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Fews, Stefan Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-6493 sfews@stikeman.com
Mr. Fews focuses on commercial real estate, secured financing and JVs.
He acts for pension funds and institutional investors in negotiating
and structuring partnerships and other entities for real estate transactions
in Canada and abroad.
Fairey, Peter D. Gowling WLG
(604) 891-2266 peter.fairey@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Fairey has a 35-year diversified corporate/commercial private M&A
practice including PPP across many sectors. His over 30 PPP mandates span
port, transportation, data, corrections and social/hospital projects.
Emblem, Robert D.G. Clyde & Co Canada LLP
(514) 764-3650 robert.emblem@clydeco.ca
Mr. Emblem specializes in construction disputes and is frequently retained
to advise and represent the interests of developers, owners, contractors,
construction professionals and their insurers. He has handled, defended and
resolved hundreds of construction disputes throughout North America over
the past 20 years. He is also one of Canada's leading experts in course
of construction insurance.
Emakpor, Tobor Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-4268 temakpor@osler.com
Mr. Emakpor has been at the forefront of the development of the P3 market
in the UK and in Canada, and his experience includes leading P3 projects
acting for equity sponsors, lenders, procuring authorities and subcontractors
in Canada, the UK and West Africa with an emphasis on the transportation,
healthcare and education sectors.
Dzulynsky, Myron B. Gowling WLG
(416) 369-7370 myron.dzulynsky@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Dzulynsky has extensive experience acting on behalf of financial and
strategic counterparties across primary and secondary infrastructure trans-
actions in various sectors.
Dunsky, Ilan Dentons Canada LLP
(514) 878-5833 ilan.dunsky@dentons.com
Mr. Dunsky is National Co-Chair of Dentons's Infrastructure and PPP group
and an active executive committee member of the global Infrastructure and
PPP group. He represents both domestic and international clients in the de-
velopment of infrastructure, public-private partnerships and project finance,
particularly in the energy, transportation and health sectors.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
will backstop the money that's there or we will guar-
antee a certain amount more," says Danna Donald, a
partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. In many
cases, that guarantee is the difference between a pro-
ject that's financeable and one that's not.
Increasingly, Canadian pension funds are also join-
ing the fray. OMERS, Teachers and CPPIB, which
have multi-billion-dollar Infrastructure portfolios in
OECD countries, are starting to kick the tires in the
emerging markets, and they've already embarked on
a handful of projects. CPPIB, with US$316.7 billion
under management, has 25.2 per cent of its global
Infrastructure portfolio in Latin American assets.
It recently opened an office in São Paolo, Brazil, and
another in Mumbai, India. Canadian firms looking to
get involved in developing world Infrastructure may
find it helpful to team up with one of them.
Some lawyers "will say, if you are doing a develop-
ment project internationally you need to pick a large
international firm, with a depth of experience in fi-
nancing these sorts of projects," says Donald. Others
"will say you need a local firm who is on the ground
and who understands the culture, the permitting, the
politics and all those pieces.
"But the answer is, you need a team. It's actually not
one or the other. e people who are the most success-
ful at getting these projects done will have a team of
lawyers, and they will use their lawyers to open doors,
