He helped the federal government acquire the Trans Mountain Pipeline
Peter Bryan, former national leader of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP’s energy: oil, and gas group, has joined Dentons’ national energy group as a partner based in Calgary.
He has advised on complex energy matters for almost 25 years. He worked on LNG projects and the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline; he also helped the federal government acquire the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
Bryan has tackled commercial, transactional, and M&A matters in the energy sector. He focuses on the formation, financing, purchase, and sale of corporations, partnerships, and joint ventures.
He concentrates on oil and gas transactions and energy infrastructure projects. He has advised on the commercial aspects of the purchase and sale of assets and shares, corporate governance and competition issues, the acquisition and divestiture of oil and gas properties, and the development and approval of midstream energy infrastructure.
Bryan’s clients have included energy infrastructure companies, offshore oil producers, midstream operators, governments, foreign investors, private equity sponsors, boards of directors, and purchasers and sellers of energy-related assets.
Dentons national energy group leader Hazel Saffery highlighted Bryan’s experience with large-scale infrastructure, LNG, and complex M&A as assets for the firm, particularly with the increasingly integrated and technology-driven nature of the energy landscape. According to Dentons, the evolution of the energy sector in Canada has been accelerating due to changing regulatory frameworks, decarbonization efforts, and large-scale infrastructure development.
Calgary office managing partner John Cusano added in a statement that Bryan was “widely respected for his work on transformative projects and his deep understanding of the regulatory and commercial realities facing energy companies today.”
A Lexpert-ranked lawyer who is repeatedly recommended in the energy space, Bryan was at BLG for over 14 years. He was also a senior legal counsel at TransCanada PipeLines, per LinkedIn.
He received his LLB from the University of Alberta in 1997 and was called to the Alberta bar a year later.
