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ENERGY - OIL & GAS Donald E. Greenfield, QC Don Greenfield was called to the Alberta Bar in 1979 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 2012. He is a partner in Bennett Jones' corporate commercial department and head of the firm's oil and gas practice group. Greenfield has 35 years of experience in Canada and internationally, in asset and share sales and acquisitions; upstream, midstream, LNG and oil sands development, construction and operating matters and financings; and Investment Canada Act and Competition Act matters. Greenfield has contributed to several Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation and Association of International Petroleum Negotiators seminars and has taught courses for Insight, the Conference Board, the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen. He is recognized as one of Canada's leading energy lawyers by Lexpert® , Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business and Who's Who Legal. Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (403) 298-3248 Fax: (403) 265-7219 Calgary greenfieldd@bennettjones.com David A. Holgate Senior Counsel at Stikeman Elliott Calgary. Practice focuses on energy regulation before federal/provincial regulatory agencies where he represents applicants and intervenors. Acts before Alberta regulators in applications for wells, pipelines, processing plants, heavy oil projects, oil sands development projects, coal developments, enhanced oil recovery, ratable take, gas removal permits, electrical generation and transmission facilities development, public utility rate cases for electric and gas utilities and surface rights matters. He appears on matters before the National Energy Board, including for the construction of pipeline facilities or the setting of rates for interprovincial pipelines and matters pertaining to the interprovincial transportation of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. Advises on the regulation of the electricity industry and was a director of ESBI Alberta. He participated in proceedings for applications by all major Alberta Utilities and cases before the Ontario Energy Board, and the BC Utilities Commission. Called to the Alberta Bar in 1978. Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (403) 266-9010 Calgary dholgate@stikeman.com Michael A. Hurst Dentons Canada LLP Tel: (403) 268-3046 Fax: (403) 268-3100 Calgary Practice focuses on corporate commercial and financing aspects of oil & gas law. Provides advice with respect to major oil and gas asset divestitures, acquisitions, financing transactions, production sales arrangements and conventional and oil sands industry joint ventures. Has acted on joint ventures, financings and sale transactions relating to domestic and foreign pipelines and oil sands projects. Member of CBA, CELF, LSA and CalBA. Past Director of CELF. Admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1976. michael.hurst@dentons.com Patrick T. Maguire Co-head of the corporate department and member of the firm's energy practice group. Acts for energy companies on a broad range of commercial transactions, both in Canada and internationally. He assists energy companies with purchase and sale transactions and almost all aspects of energy project development, including joint venturing, commodity processing, transportation, sales and related transactions. Also assists borrowers in structuring and negotiating full and limited recourse financing arrangements for oil, gas and electricity companies. Contributed to Butterworths' Canadian Oil & Gas Law and has co-authored papers for the Canadian Energy Law Foundation, Insight Information seminars, Alberta Law Review, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and others. Taught oil & gas law at the University of Calgary and an international course on gas sale transactions. Maguire is a board member of the Canadian Energy Law Foundation and a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (403) 298-3184 Fax: (403) 265-7219 Calgary maguirep@bennettjones.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 101 D-00-Bios.indd 101 13-05-23 12:15 PM