Irfah Makhtar Crop

Ifrah Mukhtar

Associate

403.260.0339
imukhtar@bdplaw.com

Education:

University of Calgary, Juris Doctor, 2024

University of Calgary, B.A. in Communication and Culture (with Distinction), Minor in Law and Society, 2019

Bar Admission: Alberta, 2025

Industries:
Financial services, Oil and gas, Renewables and energy transition, Start-up and early-stage companies
Practice areas:
Banking and finance, Business law, Commercial agreements, Corporate governance and disclosure, Corporate reorganizations, Mergers, acquisitions and other strategic transactions, Restructuring and insolvency

Experience

Ifrah's focus is on: 

Corporate and Commercial Transactions 

  • Private placements
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Share and asset acquisition
  • Corporate structuring and reorganization
  • Corporate governance
  • General corporate Matters 

Banking and Finance 

  • Syndicated and bilateral financings for chartered banks, financial institutions and borrowers in a broad range of industries, including oil and gas exploration and production, energy services, commercial real estate, transportation and telecommunications
  • Domestic and cross-border financings
  • Intercreditor arrangements

Professional involvement

Professional Associations

  • Member, Law Society of Alberta
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, Calgary Bar Association 

Representative work

Spinout and Sale Transaction

Counsel to private oil & gas company in its asset spinout and $52 million share sale to Tamarack Valley Energy Ltd. 

Whitecap Resources’ $15B Business Combination with Veren Inc.

Counsel to Whitecap Resources Inc. for its business combination with Veren Inc. completed by statutory plan of arrangement in an all-share transaction valued at approximately $15 billion to create the seventh largest oil and natural gas producer and the fifth largest natural gas producer in Canada.