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Barkin, Ira S. Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-4112 ibarkin@goodmans.ca
Mr. Barkin's real estate practice includes clean energy land development
and financing. He has represented Enwave in its acquisition of the assets of
Veresen Inc.'s London, Ontario and Prince Edward Island district energy busi-
nesses, Brookfield in its acquisition of Enwave and Atlantic Power in various
acquisitions and financings.
Barichello, QC, Enzo J. Bennett Jones LLP
(780) 917-4269 barichelloe@bennettjones.com
Mr. Barichello, Managing Partner of the Bennett Jones Edmonton office and
co-head of the Government Affairs and Public Policy practice, acts in com-
mercial electrical power and gas transactions, mergers, and acquisitions
with a focus on transactions in the pharmaceutical sector, forestry purchase
and sale transactions, major commercial leases, and major commercial
and financing transactions.
Bakshi, Vivek Dentons Canada LLP
(416) 863-4658 vivek.bakshi@dentons.com
Mr. Bakshi represents clients in the energy, natural resources and infrastruc-
ture sectors. He specializes in the structuring, negotiation and documenta-
tion of natural resource projects and related financings, and in domestic and
cross-border mergers & acquisitions in the oil, gas, water and power sectors.
Baines, Simon C. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(403) 260-7010 sbaines@osler.com
Mr. Baines counsels on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters,
focused primarily in the oil & gas, renewable energy and technology indus-
tries. His practice is specifically focused on complex commercial matters
both in the upstream and downstream industry; offshore exploration and
development; and the acquisition, disposition and development of renewable
energy projects.
Backman, QC, Philip D. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3366 backmanp@bennettjones.com
Mr. Backman acts for borrowers and lenders involved in syndicated credit
agreements, project financings, public & private debt issues, cross-border
financings, leveraged loans, and debt restructurings in oil & gas, oil sands,
utilities and pipelines. He has acted on some of the largest project financings
in Canada, including the $7.5-billion North West Redwater refinery financing.
Aycan, Nurhan Gowling WLG
(416) 814-5691 nurhan.aycan@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Aycan is a member of Gowling WLG's Business Law Group. He has over 25
years of experience in Canadian and international corporate and commercial
matters, with a focus on public and private company M&A and corporate
finance. As a former general counsel of a multinational consumer goods
business, he provides unique solutions for his clients. He is also the head
of Gowling WLG's Turkish desk.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
gives them plenty of work.
"Complicated regulatory regimes are how
I earn my living," says Toronto lawyer Adam
Chamberlain with a bit of a laugh. A Partner in
Gowling WLG's Toronto office, Chamberlain
specializes in environmental law. He's worked
as counsel on electrical infrastructure matters in
a variety of jurisdictions, including Ontario, Al-
berta, Nunavut and the Yukon. "It can be tricky
as a lawyer to keep on top of all the jurisdictions.
But for people like me who are kind of regulatory
geeks, it's also very interesting."
In the two-plus decades Chamberlain has been
practising, he's seen plenty of change in electricity
market generation and regulation across Canada.
at's particularly so in Alberta and Ontario; the
two provinces where Crown corporations do not
completely own the game, where there are vary-
ing degrees of market competition, and where the
regulatory regimes most contrast with each other
and the other provinces and territories.
Electrical generation in Canada, soon aer
1881 when a steam-driven generator in Toronto
lit up arc lamps around — what else — a hockey
rink, had been the exclusive purview of provincial
monopolies for much of our history.
One of the world's first integrated public elec-
trical utilities was the Hydro-Electric Power
Commission of Ontario, founded in 1906, and
renamed Ontario Hydro in 1974.
But about 20 years ago, notes Chamberlain, the
provincial government started to break up one of
North America's largest electric monopolies, the
Ontario Hydro electricity monopoly.
at process accelerated when the Ontario
government introduced the Green Energy Act
in 2009. Under that Act, Ontario committed
to eliminating coal-generated electricity, which
provided 25 per cent of the province's electrical
power. It shut down the last coal-powered plant
in 2014. Meanwhile, Ontario's Independent
Electricity System Operator (IESO), responsible
for electric supply procurement, sought out pri-
vate companies to replace the provincially owned
coal plants with cleaner natural gas and renew-
able resources such as wind and solar.
With the Green Energy Act's introduction in
2009, Chamberlain says, "at really got Ontario
going in terms of wind and solar and biomass gen-
"We need predictability, certainty
and a reasonable expectation
of reaching decisions. It is really
important for investment."
- DAVID BURSEY, BENNETT JONES LLP
