Barbara Collins 

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Barbara Collins is a partner in the firm's Vancouver office. She is a member of the Corporate Finance, Securities and Mergers & Acquisitions Law Groups. Her practice consists mainly of securities law in public and private financings as well as mergers and acquisitions.

The emphasis of Barbara's practice is on advising senior and junior public and private companies on securities, corporate and commercial matters with specific expertise in the areas of mining, high-tech, bio-tech and forestry. Her corporate and securities experience includes local and national prospectus offerings, Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange listings, private placements, bought deals, initial public offerings, normal course issuer bids, amalgamations, plans of arrangement, mergers and acquisitions, capital pool companies and corporate reorganizations. She also provides recommendations to companies with respect to regulatory compliance, continuous disclosure requirements, and corporate governance.

Representative Matters

Barbara has been involved in the following representative transactions:

• Acted for Columbus Gold Corp. in its completion of bought deal offering of Columbus common shares for a gross proceeds of $5 million.
• Acted for Northern Dynasty Minerals in its completion of a concurrent registered US offering and Canadian offering of Units (with prospectus), for total proceeds of $17.1 million.
• Acted for Auryn Resources Inc. in its completion of a bought deal transaction consisting of mix of flow-through and non-flow-through shares, for a total proceeds of $15 million.
• Acted for Rathdowney Resources Ltd. in its public offering of common shares on the TSX-V, and a non-brokered private placement with aggregate proceeds of over $34 million.
• Acted for Taseko Mines Limited in its public offering of senior notes for an aggregate principal amount of US$200,000,000.
• Acted for Great Basin Gold Ltd. in a bought deal offering of common shares with a syndicate of underwriters who exercised their over-allotment option resulting in aggregate gross proceeds of C$86.26 million.
• Acted for Keegan Resources Inc. in a bought deal share offering of 28,405,000 common shares, which included 3,705,000 common shares issued on exercise of the over-allotment option for gross proceeds of $213,037,500.
• Acted for Terrane Metals in its acquisition by Thompson Creek for $650 million.
• Acted for Great Basin Gold Ltd. in the previously announced bought deal offering of senior unsecured 8% convertible debentures yielding gross proceeds of C$126.5 million.
• Eastern Platinum in an equity offering of C$200 million.
• Great Basin Gold in a public offering of 57.5 million units for gross proceeds of C$149.5 million.
• Farallon Resources Ltd. completing its public equity offering of C$80 million.

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Education

• University of British Columbia, LLB - 1998
• University of British Columbia, B.Comm. (Finance) - 1995

Year Of Call

• Barreau de la Colombie-Britannique - 2000

Directorships and Professional Associations

• Past President, Vancouver Bar Association
• Association of Women in Finance
• Forum for Women Entrepreneurs
• Prospectors and Developers