181 Bay St, Suite 1800, Brookfield Pl, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1994 (ON); 1989 (New York)
Member of the firm’s Corporate/Commercial, Environmental, Infrastructure and Public Policy & Government Relations Groups. Chair of the firm’s Energy Group. Counsels stakeholder groups, retailers, distributors and generators on legislative and policy matters relating to electricity markets. Retained in connection with power procurement arrangements, development of generation and cogeneration facilities, and the Ontario government's clean energy and renewable energy supply RFPs and contracts. Extensive experience in M&A among electricity distribution companies. Advised on electricity restructuring in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Albania, Macedonia and the Regional Southeast European market. Former Chair of the Ontario Energy Association's Task Force on Ontario's proposed electricity legislation and the OEA’s Conservation and Technology Committee. Past President of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (Toronto). Former diplomat with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, with postings in Ottawa and Brussels. Author of Regulation and Governance of Municipally-Owned Corporations in Ontario, co-author of Ontario Energy Law: Electricity. Member of Ontario Energy Network and Canadian International Council.
Veridian Corporation and Whitby Hydro Energy Corporation amalgamated to form Elexicon Corporation, and their subsidiaries amalgamated to form a single regulated electricity distribution subsidiary, Elexicon Energy Inc., and a non-regulated subsidiary, Elexicon Group Inc.
