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Keely Cameron is an experienced legal counsel with a strong business foundation, advising clients on complex restructuring and litigation matters. She has extensive experience assisting clients navigate Alberta's oil and gas regulatory regime, including licensing, environmental liability and transfer issues, as well as understanding regulatory obligations during insolvency proceedings. 

Overview

Keely previously worked at Alberta's Energy Regulator (AER), where she gained end-to-end experience across the full lifecycle of oil and gas development—from permitting and compliance to remediation and reclamation.  She was counsel for the AER on the landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision involving Redwater Energy; the leading case on how environmental liabilities need to be addressed in an insolvency. 

 

Her work has earned multiple accolades, including the Litigation Management Award at the 2019 Western Canada General Counsel Awards and the Canadian Public Relations Society Bronze Award of Excellence 2019 for Canadian Issues/Crisis Management Campaign of the Year – Redwater Response. Keely is a three-time recipient of the AER Regulatory Excellence Award and was recognized with the Canadian Lawyer InHouse Innovatio Award in 2018 for excellence in litigation management.

In 2024, Keely was selected as part of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group on Insolvency Law. She has appeared before the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, the Alberta Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Keely has also contributed to legal education as a former instructor of Administrative Law for the University of Calgary’s Foreign-Trained Lawyers Program.

In 2024, Keely received her ICD.D designation as an Institute of Corporate Directors (Canada), Institute-certified Director.

Client Work

A farm credit cooperative, as Canadian counsel, in its fraud claim concerning the recovery of losses arising from an elaborate cross-border cheque-kiting scheme
Repsol Oil & Gas Canada in its US$468-million sale of all partnership interests of Repsol Canada Energy Partnership to Peyto Exploration & Development
Cenovus Energy in its $23.6-billion proposed acquisition of Husky Energy
AlphaBow Energy in its Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act proceedings which resulted in court approval of 20 transactions including a reverse vesting order
Counsel for a secured creditor and interim lender of Accel Canada Holdings Limited and Accel Energy Canada Limited
BJ Services Holdings Canada in relation to its and its U.S. affiliates' Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. and Canadian recognition proceedings in relation to the same pursuant to Part IV of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • St. Francis Xavier University, Economics and Business Administration, 2005, Honours
  • University of Calgary, LLB, 2009
  • University of Calgary, MBA, 2018

Bar Admissions

  • Alberta, 2010

News, Events & Speaking Engagements

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Estey Symposium on Commercial Law: Orphan Wells

November 4, 2022
Keely Cameron
Keely Cameron