Herbert I. Ono Partner Co-Chair, U.S. Securities Practice Vancouver Tel : 604.691.7493 Fax : 604.893.2398 Email : herbert.ono@mcmillan.ca VCard :

Professional Activities

As a U.S. qualified partner with the firm's Corporate Finance/Securities Law Group, Herb has a varied cross-border corporate finance and securities practice. He routinely assists clients in negotiating and implementing mergers and acquisitions, corporate spin-offs, and public and private financing transactions. His experience includes advising publicly-traded clients on corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, Canadian and U.S. securities filings, and stock exchange listings.

Prior to joining the firm, Herb spent two years with a Tokyo law firm now known as Nagashima, Ohno and Tsunematsu, where, as a foreign lawyer on secondment from the Toronto office of a national law firm, he was engaged in international commercial transactions, including joint ventures between U.S. and Japanese parties.

Memberships

• Vancouver Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Canadian Bar Association

Herb's experience includes acting as U.S. counsel on registered business combination transactions and public offerings under the Securities Act of 1933 (including cross-border Multi-Jurisdictional Disclosure System offerings registered with the SEC on Form F-10), unregistered private placement offerings under the Securities Act of 1933, continuous disclosure filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and listings on the NYSE and NYSE MKT.

Some examples of his representative work include:

• Acted as U.S. securities counsel in the listing of Tahoe Resources Inc. on NYSE.
• Acted as U.S. securities counsel in the listing of Primero Mining Corp. on NYSE. 
• Acted as U.S. securities counsel to Midas Gold Corp. in a $40 million cross-border special warrant financing.
• Acted as U.S. securities counsel to Detour Gold Corporation in a US$500 million cross-border convertible note financing.
• Acted as U.S. securities counsel to Great Basin Gold Ltd. in an $80 million cross-border equity financing.
• Acted as U.S. securities counsel to Tahoe Resources Inc. in a US$55 million cross-border equity financing.
• Acted as U.S. securities counsel to Eastern Platinum Limited in a $50 million cross-border equity financing.

October 2012 Optimizing New Developments on Offerings in Canada-U.S. Cross Border Transactions Panelist, The Canadian Institute's 22nd Annual Securities Regulation & Compliance Conference

Summer 2010 Certain U.S. Securities Law Changes Under the Dodd-Frank Reform Act Securities Alert Summer 2010

2008 TSX 2008 US Campaign - Going Public Workshops Panelist, Denver, April 2008, Houston, May 2008, San Diego, October 2008

November 2007 SEC Votes to Adopt Three New Rules to Streamline the Regulation of Smaller Companies Co-authored: Herbert Ono and Karim Lalani Lang Michener Securities Alert