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Carillion was represented by Christopher Buck, Associate
General Counsel at Carillion Canada Inc.
e lenders were represented by Farris, Vaughan, Wills &
Murphy LLP, with a team comprising Michael Allen, Maria
McKenzie, David Selley, om Ciz and Susan Mossing.
MICHIGAN FREEWAY
LIGHTING PROJECT REACHES
FINANCIAL CLOSE
On August 24, 2015, the Michigan Freeway Lighting P3 project
achieved commercial and financial close.
e Michigan Freeway project is the first P3 in the US dedi-
cated to freeway lighting.
e US$123 million P3 contract to design, construct, fi-
nance, operate and maintain freeway lights in Detroit's tri-coun-
ty area was procured by the Michigan Department of Transpor-
tation (MDOT) and awarded to Freeway Lighting Partners,
LLC (FLP).
e project will improve the Detroit Metro Region Freeway
System and see that approximately 15,000 lights across bridges,
tunnels and roadway within are replaced with newer, more en-
ergy efficient LED lights.
FLP is a consortium consisting of Star America Infrastruc-
ture (Star) and Aldridge Electric (Aldridge).
Aldridge will design and construct the project over the next
two years with Cofely Services Inc. (Cofely) acting as the opera-
tions and maintenance provider for the project following its sub-
stantial completion.
Project finance is being provided through an equity invest-
ment by Star America and Aldridge and a private placement of
notes with Allianz Life Insurance of North America (Allianz).
MDOT was represented by Nossaman LLP, with a team
that included Elizabeth Cousins.
FLP and Star were represented by Hunton & Williams LLP.
Aldridge was represented in-house by Carrie Berger, and
externally by Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP. e Norton
Rose Fulbright team was composed of Mike Pikiel, Scarlet Mc-
Nellie, Patrick Selinger and Dan Shapiro.
Cofely was represented in-house by Jean-Marc errien
and externally by Dentons Canada LLP. e Dentons Can-
ada team included Ilan Dunsky, Lampros Stougiannos and
Maria Kourelis.
Todd Sable and Philip Desai of Honigman Miller Schwartz
and Cohn LLP acted as local Michigan counsel to Cofely.
Allianz was represented by Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
SASKATCHEWAN JOINT-USE
SCHOOLS PROJECTS
REACH FINANCIAL CLOSE
Two Saskatchewan Joint-Use Schools Projects reached financial
close on August 20, 2015, when Joint Use Mutual Partnership
#1 and Joint Use Mutual Partnership #2 entered into Project
Agreements with the Province of Saskatchewan (Province) for
18 elementary schools and nine joint-use facilities. e projects,
presently valued at $635 million, are design, build, finance and
maintain public-private partnerships, each with an operations
period of 30 years from service commencement.
Team members of Joint Use Mutual Partnership #1 and
Joint Use Mutual Partnership #2 include Concert Infrastruc-
Zacher, Glenn M. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5688 gzacher@stikeman.com
Mr. Zacher practises commercial/administrative litigation and energy
regulation. He is Co-chair of the firm's Energy Group. He represents clients
before courts and tribunals (including the OEB, NEB) in regulatory and appeal
proceedings, including the approval and permitting of major infrastructure
projects. His clients include public agencies and private-sector energy/
infrastructure companies.
Yontef, Marvin Bennett Jones LLP
(416) 777-7474 yontefm@bennettjones.com
Mr. Yontef provides counsel on mergers, acquisitions, securities offerings,
reorganizations and financial transactions. He regularly advises domestic
and non-resident strategic investors, financial sponsors and commercial
and investment bankers.
Wright, Brian G. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(416) 865-5488 bwright@fasken.com
Mr. Wright represents financial institutions on domestic and cross-border
projects, acquisitions, leveraged debt financings, syndications and
asset-based lending in a wide range of industries including infrastructure,
transportation and energy.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
ture Ltd. and Bird Capital Limited Partnership, together
with a joint venture formed by Bird Design-Build Construc-
tion Inc. and Wright Construction Western Inc., providing
design and construction ser vices, and Johnson Controls
Canada LP, as ser vice provider.
Approximately $213 million of bonds, underwritten by Sco-
tia Capital Inc., provided the debt financing for the projects.
The Prov ince, throu gh its P3 agenc y Sask Builds Cor-
poration, was represented by A ird & Berlis LLP, w ith a
tea m of Dou glas You nger, Heidi Visser, Patrick Oufi and
Lor way Gosse.
Joint Use Mutual Partnership #1 and Joint Use Mutual
Partnership #2 were represented by Blake, Cassels & Graydon
LLP's Jeff Merrick, Catherine Doyle, John-Paul Bogden, Car-
rie Fleming, Samantha Rossman, Jennifer Chan, Jennifer Rud-
dick, Arash Amouzgar, Emma Costante and Graham Fulton.
Bird Capital Limited Partnership and its affiliates were repre-
sented by senior counsel, Todd Mandel. Wright Construction
Western Inc. and its parent were represented by James Sproule
and Bruce Harrison of McKercher LLP. Johnson Controls
Canada LP and its parent were represented by Darryl Brown,
Faithe Holder and Lindsay Wong of Gowling WLG.
Scotia Capital Inc., as underwriter, was represented by Stike-
man Elliott LLP, with a team comprising Jamie Templeton,
Scott Perrin and Stan McKeen.
e Fairness Monitor retained by SaskBuilds was Owen
Pawson and Chad Eggerman of Miller omson LLP.
