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PROJECT FINANCE Daniel A. Ford Partner in Torys' Infrastructure and Energy Practice. Practice focuses on public infrastructure projects, project finance and financial services matters. Has experience representing sponsors, lenders, governmental authorities, borrowers and developers on a broad range of a number of public infrastructure development, servicing, operation and financing transactions, including PPP and AFP. Has also acted in a number of commercial construction and project development transactions. Extensive commercial lending experience, acting for both lenders and borrowers in structured finance transactions, syndicated/club loans, bond and note financings, and asset-based lending structures. Has also acted on the solicitor side of insolvency and restructuring matters. Has advised on corporate and partnership formation transactions, asset and share acquisitions and dispositions and commercial real property matters. Recognized as a leading Canadian lawyer in banking and finance and PPP and infrastructure by Chambers & Partners and Legal Media Group. LLB, 1987, University of Ottawa. Ontario Bar, 1989. Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7372 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto dford@torys.com Brian C. Kelsall Specializes in international and domestic corporate project finance with an emphasis on public-private partnerships and infrastructure development. Advises on Canadian infrastructure, energy, mining, oil/gas and power projects. Extensive experience in banking law, securitization and M&A. Advised lenders on Infrastructure Ontario's Windsor Essex Highway transactions and on the Alberta Schools and Disraeli Bridge PPP projects. Advised the federal government on its Communications Security Establishment Canada Long Term Accommodation Project. Recognized by The Legal 500 (UK), International Who's Who of Project Finance Lawyers, Legal Business Legal Expert Report, The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory, The Lexpert ®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Best Lawyers in Canada, Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers, The Best of the Best and International Financial Law Review. Co-author of Canadian Encyclopedic Digest and Bills of Exchange. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1982, Alberta Bar in 1985 and Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales in 2005. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Tel: (416) 865-5493 Fax: (416) 364-7813 Toronto bkelsall@fasken.com S. Paul Mantini Practices commercial real estate, financing (lending and secured transactions), infrastructure and gaming law. Involved with development and financing of many landmark projects, including Toronto Eaton Centre, TD Centre, Brookfield Place, First Canadian Place, Royal Bank Plaza, Bay-Adelaide Centre, Fifth Avenue Place, Exchange Tower, Casino Rama and Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort. Involved in many innovative transactions, including first guarantee by a Canadian pension fund of a debt issue; first public issue by a real estate co-tenancy; first public issue of participating mortgage bonds; crossborder securitization of property and mortgage pools; and creation of public and private REIT funds. Recognized by Euromoney, Woodward White's The Best Lawyers in Canada and Financial Post's Best Lawyers in Canada as a leading real estate and project finance lawyer. Recognized in International Who's Who of Real Estate Lawyers and Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business. Awarded MartindaleHubbell's AV rating, signifying the highest level of professional excellence. Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (416) 777-4837 Fax: (416) 863-1716 Toronto mantinisp@bennettjones.com Carol D. Pennycook Practice includes syndicated loan transactions, infrastructure and project financings, P3 transactions, corporate reorganizations, debt and equity offerings, M&A, derivative products and property development joint ventures. Recent transactions include acting on P3 transactions in Canada and the US for either the project consortium or their lenders; renewable energy transactions, including joint ventures for wind and solar developments and project financing of renewable energy facilities; revolving and term corporate and acquisition credit facilities; and capital markets bond, debenture and MTN offerings in Canada and the US. Member of the Board of Directors of P3 Canada, a federal Crown corporation. Former Chair, Committee for Review of the Commodity Futures Act (Ontario). Recipient of Lexpert®'s 2009 Zenith Award. Lauded as worldclass and national leading lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell, Chambers Global, Euromoney, IFLR1000, PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook and Best Lawyers. Called to Alberta (1981) and Ontario (1985) Bars. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5546 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto cpennycook@dwpv.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 125 D-00-Bios.indd 125 13-05-16 1:58 PM