Cresta Fund Management LLC and its affiliates acquired a controlling interest in the Come By Chance Refinery located in Come By Chance, Newfoundland. Following the acquisition, Cresta has re-branded the business conducted at the Come By Chance Refinery as Braya Renewable Fuels.
Braya intends to convert the warm-idled refinery into a facility capable of producing renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel with initial production capacity of 14,000 barrels per day and a planned in-service date of mid-2022. Following the conversion, the Come By Chance Refinery will be one of the largest renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel production facilities in Canada.
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Silverpeak, the prior controlling entity of the Come By Chance Refinery, will continue to hold a minority interest in Braya and will participate in the refinery conversion.
Norton Rose Fulbright advised Cresta with a team led by Robert Froehlich (Business Law) and KayLynn Litton (Business Law), and included Dion Legge (Tax), Brian Milne (Tax), Rujuta Patel (Anti-Trust and Foreign Investment), Robin Acworth (Energy transactional), Alan Harvie, (Environmental), Andrew Schafer, (Employment and Labour), Elizabeth Williams, (Intellectual Property), Iwan Davies, (Intellectual Property), Jennifer Lang-Hodge (Employment and Labour), Thom Savery (Energy transactional), and Amanda Cerisano (Energy transactional).
In addition to the transactional and tax aspects, the acquisition included advice related to anti-trust and foreign investment, intellectual property and branding, employment and labour and environmental considerations, warranting involvement from several members of Norton Rose Fulbright Canadian team. It was also a cross-border matter border with Norton Rose Fulbright US.
McInnes Cooper advised Cresta on local Newfoundland and Labrador law.
Steward McKelvey advised Silverpeak.
Eversheds Sutherland advised Cresta on certain operational arrangements.