Rujuta Patel

Partner Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Rujuta Patel

Rujuta Patel

Biography

Rujuta Patel practises business law and competition law.

She advises on private mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations and restructurings of multinational and Canadian organizations, private placements and a variety of commercial matters. Rujuta advises on all types of commercial contracts, including purchase and sale agreements, project documentation, marketing, supply and distribution agreements, service agreements, procurement policy and contract documentation, shareholder agreements and partnership agreements. She is also an English solicitor and advises on international commercial transactions.

Rujuta also advises on competition matters and foreign investment review matters, and regularly deals with the Competition Bureau and the Investment Review Division of Industry Canada on such matters. She has extensive experience in representing clients from a wide range of industries on regulatory issues and obtaining merger approvals, including those involved in the energy, infrastructure, resources, food and agriculture, construction, transport and real estate industries. She also advises clients on structuring their business arrangements to ensure compliance with Canadian competition legislation. Rujuta has represented foreign investors from various countries in obtaining approvals for their investments under the lnvestment Canada Act.

Rujuta joined our Calgary office in 2003 after moving from Kenya, where she practised corporate/commercial law with one of the leading Kenyan law firms after being called to the English Bar.

Professional experience

Representative experience

Representative experience

Rujuta has acted for the following clients recently:

  • Kenan Advantage Group, the largest liquid bulk transportation services provider to the North American fuels, chemicals and merchant gas end markets, on transaction matters and regulatory matters in its acquisition by OMERS Private Equity and in various subsequent transactions in Canada
  • Mocal Energy Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation, on its strategic disposition of a 5% interest in the Syncrude Oilsands Project to Suncor Energy Ventures Partnership for a purchase price of US$730 million
  • Halliburton on transaction matters and competition matters in its acquisition of Europump Systems lnc., a progressive cavity pump systems and artificial lift equipment company
  • Kenan Advantage Group in its acquisition of the RTL‑Westcan Group, a leading hauler of dry and liquid bulk commodities in Western and Northern Canada
  • A major US public company in a confidential transaction involving the proposed acquisition of a private Canadian‑based oilfield services company with operations in Canada, Mexico and several South American jurisdictions


She has also acted as competition counsel and/or Investment Canada Act counsel to the following clients:

  • Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and its institutional partners, through investee company NorthRiver Midstream Inc., in its acquisition of Enbridge Inc.’s Canadian natural gas gathering and processing business in the Montney, Peace River Arch, Horn River and Liard basins in B.C. and Alberta ($4.31 billion)
  • Petrogas Energy, a Calgary‑based company that provides crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGL) total supply management and marketing services in Canada and the US, in the acquisition of a 66.7% stake in the company by a joint venture between Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. and AltaGas Ltd. for $855 million and on the subsequent acquisition of the balance interest in Petrogas by AltaGas Ltd. for $715 million
  • Wolf Midstream Inc. on its acquisition of a 50% interest in the Access Pipeline System from Devon Energy  ($1.4 billion) and on its acquisition of MEG Energy Corp.’s 50% ownership interest in Access Pipeline and a 100% ownership interest in the Stonefell Terminal ($1.52 billion)
  • Brookfield Asset Management on the acquisition of Niska Gas Storage Partners LLC, a privately traded natural gas storage business with facilities in Canada and the US ($1.1 billion)
  • Petro‑Canada in its merger with Suncor Energy

Rankings and recognitions

Rankings and recognitions

  • Best Lawyers in Canada: Competition/Antitrust Law, 2021-2025; Energy Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2025
  • Chambers Canada, Nationwide: Competition/Antitrust, Chambers and Partners, 2024-2025
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2022, 2023-2024: recommended in Competition Law

Education

Education

Kenya School of Law, 2001
Inns of Court School of Law, 1998
LL.B., University of Bristol, 1997

Admissions

Admissions

  • Alberta 2004
  • Barrister, qualified in England & Wales 1998
  • Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales 2006

Memberships and activities

Memberships and activities

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Law Society of England and Wales 
  • Lincoln’s Inn (UK) 
  • Law Society of Kenya
  • International Bar Association

 

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