Richard Peters * Partner Calgary Tel : 403.531.4722 Fax : 403.531.4720 Email : richard.peters@mcmillan.ca * Law Corporation VCard :

Since 1990, Richard Peters has practiced corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on securities law and mergers and acquisitions.

Richard has represented national and international clients in the airline, banking, energy, information technology, investment, pipeline, real estate development, securities, software and telecommunications industries in a broad range of transactions including: 

• Public and private debt and equity financings
• Stock exchange listings
• Take-over bids, plans of arrangement and amalgamations
• Asset acquisitions and dispositions
• Corporate reorganizations
• Syndicated credit facilities
• Securitization and asset based financings

Richard regularly advises board of directors, special committees and shareholders on matters of corporate governance. He is a frequent commentator on a variety of legal subjects and a past lecturer for the Law Society of Alberta Bar Admission Course.

• Acted for a Hong Kong based company with oil and gas assets in China in connection with its initial public offering on the TSX, the first Chinese oil and gas project and listing on the TSX.
• Acted for Addax Petroleum in connection with its initial public offering of $450 million and a subsequent share offering of $354 million.
• Acted for Pengrowth Energy Trust in a series of trust unit offerings for $500 million.
• Acted for Addax Petroleum in connection with the acquisition of the business of Pan-Ocean Energy Corp Ltd. for $1.6 billion.

December 2011 A Primer for Avoiding Directors' Liability Presentation to the Directors of CAPL, Calgary, AB

May 2011 Going Public in Hong Kong – a Guide for Canadian Natural Resource Companies Presenter, 2011 HKCBA Business Forum – The China Opportunity: Now is the time to build bridges through Hong Kong, Calgary, AB