Chuck Kraus

Cross-border corporate lawyer for Alberta and Texas: capital markets, M&A, and governance

Licensed in: Minnesota, Texas, Canada

About

I'm a corporate attorney with 25 years of practice, bar admissions in Texas, Minnesota, and Alberta, and three tours as General Counsel of public companies, two Calgary-based dual-listed energy companies (NYSE/TSX), and DIRTT Environmental Solutions (TSX: DRT), a technology-driven prefabricated construction firm. Today I serve as Outside General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to Greenfire Resources (NYSE/TSX: GFR), a public energy company. I've built legal departments from scratch, managed teams of more than 30 people across three departments, and negotiated transactions on both sides of the U.S.–Canada border. Today I'm a partner at Scale LLP, a national law firm of 80+ attorneys founded by former tech company General Counsels. My office is on Bridge Street in Granbury, Texas, and my clients are everywhere from Hood County to Fort McMurray, and beyond.

Practice Areas

General Corporate > Corp GovernanceSecurities > Private PlacementsGeneral CorporateM&A Law

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Services

Texas Entity Formation
DExit is real. Contact me to learn more about the benefits of forming your next venture in Texas.
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Business Succession Planning
Handing off a business can be harder than selling it. An M&A deal has a buyer, a price and a closing date. Succession has none of those. It mixes governance with estate planning, and it means balancing your own need to let go with the next generation's need to lead. I help owners and their families get there in a way that protects the business and keeps the family together. That includes who gets ownership and who gets control (often not the same people) boards and family governance.
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Work

SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
DIRTT
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
EVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Bellatrix Exploration Ltd.
Sep 2014 - Mar 2020
VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Lone Pine Resources
Sep 2011 - Sep 2014

Education

Mitchell Hamline School of Law
J.D. • 2001
University of Northwestern - St. Paul
Bachelor of Arts - Social Science • 1998