Vivek Warrier on M&A in Energy Sector as Economy Improves

Vivek Warrier comments in Canadian Lawyer on why deal making in the Canadian energy sector can be expected to recover as the country emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy improves. Vivek says factors that could help drive this include:

• foreign capital taking another look at Canadian assets and seeing value;
• continued interest in developing areas such as petrochemical facilities and Alberta LNG facilities, driven by cheap feedstock;
• the bloom coming off the rose in the Permian shale basin in Texas;
• interest from private equity and pension funds, as well as strategic international and U.S. investors; and
• increasing interest from Indigenous groups wanting to take an equity interest in energy projects.