Wayne Fedun

Senior Partner Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Wayne Fedun

Wayne Fedun

Biography

Wayne Fedun has practised oil and gas law in Canada and internationally since 1992. He has negotiated and prepared a variety of energy industry agreements, including joint venture agreements, project development agreements, project finance agreements, facility agreements, engineering, procurement and construction agreements, transportation agreements, marketing agreements, Canadian East Coast off-shore agreements and various South American and Central Asian agreements. These agreements related to projects ranging from several million to several billion dollars and involved conventional energy matters, heavy oil and oil sands projects, and off-shore drilling and production projects.

Wayne has extensive experience as lead counsel in large oil and gas asset acquisitions and dispositions, including transactions in excess of $4 billion, both as stand-alone transactions and as part of securities-driven arrangements.

As a member of our Canadian banking and finance team, Wayne acts as a lender and borrower counsel in connection with debt financings, being responsible for preparing and commenting on loan agreements, security documents and considering registration and priority issues. The financing transactions he has led involve various structures, including demand facilities and long-term, secured, syndicated arrangements respecting credit facilities of up to several hundred million dollars.

He also has significant experience in insolvency matters, representing secured and unsecured creditors, receivers/managers and trustees in bankruptcy.

Professional experience

Representative experience

Representative experience

Matters in which Wayne has acted include:

  • Brookfield Infrastructure, as lead external counsel, in the purchase of Enbridge Inc.'s Canadian natural gas gathering and processing business for C$4.3 billion, the business comprising 19 provincially or federally regulated natural gas processing plants and liquid handling facilities with total handling capacity of 3.3Bcf/day and 3,550 km of natural gas gathering pipelines
  • Brookfield Infrastructure in connection with certain aspects of its acquisition of Inter Pipeline Ltd. in a deal valued at approximately C$16 billion
  • Paramount Resources Ltd. as lead external oil and gas counsel, in the sale of its Karr, Wapiti and Zama upstream and midstream assets to Ovintiv Canada ULC for C$3.325 billion and certain Horn River Basin properties
  • Crescent Point Energy Corp., as lead external counsel, in the purchase from Spartan Delta Corp. of its upstream and midstream Gold Creek and Karr Montney assets of C$1.8 billion
  • Inter Pipeline Ltd. in relation to the Bow River Hub CCS project
  • An alliance of Suncor Energy Inc., Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Cenovus Energy Inc., Imperial Oil Resources Limited, MEG Energy Corp. and ConocoPhillips Canada Resources Corp., representing more than 95% of Canadian oil sands production, in connection with its Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative
  • Rockies LNG Partners, a partnership of Western Canadian natural gas producers, in connection with various aspects of LNG export opportunities
  • Crescent Point Energy Corp. on its C$900 million purchase of Shell’s Northern Alberta Duvernay region assets. The transaction included the transfer of approximately 450,000 acres in the Fox Creek and Rocky Mountain House areas – along with related infrastructure – which is currently producing approximately 30,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day from more than 270 wells. Crescent Point retained the field employees and several technical and commercial roles that support the production of these assets
  • Paramount Resources Ltd., as lead external oil and gas counsel, in the purchase of Apache Canada Ltd in a transaction valued at C$459.5 million
  • TransAlta Corporation, as lead external counsel, in respect of the construction of a 120km natural gas pipeline from Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure Ltd.'s Brazeau River Complex to its power generation units at Sundance and Keephills

Rankings and recognitions

Rankings and recognitions

  • Best Lawyers in Canada: Energy Law, 2018-2025; Oil and Gas Law, 2020-2025; Natural Resources Law, 2025
  • Chambers Canada, Nationwide: Oil & Gas (Transactional), Chambers and Partners, 2018-2025  
  • Legal 500 Canada: Energy and natural resources: Oil & gas (Leading Partners), 2019-2025
  • Chambers Global, Canada: Oil & Gas (Transactional), Chambers and Partners, 2021-2025 
  • Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers, 2023-2024
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2016, 2018-2024: recommended in Energy (Oil & Gas); 2020-2024: recommended in Corporate Commercial Law 
  • Acritas Stars 2019-2021 – Designated as an "Independently rated lawyer"
  • Who's Who Legal: Canada – Energy 2020

Education

Education

LL.B., University of Alberta, 1991
B.A., University of Alberta, 1988

Admissions

Admissions

  • Alberta 1992

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