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Legal Media Group/Euromoney's IFLR1000 The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms 2008, 2009 and 2010—Leading lawyer in project finance

• Inmet Mining in connection with the development of the RFP for the engineering, procurement, construction and management for a greenfield copper project in Panama, the selection of the winning bidder and the negotiation of the EP + CM contract
• Sherritt International on project financing matters related to the Ambatovy nickel project in Madagascar
• Dexia Credit Local SA and Union Bank, NA in the 2010 C$71.2 million project financing of enXco’s (an affiliate of EDF EN Canada) 20 MW ac solar photovoltaic electric generating facilities located near Arnprior, Ontario, involving several Ontario RESOP contracts 
• a consortium of lenders in the 2008 C$165 million project financing of the Deh Cho Bridge in Northwest Territories
• Brookfield Power Wind Prince LP
  • on the C$300 million financing of the Prince I (99 MW) and II (90 MW) wind farms near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
  • on the take-out of the above-noted construction financing
• a consortium of bondholders as the lenders to Fort Chicago Energy Partners' and Pristine Power's 83 MW gas-fired single-cycled cogeneration facility being constructed in Windsor, Ontario, which was successfully selected in the Ontario Power Authority's 2006 RFP for combined Heat and Power Generation 
• Financial Guaranty Insurance Company in connection with a C$500 million wrapped bond deal for the project financing of hydro projects in British Columbia
• TD Securities and RBC Capital Markets on the C$942 million project financing of the Sithe-Goreway 870 MW gas-fired generating facility in Brampton, Ontario
• Skypower in connection with the construction management agreement for a wind turbine project in Quebec
• Royal Utilities Income Fund in connection with the completion of its initial public offering and a new C$150 million senior credit facility with a syndicate of lenders led by National Bank of Canada and Royal Bank of Canada
• Great Lakes Power on the construction, operation and maintenance of greenfield power projects in western Canada
• a Canadian energy company on its physical and financial trading contracts
• a Chinese energy company on a greenfield coal-fired power plant in India
• Ontario Power Generation
  • on the contracts related to the restart of the Unit 1, Pickering A nuclear facility
  • on the lease of the Bruce Nuclear Station
• Westcoast Energy
  • in its capacity as a member of an international consortium awarded a long-term contract by a division of Pemex (Mexico’s state oil company), valued at approximately US$1 billion, to build and operate the world’s largest nitrogen production facility (including a 200 MW power plant), in Campeche, Mexico
  • on the financing of the above project. The consortium company received US$373.8 million from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (formerly The Export–Import Bank of Japan) and US$249.2 million from a Citibank-led group of commercial banks
  • in another consortium project in Mexico, in which a contract was awarded by a division of Pemex to build and operate an offshore gas compression facility
• Nova Gas on its bid related to the capitalization of the state oil and gas company in Bolivia
• Sherritt International 
  • in the establishment and financing of a vertically integrated joint venture to mine, refine and market commodity nickel and cobalt in Cuba—the largest investment made by a Canadian company in Cuba
  • on various credit facilities, including those related to the financing of the Fording transaction
• Luscar Coal on a C$50 million working capital facility and a C$65 million letter of credit reclamation facility
• various lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of secured transactions

Director, Canadian Council for the Americas
Member, Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships
International Construction Projects Committee, International Bar Association