Indigenous equity participation is reshaping how major projects move from development, through construction to long-term operation in Canada. These arrangements can create shared value for all involved while strengthening long-term relationships and supporting meaningful economic reconciliation.
Fasken helps clients structure, negotiate, and implement Indigenous equity, ownership, and investment arrangements across Canada. We bring together decades of experience in Indigenous legal matters, project development, commercial agreements, financing, tax, regulatory approvals, environmental assessment, and consultation. This integrated perspective is essential because these are not standard M&A, commercial or financing transactions. Each arrangement must be built around the project, the needs and interests of the participating Indigenous communities, governance expectations, funding requirements, and the long-term objectives of all parties.
Our team has advised on Indigenous participation in some of Canada's most significant infrastructure, energy, natural resource, and transmission projects. This includes projects involving pipelines, LNG facilities, renewable power, electricity transmission, mining, and other major project developments. We regularly support clients on business structures that enable Indigenous partnership and investment, as well as impact benefit agreements, reserve land development, duty to consult and accommodate issues, permitting and approval processes, and negotiations with single communities or multiple Indigenous groups.
Clients come to us for practical, strategic advice on complex Indigenous equity arrangements because we understand both the legal framework and the relationship dynamics that drive successful outcomes. We help clients build structures that attract investment, support durable relationships, and create value that extends beyond the transaction.
