Viking Energy Royalty Trust Completes Merger with Calpine Natural Gas Trust

On February 1, 2005, Viking Energy Royalty Trust and Calpine Natural Gas Trust (CNGT) completed a merger of the two income trusts and continued as Viking Energy Royalty Trust. Under the terms of the merger, each CNGT unitholder received, on a tax-deferred rollover basis, two Viking units for each CNGT unit held. Following the merger, Viking had an enterprise value of approximately $1.3 billion.

Viking was represented by Robert Engbloom, Q.C., Scott Negraiff, Jamie Gagner and Tara Shaw (securities and trust matters), Orville Pyrcz, Q.C. (tax), John Carleton and Rujuta Patel (competition) and Richard Borden and Gary Rose (banking) of Macleod Dixon LLP.

CNGT was represented by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Calgary, with a team that consisted of Brock Gibson, Chad Schneider and Scott Cochlan (securities and trust matters), Ron Mar (tax) and Warren Nishimura and Louise Aurigemma (banking).

Edwin Maynard, Angus Tarpley and Aun Singapore (securities) and David Sicular and Nancy McGlamery (tax) of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York provided US advice on the transaction.

Lawyer(s)

Warren Nishimura David R. Sicular Chad Schneider Jamie L. Gagner Scott R. Cochlan Tara E. Shaw Brock W. Gibson F. Angus Tarpley, III Richard P. Borden John P. Carleton Scott M. Negraiff Rujuta Patel Orville A. Pyrcz Gary E. Rose Ron Mar Edwin S. Maynard

Firm(s)

Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP