Lawyer Profile
Chris Harris
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
Chris is a corporate lawyer with a practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and complex commercial arrangements. He primarily advises strategic clients and private equity investors, with a particular emphasis on all aspects of the energy value chain, including upstream oil and gas, pipelines, midstream, downstream and marketing, power and renewables, and carbon capture, storage and utilization. A substantial portion of Chris' work involves cross-border investments and other transactions. He also has significant experience in other industries and markets including technology investment, agribusiness and industrial services.
Chris is recognized as a leading Canadian transactional lawyer by various ranking guides, including Lexpert and Chambers.
A joint venture between Kineticor (an OPTrust portfolio company) and Pembina Pipeline Corporation in connection with the receipt of assigned capacity under Phase I of Alberta's Large Load Integration program for data centre development, and related development of the proposed Greenlight Energy Centre
Pembina Pipeline Corporation on its long-term LPG export agreement with AltaGas Ltd. at the Ridley Island Propane Export Terminal (RIPET) and the future Ridley Island Energy Export Facility (REEF)
Pembina Pipeline Corporation on its acquisition of Enbridge Inc.’s joint-venture interests in Alliance Pipeline, Aux Sable and NRGreen for C$3.1-billion and its concurrent C$1.1-billion bought deal offering of subscription receipts
Pembina Pipeline Corporation on its acquisition of The Williams Companies, Inc. interests in the Aux Sable US and Alliance Canada Marketing joint ventures for US$160-million
Suncor Energy Inc. on its C$1.468-billion acquisition of TotalEnergies EP Canada Ltd., which holds a 31.23% working interest in the Fort Hills oil sands mining project
Suncor Energy Inc. on its C$688-million acquisition of an additional 14.65% working interest in the Fort Hills Project from Teck Resources Limited
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2008 (AB)