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Card, Duncan C. Bennett Jones LLP
(416) 777-6446 cardd@bennettjones.com
Mr. Card leads complex infrastructure ventures globally, including intelligent
infrastructure, energy, airports, related complex concession and outsourcing
service transactions and public sector modernization projects. He led the 30
year Bermuda airport redevelopment project, nominated as the world's "Best
Transit Project" for 2018 and which won North America Airport Deal of the
Year for 2017.
Bursey, David W. Bennett Jones LLP
(604) 891-5128 burseyd@bennettjones.com
Mr. Bursey's regulatory practice focuses on natural resource development
and infrastructure, environmental assessment, water resource management
and Aboriginal law. He advises natural resource industry clients, First Nations
and government agencies.
Brown, Darryl J. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-4581 darryl.brown@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Brown's practice focuses on infrastructure, P3 and construction law.
He drafts and negotiates project agreements, construction contracts,
operating agreements and other contracts, and regularly represents
sponsors, operators and design builders.
Brindle, QC, Derek A. Singleton Urquhart Reynolds
Vogel LLP (604) 682-7474 dbrindle@singleton.com
Mr. Brindle has represented clients in construction and commercial litigation
for over four decades and he is now focusing his practice in the area of alter-
nate dispute resolution, acting as a mediator and arbitrator. His training and
expertise are the foundation of his ADR practice as a Construction
and Commercial Mediator.
Bright, Denise D. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-4468 brightd@bennettjones.com
Ms. Bright's practice focuses on corporate debt including secured, cross-
border, syndicated and bilateral credit agreements, bonds and notes across
a variety of industries, including electricity, generation, renewables, LNG,
infrastructure and oil & gas. Her experience includes guarantees, consents,
intercreditor arrangements, project and structured finance. She is called
in Alberta and BC.
Braul, Waldemar Gowling WLG
(403) 298-1039 wally.braul@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Braul is one of Western Canada's most highly regarded energy,
Indigenous law and environmental lawyers. He advises and litigates
on projects including oil & gas production, pipelines, LNG, oil terminals,
marine shipping, shale gas fracking, water, contaminated sites, mines,
Fisheries Act prosecutions and Indigenous law issues. He also holds
a master's degree in urban and regional planning.
been in social Infrastructure, particularly in the
health care space," Romoff says. "We are now
seeing a shi towards large, urban transportation
as the busiest asset class and growth area."
Transit, of course, is key to Infrastructure
planning and development because of population
growth, and critical to the phenomenon known
as "compact development," which dominates
government thinking these days. Compact
development aims for a more efficient use of
land through higher-density development or
redevelopment such as infill or brownfield
projects. e benefits of compact development are
said to include reducing sprawl, reducing the need
for private transportation, encouraging people to
walk, and increasing efficiency in delivering urban
services. "Practically speaking, compact growth
means lower costs on water, sewer, electricity and
roads because these services will traverse shorter
distances," Romoff says. "is means that there are
untapped opportunities in the municipal sphere."
As Catherine Doyle, a partner in Blake,
Cassels & Graydon's Toronto office, points out,
Infrastructure gap reports point to municipal
services as most wanting. "Municipalities can tax
property and impose development charges and
levies, but they can't tax income," she says. "at
has le them hamstrung for a long time, but they're
starting to realize that P3s — especially revenue-
based models — are one way in which they can
begin bridging the gap."
e upshot is that municipalities, which
are receiving many of the benefits of these
projects, are increasingly involved from the
outset. "ey're not only having input into the
project, they are actually participating in the
development," says Sean Muggah, a partner at
Borden Ladner in Vancouver.
Compact development also embraces the
validation of suburbia as a place to live and
work. "What Metrolinx [the Crown agency that
manages and integrates road and public transport
in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe region] is doing,
for example, can be transformative to suburbia
because it envisages point-to-point commuting not
only to and from Toronto but to and from areas
outside Toronto," Doyle says.
As Romoff sees it, Infrastructure can be leveraged
to support compact development. Indeed, much
compact development is possible because smaller
P3 projects are becoming ever more viable. "ere
are some 40 to 80 municipalities working on
downsized P3s, and we're going to see more of
them because we now have the expertise and the
models that are necessary to achieve that," says
David Kauffman, counsel at De Grandpré Chait
LLP in Montréal. "It's a fairly new phenomenon
that's about five years old, and it's being driven by
the federal government encouraging provinces,
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