Wayne W. Fedun
Wayne is a member of Macleod Dixon's energy practice group, and has practised oil and gas law in Canada and internationally since 1992. He has negotiated and prepared a variety of energy industry agreements, including joint venture agreements, project development agreements, project finance agreements, facility agreements, engineering, procurement and construction agreements, transportation agreements, marketing agreements, Canadian east-coast off-shore agreements and various South American and Central Asia agreements. These agreements related to projects ranging in size from several million dollars to multi-billion dollars, involving conventional energy matters, heavy oil and oil sands projects, and off-shore drilling and production projects.
Wayne has extensive experience as lead counsel in large oil and gas asset acquisitions and dispositions, ranging in size from $100 million to $1.5 billion, both as stand-alone transactions and as part of securities-driven arrangements.
As a member of the firm's Banking Practice Group, Wayne acts as lender and borrower counsel in connection with debt financings, being responsible for preparing and commenting on loan agreements, security documents and the consideration of registration and priority issues. The financing transactions Wayne has lead involve various structures, including demand facilities and long term, secured, syndicated arrangements respecting credit facilities of up to several hundred million dollars. Wayne also has significant experience in insolvency matters, representing secured and unsecured creditors, receivers/managers, and trustees in bankruptcy.
- University of Alberta, LL.B., 1991
- University of Alberta, B.A. (with Distinction), 1988
- Alberta, 1992
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Former chair of the Natural Resources Section of the Canadian Bar Association
- Instructor, "Advanced Oil and Gas Law", Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen, 2002, 2004, 2005
- Instructor, "Oil and Gas Law", Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen, 2000 and 2001
- Co-Author, “Good Faith and Fiduciary Obligations in the Handling of Confidential Seismic Data,” Insight conference, 1999
- Minor Hockey Coach, Springbank PeeWee III, 1999
