Kristyn Annis

Kristyn Annis is a Partner in the Energy group at Dentons’ Toronto office, focusing on Energy Law. She specialises in corporate commercial law with a focus on energy and climate change, and works with clients to structure and build resilient energy and infrastructure businesses in the energy transition.

With over two decades of legal experience, she advises on commercial matters and mergers and acquisitions in the energy sector and for private companies in other sectors. Her energy expertise covers all aspects of energy generation with a focus on renewables, transmission and distribution infrastructure development, construction and financing, distributed energy resources, electric-vehicle charging and services agreements, and energy storage.

She also has a background in climate change law, advising on transactions involving environmental-related credits, the voluntary and compliance carbon markets, carbon streaming structures, low-carbon fuel standards, carbon offset regimes, and renewable energy credit regimes. She has served as CEO of a climate change-related start-up and as a senior policy advisor to the Minister of Energy and later the Premier of Ontario.

Kristyn is recognised in Lexpert Special Edition – Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Energy, Infrastructure and Mining, and in The Best Lawyers in Canada for Energy Law. She holds an LLB from the University of Ottawa (2004) and a B.Eng from McGill University (2000).