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Wortley, Stephen D. McMillan LLP
(604) 691-7457 stephen.wortley@mcmillan.ca
Mr. Wortley is Co-chair for the China Practice Group and Public M&As.
His practice focuses on securities and corporate matters. His experience
includes national and international prospectus offerings and advising both
SOEs and SMEs. He has spoken extensively about Hong Kong Stock Exchange
listings by Canadian firms and on alternative investment structures
in the Canadian mining industry.
Wong, Richard G.C. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-6467 rwong@osler.com
Mr. Wong is Co-chair of the Construction & Infrastructure group, and as a
"front-end" solicitor advises owners and contractors in the construction,
PPP/infrastructure, energy, mining and healthcare sectors. Mr. Wong
created an Infrastructure Primer Series as an Executive of the Ontario Bar
Association's Construction Section and is on the faculty of the Osgoode
Certificate of Construction Law.
Wong, Lilly A. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-4630 lilly.wong@gowlingwlg.com
Ms. Wong is a senior practitioner specializing in the financial services and
insolvency and restructuring areas. She has led many infrastructure and
energy project finance loans and a wide range of other types of domestic
and international loans.
Wise, Howard M. Goodmans LLP
(416) 597-4281 hwise@goodmans.ca
Mr. Wise's practice includes trial and appellate work as well as mediation
and arbitration of construction disputes. He also advises on P3, DBFM and
EPC contracts. He regularly acts for owners, contractors and sub-contractors.
Author of the Manual of Construction Law and co-author of Construction,
Builders' & Mechanics' Liens in Canada (7th ed.), Carswell. Certified
Specialist in Construction law.
Wilson, Paul C. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(604) 631-4748 pwilson@fasken.com
Mr. Wilson works on infrastructure, energy and natural resource projects.
He currently advises on LNG-related infrastructure projects in northern
BC regarding project development approvals, infrastructure agreements
with senior governments, project financing, First Nations agreements
and contracting. He is also involved in rail, port and transportation
projects to expand Canada's Pacific Gateway.
Willis, Peter A. McMillan LLP
(416) 865-7210 peter.willis@mcmillan.ca
Mr. Willis is the Co-chair of the firm's Project Finance, Infrastructure and
Energy Group. Mr. Willis' finance practice emphasizes P3s, infrastructure,
project finance, structured finance and high-yield lending. He has extensive
experience advising consortia, arrangers, lenders and other participants
in the P3 sector, and developers and equity participants connected
to renewable energy projects.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
White & Case LLP acted for Quiport vis-a-vis the lenders
that provided debt financing for the construction of the Air-
port (the Project Lenders) with a team led by Hank Amon and
which also included Jonathan Hamilton and Valerie Portillo.
Allen & Overy acted for the Project Lenders with a team
led by Sami Mir and which also included Jessica Hurtado and
Molly Watters.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP acted for Itau.
Holland & Knight acted for Banco Santander, which also pro-
vided capital to Odinsa.
Local counsel for Aecon and ADC included Pérez,
Bustamante & Ponce in Ecuador, Posadas, Posadas & Veci-
no in Uruguay, Appleby Global in the British Virgin Islands
and BCF in Barbados.
Local counsel for Odinsa included Pérez, Bustamante
& Ponce in Ecuador, Sanguinetti & Asociados in Uruguay,
Walkers Global in the British Virgin Islands and LEX Carib-
bean in Barbados.
Local counsel for CCR included Garrigues in Colombia,
Guyer & Regules in Uruguay and Conyers Dill & Pearman in
the British Virgin Islands.
SASKATCHEWAN HOSPITAL
NORTH BATTLEFORD PROJECT
REACHES FINANCIAL CLOSE
e Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford Project reached
financial close on August 27, 2015, when Access Prairies Part-
nership (APP) entered into a Project Agreement with the
Province of Saskatchewan (Province) for an integrated mental
health hospital and correctional facility.
e project, which has a development value of $407 million,
is a design, build, finance and maintain P3 for a 188-bed mental
health hospital and an adjoining 96-room correctional facility.
e project will replace the existing Saskatchewan Hospital
North Battleford.
e Project Agreement requires APP to design, build
and partially finance the facility as well as provide facilities
maintenance ser vices for a period of 30 years from ser vice
commencement.
Access Prairies Partnership's team members include the
following: Gracorp Capital Partners LP and Carillion Private
Finance Limited, along with a joint venture formed by Graham
Design Builders LP and Carillion Construction Inc., providing
construction services, and AP Services Limited Partnership,
an entity owned by Carillion Canada Inc. and Graham Design
Builders LP, as service provider.
Approximately $180 million of bonds, underwritten by
National Bank Financial and TD Securities, provided the debt
financing for the project.
e Province, through their P3 agency SaskBuilds Corpo-
ration, was represented by Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP, with
a team comprising Greg Lewis, Jay LeMoine, Matt Mulligan,
Keith Bustard, Jenya Hammond and Alexander Baer.
APP was represented by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP,
with a team comprising Mark Johnson, Catherine Doyle, Jeff
Merrick, Andrew Gordon, J.P. Bogden, Tim Andison, Joe Zed,
David Mender, Matthew Mundy and Tamara Nachmani.
Graham was represented by Daniel Killick, legal counsel at
Graham Group Ltd.
