Steve Cohen
Partner
Experience
Steve's focused on securities and mergers and acquisitions:
- Takeover bids, mergers, reorganizations and other business combinations
- Corporate governance
- Stock exchange listing matters and regulatory compliance matters
Community involvement
Steve is a past Executive Committee Member, Member of Board of Directors and Member of the Strategic Planning Committee of Calgary Jewish Community Council. He is also a member of various fund-raising and event committees for Ronald McDonald House (Calgary).
Professional involvement
Steve is a previous member of the Alberta Securities Commission. He is also a past member of:
- Listing Advisory Committee of the Toronto Stock Exchange
- Securities Advisory Committee to the Alberta Securities Commission
- Securities Advisory Committee of the Ontario Securities Commission
- Alberta Securities Commission Oil & Gas Task Force
- Canadian Venture Exchange Securities Advisory Committee
- Past Instructor of Securities Law Course at the University of Calgary Law School
Professional associations
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Calgary Bar Association
Representative work
Savanna Energy Services Corp.'s hostile takeover defence
Counsel to Savanna Energy Services in the defence of a $450 million hostile takeover bid by Total Energy Services Inc.
Seven Generations Energy Ltd.'s $748 million public offering
Counsel to the underwriters in Seven Generations Energy Ltd.'s public offering of 30,705,000 subscriptions receipts for approximately $748 million.
Awards
Recent honours and recognition
Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada in Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2018, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Named in Who's Who Legal as a recommended lawyer in Capital Markets - Debt and Equity (2023)
Named by Who's Who Legal (Canadian Guide) as a recommended lawyer Capital Markets (2023-2024) and M&A (2023, 2024)
Leading lawyer in Corporate/Commercial (Alberta) by Chambers Canada (2016-2022)
Named in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a leading lawyer in Corporate Finance and M&A (annually since 2002) and in Corporate Mid-Market (2007-2014, 2018-2020)
Named in Lexpert's 2020 Special Edition on Canada's Leading Energy Lawyers
Recognized in the Lexpert's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada in Corporate Finance and Securities (2006-2017 and 2020)
Recommended lawyer by the Legal 500 Canada in Capital Markets (2018)
Named as Best Lawyers in Canada Calgary Corporate Lawyer of the Year (2015)
Named in Lexpert's Special Edition on Canada's Leading Corporate Lawyers (annually since 2013)
Recognized in the Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada (annually since 2012)
News
November 6, 2024
Nine BD&P Lawyers included in the Who's Who Legal: Canada 2024 Guide
August 29, 2024
52 BD&P lawyers recognized in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers Canada
November 17, 2023
Ten BD&P Lawyers included in the Who's Who Legal: Canada 2023 Guide
August 24, 2023
Forty-one BD&P lawyers recognized in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers Canada
November 21, 2022
2022 Who's Who Legal Guide released
August 25, 2022
Thirty-five BD&P lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers in Canada, 2023 edition
October 27, 2020
Lexpert ranks a record number of BD&P partners and counsel among Canada's leading energy lawyers
September 9, 2020
Sixteen BD&P lawyers recognized in the 2021 edition of Chambers Canada
August 27, 2020
Thirty-four lawyers recognized in the 2021 edition of the Best Lawyers in Canada guide
April 29, 2020
Twenty-three lawyers ranked in 2020 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
December 17, 2019
Six BD&P lawyers named in the 2020 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
August 21, 2019
31 BD&P lawyers included in 2020 edition of Best Lawyers in Canada
May 3, 2019
Twenty-one lawyers ranked across seventeen practice areas in 2019 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
April 29, 2019
Eight partners recognized as leading lawyers in Lexpert Special Edition on Canada’s Leading Corporate Lawyers
November 2, 2018
BD&P lawyers named in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2018
September 21, 2018
BD&P lawyers recognized as leading practitioners in 2019 edition of Chambers Canada
August 21, 2018