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Kelsall, Brian C. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(416) 865-5493 bkelsall@fasken.com
Mr. Kelsall's practice is focused on project finance and development,
infrastructure, public-private partnerships and banking. He has considerable
experience in infrastructure development and finance, spanning Canada, the
US and emerging markets. Projects include Gordie Howe Bridge, UC Merced
Campus Redevelopment, Pennsylvania Bridges, Eglinton LRT and Mackenzie
Vaughan Hospital.
Karayannides, George J. Clyde & Co Canada LLP
(647) 789-4831 george.karayannides@clydeco.ca
Mr. Karayannides' commercial litigation and arbitration (domestic and
international) practice embraces a wide range of complex and high-stakes
business disputes, including infrastructure and construction, shareholder
remedies, product liability and class actions. He regularly works with foreign
counsel on cross-border issues and disputes.
Junger, Robin M. McMillan LLP
(778) 329-7523 robin.junger@mcmillan.ca
Mr. Junger advises clients on environmental, Aboriginal and regulatory matters,
and has helped proponents of energy, infrastructure and other major projects
secure a range of approvals. He previously served as BC's Deputy Minister of
Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources, Chair of the BC Oil & Gas Commission,
head of the BC Environmental Assessment Office and a Provincial Chief
Treaty Negotiator.
Johnson, Mark Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
(416) 863-3318 mark.johnson@blakes.com
Mr. Johnson's practice focuses primarily on major power, infrastructure and
public-private partnership projects, and related joint ventures, investments,
acquisitions and dispositions. He has led significant transactions in a variety of
industry sectors and asset classes, including social and defence infrastructure,
transportation, nuclear, renewables, manufacturing and telecommunications.
Jenkins, William K. Dentons Canada LLP
(403) 268-6835 bill.jenkins@dentons.com
Mr. Jenkins is Co-lead of Dentons' Banking & Financial Services practice
group in Calgary and has a diverse transaction-based practice advising on
the structuring and implementation of debt and equity financings, project
financings, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He has experience
advising financial institutions on issues relating to lending practices and capital
markets compliance.
Jacquin, Maxime Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-2444 mjacquin@stikeman.com
Mr. Jacquin is a partner in the Corporate Group. His practice focuses primarily
on banking, project finance, P3 and infrastructure & energy M&A. He also
has extensive experience in the energy industry, in particular with respect
to renewable energy.
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Samantha Cunliffe of McCarthy Tétrault LLP
in Vancouver. In this model a single contractor
with design, construction and facilities manage-
ment expertise funds, designs and builds the
project and then operates it for a period of time.
e project is then leased to the client over an
agreed number of years.
Creating
community equity
In June, when Canadian Utilities Limited (CU)
and its partner Quanta Services Inc. sold its in-
terest in Alberta PowerLine (APL) - the design-
builder of the Fort McMurray West 500-kV
Transmission Project - CU offered an opportu-
nity for Indigenous communities along the trans-
mission line route to obtain up to a 40-per-cent
equity interest in APL. "is model will provide
a long-term stable investment and further enable
economic development in the local communities,"
CU said in a press release.
e final ownership mix of APL will be deter-
mined upon close of the purchase option for Indig-
enous communities, says Blundy. "It's an opportu-
nity for them for a high-returning equity" on the
powerline that runs through their communities.
Bain also describes the 97-kilometre Tlicho
All-Season Road (TASR) project in the North-
west Territories that will improve urban access
for members of the Whatì, Gamètì and Wekweètì
communities, which have relied on a winter ice
road to leave the region -- made all theharder with
climate change shortening the winter season.
A plan was developed to build an all-season
gravel road, which would give residents year-
round access to other destinations in the North-
west Territories and Alberta, and provide access
to mines to the north. e First Nations piece of
the project is multifold, says Bain -- whose firm
acted for the government of the Northwest Ter-
ritories in the deal – including creating local
jobs, obligations to hire local trades, and eco-
nomic participation requirements
"e [Whati] First Nations community was
allowed to invest up to 20 per cent equity in the
project; they are partners, so they share in all the
ups and downs in the project," says Bain.
"at, I think, is a bellwether [for] things that
you'll see coming along. … Trans Mountain,
every [infrastructure project] that goes ahead,
there's clearly a strong desire to have some indig-
enous participation – not just to accommodate
the project, but to have some economic partici-
pation in the project.
"I'm not an optimist generally," he says, "but I'm
certainly an optimist in [the infrastructure] space.
We've got a good thing going, and I think there's
more to come."
