Energy

Strategic Advantage in a Changing Market

Canada’s energy sector, which has underpinned the country’s economy for decades, is undergoing significant and rapid transformation. Renewed demand for reliable energy sources is reshaping conventional markets while investment accelerates low‑carbon and emerging technologies. At the same time, sector participants are navigating complex regulatory environments, stakeholder and community engagement challenges, financing considerations and shifting domestic and foreign political landscapes. This period of energy expansion requires proven expertise, disciplined execution and informed, agile decision‑making.

Consistently recognized as a top-tier energy advisor by Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, Legal 500 and IFLR1000, McCarthy Tétrault operates as a nationally integrated platform with a strong sectoral focus on energy and energy infrastructure. Our National Energy Group brings together a multi-disciplinary team with expertise across the full energy spectrum, from oil & gas and LNG to renewable, nuclear and all other power generation technologies, as well as all related transportation, transmission and storage infrastructure. Our lawyers work closely with our Strategic Advisory Group of former senior politicians and public officials, who bring real-time insight into how government decisions are shaped and how policy priorities evolve to assess political and reputational risk.

We move at pace and execute with discipline at every stage of project development, financing, operations and transactions. We help you anticipate risk, secure approvals, build durable partnerships with Indigenous communities, and execute multi‑jurisdictional transactions with clarity.

Integrated Support Across the Project Lifecycle

Our National Energy Group includes lawyers from across all practice areas, including corporate, commercial, M&A, private equity, corporate finance, project finance, environmental, energy regulatory, Indigenous, real estate, tax and litigation and dispute resolution. Delivered by leading practitioners, our services are structured around the realities you face and the outcomes you seek to achieve at all stages of your projects.

• Permitting and Approvals: We provide clear, practical guidance on compliance, hearings, rate applications and environmental obligations across jurisdictions, helping you reduce exposure and protect project timelines.
• Indigenous Engagement and Participation: With the leading practice for Indigenous equity participation and government loan guarantees, we help you build durable partnerships with Indigenous communities, advising on consultation obligations, equity arrangements and long-term relationships.
• Project Development and Governance: Our deep team provides end-to-end support for governance structuring, stakeholder engagement, joint venture arrangements and the negotiation of EPC and other project development agreements that are financeable and aligned with long‑term goals of project sponsors, shippers, offtakers, equity investors and lenders.
• Corporate and Project Finance: Recognized as corporate and project finance leaders in Canadian and international markets, our broad-based experience in Canada extends to most of the country’s major project finance transactions in the energy, resource, real estate, technology and infrastructure sectors.
• Commercial Arrangements: We regularly advise on complex commercial arrangements, including transportation and storage agreements, offtake agreements, tolling agreements, physical and financial energy trading contracts, and other marketing and sales arrangements.
• Transactions and Strategic Growth: We provide experienced guidance on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, private equity and strategic investments, joint ventures, restructurings, initial public offerings and dispositions, offering insights informed by decades of experience acting on many of Canada’s most significant energy transactions.
• Disputes: As Canada’s pre-eminent litigation firm, our seasoned practitioners specialize in resolving the most complex and high-profile disputes in the energy industry, including contractual disputes, Indigenous group priorities, environmental contamination, and construction and project disputes.

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Power Perspectives 2026

Our 11th annual power industry retrospective reviews key developments in Canada’s power sector and emerging energy industries in 2025, and explores 2026 trends at regional and national levels.

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