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Turcotte, Maxime Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-2421 mturcotte@stikeman.com
Mr. Turcotte specializes in providing corporate and securities law advice
(often with a cross-border or international component) in the context of
public and private M&A, corporate finance transactions and major energy
and infrastructure projects. He is a lecturer in public M&A at the Faculty
of Law, Université de Montréal.
Tremblay, Richard G. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-6441 rtremblay@osler.com
Mr. Tremblay focuses on corporate taxation, with an emphasis on international
taxation (foreign affiliates, tax treaties and transfer pricing), as well as
on the resolution of disputes with Canadian federal and provincial
revenue authorities.
Torrey, John W. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(416) 865-4394 jtorrey@fasken.com
Mr. Torrey has extensive expertise in the area of secured lending transactions.
He acts regularly for both lenders and borrowers in bilateral and syndicated,
secured and unsecured financings. He has particular expertise in acquisition
and project financings. His project finance expertise includes financings
involving mines, casinos and hotels and other real estate developments.
Tod, QC, Brian W.L. Miller Thomson LLP
(780) 429-9723 btod@millerthomson.com
Mr. Tod has expertise in business law, including corporate law, mergers &
acquisitions, reorganizations, contracts, contract negotiation and commercial
real estate. He has lectured for the LSA Bar Admission Course, the CBA Alberta
Branch, the Legal Education Society of Alberta and the Edmonton Real Estate
Multiple Listing Board on real estate law, corporate law and business law.
Thornton, Robert I. Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP
(416) 304-0560 rthornton@tgf.ca
Mr. Thornton, an IIC member, is recognized by Chambers Global as a Band
1 Leading Individual in Restructuring. He has been described as "a leading
light," "one of the most innovative in the field" and "pound for pound one
of the top lawyers in town."
Thivierge, Manon Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(514) 904-8198 mthivierge@osler.com
Ms. Thivierge focuses her practice on domestic and cross-border corporate
income tax law, with particular emphasis on the taxation of mergers &
acquisitions, financings and corporate reorganizations as well as on personal
tax and estate planning. She is the author of numerous publications on income
tax matters, and frequently speaks on this subject.
LEXPERT RANKED LAWYERS
distribution network. e common shares of Hydro
One are listed on the TSX under the symbol "H."
Hydro One was represented by Osler, Hoskin
& Harcourt LLP with a team that included Steven
Smith, Michael Innes, Desmond Lee, Brian Gray,
Amelia Miao, Lauren Lefcoe and Rebecca Wainstein
(corporate), Andrew MacDougall, John Valley and Jus-
tin Dharamdial (corporate governance), Patrick Marley
and Amanda Heale (tax), Heather McKean, Danna
Donald and Joshua Lam (banking and financial ser-
vices) and Richard Wong (energy and infrastructure).
McCarthy Tétrault LLP represented Hydro One on
labour and employment matters with a team of Paul
Boniferro, Ben Ratelband and Melissa Kennedy.
e Province of Ontario was represented in-house
by the Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG) Civil
Law Division and by Torys LLP with a team that in-
cluded Sharon Geraghty, Glen Johnson, Aaron Emes,
Konata Lake, Leah Frank, Miranda Callaghan, Ad-
die Buhr, Jordan Fenton, Henry Ren, Min Kim and
Brian Unger (corporate/securities), Andy Beck (US
securities), Charles Keizer and Jonathan Myers (energy
regulatory), Jerald Wortsman (tax), Richard Balfour
(governance), Bill Estey (research), Amanda Balasub-
ramanian and Nina Mansoori (lending), David Steele
(trust), Don Roger and Sarah Crowe (real estate).
e underwriters were represented in Canada by
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP with a team that in-
cluded Brendan Reay, Michael Gans, Richard Turner,
Tim Phillips, Alison Desipio, Joe Zed and Georgia
Brown (securities), and Kathleen Penny and Chris Van
Loan (tax); and in the US by Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP with a team led by Riccardo
Leofanti that included Colin Brown.
BRUCE POWER TO SPEND
$13B TO EXTEND THE OPERATING
LIFE OF ITS FACILITY TO 2064
CLOSING DATE: DECEMBER 3, 2015
On December 3, 2015, Bruce Power L.P. (Bruce Pow-
er) and the Independent Electricity System Operator
(the IESO) entered into the Amended and Restated
Bruce Power Refurbishment Implementation Agree-
ment (the ARBPRIA) to extend the operating life of
the Bruce Power facility to 2064. e deal will secure
6,300 megawatts of electricity from the Bruce A and B
Nuclear Generation Stations operated by Bruce Power
and owned by Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG),
through a multi-year $13-billion investment program
that will result in the refurbishment and life extension
of six of the eight nuclear reactors at the site.
When Bruce Power brought Units 1 and 2 back into
operation in 2012 aer completion of those Units' re-
furbishment, the site became the largest operating nu-
clear facility in the world.
Bruce Power currently generates over 30 per cent of
Ontario's electricity from the site, and the restart of
Units 1 to 4 was one of the significant contributors to
Ontario's ability to be the first North American juris-
