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Palm, W. Ian Gowling WLG
(416) 369-7332 ian.palm@gowlingwlg.com
Mr. Palm advises on capital markets and M&A transactions and fund forma-
tion mandates focusing on energy, infrastructure and technology sectors.
Canadian and international clients include pension funds and PE and infra-
structure funds and investors.
Ouimet, François H. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-3057 fouimet@stikeman.com
Mr. Ouimet's corporate, real estate, and private and institutional
financing practice includes experience with P3s and infrastructure projects,
capitalizations, syndications, commercial contracts, leasing, securities
and securitizations.
O'Leary, Dean A. Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
(604) 661-9316 doleary@farris.com
Mr. O'Leary's practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, with an
emphasis on energy and infrastructure matters. He regularly advises public
utilities on a range of issues, including power supply arrangements and
capital expenditure projects. He also advises government and private indus-
try clients on public-private partnerships, land use, expropriation and other
real property matters.
Nordick, D'Arcy Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5508 dnordick@stikeman.com
Mr. Nordick is Co-Head of the Toronto office Capital Markets and Public Merg-
ers & Acquisitions Groups and is a member of various internal and external
groups focused on infrastructure and the financing thereof. He advises clients
on mergers and acquisitions (public and private), corporate finance, securi-
ties, licensing, joint ventures, project development and general corporate
and commercial law.
Naccarato, D. John Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(613) 780-8608 john.naccarato@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Naccarato's practice focuses primarily on the construction and com-
mercial real estate areas. He has been involved in several public-private
partnership and alternative financing projects, and brings his 35 years of
experience in the commercial real estate and construction law areas to the
P3 and infrastructure redevelopment fields.
Morrison, Patricia L. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
(403) 232-9472 pmorrison@blg.com
Ms. Morrison is the Calgary regional leader of BLG's Construction Group. Her
practice focuses on all facets of the construction industry, acting for owners,
general contractors, subcontractors and sureties in complex construction
disputes, as well as in front-end construction project matters such
as tendering and contract drafting, including the negotiation and drafting
of P3 agreements.
LEXPERT-RANKED LAWYERS
private-sector investment, and by acting as a source of
expertise on structuring larger, more complicated com-
mercial structures.
e case for the Infrastructure Bank goes beyond a
simple cost-of-borrowing analysis, says Catherine Doyle
of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto, whose
practice focuses largely on Infrastructure and public-
private partnerships. Governments can borrow at a
lower rate, but they can also operate at a loss "forever,"
unlike the private sector. So, the case for the Bank is
"based on how to use federal capital appropriately," and
how to use the private sector effectively "for the long-
term benefit of the country."
e five focus areas of Investing in Canada support
that the majority of Infrastructure in Canada is not
federally owned or controlled, Doyle says. "e vast
majority is either provincially or municipally controlled
or owned." So, focusing on public transit, green space,
social Infrastructure and other municipal/provincial
projects makes sense. Doyle "would have preferred to
see First Nations explicitly called out" in the list of five
priorities; "they are the communities that least have the
tools to build that Infrastructure," she says, while noting
that they may be included under the rubric of rural and
northern communities.
e Bank will concentrate in areas where projects are
not as financeable, she says. "ere's lots of money now
for LRT, roads, those types of things," and yet water
treatment systems are in dire need of financing, and
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