Senior partner Al Hudec currently focuses his practice on LNG and other resource industry transactions involving Indigenous parties. He has been lead lawyer on many of Canada’s most significant resource transactions involving First Nations over the last 13 years. Al is an M&A and Corporate Governance practitioner with over 40 years of experience in all legal aspects of securities and corporate finance, including mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance and independent committee representation, with emphasis on the North American resource (mining, forestry, oil & gas), infrastructure, and technology industries. His practice focuses on cross-border mergers & acquisitions (takeovers and arrangements) and board and special/independent committee representation. Al writes and speaks frequently on a variety of legal topics relating to resource law, Aboriginal law, mergers & acquisitions and corporate governance. Al is named in The 2024 Best Lawyers in Canada, The 2024 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, and in the 2024 Lexpert Special Editions on Mining, and Finance and M&A. Certified Financial Analyst (1994). Called to Bars of Alberta (1981) and BC (1994).