Bio

Thomas McInerney is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Business Law Group, and Energy & Resources Group based in Calgary. His commercial transactional practice focuses on helping power and energy industry clients identify and pursue strategic growth opportunities, both in Canada and abroad. Thomas helps clients in the upstream, midstream and services sectors successfully navigate the evolving nature of the oil & gas market. With a pulse on the shifting demands of the energy sector, Tom has particular expertise in renewable fuel/power and climate change and emissions trading. He represents developers and owners of renewable fuel/power projects including those involving solar, wind, biomass, biomethane and hydrogen. He helps clients develop strategies to remain competitive and compliant in respect of climate change and emissions legislation, as well as project proponents, aggregators and large emitters in the marketing and sale of emissions offsets, emissions performance credits, renewable energy certificates and other emission trading credits and instruments. Clients turn to Thomas for his extensive knowledge of asset and share purchase and sale transactions, corporate/commercial reorganizations and restructurings, new project development, structuring joint ventures and partnerships, marketing arrangements and licensing, the use of proprietary technology, large engineering procurement and construction projects, particularly within the oil sands, pipeline and power generation and transmission industries.