Sherry Rath is an associate in the Business Law Group at Cassels. Sherry’s practice focuses on assisting clients with commercial arrangements with a focus on the energy industry, mining industry and power industry including renewable energy projects and energy transition. She has experience drafting various commercial agreements for renewables developers, mining companies, cleantech companies, oil and gas producers, pipeline companies, and electrical transmission companies.
Sherry’s practice also focuses on advising clients on environmental, regulatory and Aboriginal law matters, including advising on regulatory license and permit filings and meeting regulatory and environmental requirements in project development. She is also involved in drafting impact benefit agreements between First Nations groups and industry and researching and advising on Crown-Indigenous relations and Indigenous rights.
Sherry has also assisted clients with asset acquisitions and dispositions, internal reorganizations, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and joint venture arrangements.
As an articling student, Sherry gained valuable in-house experience on the legal team at a leading Canadian energy infrastructure company researching and advising on midstream and regulatory matters. She also obtained industry experience through work as an engineering student at a large oil sands joint venture operation, and as a law student at both a large international oil and gas company, and a Canadian company that had undergone proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act.
Prior to joining Cassels, Sherry served as an associate in the Business Law Group of another national law firm.
