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Fransen, Aaron Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5231 afransen@stikeman.com
Mr. Fransen is a partner in the Corporate Group and the Project Development
& Finance Group. His practice focuses on project finance of infrastructure
and energy projects in the bond and bank markets. He represents corporate
clients in M&A and other strategic transactions. His clients include banks,
government entities, resource companies, media and telecom companies,
and private equity firms.
Foxcroft, Simon R. Bennett Jones LLP
(780) 945-4756 foxcrofts@bennettjones.com
Mr. Foxcroft has a commercial practice focused on mining and energy pro-
jects. He draws on his experience as senior in-house counsel for Canada's
largest coal mining company to help clients during all the stages of a project,
from planning to production. He also provides advice with respect to occupa-
tional health and safety matters throughout Western Canada.
Ford, R. Andrew Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(514) 397-7547 aford@fasken.com
Mr. Ford's practice focuses on infrastructure projects carried out as P3s,
design build finance or design build projects and other construction projects.
Experienced in representing both public authorities and private consortia
in infrastructure projects, he has been involved in the creation and
implementation of major joint-venture projects involving European,
Asian and local interests.
Ferris, QC, FCIArb, Craig A.B. Lawson Lundell LLP
(604) 631-9197 cferris@lawsonlundell.com
Mr. Ferris acts for local, national and international mining, transportation,
construction, power generation and other infrastructure clients in a variety
of disputes including those related to public/private partnership agreements,
transactions and joint ventures. He has appeared at all levels of BC courts,
the Supreme Court of Canada and in private arbitration, both domestic
and international.
Fairey, Peter D. Gowling WLG
(604) 891-2266 peter.fairey@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Fairey has a 38-year diversified corporate/commercial private M&A
practice including PPP across many sectors. His close to 40 PPP mandates
span port, transportation, data, corrections and social/hospital projects.
He also advises on various aspects of energy generation projects.
Emblem, Robert D.G. Clyde & Co Canada LLP
(514) 764-3650 robert.emblem@clydeco.ca
Mr. Emblem specializes in resolving construction disputes on behalf of
construction professionals, contractors and their insurers. He has handled,
defended and settled hundreds of construction claims throughout North
America over the past 25 years. He is also one of Canada's leading experts
in construction insurance.
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of room for improvement. When you compare
the transit grid of the Toronto underground with
other major cities in North America, the need for
further development is obvious."
Another high-profile transit project now un-
derway in the Toronto area is the GO Regional
Express Rail (RER) service, one of e Big Move
rapid transit projects, which will gradually increase
GO train service. Once its electrification program
is complete, it's expected to provide 6,000 weekly
trips by 2025. In March 2017, the federal govern-
ment announced that it will contribute $1.9 billion
of the total estimated $13.5 billion cost, including
as much as 150 kilometres of new track, as well as
new bridges and tunnels.
e GO RER project "involves the conversion
of the GO system from a commuter rail system to a
true regional rail system," says Dana Porter, a Part-
ner in the Real Estate Group at Stikeman Elliott
LLP in Toronto. "At one point they were talking
about electrifying the whole system, now it looks
like it may be just electrification of part of the sys-
tem, probably including the UP Express piece of it
and a bunch of new rolling stock."
"By the time you see holes
in the ground and heavy equipment
moving around and hoarding up,
the work's probably 90% done
in terms of the planning and
the preparation work and the
political work and the agreements."
- Dana Porter;
Stikeman Elliott LLP
