888 3rd St SW, Suite 4200, Banker's Hall W, Calgary, AB
Year called to bar: 1987 (AB)
Chrysten Perry, KC is Managing Partner of the Calgary office, Co-Head of the Energy Group and a member of the Partnership Board. With more than 30 years of experience practicing corporate and commercial law related to energy projects, Chrysten structures, negotiates and drafts agreements for joint ventures, partnerships and other investments in the energy industry. She is widely known for her expertise in operating and governance matters, complex asset purchase and sale, and equity purchase and sale transactions. In addition, Chrysten’s seasoned practice also involves processing, sales and transportation, marketing and operational issues facing energy companies. Her advice is frequently sought in connection with the strategic and business law aspects of oil and gas projects by companies working in the upstream and downstream sectors and by pipeline and midstream companies. In 2020, Chrysten was honoured with a King’s Counsel (KC) designation, a prestigious designation conferred on members of the legal profession to recognize their distinguished legal service and expertise in a particular area of law.
On September 29, 2017, Centrica plc (Centrica) and a certain state-owned enterprise (SOE) completed the $722-million disposition of its majority-owned Canadian oil and gas exploration and production business by way of sale of 100 per cent of the partnership interests of CQ Energy Canada Partnership.
On August 18, 2016, Paramount Resources Ltd. (Paramount) completed the sale of oil and gas assets in the Musreau/Kakwa area of west-central Alberta to Seven Generations Energy Ltd. (Seven Generations) for total consideration of approximately $2.1 billion.
On July 18, 2016, Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited (CKI), a Hong Kong-based global infrastructure company that holds diversified investments in energy infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, water infrastructure, waste management, and waste-to-energy and infrastructure-related business, and Power Assets Holdings Limited (PAH), a Hong Kong-based global investor in power and utility-related businesses with investments in electricity generation, transmission and distribution, renewable energy, and energy from waste and gas distribution, completed their $1.7-billion acquisition of 65-per-cent indirect ownership interest in select heavy oil pipeline and storage assets from Husky Energy (Husky) in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and related joint-venture, financing and commercial arrangements.
On June 24, 2016, Teine Energy Ltd., a private Calgary-based exploration, development and production company focused on acquiring and developing oil and natural gas properties in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, completed its $975 million asset acquisition of Viking light oil and heavy oil properties located in South Western Saskatchewan from Penn West Petroleum Ltd