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As a leading energy lawyer in Canada, David Macaulay supports clients navigating the intricacies of project development, M&A transactions and joint ventures across diverse energy sectors.

Overview

David is head of the firm's power and renewable energy practice group and represents clients both domestically and internationally in energy infrastructure projects. David is repeatedly recommended as a preeminent lawyer in the industry by various global legal directories including Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, The Legal 500 and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.

Clients benefit from his expertise in leading complex commercial and infrastructure transactions, particularly in the following areas: power projects (solar, biomass, natural gas, hydro and pumped hydro, wind, battery and other fuels); pipelines and natural gas and liquids storage caverns development; conventional oil and gas projects; carbon capture projects; RNG and other clean fuels including hydrogen; and co-ownership structures with Indigenous groups.

David offers a unique set of experience and industry expertise, with a distinguished portfolio that includes leading counsel roles in monumental Canadian infrastructure ventures—such as the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and the Terra Nova and Sable Island offshore projects—along with his international experience in M&A and project development across the United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico and South America. This positions him as an invaluable asset to clients embarking on large-scale, complex energy projects.

,,David is a highly thoughtful commercial energy lawyer. He is able to focus on core commercial issues and legal risk, and deliver under a demanding timeline.,,

What Clients Say

Client Work

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., in connection with its C$1.19-billion acquisition of an indirect minority equity interest in the Labrador-Island Link from Emera Inc. 
Acciona Wind Energy Canada, in the acquisition of the 280 MW Forty Mile Wind Project in  Alberta from the RES Group.
Canadian Utilities Limited, in the sale of its entire Canadian fossil fuel-based electricity generation portfolio (gas and coal) through a sale of its equity interest in ATCO Power Canada Ltd. to Heartland Generation Ltd., an affiliate of Energy Capital Partners.  
ATCO Ltd., in its acquisition of Western Australia Gas Networks (WAGN) in Perth, Australia, for $1 billion.  WAGN is a natural gas distribution utility that serves more than 620,000 customers through 12,800 km of natural gas pipelines and associated infrastructure in the Perth metropolitan area.
Menora Energy (an Israel based entity through its affiliate TeraLight), in the acquisition by TeraLight and Greencells Group (Germany) of 75% and 25%, respectively, of the 216 MW Dunmore Solar Project in Medicine Hat, Alberta from P&T Global Renewable Energy Limited. 
Ulkatcho Energy Corporation ("UEC") in connection with the Ulkatcho First Nation's solar energy project at Anahim Lake, British Columbia, including the structuring of the Electricity Purchase Agreement between UEC and BC Hydro for all of the solar energy generated by the project.  The project is material as it is the largest "off grid" solar project in Canada and is critical in the movement of the community away from diesel generation to greater reliance on renewable power. 

Recognitions & Awards

Chambers Canada

Ranked, Energy: Power (Transactional) – Nationwide

Chambers Global

Band 3, Energy: Power (Transactional)

Legal 500: Canada

Leading Lawyer, Energy and Natural resources — Power

Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

Consistently Recommended, Corporate Commercial Law
Repeatedly Recommended, Energy (Electricity); Energy (Oil & Gas); Infrastructure Law

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Energy Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Energy lawyer 

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Finance and M&A Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Finance and M&A lawyer

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • University of Alberta, BComm, 1984
  • University of Toronto, JD, 1988

Bar Admissions

  • Alberta, 1989

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