Torys regularly advises on public-private partnerships (PPP) projects, having acted on more than 40 such projects, including on some of the most challenging and transformative transactions in Canada to date.
Our PPP work involves a broad range of industry sectors, including transportation, energy, power, entertainment, natural resources, healthcare, telecommunications and other infrastructure classes. We advise both private and public sector participants in PPP projects, including lenders, developers and consortia, as well as governmental agencies, in all aspects of PPP arrangements in which the private sector partner has a role in the design, construction, financing, management and/or operation of infrastructure assets for the use or occupation by the public sector partner.
Our lawyers bring expertise to all aspects of the complex PPP process, including to
- procurement processes, including responding to RFPs
- project review
- project financing arrangements
- development and construction
- comment and negotiation of concession and drop-down agreements
- privatization arrangements
- asset restructuring
- tax structuring
- real estate
- environmental, health and safety