Biography: Oil and Gas

Chrysten Perry is a partner in Macleod Dixon's Calgary office and chair of the firm's energy law practice group. She holds a LLB from the University of Alberta and is a member of the Law Society of Alberta.

Chrysten has over 25 years' experience practicing corporate and commercial law related to oil and gas projects spanning a number of sectors including petroleum and natural gas, natural gas liquids, heavy oil, oil sands and shale gas and coal-bed methane. Clients rely on her legal technical expertise and practical know-how to negotiate and draft agreements for the structuring of joint ventures and partnerships, operating agreements, royalty agreements, farm in and participation arrangements. Chrysten's extensive expertise also includes advising on often complex asset purchase and sale and equity purchase and sale transactions. Part of the legal counsel she provides in this respect includes advising on the preparation of data rooms and bidding documents, conducting due diligence, giving title opinions, as well as drafting related sale agreements and dealing with transition and regulatory matters. Chrysten is also experienced in processing, sales and transportation, marketing and operational issues facing energy companies. Her advice is frequently sought in connection with the strategic and business law aspects of oil and gas projects, not only by companies working in the upstream sector, but also investors and entrepreneurs with pipeline and midstream projects.

A significant proportion of Chrysten's energy practice relates to multi-million dollar acquisitions and divestitures and joint venture/project development by major players in the oil and gas industry that have domestic and international operations across a number of jurisdictions. These include Western Canada, the Canadian Arctic and East Coast, Trinidad, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand, the North Sea, Indonesia and Cyprus. As an example, Chrysten recently participated in one of the largest acquisitions in the petroleum industry in Colombia.

With such unique credentials and knowledge of Canadian oil sands, Chrysten has written several works on the history and development of this rapidly flourishing sector of the energy industry. In addition, Chrysten has recently spoken at conferences on a range of topics in the field of energy, for example at the International Bar Association and the Canadian Energy Law Foundation, of which she is a director.