Overview

Under the agreement of this take-private transaction worth C$9 billion, Boralex will continue to operate as an independent private company following closing.

Our Outlook Series 2026 provides forward‑looking analysis of the most important legal, regulatory, and market developments affecting Canadian organizations.

Gord Nettleton leads our National Energy Regulatory Practice and is based in Toronto and Calgary. He specializes in energy regulatory, aboriginal, environmental and business law matters and has significant experience in the facility and economic regulation of electricity, oil and gas generation, transmission and distribution utilities, electricity markets, and liquefied natural gas projects and pipeline industries. He appears regularly before the Canadian Energy Regulator, and provincial regulatory tribunals including the Ontario Energy Board, the Alberta Utilities Commission and other provincial energy regulators including the Alberta Energy Regulator, the British Columbia Utilities Commission and the New Brunswick Energy Utilities Board.

Gord’s clients have included both applicant utilities and interveners who ship and transmit electricity and oil and gas on utility and non-utility regulated infrastructures. He regularly acts for Hydro One Networks Inc., Canada’s largest transmission and distribution utilities, in respect of major facility expansion approvals as well as rate regulated matters.

Gord’s professional background has included senior in-house regulatory counsel positions as well as secondments to Canada’s federal energy regulator.

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law
• Environmental Law
• Natural Resources & Energy

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1993 (AB); 2012 (ON)