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Jennifer Cleall
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Biography

Jennifer Cleall is one of the firm's corporate, environmental and climate change lawyers. With her extensive experience in all aspects of corporate and commercial law, Jennifer is able to bring understanding and insight of business realities and procedures to her environmental, energy and climate change & emissions credits trading practice.

Jennifer provides her clients with opinions and advice with respect to carbon trading transactions (Emissions Performance Credits, Emissions Offsets), Alberta and Canada's climate change regulatory framework, environmental risk and risk management, foreign ownership of land, contaminated sites and the rights and obligations of businesses arising from the environmental, climate change and corporate legislative framework in Alberta.

She has gained significant experience in corporate transactional law, advising both large and small clients on the sale and purchase of businesses, and manages all aspects of the transaction from the drafting and negotiation stage to the ultimate transfer of the business.

Jennifer is a member of the firm's Environmental and Climate Change Practice Groups and is a regular contributor to the the Davis LLP Climate Change Blog, which deals with carbon finance, emissions trading, greenhouse gas regulations, and energy regulation and its Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Blog.

Jennifer is the co-chair of the Environmental Law subsection of the Canadian Bar Association (Alberta North) and is a member of the Corporate Commercial Branch of the Canadian Bar Association. She is also active in her community, serving as a director on two not-for-profit boards as well as volunteering her time with political associations on both the provincial and federal levels. In her spare time, she enjoys tennis, golf and running.

Professional Experience

• Assisted with the design and implementation of a model for the administration of the Climate Change and Emissions Management Act, the establishment of the Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation, and the development of the funding regulatory framework under Alberta's climate change legislation
• Acted for the Vendor in the recent negotiation and completion of Alberta Emissions Performance Credits purchase and sale transaction whereby Vendor sold EPCs to regulated Purchaser to permit compliance within Alberta's Climate Change Regulatory Regime
• Provides advice on an ongoing basis with respect to remediation, reclamation, and risk management of upstream oil and gas sites in Alberta for Canada's largest integrated oil company
• Preparation of discussion paper on contaminated sites legislation (Alberta and British Columbia) in the context of brownfields redevelopment for a major industry association representing the oil and gas sector
• Preparation of paper on the regulatory regime governing oil and gas pipelines in Alberta
• Completion of a $30 million purchase of a brownfields site for a major corporation in the waste services industry
• Completion of a multimillion dollar share sale transaction for a key player in the scrap steel and metal industry in Alberta
• Reorganization of a major corporation in the metal manufacturing industry
• Assists on an ongoing basis advising a large recycling and stewardship organization for the Province of Alberta

Publications & Seminars

• The National, CBA National Magazine Cover Story, "Turning Up the Heat", September, 2009
• Point Carbon News, Guest Commentary "P-r-o-t-e-c-t-i-o-n-i-s-m?", 8/14/09
• Point Carbon News, Guest Commentary "A Real Solution to Climate Change Funding", 5/29/09
• Adapting to a Changing Business Climate - Presentation to Edmonton office of international financial services firm (May, 2009)
• Environmental Concerns in Leasing - Presentation to the 7th Annual Commercial Real Estate Conference (April, 2009)
• Accounting for Environmental Liability - Presentation to Edmonton office of National Accounting Firm (November, 2008)
• Introducing the Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation - Climate Change Bulletin, May, 2009
• Carbon Offset System - Climate Change Bulletin, June, 2009
• A Clean Energy Dialogue - Climate Change Bulletin, February, 2009
• Regular contributor to the Davis LLP Climate Change Blog

Media Commentary

• The Lawyers Weekly, "Legal Briefs", 5/22/09.
• The Lawyers Weekly, "Climate Change Means changing Legal Landscape," 2/13/09.

Other Activities

• Co-Chair, Canadian Bar Association, Environmental Law Section (Alberta North)
• Board Member, The Support Network
• Board Member, Kids Up Front
• Member, Business Law Section, Canadian Bar Association - Edmonton Branch
• Member, Law Society of Alberta

Education

• LL.B., University of Alberta, 1999
• B.A., (Honours, with Distinction), University of Alberta, 1996

Place and Year of Call

• Alberta, 2000
• Ontario, 2002

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