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Corporate 2013

The Lexpert Guides to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate and Litigation Lawyers in Canada profiles leading business lawyers and features articles for attorneys and in-house counsel in the US about business law issues in Canada.

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ENERGY - OIL & GAS Richard A. Neufeld, QC Th Dentons Canada LLP Member of the regulatory practice section. Significant experience in the regulatory, environmental and Aboriginal law areas. Represents a wide variety of industry interests in various administrative forums throughout Canada, including regulatory and environmental assessment tribunals. Provides legal counsel to industry clients in the obtaining of approvals for energy pipelines, wells and processing plants, mines, electrical power generation, oil sands extraction, upgrading and hazardous waste management facilities. Advises clients as to environmental assessment process protocols, general environmental liability and Aboriginal engagement issues. Member of LSA, CalBA, CBA, CPLF and CNLO. Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Institute of Resources Law and Director of the Alberta Chamber of Resources. Admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1980. Appointed Queen's Counsel in 2008. Tel: (403) 268-7023 Fax: (403) 268-3100 Calgary O T F richard.neufeld@dentons.com J. Jay Park, QC Jay Park is a senior partner at Norton Rose in Calgary, where he has practiced oil & gas law since 1980. Park represents oil & gas producers, consumers, marketers, pipeline companies and local distribution companies, governments, banks and investors. His practice includes oil & gas asset acquisitions and divestments, share acquisitions and divestments involving oil & gas companies, advising on production-sharing agreements, concession agreements, product marketing, gas sales and purchase contracts, pipeline transportation matters, oil & gas pipeline asset dispositions, drafting legislation and regulations, oil & gas regulatory hearings, and joint venture and participation agreements. Park's expertise in international oil & gas matters has included projects in Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, Kuwait, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Sudan, Venezuela, Trinidad, Mexico and Bolivia. Chambers Global has identified Park as a leading practitioner. Norton Rose Canada LLP Tel: (403) 267-8354 Fax: (403) 264-5973 Calgary B T F jay.park@nortonrose.com James H. Smellie Jim Smellie's practice focuses on energy regulatory matters, administrative law and litigation. He has been consistently recognized by The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory as a "Most Frequently Recommended" practitioner in Energy (Electricity) and Energy (Oil & Gas), The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, as well as by The Best Lawyers in Canada as a leading lawyer in energy regulatory matters. He appears regularly before federal and provincial tribunals in connection with the economic regulation of natural gas and oil pipelines. In electricity matters, Smellie has extensive experience before provincial and federal regulators concerning open-access, rate and tariff issues, export authorizations and transmission system expansions, and is well versed in matters of government policy as it relates to this field. His litigation focus includes commercial arbitrations (both as counsel and arbitrator), appearances in the Federal Courts, provincial superior and appellate courts and the Supreme Court of Canada. Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Tel: (403) 298-1816 Fax: (403) 263-9193 Calgary james.smellie@gowlings.com Lawrence E. (Laurie) Smith, QC Founder of regulatory department. Firm's former Vice Chairman. Former counsel to the National Energy Board of Canada. Participated in the Deputy Prime Minister's task force on regulatory reform. Acts as lead regulatory counsel for ATCO Gas (Alberta's largest gas LDC) and acted for many major projects, including Alberta Northeast Gas/ Iroquois; Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline; Sable Offshore Energy; Bear Head LNG; Kitimat LNG; Emera Brunswick Pipeline; and Aboriginal Pipeline Group (Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Project) and for various gas storage developments across Canada. Appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, federal and provincial appellate and trial divisions, arbitration boards. Testified before Canadian Senate and House of Commons, California Energy Commission and retained as an expert witness on commercial and NAFTA arbitrations. Member of LSA, LSUC, CBA and the US Federal EBA. Called to the Bars of Ontario (1981) and Alberta (1984). Appointed QC in 2000. Holds directorships for public and private companies. Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (403) 298-3315 Fax: (403) 265-7219 Calgary smithl@bennettjones.com 102 | LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca D-00-Bios.indd 102 13-05-23 12:15 PM O T F

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