Energy: Power
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
Band 4
About
Provided by Dentons Canada LLP
Dentons' deep energy experience is unmatched across Canada. The energy industry is one of the most important contributors to Canada's economy, and participants in the area need a law firm that has Canadian roots and is full service.
Dentons' energy lawyers know the way when it comes to:
- Oil & Gas: including oil sands, unconventional resources and LNG Pipelines
- Power: including renewables like wind, solar, hydro, tidal, and biomass
- Services and infrastructure
- Utilities: including natural gas and electricity
We assist our clients-in Canada and around the world-in critical areas such as:
- Acquisitions and divestitures
- Capital markets and securities
- Commercial contracts
- Commodity trading
- Competition/Anti-trust
- Corporate and asset acquisitions and dispositions
- Cost hedging strategies
- Derivatives
- Emissions trading, cleantech and climate change
- Employment and labour
- Energy contracts
- Environmental assessment and other regulatory matters
- Energy export approvals
- Financing
- First Nations and aboriginal community relationships
- Immigration
- Investment Canada ActJoint ventures
- LNG
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Permitting and regulation
- Power purchase and off-take agreements
- Public policy and government relations
- Project approval
- Project structuring
- Project finance
- Siting
- Taxation
Dentons clients value our industry-wide expertise and the convenience of one-stop legal shopping. We are all about service and are committed to your success.
Chambers Review
Dentons Canada provides representation to major international and domestic companies on M&A in the Canadian energy sector, advising on the financing of conventional and renewable energy projects across Canada, as well as electricity transmission and distribution. The firm brings strong First Nations and environmental law expertise to bear in its energy work. The group's regulatory practice in particular benefits from this multidisciplinary approach. The team also offers considerable experience of international power projects, most notably in Africa and the USA.
Work Highlights
- Dentons Canada acted on behalf of Rgreen Invest in the cross-border financing of solar projects.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"We have been very impressed with the team."
"We have been very impressed with the team."
Notable Practitioners
Toronto-based Vivek Bakshi advises on project financing, M&A and joint ventures in the renewables and natural resources sectors. He is additionally sought out for his counsel on power purchase agreements.
"Vivek Bakshi is an excellent lawyer - we trust and respect him. His advice is always practical, business-oriented and he is very responsive to our requests."
Hazel Saffery has a wide-ranging transactional practice which sees her advising clients on a broad spectrum of A&D work, commercial matters and project development issues.
