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Posen, Stephen Minden Gross LLP
(416) 369-4103 sposen@mindengross.com
Mr. Posen focuses on complex commercial real estate and leasing
and acts for sophisticated landlords and tenants. A frequent author
and lecturer, he has served as arbitrator, mediator and expert witness
on various leasing issues.
Porter, Dana Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5533 dporter@stikeman.com
Mr. Porter is a partner in the Real Estate Group whose practice has an
emphasis on acquisition and financing of income properties, structured and
project finance, P3s and other public-sector transactions. He represents a
number of institutional investors, lenders and advisors, public-sector entities
and private-sector suppliers of services and materials to the public sector.
Plotkin, Ella Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(416) 865-4489 eplotkin@fasken.com
Ms. Plotkin's practice is focused on infrastructure project finance & develop-
ment, including P3 & energy. She advises lenders and sponsors on project
finance and development, and has acted on major projects in Canada/US
including the Merced Campus Redevelopment Project, Penn Bridges, Eglinton
LRT, MacKenzie Vaughan Hospital, Regina Bypass, South Fraser Perimeter
Road Refinancing and many others.
Plater, L. Greg Stikeman Elliott LLP
(403) 266-9051 gplater@stikeman.com
Mr. Plater provides advice on real estate transactions, financings and de-
velopments, infrastructure projects (including P3 transactions), renewable
energy projects, joint ventures, construction arrangements and project-
related environmental law in BC and Alberta, on behalf of a broad range of
governments, Crown corporations and private-sector clients.
Picotte, Daniel Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(514) 397-7527 dpicotte@fasken.com
Mr. Picotte's practice focuses on M&A, reorganization, equity and institu-
tional investment with a special emphasis on the infrastructure and industrial
sectors. His experience encompasses over three decades of challenging
projects, in Canada and abroad, several of which broke new ground.
Pennycook, Carol D. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
(416) 863-5546 cpennycook@dwpv.com
Ms. Pennycook focuses on finance, banking, private M&A, PPPs and reorga-
nizations. She represents borrowers, arrangers and lenders/syndicates in
corporate financings, project and infrastructure financings, debt offerings in
the capital markets and structured financings. She is a director of P3 Canada.
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impose a significant cost on municipalities. "ere the
Bank can play a role."
Indeed, in his speech to the Canadian Council of
Public-Private Partnerships in April, Minister Sohi
noted that Canada's Infrastructure demands have out-
paced investment, that seniors have a harder time access-
ing essential services, and that there is a lack of affordable
housing and child care. is underscored the need for
investing in social Infrastructure as well.
If the Bank succeeds in developing best practices, it
will have achieved an important objective, says William
Osler of Bennett Jones LLP in Calgary, who practises
in the areas of public and private M&A, securities law
and corporate governance matters, with a focus on the
oil and gas sector. Oil and gas ventures don't constitute
public projects, but Calgarians are nonetheless "dream-
ing big," he says, perhaps for a new hockey arena to
support a bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics. But the
Bank's stated goal to foster evidence-based decision-
making "makes me think the feds are saying, 'we'll spend
dollars on good projects, but we'll also be a centre where
we'll be leaders in how this kind of thing is done.'
"Across the country people are trying to get big pro-
jects done, and there is continuous concern about red
tape and bureaucracy," he says. Fostering evidence-based
decision-making "would be an example of where the
CIB is doing good work beyond the specific projects, to
develop best practices."
Meanwhile, it is still early days. e government's
omnibus Bill C-44, which includes the Investing in
Canada plan and its Infrastructure Bank, has yet to be
passed in Parliament, and has been dubbed the "priva-
tization bank" by more than one MP who has stood in
the House to oppose it.
"I don't think people out here are too worried about …
whether they bury or include [the Bank] in the Budget
Bill, or if it's carved out of the current Bill" to pass in sep-
arate legislation, says Osler. "But they're waiting to see
what this will look like, who's on board, who the CEO
is." Once the legislation is passed (if it ever is) and senior
executive appointments have been made and the Bank
makes its first investment, the Infrastructure sector will
learn how the Bank can be used as a tool," says Doyle.
We're all waiting with bated breath."
I would have preferred
to see First Nations explicitly
called out [in the list of
Infrastructure Bank priorities.]
They are the communities
that least have the tools
to build that infrastructure."
- Catherine Doyle, Blake,
Cassels & Graydon LLP
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