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Beavis, Merie-Anne E. Gowling WLG
(416) 814-5631 merie-anne.beavis@gowlingwlg.com
Ms. Beavis is a partner in Gowling WLG's Toronto office. She acts for public-
and private-sector participants and lenders in a variety of projects including
P3s, mine and electricity projects. She is ranked repeatedly in The Canadian
Legal Lexpert Directory, Who's Who Legal: Canada and The Best Lawyers
in Canada.
Beaumont, D. Robert Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-5861 rbeaumont@osler.com
Mr. Beaumont, also a professional engineer, focuses on infrastructure, P3,
construction and procurement law. His clients include owners, developers,
contractors and lenders. His infrastructure experience embraces power and
transportation facilities.
Beaudin, Patrice McMillan LLP
(514) 987-5006 patrice.beaudin@mcmillan.ca
Mr. Beaudin's practice focuses on corporate finance. He acts for both lenders
and borrowers in a variety of debt financings. Recent transactions include
acting for a publicly traded company and its subsidiaries in connection with
aggregate banking facilities to finance an acquisition by take-over bid in the
UK and acting for a privately owned concern in the metal recycling industry.
Bauer, Robert T. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
(416) 863-5552 rbauer@dwpv.com
Mr. Bauer specializes in domestic and international infrastructure projects,
PPPs, project financing, property development and joint ventures. Projects
include hospitals, transit projects, urban redevelopment, and government
and mixed-use projects.
Banfai, Geza R. McMillan LLP
(416) 865-7806 geza.banfai@mcmillan.ca
Mr. Banfai is Counsel to McMillan. Mr. Banfai counsels and represents
clients from small concerns to national and multinational giants. He has
represented the entirety of the construction pyramid, including construction
lenders and owners, general contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers
and workers as well as design, architectural and engineering professionals
and testing consultants.
Bakshi, Vivek Dentons Canada LLP
(416) 863-4658 vivek.bakshi@dentons.com
Mr. Bakshi represents clients in the energy, natural resources and
infrastructure sectors. He specializes in the structuring, negotiation and
documentation of natural resource projects and related financings and in
domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions in the oil, gas, water
and power sectors.
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"Some of the larger
municipalities I know
have been talking about
maybe setting up their own
infrastructure agencies.
But, of course, you have
to be a certain size
municipality for that to
make any sense at all."
- Paul Harricks, Gowling WLG
Given the sectors the federal government is targeting,
Romoff says there are projects underway that could be
replicated or provide ideas for similar projects in other
parts of the country. For example, he says, think of Van-
couver's Downtown Eastside single room occupancy
(SRO) renewal project.
Romoff says this was an innovative P3 solution to
renovate and modernize 13 century-old buildings that
might have otherwise been torn down. "Instead the
province invested in a financially depressed neighbour-
hood and provided safe, affordable housing for 900
residents who were at risk of being homeless. e SRO
initiative literally and figuratively built a community."
Like a Destination Wedding
Paul Harricks, a partner at Gowling WLG in Toronto,
says municipalities will need to be creative in putting
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