Alberta Corporations Law Guide

Bryce C. Tingle, K.C., LL.B., LL.M., holds the N. Murray Edwards Chair in Business Law at the University of Calgary. He is a Member of the Alberta Securities Commission and from 2012 to 2017 was a member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Exempt Markets Committee. He has also served as the general counsel of several technology and natural resource companies. From 1994 to 2006, Professor Tingle was a co-founder and partner of TingleMerrett LLP, focused on securities and corporate finance for growth companies. He has twice been named one of the University of Calgary’s Peak Scholars. He is the author of several academic publications, including Start-Up and Growth Companies in Canada, A Guide to Legal and Business Practice, Third Edition (LexisNexis Canada, 2018) and the forthcoming Hard Lessons in Corporate Governance (Cambridge, 2024).

Bryan Haynes, B.A., LL.B., Partner, Bennett Jones LLP, has over 25 years of experience in commercial transactions and business law, with a focus on private mergers and acquisitions, including cross border transactions, and corporate restructurings. Bryan previously co-chaired the national Corporate/Commercial Practice Group at Bennett Jones. Bryan is currently serving on the Board of Governors of McGill University and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada. Bryan is the firm's Calgary office delegate on the Pacific Rim Advisory Council (PRAC), a leading global association of 30 top tier law firms representing 12,000 lawyers around the world including Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. Bryan frequently lectures on the topics of Buying and Selling a Business, Private M&A Deal Points, Purchase and Sale Agreements, International Commercial Agreements, Drafting Contracts, Succession Planning, Business Transitions and Liquidity Options and has previously written a regular opinion column on various business law issues for Canadian Lawyer magazine. Bryan received Martindale Hubbell's BV peer review rating for high to very high legal ability and very high ethical standards, was rated in the Lexpert Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada as among the Top 40 Corporate Lawyers in Canada to watch, and was recognized as a leading lawyer in the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. In 2008, Bryan was recognized as one of Canada's Leading 40 Lawyers Under 40. Bryan is ranked as "consistently recommended" for corporate/commercial law in the Canada Legal Lexpert Directory.

J. Paul D. Barbeau, J.D., is a Partner at McMillan LLP in Calgary, specializing in corporate and commercial law. Mr. Barbeau has extensive experience in capital market offerings, public and private mergers and acquisitions, asset dispositions and complex joint venture and other co-ownership vehicles. He also advises clients on matters of corporate governance, shareholder activism and general regulatory compliance. Mr. Barbeau has been a sessional instructor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Law, and has lectured on entrepreneurial law and mergers and acquisitions. He has published articles addressing various topics, including corporate sales, public offerings, takeover bids, shareholder rights plans and proxy access. He has also acted as corporate secretary for private oil and gas companies. Mr. Barbeau received his J.D. from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and holds a Bachelor of Science (Business Management) from Brigham Young University.

Bruce A. Hibbard, B.S., LL.B., Partner, Bennett Jones

Kristos Q. Iatridis, B.A., LL.B., Partner, Bennett Jones