He concentrates on energy, mining, and infrastructure projects
McCarthy Tétrault has added corporate and transactional lawyer Peter Danner to the partnership of its mergers and acquisitions group in Calgary.
Danner concentrates on energy, mining, and infrastructure projects. He tackles matters involving acquisitions and divestitures, strategic investments, private equity transactions, joint ventures, and complex commercial arrangements.
He has worked on issues related to offtake, royalty, and streaming arrangements in the mining and metals sectors. Moreover, he has handled Indigenous economic partnership transactions, including transactions supported by Canadian federal and provincial government loan guarantee programs.
Danner’s clients have included operating companies and investors. He acted for Aymium on its joint venture arrangements with Rio Tinto to birth Évolys Québec; he also represented Cenovus and its predecessors on the $1.7 billion sale of a 65 percent stake in Husky Midstream to Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited and Power Assets Holdings Limited as well as on the $420 million sale of the Husky Retail Fuels Network to Parkland and Federated Co-operatives and on Prince George Refinery’s divestment to Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure.
He assisted Enbridge with two billion-dollar deals: the $1.12 billion sale of an 11.57 percent non-operating interest in northern Alberta-based Enbridge-operated pipelines to Athabasca Indigenous Investments; and the $4.31 billion divestment of Enbridge’s Canadian natural gas gathering and processing business to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Moreover, he helped Exchange Income Corporation with its $205 million acquisition of Bradley Air Services (operating as Canadian North), from Makivvik Corporation and Inuvialuit Development Corporation.
Danner has also advised Exchange Income Corporation, Franco-Nevada, Inmet Mining, KKR, Northleaf Capital Partners, Orion Mine Finance, Pala Investments, Tenaz Energy, and Vermilion Energy. Matthew Cumming, co-leader of McCarthy Tétrault’s business law group, said in a statement that Danner’s arrival “strengthens our ability to support clients pursuing major energy and infrastructure initiatives, including projects where Indigenous participation is central to the mandate.”
Danner was previously a partner at Torys LLP. In 2020, he was included among Lexpert’s Rising Stars.
