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Dubé, Louis-Martin Lavery, de Billy, L.L.P.
(514) 877-2990 lmdube@lavery.ca
Mr. Dubé is a partner with an extensive experience in real estate law acquired
with Canadian national law firms and a global financial institution. He advises
and represents property owners, developers, pension funds, asset managers,
lenders, and tenants in a wide range of real estate transactions, including
acquisitions, development projects, financing, and leasing.
Drance, Jonathan S. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(604) 631-1361 jdrance@stikeman.com
Mr. Drance specializes in energy law, including energy-related M&A, corpor-
ate finance and project finance. He has participated in transactions involving
major pipelines, related oil and gas facilities, power plants and transmission
lines. He served on the Board of BC Hydro and has chaired its committees.
He writes extensively on energy law, particularly energy project risks and
investment trends.
Doyle, Catherine Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
(416) 863-4160 catherine.doyle@blakes.com
Ms. Doyle regularly advises proponents of infrastructure projects throughout
Canada, including in the transportation, social infrastructure, alternative
energy, power and health-care sectors. She has also represented a wide
variety of financial institutions in the financing of infrastructure assets,
including bond underwriters, institutional investors, and both Canadian
and international banks.
Dorion, Robert Gowling WLG
(514) 392-9506 robert.dorion@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Dorion specializes in business law with an emphasis on corporate com-
mercial law, M&A and tax law. He has developed expertise in corporate
reorganizations, acquisitions, mergers and consolidations, contract negotiat-
ing, public and private financing, and securities. His large clientele includes
public and private companies working in local, national and international
economic sectors.
Doolan, John A. Miller Thomson LLP
(604) 643-1236 jdoolan@millerthomson.com
Mr. Doolan is a partner in the Vancouver real estate group of Miller Thomson
and co-lead of its Aboriginal Law Group. His practice includes acting for Tsaw-
wassen First Nation on the Tsawwassen Mill shopping centre, infrastructure
development and industrial leasing and for a partnership between Tsuut'ina
Nation and a national developer carrying out the development
of 1,200 acres of Nation land.
Dietze, Sterling H. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-3076 sdietze@stikeman.com
Mr. Dietze's domestic and foreign institutional financing and banking
practice extends to PPPs and infrastructure. He advises borrowers and
lenders. His experience embraces infrastructure, project and international
financing transactions.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
Ontario, acts as procurement and commercial lead
for all major provincial public Infrastructure proj-
ects. Government of Ontario agency Metrolinx is
a driver of transit in the province. Created under
the Metrolinx Act, 2006 to improve coordination
and integration of transportation in the Greater
Toronto and Hamilton area, it is undertaking the
largest transportation investment in Ontario's his-
tory and now has more than 200 projects under-
way worth more than $16 billion. Since Metrolinx
set out its transportation plan, e Big Move, in
2008, it has increased weekly GO Transit train
trips by 500% and added more than 12 million
passenger trips a year.
Other Metrolinx transit Infrastructure proj-
ects that have been completed include the Union
Pearson Express (UP Express) train from Union
Station to Pearson Airport and renovations at
Union Station that have enlarged the size of GO
Transit's concourse area. Once the Union Station
upgrades are complete, they will provide "faster
transit through the hub and an improved experi-
ence for the travelling public," says Reynolds. ere
will also be a new underground PATH connection
and a second subway platform.
A successfully completed Toronto Transit
Commission (TTC) project is the six-station,
8.6-kilometre extension of the Line 1 subway
that reaches up to the City of Vaughan in York
Region, north of Toronto. For that project, the
province provided $974 million through the
Move Ontario Trust and the federal government
committed $697 million, while the City of To-
ronto and York Region contributed $904 mil-
lion and $604 million respectively.
One major project currently under construction
is the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit (LRT).
Begun in 2013 and expected to be complete in
2021, the Crosstown is a design-build-finance-
maintain (DBFM) P3 valued at $9.1 billion. It's
"Ontario's first large-scale public Infrastructure
project that requires the developer to ensure local
communities and historically disadvantaged and
equity-seeking groups directly benefit from the in-
vestment," says Anne Marie Aikins, Senior Man-
ager, Media at Metrolinx. e Crosstown's 19-ki-
lometre light rail transit line will run in dedicated
"When you look at what is being
done all over North America,
Toronto is one of the most exciting
jurisdictions to look at in terms
of the potential for transit
infrastructure."
- Sharon Vogel; Singleton
Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
