Mungo Hardwicke-Brown, Calgary

About Mungo

Mungo has been with Blakes since 1988. He advises primarily on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance and major energy infrastructure project development. His practice is primarily focused on the natural resources and infrastructure industries with experience across all sectors, including petroleum, natural gas, oil sands, electricity, potash and other commodities, pipelines, storage, LNG terminalling and supply arrangements, power generation and transmission. Mungo also has a broad range of experience in P3 (public-private partnership) projects.

Mungo has extensive transactional leadership experience, including international and cross-border, and involving many specialized practice areas, including public markets, tax, regulatory, trade and competition, employment, pensions and litigation.

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Recent representative matters include advising:

LNG Canada in connection with its Kitimat, BC site acquisition and project impacts agreements with Rio Tinto Alcan and the Haisla First Nation and overall relationship leadership throughout the permitting and ancillary agreement process
Kinder Morgan Canada Limited on its C$5.9-billion IPO and its C$4.5-billion sale of the Trans Mountain Pipeline System and Expansion Project to the Government of Canada
Trans Mountain Pipeline LP on various commercial aspects of its expansion project
ArcLight Capital Partners in connection with the acquisition of an interest in the Alberta Hub Gas Storage Facility by its affiliate, Amphora Canada Gas Storage
Cenovus Energy Inc. on its Cold Lake area transportation arrangements with Inter Pipeline Ltd.

Awards & Recognition

Mungo is recognized in the following publications:

The Best Lawyers in Canada – 2021 and 2023 (Corporate Law, Energy Law, Leveraged Buyouts & Private Equity Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Natural Resources Law, Oil & Gas Law)
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2023 (Corporate Commercial Law, Energy (Oil and Gas), Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions)
Who's Who Legal: Global 2022 (Energy – Oil & Gas)
Who's Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Global Elite 2022 (Energy – Oil & Gas)
Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business – 2019 and 2022 (Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional))
Chambers Canada: Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business 2021 (Corporate Commercial, Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional))
The Legal 500 Canada 2021 (Energy: Oil & Gas – Leading Lawyer)
Who's Who Legal: Canada – 2020–2021 (Energy)
Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers 2019 – Independently Rated Lawyers (As nominated by senior in-house counsel)