2507 TD Tower
10088 - 102nd Avenue
Edmonton AB T5J 2Z1

Business Law
Banking and Corporate Finance
Securities
Natural Resources Law
Real Estate Development
Agribusiness Law
Pension and Benefits Law

Doug Ballou acts as counsel for a broad range of corporate and commercial clients in the natural resources, agribusiness and manufacturing sectors. While he acts for a number of large publicly trade corporations, many of his clients are entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized enterprises. As part of his business law practice Doug routinely advises clients on corporate governance and regulatory compliance matters.

Doug has focused a large part of his corporate and commercial practice on acquisitions, divestitures, debt and equity financing and private placements. His experience in such matters ranges to transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars and includes complex debt and equity financing. He has devised a number of innovative financing arrangements to ensure his clients are adequately capitalized.

Doug is an experienced securities lawyer who has acted as counsel to a number of large corporations across a broad spectrum of securities issues. He has acted for issuers and underwriters on a substantial number of initial public offerings and subsequent debt and equity offerings, including the drafting of prospectuses, offering memoranda, underwriting agreements, and related documentation. Doug not only has experience with the TSX and TSX Venture Exchange, but with the NYSE and NASDAQ through cross-border equity offerings by senior issuers and listing applications on all exchanges.

In addition to his securities law and business law practice, Doug advises a number of clients on pension and benefits law matters including pension plan governance issues.

• Admitted to the Alberta Bar (2006)
• Admitted to the Saskatchewan Bar (1984)
• LL.B. (Saskatchewan, 1983)
• B.Comm. (Great Distinction,Saskatchewan, 1980)

• "BV Peer Review Rated", very high legal ability and ethical standards rating (Martindale-Hubbell)
• "Leading Practitioner" (Corporate Commercial Law: Lexpert Legal Directory, since 2006)
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Corporate Law - 2008)
• Listed in Best Lawyers in Canada (Corporate Law - 2006, 2008)
• Featured in The Lexpert / American Lawyer Media Guide to the Top 500 Lawyers in Canada.