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Oliver MacLarenPartner(416) 981-9331omaclaren@oktlaw.com@OliverMacLarenDownload VCard ContentsContactBiographyPublications and MediaRepresentative WorkRecent ArticlesOliver MacLaren is a partner at OKT, and leads the firm’s business and economic development practice group. Oliver works across Canada advising First Nations and their businesses on economic development initiatives, including on-reserve business development, strategic investments, leveraging opportunities flowing from impact benefits agreements in the natural resources sector, and transactional work arising from indigenous partnerships in the renewable energy and electricity sectors.Oliver is a member of the Ontario, Alberta, and Manitoba bars, is listed asConsistently Recommendedin the Lexpert Directory on Indigenous Law and is also listed in theLexpert Special Edition - Energy.ExpertiseEquity partnershipsIndigenous corporate financeStructuring and governance of indigenous owned businesses Oliver MacLaren is a partner at OKT, and leads the firm’s business and economic development practice group. Oliver works across Canada advising First Nations and their businesses on economic development initiatives, including on-reserve business development, strategic investments, leveraging opportunities flowing from impact benefits agreements in the natural resources sector, and transactional work arising from indigenous partnerships in the renewable energy and electricity sectors.Oliver is a member of the Ontario, Alberta, and Manitoba bars, is listed asConsistently Recommendedin the Lexpert Directory on Indigenous Law and is also listed in theLexpert Special Edition - Energy.ExpertiseEquity partnershipsIndigenous corporate financeStructuring and governance of indigenous owned businesses
Education
Osgoode Hall Law School Professional LLM Program
Guest Lecture, “Indigenous Law Issues in Commercial Law”, Commercial Law Intensive, Feb 10, 2017, York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, Professional LLM Program
Guest Lecture (with L. Land) “Aboriginal Economic Development,” Aboriginal Peoples and Resource Development, Feb 18, 2014, York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, Professional LLM Program.
Guest Lecturer in Water Law, “Empowered Surrenders: The Role of Indigenous Water Power Rights in the Early Hydroelectric Projects of Alberta”, March 2010, University of Calgary, Faculty of Law.
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