Our Team

Chambers & Partners' Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client's Guide, 2013—Leading lawyer in energy: oil and gas

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2011-2012—Repeatedly recommended practitioner in energy (oil and gas)

Chambers & Partners' Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client's Guide, 2007-2012—Leading lawyer in energy: power and energy: oil and gas

Best Lawyers in Canada, 2010-2013—Leading lawyer in energy law

Law Business Research’s Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, 2009-2012—Leading Canadian lawyer in oil and gas

Ron has recently represented

• Husky Energy in its development of the Ansell liquids-rich gas project
• a multi-national oil and gas company in its potential acquisition of a 50% interest in a major Canadian gas play
• Greengate Power in its C$550 million wind energy project agreements with Vestas
• PTT Exploration and Production Public Company as Canadian counsel in its US$2.28 billion acquisition of a 40% partnership interest in Statoil Canada Partnership, whose main asset is the Kai Kos Dehseh oil sands project in Canada
• UTS Energy
• in its C$1.5 billion plan of arrangement with Total E&P Canada
• in the disposition of its 50 % working interest in Alberta oil sands leases nos. 421, 022 and 023 in northeastern Alberta to joint purchasers Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil
• in its C$750 million farm-down of a 10% interest in the Fort Hills oil sands project to existing partners Petro-Canada and Teck Cominco, and its participation in the C$15.2 billion Fort Hills project
• SilverBirch Energy in its joint venture arrangements to develop the Frontier  and Equinox oil sands projects
• Enerplus Resources Fund
• in its cross-border acquisition of an average 21.5% working interest in certain areas in the Marcellus shale natural gas play in the northeastern United States
• in the development of the Joslyn oil sands project and the subsequent US$500 million sale of its interest in the project to Occidental Petroleum
• Husky Oil China
• on matters pertaining to Husky’s joint venture with China National Offshore Oil Corporation to develop oil and gas projects in the South China Sea
• in its US$580 million contract with Seadrill to provide a deep water semi-submersible drilling rig for use in offshore China
• Husky Energy
• in the disposition of a 10% interest in the Indonesia Madura project to Samudra Energy Ltd.
• in the disposition of a 50% interest to China National Offshore Oil Corporation and joint venture agreement for the exploration and in the Indonesia Madura project development of the Indonesia Madura fields
• Canadian Hydro Developers in the acquisition/development by CanHydro of renewable energy projects across Canada; advised on the acquisition and development of numerous wind-generation projects, including all aspects of the land rights, construction, turbine and supply contracts and related matters
• ENMAX
• in the development of the Taber wind power project
• in the purchase of wind turbine generators from ENERCON
• on matters pertaining to the development of its district energy facility

Ron frequently speaks at conferences and seminars on topics relating to the development and operation of major energy projects.

Before joining Torys, Ron was a partner at another major Canadian law firm.

Canadian Bar Association (Natural Resources and International Business Law Subsections)
Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation
International Bar Association (Section on Energy and Resources Law)