Robert Froehlich currently leads the business law group in the Calgary office and from 2016–2020 led the Canadian oil and gas practice. Froehlich advises domestic and international clients on a diverse range of corporate and commercial matters, with a specific focus on the energy industry. He provides practical and strategic advice to clients on transactions and projects across the energy sector, including on liquefied natural gas, conventional and unconventional upstream petroleum and natural gas, coalbed methane, heavy oil and oilsands, pipeline and midstream, refining, electricity, and renewable power. His experience includes providing structuring advice and negotiating and drafting complicated agreements associated with some of Canada's most significant energy projects. He regularly acts as lead counsel on significant asset acquisitions and divestitures, private merger and acquisition transactions, complex corporate restructurings, joint-ventures, partnerships, and a range of other commercial arrangements that underlie the development of energy projects.
First came the price reductions in oil when OPEC and Russia failed to reach an agreement on quotas, and then the dramatic demand destruction from the COVID-19 pandemic
