Our Team

Chambers & Partners’ Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide, 2013—Leading lawyer in projects: PPP and infrastructure, and in banking and finance

Chambers & Partners’ Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide, 2008-2012—Leading lawyer in banking and finance

Best Lawyers in Canada, 2012-2013—Leading lawyer in banking and finance

Law Business Research’s Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Project Finance Lawyers, 2012-2013—Leading project finance lawyer

Lexpert/Thomson Reuters' Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2011-2012—Repeatedly recommended practitioner in project finance

Legal Media Group/Euromoney's IFLR1000 Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms, 2007—Leading lawyer in banking law

Dan has recently represented

• The Toronto-Dominion Bank
• as lead arranger and agent on behalf of a syndicate of lenders in the successful bid by PCL Constructors Canada concerning the C$142 million Kingston General Hospital redevelopment project
• as lead arranger and agent on behalf of a syndicate of lenders in the $113 million redevelopment of the Ottawa Hospital General Campus and Queensway-Carleton General Campus, which comprise the Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre, involving PCL Constructors Canada as the successful bidder
• in its project financing of five assisted living facilities in Ontario by Sunrise Assisted Living
• in its project financing of Phases I and II of the Waterclub condominium project in Toronto
• Infrastructure Ontario
• and Bluewater Health in the C$214 million expansion and redevelopment of Bluewater Health's Norman Site
• and the Ministry of Community and Social Services in the C$93 million AFP transaction involving the construction and financing of the new Roy McMurtry Youth Centre in Brampton, Ontario
• and Niagara Health System (NHS) in its C$759 million AFP transaction for the design, construction, financing and maintenance of NHS’s new health care complex and Walker Family Cancer Centre
• Plenary Group (Canada)
• as counsel to a syndicate of Lenders in connection with the bid by Plenary Justice in respect of the Waterloo Region Consolidated Courthouse AFP Project
• retained as counsel to a syndicate of Lenders in connection with a bid by Plenary in respect of the P3 project to design, build, finance and maintain a new headquarters for a Canadian federal agency
• Bilfinger Berger Project Investments
• retained as sponsor counsel in connection with a bid by BBPI in respect of the Forensic Services and Coroner’s Complex AFP Project
• retained as sponsor counsel in connection with a bid by BBPI in respect of the Alberta Schools Alternative Procurement II Project
• retained as sponsor/consortium counsel in connection with a bid by BBPI in respect of the Women’s College Hospital AFP Project
• Forum Equity Partners
• retained as sponsor counsel in connection with a bid by Forum in respect of the Ontario Provincial Police Modernization AFP Project
• retained as sponsor counsel in connection with a bid by Forum in respect of the Thunder Bay Consolidated Courthouse AFP Project
• Windsor Essex Mobility Group
• retained as sponsor counsel in connection with a bid by the Windsor Essex Mobility Group in respect of the Windsor Essex Parkway AFP Project
• Clear Channel Outdoor Company Canadian in its bid for Toronto’s C$428 million consolidated street furniture PPP program
• Brookfield LePage Johnson Controls as the facilities management service provider and consortium member of Access Health Vancouver, in its PPP transaction for the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre in Vancouver
• Healthcare Infrastructure Company of Canada as the selected private partner in its PPP transactions for the new
• C$132 million Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre in Ottawa
• C$550 million Brampton Civic Hospital in Brampton, Ontario
• Persona Communications
• in the sale of all of Cable Acquisition Holdings Company shares to Eastlink Persona Holdings
• in C$595 million of first and second lien credit facilities and an incremental project development credit facility with JP Morgan, TD Bank and a syndicate of lenders
• Terrawinds Resources
• in a C$247 million turbine supply and project development credit facility for its proposed 171 MW wind energy project located in Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec
• in its C$26 million turbine supply loan agreement to fund CRCE Phase development
• senior bondholders of Stelco, the largest group of affected creditors, in a C$3 billion restructuring of Stelco under the CCAA and the issuance of new senior floating rate notes thereunder
• Clear Channel Outdoor Company Canada
• in its establishment and continuation of an operating credit facility with the Bank of Montreal
• and Clear Channel Outdoor in Canada as general external corporate counsel
• HBK Master Fund LP in its equity investment and the acquisition of new senior unsecured notes in the restructuring of Ainsworth Lumber
• Telus in its 2007 C$2 billion term and revolving credit facility with a select syndicate of 18 financial institutions
• Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Canada)
• in its participation in a US$950 million senior secured credit facility concerning Four Seasons Hotels
• in its participation in a C$500 million credit facility concerning Sears Canada
• in the establishment of numerous asset-based lending credit facilities, including those provided to SMTC, Canadian Freightways, Sodisco-Howden Group, CanWel Building Materials, Mad Catz Interactive, Nexinnovations, Geac Computer, Delco-Remy International, Saan Stores, HIP Interactive and Cott
• Brascan Financial in its acquisition of existing indebtedness, and in the restructuring and sale of certain assets of Queensway Financial Holdings
• Cognos in the establishment of a US$200 million term revolving credit facilities
• Scotiabank in its project financing of two assisted living facilities in Ontario by Sunrise Assisted Living
• Natsource LLC and Tamarisk Acquisition in the establishment by Fortis Bank of a Euro-denominated standby letter of credit facility in support of the acquisition and participation by Tamarisk in the World Bank's US$1.02 billion Umbrella Carbon Credit Program
• Solo Cup Canada in the establishment and continuation of a C$30 million term and revolving credit facility with GE Canada Finance
• McKenna Gale Capital in the mezzanine financing provided to Oncap LP to finance the acquisition of BAE Systems
• Manufacturers Life Insurance Company in its C$120 million acquisition of BMO Financial Group's interest in First Canadian Place
• Wachovia Bank in its US$870 million financing of Movie Gallery and its Canadian subsidiary, Movie Gallery Canada

Before joining Torys, Dan was a partner at another major Toronto firm.