Luigi Cusano

A skilled litigator with significant experience in the energy industry, Luigi (Lou) Cusano helps clients navigate complex energy regulatory frameworks across high-stakes matters and disputes, bringing decades of knowledge of Canada’s evolving electricity and oil and gas sectors.

Lou is the managing partner of the firm's Calgary office. His practice focuses on administrative, regulatory and environmental law and commercial litigation in the energy sector.

Lou has participated in the restructuring of Alberta’s power industry and has experience in all aspects of both the regulated and the unregulated electricity sectors, including utility rates, energy price-setting plans, transmission, distribution and generation facilities, merchant transmission and generation, market surveillance investigations, and disputes regarding Alberta’s legislated Power Purchase Arrangements.

In the oil & gas sector, Lou provides comprehensive regulatory advice across the spectrum of clients’ operations, including related to pipelines (greenfield, conversion and tolls and tariffs-related issues), heavy oil development, well licensing, public consultation, facility proliferation, environmental matters, land reclamation, emergency response and surface rights.

Lou’s significant litigation experience includes many types of contractual, energy, oil & gas and power disputes. He has appeared before numerous regulatory tribunals, including the Alberta Utilities Commission, Alberta Energy Regulator, Canadian Energy Regulator and the Alberta Securities Commission.