Robert’s practice focuses on the Canadian energy sector and he provides practical and strategic advice to domestic and international clients on a broad range of transactions and projects, including in connection with liquefied natural gas, conventional and unconventional upstream petroleum and natural gas, heavy oil and oilsands, pipeline and midstream, refining, electricity and renewable power.
Robert regularly acts as lead counsel on asset acquisitions and divestitures, private merger and acquisition transactions, joint venture and partnership formation, and a variety of other commercial arrangements that underline the development of energy projects.
—Chambers Canada, 2026
| 2020-2026 | Chambers Canada—Leading lawyer in oil and gas (transactional) |
| 2021-2026 | Chambers Global—Leading lawyer in oil and gas (transactional) |
| 2021-2025 | The Legal 500—Leading lawyer in energy and natural resources: oil and gas |
| 2022-2025 | The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory—Leading lawyer in corporate commercial law, and energy (oil and gas) |
| 2019-2026 | Best Lawyers in Canada—Leading lawyer in oil and gas law, energy law, corporate law, and natural resources law |
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