Richard Grant is a senior partner in the Calgary office, periodically practising out of Gowlings’ London UK office.
Richard has a corporate commercial practice with extensive experience in virtually all aspects of the energy and natural resources industries, including transactions, finance, ownership rights acquisition, access, divestiture (asset and corporate), due diligence, joint venture and participation arrangements, partnerships, international production sharing contracts, concessions and other host government negotiations. Richard’s practice covers midstream, downstream, power, electricity and infrastructure work, such as the construction of facilities, pipelines, product processing, transportation and marketing along with aboriginal, environmental and certain regulatory work. Richard's experience also spans oilsands, coalbed methane, mining, alternative and renewable energy work.
Richard's energy, natural resources and business experience has encompassed significant work in all areas of Canada including the East Coast and the North, as well as internationally in Africa, South America, Asia, and Russia. Most recently, Richard has been involved in international projects pertaining to integrated gas to power, upstream concessions, pipelines, and CNG. Aside from Richard's private practice experience at large international firms, he has gained extensive in-house legal, business and senior management experience with several major multinational energy corporations.
Aside from acting for public and private companies of all sizes, Richard has represented foreign companies and funds on new investments into Canada, Canadian companies to do business internationally, territorial governments, First Nations and foreign governments.
Richard's energy experience has comprised significant transactional, project and finance sourcing work internationally and in all areas of Canada including the East Coast and the North. Internationally his focus has been on projects in Africa, South America, Asia, Russia and Europe.
Selected transactions in Richard's career include:
Structuring, negotiation and drafting of a hybrid shareholder/joint operating agreement with a large Dutch Development Bank for Artumas Group in relation to East African based E&P and power assets.
Introduction of a Petro China provincial oil company to a Canadian oil sands company and initial buy in and joint venture discussions.
Joint Venture and Trade Agreement for Artumas Group with Anadarko and Mitsui regarding onshore and offshore oil & gas concessions in Mozambique.
Joint venture earn-in arrangement by Korean energy company into a Canadian multi prospect exploration and development program with ConocoPhillips.
Introduction of a Chinese provincial oil company to an Eastern Russian oil and gas exploration opportunity.
Joint Venture earn-in arrangement by an Asian Sovereign fund into US Gulf Coast exploration and development drilling and Canadian exploration properties.
Farmout/selldown with a middle eastern national oil company into a producing African gas property.
Farmout of a large Texaco Brazil oil & gas property to another multi-national oil company.
Structuring, negotiation and follow on management for two large alternative financed, tax assisted, shareholder/joint venture hybrid companies.
Listing and $44mm public float of Artumas Group Inc on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
$500mm asset purchase and swap of Canadian producing oil & gas properties and facilities (Phillips Petroleum from Gulf Canada, Pennzoil, Trans Canada and others).
$770mm asset sale of Canadian producing oil & gas properties and facilities (Phillips Petroleum to Apache Corp).
Private Placement financings for Artumas Group Inc $312mm.
AIM (Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange) Listing Applications for two Canadian junior oil & gas companies.
Host Government negotiations and closing of an Exploration and Production Concession Contract for Artumas with the Government of Mozambique.
Production Sharing Contract Negotiations with the Government of Gabon for the Canadian subsidiary of a multi-national oil company.
Production Sharing Contract Negotiations with the Government of Guinea Bissau for a multi-national oil company.
Underwritten Convertible Bond financings for Artumas Group Inc US $135mm.
Close Joint Operating Agreement for Artumas with ENH (the Mozambique National Oil Company).
Close a Production Sharing Contract for AG&P Gas with the Government of Tanzania.
Negotiate amendments to a Production Sharing Contract with the Government of Kenya for a Canadian junior oil company.
Multi-stakeholder negotiation leading to execution of a fully integrated gas-to-power-to-transmission and distribution Project for Artumas with Government of Tanzania entities, lenders, granting agencies and other stakeholders.
Project financings for a power generation facility and midstream gas assets in East Africa.
Joint Operating Agreement between Artumas and the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (the national oil company of Tanzania).
Negotiate and document a multi-lateral agency grant of US$30mm for electricity infrastructure build out in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Structuring, negotiations, approvals and documentation for a CNG project in Africa.
Structuring and negotiations for proposed LNG projects in Africa and the West Coast of Canada.
Joint venture aligning, structuring and initial framework agreements for a large scale power plant in East Africa.
Structuring, framework documentation and negotiations for a P3 500 km electrical transmission tie-in project in Africa.
Led the due diligence and evaluation team for merger negotiations between the Canadian holdings of two multi-national oil companies.
Formation of EOG Resources Canada Partnership and related transactions.
Reorganization of Fox Energy and contribution of EOG Resources Canada Company Assets and related companies into EOG partnership.
Assistance with negotiations and documentation of the PAC-RIM Partnership Agreement among Bechtel Enterprises International, Daewoo Corp, Korea Gas Corp, PAC-RIM LNG Inc. and Phillips Canada. And assistance with the associated Gas Purchase Agreements from producers.
Negotiation of a multi-stake holder Program Management Agreement pertaining to the Northern Route Gas Pipeline from the north slope of Alaska via the McKenzie Valley to Alberta then onto US Midwest customers. The pipeline was intended as a 100% aboriginal owned pipeline and the contractual arrangements covered the structuring, development, financing, engineering and management of the proposed pipeline.
Consultations and Negotiation of Rights-of-Way, Access and Cooperation Arrangements with Sahtu, Gwich'in, Inuvialuit and Deh Cho Tribal Councils, Secretariats, First Nations, Bands and Corporations in relation to the proposed Northern Route Gas Pipeline Project.
Consultations, Support and right to Participate Memorandums of Agreement with the Tli Cho, Deh Cho, Akaitcho and the Métis of the North Slave in relation to a proposed fuel pipe line from Enterprise, NWT to the diamond mines on behalf of Flashpoint Facilitators.
Submission of a Preliminary Information Package to the NEB for the Northern Gas Pipeline Project and participation in the associated early public hearings and consultations with impacted communities, landowners, trapper associations, Aboriginal councils and representative entities, environmental groups, governments and other stakeholders.
Consultation and negotiation of Cooperation Agreements, Access, Benefits Plans, Impact Agreements and Socio-Economic Monitoring Plans with numerous Northern aboriginal groups, western Canadian Treaty First Nations and East Coast Governments in relation to oil & gas activities, pipelines, production facilities and telecommunication facilities.
Preliminary discussions with the National Oil Corporation ("Libyan Government") a General People's Congress of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on behalf of a Canadian based junior oil company regarding a Development and Production Sharing Agreement.
Represented the Deton Cho Corporation (Yellowknives Dene) on several corporate and joint venture matters relating to various services agreements.
