Vancouver-headquartered Lawson Lundell LLP’s strategic focus on Western and Northern Canada ensures that it maintains a well-staffed Calgary platform and it is active in oil and gas matters across BC, Alberta and beyond. Combining strength in transactional and regulatory work, the team additionally brings to bear significant complementary expertise in environmental and Indigenous law. The group is co-led from Calgary by Paul Negenman, whose oil and gas practice spans transactions, regulatory issues and litigation, and firm general counsel John Olynyk, who specializes in Indigenous, environmental and regulatory law.

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Key clients

  • Campus Energy Partners Infrastructure
  • HWN Energy
  • Pieridae Energy
  • Surge Energy
  • Tourmaline Oil Corp
  • NuVista Energy
  • Pason Systems Corp
  • Pure Environmental Waste Management
  • Phillips 66 Canada
  • Cenovus Energy
  • Chevron Canada Resources and Woodside Energy

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Paul Negenman, John Olynyk

Other key lawyers

Jeffrey Scobie, Jason Paton, Randy Madsen