Maxine Salazar
Associate
Experience
Maxine's practice encompasses a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including:
Securities and Corporate Commercial Law
- Share and asset acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures
- Corporate reorganizations
- General corporate and commercial advisory work
- Corporate governance advisory
- Public offerings
- Private placements
- TSX Venture Exchange and TSX Listings
- Compliance with securities and regulatory requirements
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, Calgary Bar Association
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Black Law Students Association of Canada
Academic Experience
- Summer Student in the Legal Department at the Alberta Energy Regulator, 2023
- Parlee McLaws LLP, Internship with the University of Calgary Common Law in French program, 2023
Languages
Maxine is fluent in French
Representative work
Alaris Equity Partners’ $115.5M Investment in Optimus SBR
BDP acted as counsel to Alaris Equity Partners in connection with its $115.5 investment into Optimus SBR Inc. and Optimus SBR Limited Partnership which closed on November 6, 2025 . Alaris’ investment consists of $85.0 million of preferred equity and $30.5 million of common equity.
Royalty and Infrastructure Sale
Royalty Sale and Infrastructure Sale between Logan, as vendor, and Topaz, as purchaser
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.