Erik maintains a general commercial litigation practice, with experience in energy and oil & gas, shareholder and corporate governance matters, expropriation, insolvency, construction, IP and privacy, and various contractual and tort disputes.
Erik is a member of the energy disputes group and has experience with energy and oil & gas disputes involving:
- The interpretation and implementation of purchase and sale agreements, project development agreements, joint venture/operating agreements, and construction, ownership & operatorship agreements;
- Environmental indemnities and liabilities;
- Abandonment and reclamation obligations;
- Lease termination and top lease disputes;
- Operatorship of jointly owned assets;
- Production and royalty accounting; and
- Transactions under insolvency proceedings.
Erik is a member of the shareholder disputes group and has experience with shareholder remedies, such as oppression and derivative actions, breach of fiduciary duties by officers and directors, and applications for various relief under the Business Corporations Act.
Erik's expropriation experience includes pursuing compensation and protecting owner's rights in proceedings before the Land and Property Rights Tribunal, and complex disputes regarding “constructive" expropriation.
Erik has appeared before all levels of court in Alberta, the Land and Property Rights Tribunal, and the Law Enforcement Review Board.
Erik summered and articled with BLG.
Experience
- ConocoPhillips Canada Resources Corp and Shell Canada Limited, 2024 ABCA 307 (represented successful party in application for summary judgment re interpretation of historical purchase and sale agreement and responsibility for environmental liabilities)
- ConocoPhillips Canada Resources Corp and Shell Canada Limited, 2024 ABCA 307 (represented successful party in application for summary judgment re interpretation of historical purchase and sale agreement and responsibility for environmental liabilities)
