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We help clients realize their vision in developing major projects through strategic and business-focused legal advice. Our team has acted on transformative, complex and highly innovative public-private infrastructure projects across Canada and internationally, including power, oil and gas, pipeline, utilities, nuclear power facilities, telecommunication, health care, education, roads, airports, public transportation, and a range of "smart city" facilities.

Our value to clients includes:

  • Practical deal-making approach – Complex projects create impacts to communities and relationships between parties, often for decades. We apply a long-term view to develop structures that account for commercial realities and business objectives.
  • National and international experience – Clients benefit from our perspective on documentation and prevailing risk allocation models, across Canada and internationally.
  • Understanding the deal – Our experience with private consortia, design-builders, project sponsors, financiers, service providers and First Nations partners gives us perspective on key issues and negotiating points in any complex deal, and lets us integrate seamlessly with other service providers and consultants.
  • Project finance breadth – Advising on the full range of financing models – lending, bank/bond deals, capital markets financing, private equity investments, capital swaps, monetizations, and more – has enabled us to influence many of the structures in use in Canada today, including several “firsts” in the market.

Our service to clients is complemented by related expertise in public procurement, governmental affairs, regulatory matters, First Nations consultations, construction and environmental law, among others.

Public-Private Partnerships

As one of the first firms to advise on the P3 and AFP structures in Canada, and with an active international practice, our team is on the leading edge of current and emerging transaction models. We have advised governments and related agencies, bidding consortia and financiers with respect to procurement, project agreements, project finance, design-build issues, EPC and EPCM, DBFM and environmental compliance in relation to healthcare, transportation, power transmission, government services and technology infrastructure projects.

Key Contacts

  • Jane  Bird Jane Bird, Senior Business Advisor
  • Charlene  Hiller Charlene Hiller, Partner
  • David W. Little David W. Little, Partner
  • Thomas W. McInerney Thomas W. McInerney, Partner
  • Jason D. Roth Jason D. Roth, Partner
  • Lawrence (Laurie) E. Smith KC Lawrence (Laurie) E. Smith KC, Partner
  • Geoffrey P. Stenger Geoffrey P. Stenger, Partner
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Recent Experience

The Government of Nunavut, in the procurement of new facilities at the Iqaluit International Airport under a public-private partnership model.
Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, in the ongoing development and redevelopment of approximately 300 hectares of parks and public spaces along Toronto’s waterfront.
EllisDon Corporation, in the $44.9-million alternative financing and procurement transaction involving the redevelopment of the Hamilton General Hospital campus of Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation.
Deerfoot Meadows Overpass Project, in negotiating construction, use and funding agreements with the Province of Alberta and the City of Calgary.
Montreal International Fuel Facilities Corporation, in the construction of a marine terminal.
The Government of Bermuda, in the L.F. Wade International Airport redevelopment project.
Capital Regional District, in the governance, development and execution of its Wastewater Treatment Project.
PavCo Development Projects, in the purchase, rezoning, subdivision, permitting and construction of the Vancouver Convention Expansion Project.
Ice District Development, in the construction and financing of the urban redevelopment project in Edmonton, Alberta, involving a mix of residential, commercial, office, hotel, retail and public spaces.
PortsToronto, in the development and construction of the pedestrian tunnel connecting Billy Bishop Airport.

Recent Recognition

The Legal 500: Canada
Ranked, Infrastructure and Projects
P3 Awards 2018
Winner, Awarded Silver for Best Transit Project for L.F. Wade International Airport Redevelopment Project
Winner, Awarded Gold for Best Financial Structure on Alberta Powerline - Fort McMurray West 500 kv Transmission Project
Top 100 Canada's Biggest Infrastructure Deals
Involvement in 3 of top 100 projects

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