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It’s a tricky time for the energy sector. Our Global Energy and Climate Group brings together energy, environmental, climate and Indigenous law experts to come up with solutions other firms might miss.
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Overview

Fasken’s Global Energy and Climate Group advises energy industry clients across a wide spectrum of legal service needs. Whether you are permitting a new pipeline or constructing a new transmission line, dealing with a labour disturbance at a generating facility, filing a new application with a utilities commission, or starting an M&A process on wind farms, our multi-disciplinary team of professionals can help you succeed.

Net-zero commitments, energy storage, new technologies, evolving business models, Indigenous reconciliation and equity, supply mix changes; there can be no doubt that the energy sector and market are changing at an unprecedented rate with pressure, and opportunities, coming from a variety of sources and directions. Today’s energy sector can best be described as Energy in Transition.

Whether you are developing new projects or refurbishing an existing facility, implementing unique banking and green financing strategies, transacting carbon, pursuing an M&A transaction, or procuring and onboarding new carbon negative technologies, our multi-disciplinary team of global energy professionals can help you succeed.

Permitting, regulatory approvals and consultations with Indigenous groups, communities and local stakeholders are a critical aspect of any energy project. These are areas that are becoming more challenging and complex and an integral part of our work. We’ve steered a course to positive environmental assessment decisions and defended them, secured key facility permits, negotiated impact benefit agreements, community benefit arrangements, financings and joint ventures, helping clients build relationships that last from project origination to construction to implementation and beyond.

Regulatory tribunals also play a significant role in the sector. As an Applicant or Intervenor, your company’s goals and concerns matter. If it is a traditional Rate or Performance Based Regulation proceeding, Leave to Construct or other project approval hearing, or one of the other many types of proceedings that regulatory tribunals oversee, Fasken lawyers have extensive experience advocating for clients and obtaining outcomes to achieve their goals.

We also advise private and public companies, developers, utilities, lenders and governments around the globe involved in every aspect of the industry, from rate regulation to production agreements, and from multi-year, multi-billion dollar projects to the most complex mergers and acquisitions. 

Ours is a truly global practice; the clients we serve and projects we’ve been involved with span every Canadian province, the United States and more than 25 countries across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.  Our team of dedicated professionals provide outstanding client service, scalable to your needs, and we integrate seamlessly with your internal team and other external advisors.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Banking & Finance, Banking and finance is the heart of any economy and the lifeblood of the energy sector.
  • Climate Change and Carbon Markets, We work with clients across the spectrum of carbon intensive industries, project developers and other market participants on policy analysis, energy efficiency, offset projects and emissions trading.
  • Climate Tech, Fasken offers leading climate tech advice and experience by helping proponents and investors within the vast field of clean technology.
  • Commercial Energy, Business strategies in the energy sector can be complex. From day to day operations to strategic initiatives to transactions that are transformative to your business or the energy sector as a whole, the participants in the energy sector are at the forefront of change and innovation.
  • Energy Projects, The development of energy projects continues to evolve around the globe. Whether your company has interests in development, construction, financing or operating the energy assets, the Fasken energy team has the expertise to see the project through to a successful completion.
  • Energy Storage and Batteries, Energy storage holds much promise in unlocking the next phase of the energy transition and solving the intermittency challenge.
  • Environment, We assist clients with regulatory advice, environmental permitting, representation in litigation and regulatory proceedings, protection and compliance, and advising on contamination and remediation.
  • Greenwashing and Climate Litigation, Entrepreneurs and businesses are seeking to introduce green or carbon-neutral products, to set “Net Zero” climate targets and take other positive actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Hydrogen, Fasken Hydrogen Energy Advisory Team (H2EAT) first of its kind comprehensive expertise and service offering to support transition to a clean hydrogen economy
  • Mergers and Acquisitions, M&A deals in the energy sector have many hurdles to overcome.
  • Oil and Gas, Fasken works with producers, LNG companies, processors, pipeline and service companies, and utilities on all of their legal needs, from facility approvals to rate regulation, and M&A to financings.
  • Power, Fasken advises utilities, independent power producers, transmission owners, distributors and retailers on utility regulation and some of the biggest power projects in the world.
  • Renewable Energy, Fasken advises utilities, IPPs, investors, lenders and suppliers on permitting, construction, commercial agreements, M&A, tax and financing involving renewable energy projects and transactions.
  • The road to net zero, We work with clients across the spectrum of carbon intensive industries, project developers and other market participants on policy analysis, energy efficiency, offset projects and emissions trading.
  • Utility Regulation and Litigation, Whether your energy company is on the federal, provincial or territorial stage, it is touched and affected by the decisions of regulatory tribunals.

Achievements

Team

Primary Contacts
  • Ron Ezekiel, Partner | Co-leader, Energy and Climate, Vancouver, BC, +1 604 631 4708, rezekiel@fasken.com
  • Ashen Jugoo, Partner | Co-Leader, Energy and Climate, Johannesburg, +27 11 586 6098, ajugoo@fasken.com
  • Pierre-Olivier Charlebois, Partner | CO-LEADER, ENERGY AND CLIMATE, Montréal, QC, +1 514 397 5291, pcharlebois@fasken.com
  • Allison Sears, Partner, Calgary, AB, +1 587 233 4106, asears@fasken.com
  • Brendan Sawatsky, Partner, Calgary, AB, +1 403 261 5506, bsawatsky@fasken.com
  • Lara Bezuidenhoudt, Partner, Johannesburg, +27 11 586 6038, lbezuidenhoudt@fasken.com
  • Francois Joubert, Partner, Johannesburg, +27 11 586 6089, fjoubert@fasken.com
  • Abayomi Akinjide, Partner, London, +44 (0)20 7917 8563, aakinjide@fasken.com
  • Laura Bradley, Partner, London, +44 (0)20 7917 8585, lbradley@fasken.com
  • Dyna Zekaoui, Business Advisor, Ottawa, ON, +1 416 865 4400, dzekaoui@fasken.com
  • W. Ian Palm, Partner, Toronto, ON, +1 416 865 5155, ipalm@fasken.com
  • Amy Carruthers, Partner, Vancouver, BC, +1 604 631 4943, acarruthers@fasken.com

Client Work

  • Harmony Energy France completes the sale of its 100 MW Marronniers Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project to leading Swiss energy services provider, Alpiq, [Deal - Harmony Energy France], Sale of Harmony Energy France's 100 MW Marronniers Battery Energy Storage System to Alpiq.
  • Pulsar Helium Inc. (AIM:PLSR)(TSXV:PLSR) announces a fundraising and admission to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange, [Deal - Strand Hanson Limited and Merlin Partners LLP t/a OAK Securities], Dual listing of Pulsar Helium Inc. on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange.
  • Flumen Energy wins before the Québec Régie de l’énergie regarding a major project in Matane, [Case - Flumen Energy Inc.], Represented Flumen Energy in a dispute with Hydro-Québec.
  • Oando Energy Resources Inc., Oando E&P Holdings Limited and 0902702 B.C. Ltd. complete refinancing, [Deal - Various], OER, OEPHL and 0902 BC complete refinancing put in place to finance the completion of a large acquisition of assets
  • FortisBC Inc. application for a CPCN for the Fruitvale Substation Project, [Case - FortisBC Inc.], FortisBC Inc. receives approval of Fruitvale Substation Project
  • WSP Global completed a $1.15 billion equity offering in connection with the $2.44 billion acquisition of POWER Engineers, [Deal - Syndicate of underwriters led by CIBC World Markets Inc., National Bank Financial Inc. and RBC Dominion Securities Inc.], Fasken represented the underwriters in connection with the public offering portion of a $1.15 billion equity offering by WSP Global in connection with the $2.44 billion acquisition of POWER Engineers.
  • ACEL Power secures US$10 million in Series A funding, [Deal - ACEL Power Inc.], Series A venture capital funding for ACEL Power
  • Fondasol acquires a controlling interest in DEC Enviro, [Deal - Fondasol], Acquisition of a controlling interest in DEC Enviro by Fondasol.
  • Harmony Energy Limited announces its expansion into Italy with the launch of a new affiliate business, Harmony Energy Italy, [Deal - Harmony Energy Limited], Harmony Energy Limited announces its expansion into Italy with the launch of a new affiliate business, Harmony Energy Italy.

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