Ranked in 2 Practice Areas
4

Band 4

Energy & Natural Resources: Mining

Nationwide - Canada

8 Years Ranked

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Provided by Karen MacMillan

Canada

Practice Areas

Corporate Commercial Law; Energy; Mergers & Acquisitions; Mining.

Career

Karen is Lawson Lundell's Deputy Managing Partner and Chair of the Executive Committee, as well as Co-Leader of the firm’s Mining Group. She practices corporate/commercial, mining, and energy law with an emphasis on commercial arrangements in the mining and energy sectors. She has significant experience with asset-level acquisitions and dispositions, earn-in, option and joint venture agreements, royalty agreements, procurement, construction and engineering agreements, and other complex ownership arrangements.

In the energy sector, Karen regularly advises clients on the ownership and development of major power generation projects, power purchase and sale agreements, renewable energy transactions, and other commercial contracting matters.

Karen also counsels domestic and international clients across industries on general business law issues. Her experience includes share and asset acquisitions and divestitures, licensing arrangements, corporate and contractual joint ventures, and debt and equity financings. She has worked with clients across a variety of sectors, including mining, energy, forestry, pulp and paper, financial services, consumer products manufacturing and distribution, recreation and resorts, transportation, and education.

Karen has also had the opportunity during the course of her career to work in-house with clients in the energy and forest-products sectors where she focused primarily on procurement, construction and engineering and other contracting matters.

Karen was Lawson Lundell’s first Chief Inclusiveness Officer, leading the firm’s diversity and inclusiveness initiatives through the design, implementation, and measurement of firm-wide improvement programs.

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Energy & Natural Resources: Mining: Development and Operations - Nationwide - Canada

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Band 2
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Co-leader of the firm's mining group Karen MacMillan handles commercial agreements and corporate transactions across the mining industry, with particular strength in asset purchases and dispositions.

Energy & Natural Resources: Mining - Nationwide - Canada

4
Band 4
Individual Editorial
Co-leader of the firm's mining group Karen MacMillan handles commercial agreements and corporate transactions across the mining industry, with particular strength in asset purchases and dispositions.

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