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Barry, Patrick G. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
(416) 367-6917 pbarry@dwpv.com
Mr. Barry advises energy companies and their investors on public and private
M&A transactions, joint venture and partnership arrangements, and debt and
equity financings. He also has significant experience in the alternative
and renewable energy area.
Bakshi, Vivek Dentons Canada LLP
(416) 863-4658 vivek.bakshi@dentons.com
Mr. Bakshi represents clients in the energy, natural resources and
infrastructure sectors. He specializes in the structuring, negotiation
and documentation of natural resource projects, and related financings,
and in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions in the oil,
gas, water and power sectors.
Baines, Simon C. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(403) 260-7010 sbaines@osler.com
Mr. Baines counsels on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters,
both domestic and international, focused primarily in the oil and gas and
natural resource industries. His practice is specifically focused on complex
commercial matters both in the upstream and downstream industry;
offshore exploration and development; and large and smaller scale
LNG project development.
Backman, QC, Philip D. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3366 backmanp@bennettjones.com
Mr. Backman acts for borrowers and lenders involved in syndicated credit
agreements, project financings, public & private debt issues, cross-border
financings, leveraged loans, and debt restructurings in oil & gas, oil sands,
utilities and pipelines. He has acted on some of the largest project financings
in Canada including the $7.5-billion North West Redwater refinery financing.
Aycan, Nurhan Gowling WLG
(416) 814-5691 nurhan.aycan@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Aycan is a member of Gowling WLG's Energy, Mining and Infrastructure
practice group. Nurhan has over 23 years of experience in dealing with
Canadian and international corporate and commercial matters,
with a particular focus on public and private company mergers
& acquisitions and corporate finance matters.
Ascherl, Peter S. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(416) 868-3499 pascherl@fasken.com
Mr. Ascherl focuses on energy law, particularly the financing, development,
acquisition & restructuring of wind farm and solar projects. His corporate,
commercial and securities law experience includes M&A, JVs and acting
as GC to various companies.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
- Chip Johnston, Stikeman Elliott LLP
"I think law has to look
at itself in the same way
as people who are drilling
wells, hauling water and
supplying frac fluids.
We are all in this to have
greater capital efficiency.
And that does not have
to destroy our margins."
cing on good value-buying opportunities. Canadian
Natural Resources Ltd., for instance, has in the past two
years snapped up some 12,000 gas wells in a buying spree
that's seen it eclipse Encana Corp. as Canada's largest gas
producer. Private equity, pension funds and foreign buy-
ers — largely Asian state-owned enterprises as well as
private Asian companies — are also sniffing out poten-
tial acquisitions in the Canadian oil patch.
Yet that option for distressed companies — selling
assets to survive — now has a strong whiff of uncertainty.
As of June 20, as a result of an Alberta Court of Queen's
Bench decision May 19 regarding Redwater Energy
Corp., the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) changed its
rules regarding the transfer of licences companies need
to operate wells in the province.
Essentially, in Redwater, the court ruled that when
a receiver or trustee attempts to sell the assets of an
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