TransAlta Completes Notes Offering

TransAlta Corp. sold US$300 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.75 per cent senior notes due in 2013. The deal closed on November 25, 2003. The notes were sold to a syndicate of underwriters, led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. through a prospectus supplement to TransAlta’s previously filed $1 billion shelf registration statement dated May 14, 2002, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission under the multijurisdictional disclosure system.

TransAlta was represented in-house by Alison Love, corporate secretary; and assisted in Canada by McCarthy Tétrault LLP, with a team that included Bruce MacPhail, Michael Bennett and Johanna Price (corporate/commercial) and Ian Bock (tax); and in the US by Latham & Watkins LLP in New York, with a team that included Robert Zuccaro, Gabriel Jacobson and James Van Doren. The underwriters were represented in the US by Shearman & Sterling LLP inToronto, with a team that included Christopher Cummings, Nancy Bertrand, Stephen Luck and Laurence Crouch (tax).

Lawyer(s)

Johanna C. Price Christopher J. Cummings Laurence E. Crouch James Van Doren Nancy Hoi Bertrand Robert Zuccaro Bruce L. MacPhail Michael J. Bennett

Firm(s)

McCarthy Tétrault LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP