 Bennett Jones 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 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. Experience • 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 • The court-appointed receiver of Bow River Energy in both Alberta and Saskatchewan proceedings, including in respect of an appeal regarding the priority of municipal property taxes and application of Redwater in Saskatchewan • The plan sponsor of Kaisen Energy in its Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act proceedings which resulted in Kaisen Energy exiting the process as a going concern • Multiple employers in respect of applications for injunctive relief following the departure of employees |