equity, or so-called PIPE, transactions). His experience includes advising publicly-traded clients on corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, Canadian and U.S. securities filings, and stock exchange listings.
Prior to joining the firm, Herb practiced with another major Vancouver law firm. He also spent two years with a Tokyo law firm now known as Nagashima, Ohno and Tsunematsu, where, as a foreign lawyer on secondment from the Toronto office of a national law firm, he was engaged in international commercial transactions, including joint ventures between U.S. and Japanese parties.
Memberships
- Vancouver Bar Association
Representative Transactions
Herb acts as Canadian and US securities counsel to various companies. His experience includes preparation and review of filings under Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, on Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 40-F, 20-F, 8-K and 6-K. He has assisted clients in negotiating and implementing cross-border financing and business combination transactions that have involved registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Some examples of his recent representative work include:
- Acted as U.S. securities counsel in the listing of Primero Mining on NYSE in 2011.
- Acted as U.S. securities counsel to Detour Gold Corporation in an over US$300 million cross-border convertible note financing.
- Acted as U.S. securities counsel to Great Basin Gold Ltd. in an over $80 million cross-border equity financing.
- Acted as U.S. securities counsel to Tahoe Resources Inc. in a US$55 million cross-border equity financing.
- Acted as U.S. securities counsel to Eastern Platinum Limited in a $50 million cross-border equity financing.
- Acted as U.S. securities counsel to Detour Gold Corporation in an over $40 million cross-border equity financing.
- Acted for Nord Resources Corporation in its cross-border special warrant financing, June 2007 and its listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange, January 2008.
- Acted for Continental Minerals Corporation in its merger with Great China Mining, December 2006.
publications and presentations
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