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Stuber, Ron Dentons Canada LLP
(604) 443-7129 ron.stuber@dentons.com
Mr. Stuber is the National Co-Lead of the Firm's Renewable Energy team
in Canada. His practice focuses on the development and financing of do-
mestic and international infrastructure and energy projects, and extends to
hospitals, roads, rail, ports, power and gas (LNG). He advises proponents,
lenders and others.
Story, Craig A. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(403) 266-9098 cstory@stikeman.com
Mr. Story is a partner in Stikeman Elliott's Corporate Group. His practice
focuses on the areas of corporate finance and securities, private equity
and M&A. He routinely advises issuers, major investors and underwriters
in both the public and exempt markets, focusing in the areas of PE financing,
including fund formation, fund investments/divestitures and portfolio
company activities.
Stenger, Geoff Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3642 stengerg@bennettjones.com
Mr. Stenger's practice is focused on project development, energy, infrastruc-
ture and construction law. He acts for owners and contractors on a variety
of commercial matters relating to structuring, delivery and execution
of projects, both in Canada and internationally.
Stefaniuk, John D. Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP
(204) 934-2597 jds@tdslaw.com
Mr. Stefaniuk engages in a broad practice in energy, mining, natural re-
sources and environmental law, property and project development, and
government relations. He has particular experience in resource development,
permitting and licensing, power sales, wind farms, regulatory approvals,
agreements with government, mineral tenure, Indigenous consultation,
negotiation, closure and rehabilitation.
Squibb, Bradley G. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(403) 266-9079 bsquibb@stikeman.com
Mr. Squibb is a partner in the Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
Group in the Calgary office. His practice focuses on securities, corporate
finance, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance and securities regula-
tory compliance matters. He acts for public and private issuers and invest-
ment dealers on a range of transactional matters.
Spitznagel, QC, Perry Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3153 spitznagelp@bennettjones.com
Mr. Spitznagel is vice-chairman and former Managing Partner of the Calgary
office. He has extensive national and cross-border experience in a broad
range of corporate matters and has acted for clients in some of the largest
transactions in Canada, including many of Canada's and North America's
largest national and cross-border mergers
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
e Project will predominantly cross Crown
land, with approximately 30 per cent of the lands
being privately owned.
Availability payments will be paid on a
monthly basis from the AESO, and will be
made up of non-indexed capital payments,
O&M Payments that cover indexed life-cycle
costs and insurance payments.
e deal represented the largest P3 bond trans-
action in Canadian history.
Bennett Jones LLP acted for Alberta Power-
Line, the project entity, as well as for Canadian
Utilities Limited as equity investor, and ATCO
Electric Ltd., the operating and maintenance con-
tractor and construction contractor co-venturer.
e Bennett Jones team included John Craig,
Mark Kortbeek, Paul Blundy, Loyola Keough,
Shawn Munro, Deirdre Sheehan, William Os-
ler, Peter Westcott, Paul Barbeau, Denise Bright,
omas McInerney, Brian Reid, Artem Barsu-
kov, Michael DeFaria, Patrick Daley, Elyse van
Spronsen and Kate Devlin.
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP repre-
sented the AESO with a team. e NRF team in-
cluded David Eeles, and Richard Borden, Jenni-
fer Kennedy, Lincoln Mitchell and Iwan Davies.
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (Van-
couver) was counsel to Quanta Services and Va-
lard Construction. e Fasken team included
David Little and Marcus Turner.
Torys LLP represented the underwriters,
CIBC and RBC. e Torys team included Dan
Ford, Milosz Zemanek, Andrew Beck, David
Mattingly and Dan Doubilet.
ATLANTIC POWER
COMPLETES $115M
DEBENTURE OFFERING
On January 29, 2018, Atlantic Power Corp.
(NYSE: AT) (TSX: ATP) completed an offer-
ing on a bought-deal basis of $100-million aggre-
gate principal amount of 6-per-cent convertible
unsecured subordinated debentures due Janu-
ary 31, 2025, at a price of $1,000 per debenture.
e offering was underwritten by a syndicate of
underwriters led by RBC Capital Markets and
including National Bank Financial Markets, TD
Securities, BMO Capital Markets, Industrial Al-
liance Securities Inc., CIBC Capital Markets,
Scotiabank and MUFG.
On February 2, 2018, Atlantic Power closed
the sale of an additional $15-million aggregate
principal amount of such debentures, represent-
ing the full exercise of the underwriters' over-al-
lotment option.
Atlantic Power was represented in-house by
Jeff Levy and Jarvis Coffin and externally in
Canada by Goodmans LLP, with a team that in-
cluded Bill Gorman, Emily Ting, Dennis Beker
