Chris Hahn
Partner • (he/him)
Chris maintains a general corporate/commercial practice, with a specific focus on private mid-market M&A and private credit transactions. Chris advises clients across various industries and sectors, with representative clients that include mid-market operating companies, both private and public, as well as private equity firms and their respective portfolio companies.
Education & Qualifications
- Alberta Bar (2015)
- Saskatchewan Bar (2015)
- JD with great distinction (Saskatchewan, 2014)
- BBA summa cum laude (Maine Business School, 2009)
Languages
- English
More about me
- Counsel to confidential private equity firms on mid-market acquisitions and divestitures principally, or primarily, within Western Canada
- Counsel to Crown Private Credit Partners Inc. on various private credit transactions (both domestic and cross-border)
- Counsel to Federated Co-operatives Limited on its ~$264-million acquisition of 179 Husky-branded retail fuel sites from Cenovus Energy Inc., and the related on-sale of the majority of such retail fuel sites to its independent retail co-operatives
- Counsel to Federated Co-operatives Limited on the $72-million sale of oil and gas assets in Saskatchewan and Alberta to ROK Resources Inc.
- Counsel to Evora Equity Inc. in connection with its acquisition of a health-care business with more than 20 locations across British Columbia and Ontario
- Counsel to minority shareholder on divestiture of interest in an Alberta-based solar power plant project with a capacity of up to 332MWp
Prior to joining the firm as a summer student in 2012, Chris earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Maine in 2009, following which he spent two years playing professional hockey in Berlin, Germany. Chris articled with the firm in Regina in 2014 and relocated to the Calgary office in 2015.
Chris provides the firm’s clients with timely and practical advice on a host of corporate commercial matters across various industries including, financial services, retail, industrial, health-care services and manufacturing.
Chris has considerable private M&A experience acting for both buyers and sellers, most often involving private equity firms acquiring or divesting portfolio companies. Chris also has considerable experience acting for both lenders (private and institutional) and borrowers on commercial lending transactions.
- Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada – Corporate Law (2025)
- College of Law Academic Scholarship (Saskatchewan, 2012-2013)
- MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman Scholarship, Law (Saskatchewan, 2011)
- Hockey East Distinguished Scholar Award (2009)
- Hockey East Conference Top Scholar-Athlete (2007-2008)
- Full Athletic Scholarship (Maine, 2005-2009)
- Presenter, “Directors & Officers Duties and Liability,” Client Seminar (2018 and 2023)
- Presenter, “Organizational Governance and Administrative Law,” Farm Products Council of Canada (2018)