Guy P. Martel has been a partner at Stikeman Elliott since 2002. He practises in the areas of corporate law, restructuring, distressed M&A, banking, and private equity law. He works on corporate finance, reorganizations, and restructuring with a strong focus on cross-border and international transactions. He has provided strategic advice in a large number of large-scale financings, re-financings, turn-arounds, restructurings, acquisitions, and other transactions across many different industries. He routinely advises boards of directors and management groups and is recognized as a leading cross-border corporate lawyer in Canada. He often appears before commercial courts across Canada and has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada.
On June 24, 2016, Teine Energy Ltd., a private Calgary-based exploration, development and production company focused on acquiring and developing oil and natural gas properties in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, completed its $975 million asset acquisition of Viking light oil and heavy oil properties located in South Western Saskatchewan from Penn West Petroleum Ltd
