520 3rd Ave SW, Suite 1600, Centennial Pl, Calgary, AB
Year called to bar: 2008 (AB); 2016 (SK)
Tom is a corporate/commercial lawyer with extensive experience in energy and natural resources. Tom has significant transactional experience in the energy sector, advising upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas and oilfield services companies, in addition to corporate, receiver-manager/trustee and secured lending clients, on a variety of domestic and international energy matters. Tom has also assisted on a wide variety of commercial transactions and corporate law matters. Tom’s experience ranges from due diligence and title review to the interpretation, negotiation and preparation of energy-related agreements. He has played a role in numerous energy transactions, including deals involving oil and gas, coal and other-mined commodities, as well as renewable energy transactions, including deals involving solar, wind and biomass projects. Tom is recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada for Corporate Law and was recognized twice during the Autumn 2025 Mondaq Thought Leadership Awards for Environmental Law and Energy and Natural Resources.
On September 1, 2015, Enbridge Inc. announced the closing of the transfer of its Canadian Liquids Pipelines business, comprised primarily of Enbridge Pipelines Inc. and Enbridge Pipelines Athabasca Inc., and certain Canadian renewable energy assets (the Transaction) to an indirect subsidiary of Enbridge Income Fund (the Fund) for $30.4 billion together with certain Incentive/Performance Rights. A joint special committee (the Special Committee) of the Board of Directors of Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. (EIFH) and the Board of Trustees of Enbridge Commercial Trust (ECT) was formed to review and consider the Transaction, conduct due diligence and negotiate the terms of the Transaction on behalf of EIFH, the Fund and ECT.
