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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, transpor-
tation and energy.
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-contrac-
tors. Author of the Manual of Construction Law and co-author of Construc-
tion, 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 re-
garding 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.
Wilson, Judy Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
(416) 863-5820 judy.wilson@blakes.com
Ms. Wilson advises clients across the globe on the full spectrum of infrastruc-
ture and public procurement issues. She has extensive experience in con-
tracts to engage the private sector in the provision of traditional government
services, and is a leading practitioner in the field of alternative finance and
procurement projects and infrastructure development projects.
Williams, Nicholas C. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
(416) 863-5559 nwilliams@dwpv.com
Mr. Williams is a partner in the finance, infrastructure, energy and corporate
practices. His practice focuses on project finance, infrastructure develop-
ment/acquisition, public-private partnerships and secured lending in which
he has experience advising lenders, developers, equity investors, operators
and governments across a variety of sectors, including infrastructure, energy
and mining.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
finance the long-term operation of eight hydroelectric
generating facilities in Ontario. With a total installed
capacity of approximately 142 MW, H2O Power is the
third-largest provider of hydroelectric power in On-
tario. BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and TD Securities Inc.
acted as placement agents for the offering.
Concurrently with the closing of the note offering,
H2O Power also obtained $33.5 million of senior se-
cured credit facilities with e Toronto-Dominion
Bank and Bank of Montreal. e notes and the credit
facilities rank pari passu. e credit facilities will be used
for the purposes of general working capital and issuing
certain letters of credit.
H2O Power was represented by Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP with a team including Ian Binnie, Phi-
lippe Bourassa, Patrick Menda, Anthony Lanouette-
Marier and Lisha Li (corporate/commercial/project
finance), Joe Zed and Kendall Grant (securities), John
Hutmacher (real estate) and Sharon Wong (regulatory).
BMO and TD were represented by Davies Ward
Phillips & Vineberg LLP with a team including
Carol Pennycook, Gillian Stacey, Anthony Spadaro
and Angela Susac (banking and project finance), Sarah
Powell (environmental and regulatory) and Steven
Willard (real estate).
PSP was represented by Catherine Isabelle, its Direc-
tor of Legal Affairs.
BORALEX ACQUIRES ENERCON
CANADA'S INTEREST IN THE NIAGARA
REGION WIND FARM PROJECT
On January 18, 2017, Boralex Inc. (Boralex) a leader
in the Canadian market for the development, building
and operation of renewable energy power facilities and
France's largest independent producer of onshore wind
power, completed the acquisition of all of the economic
interest of ENERCON Canada Inc. (ENERCON) in
the 230 MW Niagara Region Wind Farm Project (the
Project), located in the Province of Ontario, for a total
cash consideration of approximately $232.4 million. In
connection with the transaction, Boralex accessed to
the Project's senior secured ring-fenced financing from
a syndicate of international financial institutions, total-
ling $832.5 million. e financing was guaranteed by
Euler Hermes, the German Export Credit Agency.
e Project is equipped with 77 state-of-the-art
ENERCON E-101 wind turbines of 3 MW each and
provides power to thousands of Ontario homes with
clean, emission and pollution free energy.
Boralex was represented in-house by Pascal Hurtubise
(Vice-President, Legal Affairs, North America) and
by Stikeman Elliott LLP, with a team that included
Maxime Turcotte, Maxime Jacquin, Dominique Rol-
land (M&A), Maxime Jacquin, Dominique Rolland
(project finance), Franco Gadoury, Philippe Kattan
(tax), Jeffrey Brown (competition) and Glenn Zacher
(regulatory - energy).
ENERCON was represented in-house by Amina
Kherbouche (Legal Counsel, Legal Affairs, Canada),
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