Torys’ cross-border Infrastructure and Energy Practice is a multidisciplinary group of lawyers with extensive experience in all aspects of structuring, developing, constructing, financing, managing, operating, buying and selling infrastructure and energy projects. We draw on our top-ranked expertise and depth of resources in a variety of fields to assist our clients in accomplishing their objectives.
Our expertise with infrastructure and energy transactions and projects extends to
- acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, restructurings and privatizations
- project finance
- corporate finance
- project development, including site assembly; permitting, licensing and approvals; management of environmental, health and safety issues; procurement and contracting (including engineering, procurement and construction contracts; engineering, procurement, and construction management contracts; CCDC contracts; and architect, engineering and other consultant contracts); project management; construction law and performance security
- the development and implementation of RFP, RFQ and tendering processes
- P3s (public-private partnerships)
- physical and financial energy trading contracts
- administrative and regulatory matters
- the use of derivative products to hedge fluctuations in fuel and electricity prices
- dispute resolution and litigation
- tax structuring
- First Nations matters
Our practitioners works closely and collaboratively with our clients and their financial advisers at every stage of the project or transaction. We provide innovative and commercially sound solutions and bring a real-world industry sensibility to our legal work. For example, one of our partners has been a senior banker responsible for project finance structuring for one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Another was the director of project development for Latin America for a major Canadian energy and infrastructure company. Another one of the partners was the CEO for several years of the Ontario Privatization Secretariat, which considered major infrastructure privatization proposals.
Our group has represented domestic and international lenders, monoline insurers, developers, project sponsors and other equity investors, major industrial and commercial users and governments and government agencies on a broad range of infrastructure and energy projects and transactions in the United States, Canada, India, Mexico, Central America, South America and Asia.
We work with the full array of power generation technologies from nuclear, coal, natural gas and hydro to wind and other renewables, as well as with transmission and distribution of both electricity and natural gas. We have also acted on transactions involving all types of infrastructure asset classes, including ports, toll roads, bridges, schools, hospitals and airports, as well as non-traditional infrastructure assets such as long-term care facilities, medical laboratories and diagnostics.
Recognitions
The members of our Infrastructure and Energy Practice are consistently recognized for their expertise, including in the following:
- Chambers & Partners’ Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide
- LawDay’s Top 40 Energy/Power Lawyers in CanadaLI>
- Woodward White’s Best Lawyers in Canada
- American Lawyer/Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
- Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
- Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada
- Lexpert’s Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers
- Lexpert’s Top 40 Lawyers Under 40
- Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC’s IFLR 1000, Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms
- Law Business Research’s Who’s Who Legal, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers
- Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Corporate Governance Lawyers
- Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers
- Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers
- Practical Law Company’s Global Counsel 3000
- Practical Law Company’s Which Lawyer? Yearbook
The projects on which we have advised have won various awards, including the following:
- Euromoney Project Finance’s North American Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year
- CCPPP's Award of Merit for Project Financing
- Canadian Dealmakers' Energy Industry Award
- Canadian Dealmakers' Utilities Award
- Infrastructure Journal’s (U.K.) Global Deal of the Year Award
- CCPPP’s Gold Award for Project Financing
- CCPPP’s Silver Award for Infrastructure
- Euromoney Project Finance’s North American Deal of the Year
- Euromoney Project Finance’s North American PPP Deal of the Year
- Euromoney Project Finance’s Latin America Mining Deal of the Year