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Miller, Keith F. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(403) 266-9055 kmiller@stikeman.com
Mr. Miller is a member of Stikeman Elliott's Energy Regulatory Group. He has
experience in matters regulated by the Alberta Energy Regulator, National
Energy Board, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, and BC Envi-
ronmental Assessment Office relating to the construction, operation and
environmental management of oil & gas facilities. He also represents clients
in public utility proceedings.
Mercury, John M. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-4493 mercuryj@bennettjones.com
Mr. Mercury's practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions, corporate finance
transactions and fund formation for US and Canadian private-equity inves-
tors, in the energy, financial services, consumer products and other indus-
tries. He also plays a strategic role in client relationship management at the
firm as the Vice Chair of Clients and Industries.
Melchers, Sophie Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(514) 847-4784 sophie.melchers@nortonrosefulbright.com
Ms. Melchers practises mainly in the areas of commercial, corporate and
securities litigation. She has represented clients before the Québec courts
and the Supreme Court of Canada in connection with disputed take-over bids,
dissenting shareholder remedies, shareholders' agreements, plans
of arrangement, rights of first refusal and insider trading.
McFadden, QC, David J. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-7243 david.mcfadden@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. McFadden acts for clients involved in electricity distribution, transmission
and generation. He is Chair of Toronto Hydro and Vice Chair of the Energy Trans-
formation Network of Ontario. He is a director of Cricket Energy and the Ontario
Energy Association. He is a member of the Advisory Board of MaRS Advanced
Energy Centre and Council for Clean and Reliable Energy.
Massé, David Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-3685 dmasse@stikeman.com
Mr. Massé specializes in M&A, securities and corporate finance, including
a focus on the mining and energy sectors. He has significant experience act-
ing for issuers, sponsors, underwriters and financial institutions in connection
with M&A, financings, joint ventures and project development in Canada
and abroad.
Martins, Manuel A. Gowling WLG
(519) 575-7542 manuel.martins@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Martins acts for and advises owners, investors and lenders in the renew-
able energy and infrastructure industry. His practice includes purchase,
sale, leasing and financing transactions. He provides the trusted advice,
common-sense thinking and strategic insight clients need to succeed.
He is past leader of the Real Estate Practice Group and a current Trustee
of Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
challenge," the Organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development said in a December
2017 report.
For Canadian lawyers practising in the Energy
and Climate Change sectors, the introduction of
the framework meant that clients would be turn-
ing to them for advice on issues related to the new
carbon-pricing landscape.
"As lawyers, we can help companies navigate
the many nuances of climate-related policies,"
says Selina Lee-Andersen, a partner in the Van-
couver office of McCarthy Tétrault LLP and
co-author of the firm's 2018 report, Climate
Change Essentials.
At the moment, the nuances are, to say the
least, still being worked out among the nation's
political stakeholders.
"We see that [lack of unanimity] in lots of dif-
ferent areas of practice and businesses in Canada
because we have 10 provinces and three territories
and a federal government, so we oen have 13 or
14 different solutions to things," says Jason Kro,
a partner in the Emissions Trading & Climate
Change practice at Stikeman Elliott LLP in To-
ronto. Evan Dixon, a partner in the Calgary of-
fice of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP and
co-author of the article, "Challenging times for
the competitiveness of Canada's oil & gas indus-
try," published in Financier Worldwide magazine,
concurs. e seemingly eternal political to-ing
and fro-ing, "is both the reality of Canada and
one of the obstacles of actually doing things on
these kinds of topics."
As of early summer 2018, all governments
had signed on to the federal framework except
for Saskatchewan, which adamantly opposes
the federal imposition of any type of carbon-
pricing plan and Ontario, led by newly elected
Premier Doug Ford, who has axed his predeces-
sor's provincial cap and trade plan. Ford said he
will revoke Ontario Regulation 144/16 under
the Climate Change Mitigation and Low-carbon
Economy Act, S.O. c. 7 that outlines the carbon
pricing system and took aim at carbon taxes in
general, adding they are "no more than govern-
ment cash grabs that do nothing for the envi-
ronment. We are getting Ontario out of the
carbon tax business."
Manitoba, which had initially declined to sign
"The main thing clients
here want help with
is compliance. But there
is a whole slew of other issues."
- SELINA LEE-ANDERSEN, MCCARTHY TÉTRAULT LLP
