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Bremermann, Eric H. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-6821 ebremermann@stikeman.com
Mr. Bremermann is a partner in the firm's Corporate Group and Co-chair of the
Toronto Energy Group. He advises on public/private infrastructure, renewable
energy and independent power production. He has great transactional and
project development expertise in the infrastructure sector, including its
structuring and financing. His practice has an emphasis on Canadian-European
cross-border issues.
Bourassa, Philippe Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
(514) 982-4061 philippe.bourassa@blakes.com
Mr. Bourassa practises in the area of corporate/M&A in the energy, private
equity and infrastructure/projects sector. He advises public and private
corporations, as well as institutional investors on a broad range of domestic
and international commercial transactions in a variety of industries, including
financial services, investment funds, natural resources, construction, energy
and real estate.
Borsook, Lisa A. WeirFoulds LLP
(416) 947-5003 lborsook@weirfoulds.com
Ms. Borsook acts for corporations, governments and their agencies regarding
their retail, industrial, office and brownfield properties. Consistently
recommended as a leader in infrastructure, property development and leasing,
she has superior expertise in sophisticated real estate development work,
including mixed-use developments, sale-leaseback transactions, and public
private partnerships.
Booth, QC, Robert (Bob) T. Bennett Jones LLP
(403) 298-3252 boothb@bennettjones.com
Mr. Booth's commercial practice focuses on infrastructure for the energy and
resources sectors and the security and defence sectors, serving clients in the
oil & gas, transportation, energy utility and defence industries. He advises on
purchases and sales, business creation and joint ventures.
Bogden, John-Paul Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
(604) 631-3375 jp.bogden@blakes.com
Mr. Bogden's practice is focused on M&A, PE transactions, infrastructure and
projects work. A co-leader of Blakes' private equity group, he has advised on
numerous prominent secondary sale infrastructure transactions as well as on
the equity sponsor aspects of newly-procured infrastructure projects.
Blundy, Paul D. Bennett Jones LLP
(416) 777-4854 blundyp@bennettjones.com
Mr. Blundy has specialized in construction and project finance for more
than 30 years and advises on all forms of construction and project financing
transactions, including P3 public infrastructure delivery. He acts for both
government and private project participants, including debt and equity
investors, underwriters, contractors, designers and service providers
in all sectors.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
over maintenance contracts and a lack of evidence
to justify certain projects going ahead as P3s.
Arguably, however, Lysyk's comments were tak-
en out of context by critics and many media out-
lets. "What the Auditor General said was that if
the Ontario government could deliver its projects
on time and on budget on its own, it would have
saved $8 billion," Romoff says. "But governments
have shown they can't do that, and that's why you
need P3s — in fact, the same report praised In-
frastructure Ontario for its accomplishments as a
world leader."
Murphy agrees that Lysyk's criticisms had little
effect, politically or otherwise. "ere was some
backlash, but that subsided when the TD Bank
and others issued scathing assessments of the re-
port, describing it as an inaccurate summary of
what's actually going on," he says.
e point, Romoff argues, is that P3s get into
trouble when they're regarded as panaceas, pro-
ceeding without the value-for-money screen used
by IO. "at's what happened in the United King-
dom, where the country has paid a price for the
mandated use of P3s across the board, making it
very difficult for the program to get traction going
forward," he says. "But Canada has done much bet-
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