At least Brock Gibson didn’t have to spend Christmas Day with the lawyers from Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer.

Like many lawyers in oil-rich, deal-happy Calgary, Gibson-a partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon-has learned not to take holidays for granted. But last December, even by the standards of Calgary’s insular legal community, he was spending a lot of time with opposing counsel from Burnet. The firms were working on opposite sides of two simultaneous, multibillion-dollar deals.

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