Kerri Howard

Kerri Howard is a partner in the Business Law Group in Calgary and is co-head of the firm's national Oil & Gas Group. Kerri advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property licensing, structured finance and derivative transactions, and securities matters. She has profound experience in M&A and disposition transactions (including asset exchange transactions), joint venture and partnership arrangements, and corporate reorganizations and restructurings. In addition to conventional upstream and midstream oil and gas arrangements, Kerri also advises on the development of clean-energy and other power projects, such as gas, wind, solar and hydro-electric.

Kerri’s work in the energy sector includes advising on gas and power supply arrangements, services agreements, natural gas storage and processing arrangements, petroleum and natural gas lease arrangements (including title review), participation agreements, farm-in and farm-out agreements, royalty agreements, joint operating agreements and conventional upstream and midstream facility agreements. Further, Kerri has significant experience in drafting and negotiating data, software and analytics licensing arrangements, services agreements and joint development agreements, particularly in the energy technology space.

Kerri received her B.Com from the University of Victoria in 2000, and her LLB from University of Calgary in 2004. She is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Calgary Bar Association, and the Law Society of Alberta.