Attracting Foreign Investment & Structuring International Transactions in Canadian Energy 2012

In light of rapidly developing new investment opportunities, stakeholders in the energy sectors are facing significant new challenges and changes to deal dynamics. Differences between domestic and foreign regulations, business practices and culture, costly new technologies, and volatility in the marketplace, are all factors that are creating numerous hurdles that threaten to derail your transactions at numerous stages of your negotiations.

Attend The Canadian Institute’sAttracting Foreign Investment & Structuring International Transactions in Canadian Energy to gain the tools you need to overcome these emerging challenges and to successfully plan, structure, and close your transactions in this new paradigm. Leading energy practitioners and industry experts will share their proven strategies for:

• OVERCOMING barriers to using China as a funding source
• TACTICAL PLANNING STRATEGIES value for successful mergers, acquisitions and divestitures with international stakeholders
• STREAMLINING communications to improve stakeholder relations and manage increased activism
• MANAGING new Investment Canada Act changes to foreign investment and merger review
• PROTECTING your technological capital and jointly developed IP through solidly structured deals
• CASE STUDIES for practical strategies on PE Exit Activity, Leveraging Unconventional Natural Gas Demand, the Return of Canadian Energy Income Trusts, and Developing Partnerships to Encourage Technological Innovation