Our Team

Woodward White’s Best Lawyers in Canada 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011—Leading lawyer in energy regulatory

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2010—Consistently recommended practitioner in energy (electricity)

Chambers & Partners’ Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide 2008, 2009 and 2010—Leading lawyer in energy: power (transactional) and projects: PPP and infrastructure

Chambers & Partners' Global 2009 Leaders in their Field—Leading lawyer in energy (power) and infrastructure

Real Time News' LawDay 2009—Leading lawyer in energy/corporate law

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2008 and 2009—Repeatedly recommended practitioner in energy (electricity)

Thomson/Carswell's Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada 2008—One of Canada's corporate lawyers to watch 

Lexpert, November/December 2007—One of Canada’s top 40 lawyers under 40

Krista has recently represented

• International Power Canada in its acquisition of the 99 MW Knob Hill wind energy project in British Columbia
• New Brunswick Power Holdings Corporation in its proposed acquisition by Hydro-Québec
• RES Canada
• in its C$275 million partnership with Enbridge to develop, construct, own and operate the 99 MW Greenwich Wind Energy Project
• in its C$285 million partnership with Enbridge to develop, construct, own and operate the 99 MW Talbot Wind Energy Project
• Renewable Energy Generation and AIM PowerGen (one of Canada’s largest independent wind energy project developers) in their C$119 million sale of AIM PowerGen to International Power plc
• a private equity consortium, including Borealis Infrastructure Management, in its US$1.25 billion purchase from Energy Future Holdings of a stake in Oncor Electric Delivery, the operator of the largest electricity distribution and transmission system in Texas
• Infrastructure Ontario and the Province of Ontario in the 2008/2009 Request for Proposals to select a vendor to develop and construct a stanalone, two-unit nuclear power plant in Ontario to provide 2,000 to 3,000 MW of baseload generation capacity to the Ontario grid
• Fort Chicago Energy Partners in its C$200 million acquisition of Countryside Power Income Fund by way of a takeover bid
• Alinda Infrastructure Fund
  • in its C$1.7 billion acquisition of UE Waterheater Income Fund
  • in its investment in BAA Ltd., a large operator of airports worldwide
• Macquarie Infrastructure Partners in its C$173 million acquisition of Halterm Income Fund’s subsidiary Halterm Limited, the operator of a terminal at the Halifax port
• Borealis Infrastructure
  • in its US$6.3 billion acquisition, as a member of a consortium, of Associated British Ports, the UK’s largest ports company
  • in its £3.2 billion acquisition, as a member of a consortium, of the South of England and Scotland gas distribution networks from National Grid Transco
  • in its investment in New York Regional Interconnect, which is developing a high voltage electric transmission line in New York
• Mitsui & Co. in the development and C$650 million financing of its 1005 MW Greenfield Energy Centre CCGT power project (in partnership with Calpine) and the selection of the project by the Ontario Ministry of Energy in its 2500 MW Clean Energy RFP
• Brookfield Renewable Power
  • in the development and selection of its Prince II Wind Power Project (90 MW) by the Ontario Ministry of Energy in its 1000 MW Renewable Energy II RFP
  • in the development and selection of two of its wind power projects, Prince I (99 MW) and Blue Highlands (49.5 MW), by the Ontario Ministry of Energy in its 300 MW Renewable Energy RFP
• Ontario First Nations LP in its negotiations with the Province of Ontario regarding the sharing of gaming revenues
• Ontario Power Generation
• in its proposed New Nuclear project
• in its C$3.1 billion lease of the Bruce nuclear facility to Bruce Power, a subsidiary of British Energy
• and the Province of Ontario in the sale of Bruce Power by British Energy to Cameco Corporation, TransCanada PipeLines and BPC Generation Infrastructure Trust
• in the development of its 550 MW Portlands Energy Centre CCGT power project (in a joint venture with TransCanada Energy) and in the related the negotiations with the Ontario Power Authority
• in the proposed conversion of its Thunder Bay Generating Station to a gas-fired facility and in the related negotiations with the Ontario Power Authority
• in its C$340 million sale of the Mississagi hydroelectric generating stations to Mississagi Power Trust, a subsidiary of Great Lakes Power
• in its agreement with the Province of Ontario on the sharing of the risks associated with nuclear waste management and decommissioning OPG’s nuclear stations
• in advising on the requirements of the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act (Canada) and the establishment of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization and the trust funds required under that Act
• in its proposed sale of the Thunder Bay and Atikokan, Lakeview and Lennox fossil generating stations
• in its refurbishment and restart of Pickering A, Unit 1
• Ontario Ministry of Energy
  • in its negotiations with the Province of Quebec concerning the expansion of the Ontario-Quebec electricity intertie, and in an associated power purchase agreement
  • in its negotiations with the Province of Manitoba concerning the expansion of the Ontario-Manitoba electricity intertie, and in an associated power purchase agreement
• New Brunswick Power
  • in its refurbishment and retubing contracts with AECL for the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station refurbishment
  • in connection with the proposed sale of its generation assets, including the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station, to Hydro-Québec
  • in connection with the proposed Point Lepreau 2 new nuclear reactor proposed by Team CANDU
  • in its proposed third-party investment in and lease of the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station to Bruce Power
  • in the restructuring of the electricity sector in New Brunswick and its de-merger into generation, nuclear, transmission and distribution businesses and the associated power purchase agreement with respect to the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station
  • in its proposed third-party investment in the Coleson Cove fossil generating station
• Cameco
• in its C$108 million acquisition of Zircatec Precision Industries, a manufacturer of CANDU nuclear fuel and reactor components
• in the manufacture and sale of CANDU nuclear fuel and reactor components in Canada, China, South Korea and Romania
• in various agreements relating to radioactive waste management
• Aleris International as Canadian counsel in its €826 million acquisition of Corus Group’s downstream aluminum rolled products and extrusions businesses
• OMERS, as a co-investor with Texas Pacific Group, in the US$11.4 billion acquisition of SunGard Data Systems
• GSW and its majority shareholders in its C$393.5 million acquisition by A.O. Smith by way of a takeover bid
• Manulife Financial in its C$18 billion acquisition of John Hancock Financial Services
• CanWest Global Communications in its C$125 million sale of CKVU (Vancouver) to CHUM
• National Bank in its C$712 million acquisition of First Marathon
• Uniphase in its US$12 billion cross-border merger with JDS FITEL
• Luscar Coal in its C$550 million hostile takeover of Manalta Coal
• Petro-Canada in its proposed refining and marketing joint venture with Ultramar

Krista is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, where she teaches on energy and natural resources law. Krista is a past executive member of the Ontario Bar Association’s Natural Resources and Energy section and the Canadian Bar Association’s Securities Law Subcommittee. She was also the corporate law editor for Legal Alert, a monthly newsletter published by Carswell.