Michael McIntosh is a Partner in the Financial Services Group. He practises in the area of corporate finance law, with a focus on banking, corporate lending, project finance and structured finance. He also has extensive experience in corporate and commercial acquisitions and regularly advises on cross-border financings.

Some of the types of transactions Michael was involved in recently include major acquisition financings, private placements, major construction financings and cross-border structured financings, as well as financings of oil sands projects, coalbed methane development, conventional oil and gas reserves, petrochemical plants, pipelines, mining assets and power generating assets. He was lead counsel in connection with the establishment of syndicated credit facilities for Nexen Inc., Baytex Energy Ltd., Canadian Oil Sands Limited, Enbridge Inc., Enbridge Income Fund, TransAlta Corporation, Rangeland Pipeline Company, Canadian Hydro Developers, Inc., Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. and Fording Canadian Coal Trust. He was also co-lead counsel to the lenders for TransCanada's Keystone Project credit facility.

Michael was lead counsel to the lenders to Western Oil Sands Inc. in the financing of Western's joint venture participation in the Athabasca oil sands project with Shell Canada Limited and Chevron Canada Limited. In addition, he was lead counsel to the lenders to Nexen Inc. in the financing of Nexen's acquisition of the North Sea assets of EnCana Corporation and also was lead Canadian counsel to the lenders to Kinder Morgan, Inc. in the financing of its acquisition of Terasen Inc. More recently, Michael was lead counsel to the lenders in the financing of Husky Energy's acquisition of U.S. refining assets and was lead counsel to the lenders in the financing of Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited's acquisition of TransAlta Power, L.P.

With respect to lease financings, Michael has been involved in transactions with lessees such as Suncor Energy Inc., Shell Canada Limited, Chevron Canada Limited, Nexen Inc. and Fluor Corporation. He was extensively involved in the project financings of the co-generation plants of TransAlta Energy Corporation and the Vancouver grain terminals of Cascadia Terminal, as well as the construction financing of the ethylene facility of Dow Chemical located in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta (and was also extensively involved in the long-term refinancing of this ethylene facility).

Michael has been recognized in:

• The 2010 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
• The Best Lawyers in Canada (2009 and 2010) in banking, project finance and structured finance
• The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2009 as one of Canada's leading lawyers in banking/financial institutions
• Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2009 as one of the top 22 banking and finance lawyers in Canada
• Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers
• Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers
• Law Business Research's The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2009 in banking
• Law Business Research's The International Who's Who of Banking Lawyers (2008 and 2010)
• The Lexpert Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada (2008 and 2010)

Michael is a member of The Law Society of Alberta, The Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association and the Calgary Bar Association.