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PROJECT FINANCE T F PROJECT FINANCE Mark W.S. Bain Head of Torys' Public-Private Partnerships Practice and co-head of the firm's Infrastructure and Energy Practice. Acted on more than 50 major P3 and AFP transactions and related project financings. Recent mandates include the $2.1-billion Ottawa LRT project, the $1.4-billion Windsor Essex Parkway project, the $100-million SRO Renewal Initiative, the $759-million Niagara Health System project, the $460-million Women's College Hospital project, and the $1-billion bond financing for the federal government's Long Term Accommodation project. Consistently recognized as one of Canada's leading infrastructure, P3 and project finance lawyers in various publications, including The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Chambers & Partners, Law Business Research, and Legal Media Group/Euromoney. Director, Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships, Canadian Council for the International Project Finance Association. Ontario Bar, 1989. LLM, 2000, Osgoode Hall Law School. LLB, 1987, University of Western Ontario. BA (Honors), 1984, University of Toronto. Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7349 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto T F mbain@torys.com Robert T. Bauer Head of the firm's commercial real estate and infrastructure groups. Principal focus is real estate development, joint venture and financing work and public/private partnerships, with an emphasis on infrastructure and development projects, including technology parks, casino complexes, transportation projects, urban revitalization, water treatment plants, trade centers, hospitals, office buildings and mixed-use projects. Identified by Chambers & Partners as one of the top-ranked lawyers in Canada for both PPP and real estate development, and by Expert Guides' The Best of the Best as one of the top 25 real estate development lawyers in the world. Recognized as a most frequently recommended property development practitioner and a repeatedly recommended project finance practitioner in The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory. Listed in Who's Who Legal as a foremost real estate legal practitioner. Also listed in The Best Lawyers in Canada, IFLR1000 and PLC Which Lawyer? Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating (AV). AB, Harvard (1969); LLB, University of Toronto (1974). Called to Ontario Bar in 1976. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5552 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto T F rbauer@dwpv.com Chris Bennett McMillan LLP Chris Bennett is a partner in McMillan LLP's Projects Group and its Financial Services Group. His practice is focused on financial services with an emphasis on project finance, public-private partnerships, structured finance and asset-based lending. Bennett has acted for equity sponsors, arrangers, domestic and international lenders, financial advisors and other participants in connection with many major Canadian infrastructure projects in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, justice, transportation and national defense. Bennett is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law where he teaches a course on the Law and Policy of Public Private Partnerships in Canada. Bennett has been ranked as a leading lawyer in the project finance/public-private partnerships area in a number of international legal publications and directories. Tel: (416) 865-7858 Fax: (416) 865-7048 Toronto chris.bennett@mcmillan.ca 124 | LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca D-00-Bios.indd 124 13-05-16 1:57 PM T F