Richmond Bayes

Partner

Winnipeg / Services provided by R J Bayes Law Corporation

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Education & Qualifications

  • Manitoba Bar (1998)
  • LLB (Manitoba, 1997)
  • MA (Manitoba, 1994)
  • BA (Manitoba, 1991)

Services and Industries

Richmond is a partner of the firm, practising in corporate finance and securities law and mergers and acquisitions, with extensive experience in public offerings, private placements, corporate reorganizations and going private transactions.

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Counsel to the Canadian Wheat Board in connection with its $500 million privatization and continuance under the Canada Business Corporation Act
  • Counsel to Wellington West Holdings in connection with $333 million sale to National Bank of Canada by way of statutory plan of arrangement
  • Counsel to Gendis , a TSX-listed issuer, and Special Committee of the Board in connection with its $70 million going private transaction
  • Counsel to Exchange Income Corporation, a TSX-listed issuer, in connection with multiple acquisitions, including its $250 million acquisition of Provincial Aerospace
  • Counsel to Decisive Dividend Corporation, a TSXV-listed issuer, in connection with multiple acquisitions, including Blaze King, Unicast, Slimline Manufacturing, Hawk Machine Works, Northside Industries and Marketing Impact
  • Counsel to various issuers in connection with acquisitions, business combinations and corporate reorganizations by way of statuatory plan of arrangement, including:
    • Manitoba Telecom Inc.’s acquisition by Bell Canada Inc. (Co-Counsel)
    • Canadian Wheat Board’s acquisitions of Prairie West Terminal and Great Sandhill Terminal Ltd.
    • Exchange Industrial Income Fund and Exchange Income Corporation in connection with trust conversion and corporate conversion
    • Artis REIT in connection with trust conversion
    • Temple REIT in connection with trust conversion
    • Whiterock REIT in connection with trust conversion
    • Huntingdon REIT in connection with trust conversion
    • Huntingdon REIT in connection with its merger and combination with IAT Air Cargo Income Fund
  • Counsel to Marwest Apartment Real Estate Investment Trust in connection with qualifying transaction
  • Advising issuers (including boards of directors and special board committees) in connection with strategic reviews, going private transactions, business combinations, insider bids, issuer bids and related party transactions

 Securities/Corporate Finance

  • Counsel to Artis Real Estate Investment Trust in connection with approximately $2 billion of public offerings of trust units, preferred trust units, rated unsecured debentures and convertible debentures
  • Counsel to Exchange Income Corporation in connection with multiple public offerings of common shares and convertible debentures
  • Counsel to various other public issuers including Decisive Dividend Corporation, Temple Hotels Inc., Marwest Apartment REIT, Huntingdon REIT, Whiterock REIT, Lanesborough REIT in connection with public offerings of equity and debt securities on a bought deal and best efforts basis and listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange and/or TSX Venture Exchange
  • Counsel to various capital pool companies in connection with IPOs, listings on the TSX Venture Exchange and Qualifying Transactions
  • Counsel to Underwriters in connection with Manitoba Telecom Systems’ $250 million public offering of common shares
  • Counsel to Underwriters in connection with multiple public offerings and private placements
  • Counsel to various investment vehicles, including private REITs, real estate limited partnerships, public and private venture capital funds and private equity funds in connection with formation, structuring, financings and acquisitions
  • Director, Private Pension Partners Group, a group of private companies providing real estate asset management, development, property management and exempt market dealer services
  • Lecturer, Securities Law Course, University of Manitoba Faculty of Law (2001-present)
  • Member, Manitoba Bar Association
  • Past Chair, Manitoba Bar Association, Securities Law Section (2002-2007)
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, The Law Society of Manitoba
  • Member, Institute of Corporate Directors
  • Member of the Canadian Bar Association (Securities Law Section) for the review of proposed federal Capital Markets Stability Act and Provincial Capital Markets Act
  • Manitoba representative of the Canadian Bar Association (Securities Law Section) for the review of proposed federal securities legislation proposed by the Expert Panel on Securities Regulation in Canada
  • Submissions to the Standing Committee of Provincial Ministers on behalf of the Securities Law Section of the Manitoba Bar Association with respect to the discussion paper entitled “Securities Regulation in Canada: An Inter-Provincial Securities Framework”
  • Submissions to the Standing Committee on Law Amendments on behalf of the Securities Law Section of the Manitoba Bar Association with respect to Bill 24 – The Securities Amendment Act
  • Manitoba Bar Association Continuing Legal Education lecture on Limited Partnerships as Financing Vehicles
  • Presentation to various community economic development organizations on Community Economic Development Tax Credit Offerings
  • Presenter, Securities Law, TSX Venture Exchange Company Workshop
  • Recognized by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a leading practitioner in Corporate Finance & Securities and Corporate Mid-Market (2022)
  • Recognized by Best Lawyers as “Lawyer of the Year” in Corporate Law in Winnipeg (2021)
  • Recognized by Chambers Canada as a Leading Canadian Lawyer in Corporate/Commercial law (since 2020)
  • Recognized in Best Lawyers as a leading lawyer, mergers & acquisitions and securities law