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Ashley M. White

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Ashley White is known for her collaborative, practical and strategic approach to the negotiation, conduct and completion of complex commercial transactions. Clients come to her for her results-oriented approach in order to help generate value.

Ashley's practice relates primarily to corporate and commercial transactions, with a specific focus on project development, joint ventures, and private mergers and acquisitions in the energy industry.

Ashley regularly represents clients in the negotiation and drafting of energy contracts relating to the development of oil & gas and renewable resources, including ownership, operation and other types of project agreements. She also advises clients on contractual issues arising from construction, procurement, and service-related agreements.

Ashley assists clients in the acquisition and divestiture of energy-related projects and assets, including the negotiation and completion of complex purchase and sale transactions, and general corporate/commercial matters in connection with corporate reorganizations.

She brings to her practice complementary experience in advising clients on, and the negotiation of, joint ventures between industry and Indigenous communities in connection with equity ownership and investments in natural resource projects in Western Canada.

Ashley is actively involved in the Calgary community, including as a committee member of the Canadian Energy Law Foundation Jasper Seminar, the premier event for energy practitioners, and is a member of the Petroleum Acquisition and Divestiture Association. She is on the board of directors for The Women's Centre in Calgary and has previously served as a committee member and director on other non-profits in Calgary and Edmonton. Ashley is also the Co-Chair of the Student Recruitment Committee in Calgary.

Education

University of Alberta, BA (Criminology), 2006, with distinction University of Saskatchewan, JD, 2011, with great distinction 

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Alberta, 2012

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The controlling shareholder of Westbrick Energy in its C$1.075-billion sale to Vermilion Energy
Westport Fuel Systems and its related affiliates (the “Westport Entities”) in establishing a joint venture with Volvo Business Services International AB and its related entities (the “Volvo Group”) to carry on the Westport Entities’ High Pressure Direct Injection business
Murphy Oil Company Ltd., in connection with its disposition of certain operated Kaybob Duvernay assets and all of its non-operated Placid Montney assets
Rangeland Energy, in connection with the sale of Rangeland Midstream Canada Ltd., whose principal assets include the Marten Hills Pipeline System, to Kingston Midstream Alberta Limited
Canadian Utilities Limited in its acquisition from Suncor of a renewable assets portfolio (32-megawatts of operating wind assets, and a 1.5-gigawatt wind and solar development portfolio in Alberta and Ontario) for $713 -million
ATCO Energy Solutions Ltd. (ATCO) in connection with its acquisition of Amphora Canada Gas Storage ULC, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, and Iberdrola Canada Energy Services, a subsidiary of Scottish Power, giving ATCO sole ownership of the Alberta Hub natural gas storage facility
Canada Oil Sands Co., Limited, a subsidiary of Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., in the sale of its equity interest in Japan Canada Oil Sands Limited, which has a 75% working interest in the Hangingstone Oil Sands Project, to a special purpose acquisition vehicle owned by Greenfire Acquisition Corporation
Stone Canyon Industries Holdings LLC and Kissner Group Holdings, as Canadian counsel, in their US$3.2-billion agreement to acquire K+S Aktiengesellschaft's North and South American salt business, including Morton Salt and Windsor Salt
Cenovus Energy Inc., in its $23.6-billion acquisition of Husky Energy Inc.
OPTrust, in connection with the formation and limited recourse financing of a partnership with six Alberta First Nations which in turn participated in the equity syndication and project financing of the $1.5-billion Cascade Power Project to be developed near Edson, Alberta and operated by Calgary based developer Kineticor. This equity investment marks the first transaction supported by the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (AIOC), who provided a loan guarantee supporting the credit and financing arrangements between ATB, OPTrust, Kineticor and the First Nations consortium which ultimately facilitated the equity participation by Indigenous communities in the Cascade project
Canadian Utilities Limited, an ATCO company, in the sale of its entire Canadian fossil fuel-based electricity generation portfolio for approximately $835 million, which was completed in three stages, through the sale of its interest in the Cory project in Saskatchewan to SaskPower International Inc., a sale of its interest in the Brighton Beach project in Ontario to Ontario Power Generation Inc., and a sale of the balance of the applicable generation assets through a sale of its equity interest in ATCO Power Canada Ltd. to Heartland Generation Ltd., an affiliate of Energy Capital Partners
Cenovus Energy Inc., in its $17.7-billion acquisition of ConocoPhillips’ Deep Basin conventional assets in Alberta and British Columbia and 50% interest in the FCCL Partnership
Cranes, Inc., operating as NCSG Crane & Heavy Haul Corporation, with its joint ventures with various Indigenous groups in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories providing crane, lifting and heavy haul services in support of major industrial and commercial projects
Statoil ASA, in the sale of its Alberta oilsands assets to Athabasca Oil Corporation for the consideration of $435 million cash, 100 million common shares and contingent value payments triggered at oil prices above US$65/bbl WTI
Devon Energy Corp., in the sale of its 50-percent ownership interest in Access Pipeline to Wolf Midstream Inc., a portfolio company of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, for $1.4 billion
A private company, in joint ventures with Indigenous-owned companies in Alberta and Saskatchewan
ATCO, in joint ventures with Indigenous-owned companies in British Columbia and Alberta.
A private Calgary-based E&P company in the acquisition of helium assets located in Alberta
EOG Resources, Inc., one of the largest independent North American oil and natural gas exploration and production companies, in a divestment of all of its assets in Manitoba and certain assets in Alberta through two separate transactions for approximately US$410 million
ATCO Energy Solutions Ltd., in its joint venture development with Petrogas Energy Corp. for the Strathcona Storage Facility, a liquids storage cavern business, near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, including associated long-term propane, butane and ethylene storage services agreements, interconnection pipelines and associated transportation rights, product loading and transfer services
Statoil Canada Ltd., in acquisition by PTTEP Canada Limited of the remaining 60% ownership interest in the Thornbury, Hangingstone and South Leismer oil sands areas in exchange for Statoil's 40% stake in the Leismer and Corner projects and approximately US$200 million in cash
Gibson Energy Inc., in all aspects of its joint venture with U.S. Development Group LLC to develop a new unit train rail loading facility with an initial capacity of 140,000 bbls per day with pipeline connectivity from Gibson's Hardisty Terminal, including the negotiation of agreements with anchor customers
Gibson Energy Inc., in connection with various connection, storage and terminalling services agreements in respect of Gibson's Hardisty Terminal
NCSG Crane & Heavy Haul Services Corporation, and the shareholders thereof, in the sale of a majority stake in NCSG to an investor syndicate led by TriWest Capital Partners IV, L.P. and Alberta Teachers Retirement Fund Board
ATCO Structures & Logistics, in the successful proposal for the design, construction and operation of the Site "C" Workers Accommodation Project
ATCO Structures & Logistics, in the negotiation of joint venture and camp accommodation agreements with project proponents and aboriginal groups in Alberta and British Columbia
Spectra Energy Transmission, in the engineering, procurement and construction of its Dawson processing Plant (200MMcf/day; Montney natural gas), Fort Nelson North (250MMcf/day; Horn River Shale) and T-North Expansion projects

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The Legal 500 Canada
Next Generation Lawyer,  Energy and Natural Resources — Oil and Gas
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Lexperts Rising Stars Leading Lawyers Under 40
Chambers Canada
Ranked, Up and Coming, Energy: Oil & Gas
Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Repeatedly Recommended, Corporate Commercial Law
Repeatedly Recommended, Energy (Oil & Gas)

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