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Onesi, Angela Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(514) 397-7681 aonesi@fasken.com
Ms. Onesi is an experienced financing lawyer with special expertise in
infrastructure and project financing. She advises lenders, developers,
investors, public authorities and debtors in these transactions. She has acted
for clients on major renewable energy and hydroelectric projects including
Muskrat Falls.
Olynyk, John M. Lawson Lundell LLP
(403) 781-9472 jolynyk@lawsonlundell.com
Mr. Olynyk advises oil sands developers, conventional oil and gas companies,
railways, mining companies, utilities and other public- and private-sector
clients across Canada on Aboriginal, environmental, regulatory and natural
resources matters.
O'Leary, Dean A. Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
(604) 661-9316 doleary@farris.com
Mr. O'Leary's practice focuses on commercial transactions in a variety of
industry sectors including energy and infrastructure. His experience includes
reorganizations, acquisitions and divestitures, power supply arrangements,
power project financing and development, and power project-related
commercial and real estate matters, including expropriations.
O'Callaghan, Kevin Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(604) 631-4839 kocallaghan@fasken.com
Mr. O'Callaghan provides strategic advice to oil and gas, energy and mining
clients on Aboriginal, regulatory, environmental assessment and other CSR
issues. He has appeared before courts and tribunals on license challenges
and environmental issues. Additionally, He provides ongoing advice
to resource companies on obligations to First Nations and agreements
with First Nations.
Northey, Rodney V. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-6666 rodney.northey@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Northey is active in green energy projects and author of a new guide
on federal environmental assessment for project developers in the energy,
resource and transportation sectors. He is a member of the federal energy
Minister's EA review panel.
Nixon, Christopher W. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(403) 266-9017 cnixon@stikeman.com
Mr. Nixon is a partner in Stikeman Elliott's Securities Group and head of the
China Practice Group. His practice focuses on M&A, corporate finance, JVs,
private equity, corporate and trust reorganizations and corporate governance.
He works on both transactional and advisory assignments, representing oil
and gas exploration entities, oilfield service entities and investment dealers.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
a prospectus and registration statement
solely in Canada and the US, there were
no counsel involved in advising on fi-
nancing matters outside of Canada and
the United States.
LEXPERT: ere also seems to have been
a lot of participation from in-house
counsel at TransCanada. How has the
relationship with in-house evolved over
the past few years?
Deal Team: TransCanada is a highly
active issuer in the Canadian capital
markets as it continues to actively fi-
nance its ongoing long-term capital
program ... e regularity with which
TransCanada accesses the capital
markets and the breadth of financing
transaction structures it has employed
over the past few years have resulted
in TransCanada's internal legal and
broader financing team having highly
developed financing, structuring and
execution expertise.
TransCanada's finance law team has expertise in all
forms of capital-markets deals and is responsible for gen-
eral transaction coordination both internally and with
Blakes and Mayer Brown. Internal and external counsel
have developed a common understanding of expecta-
tions regarding documentation responsibilities, com-
munication approaches and execution expectations. For
certain transaction types that TransCanada has execut-
ed on multiple times, such as preferred-share and con-
ventional debt financings, TransCanada leads on docu-
mentation and looks to Blakes and Mayer Brown to
provide general support, and to collaborate in discussing
any proposed changes to deal structure, market develop-
ments, securities law changes and matters of that nature.
When TransCanada looks to implement transactions
that are more novel, such as its 2015 Formosa bond of-
fering, or its 2015 TransCanada Trust hybrid offering,
Blakes and Mayer Brown are asked to take on greater
shared roles with the TransCanada internal team in
document development, issue mitigation and transac-
tion execution. Norton Rose and Paul, Weiss regularly
act for the underwriters on TransCanada financings,
and their familiarity with the company and its internal
and external teams, as well as their deal experience, con-
tributes to seamless transaction execution.
LEXPERT: What would you say was the most challeng-
ing aspect of arranging this financing?
Deal Team: e most challenging aspect of arranging
the capital-markets and credit financings were manag-
ing the myriad demands of the financing preparations,
including disclosure document draing, negotiation
of terms of key financing agreements, diligence and
translation with both a necessarily tightly controlled,
yet multi-party, deal team and the uncertainties typical
