MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP

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We advise pipeline companies and shippers on product transportation issues and have experience with the acquisition, divestment, development, construction and financing of several significant pipeline projects, including the Alliance, Express, Keystone, Producers and Trans-Canada systems. We provide advice on the regulation and de-regulation of assets and markets in Western Canada, including rate applications, cost of capital issues, codes of conduct and rate unbundling. We represent both landowners and industry in hearings to resolve surface rights disputes.

Our lawyers have experience in both the practical and legal aspects of land use, planning and development matters. We provide advice on development proposals, development permit applications, subdivision applications and land use planning in environmentally sensitive areas.

Alain Gaucher has extensive experience in personal and business succession planning, high net worth estate planning, corporate tax, and shareholder agreements. Alain works with a broad client base of individuals, small to medium-sized enterprises and large corporations to produce business structures and processes that are as tax efficient as possible. He has extensive experience with provincial, national and international tax issues, and also provides tax litigation advice in disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency.

MLT is an expertise-based, full-service law firm of 120 lawyers serving clients across Western Canada from offices in Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary and Edmonton. We have been practicing in the west since 1920 and have in-depth knowledge of the region's business, legal and political landscapes. Over the past decade we have developed a significant regional presence in the Canadian prairies, and in 2011 MLT entered the Lexpert / American Lawyer Media list of The 30 Largest Law Firms in Canada.

We provide advice on all aspects of management and governance, and act as general counsel to Aboriginal governments. We have drafted constitutions and bylaws, negotiated agreements with other levels of government on a broad range of funding and program arrangements, and drafted and advised on membership, election, taxation, trespass, land use, human resources, substance abuse and finance and administration bylaws and policies.

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