Samantha Cunliffe is a partner in the firm’s Infrastructure and Project Finance Groups in Vancouver. Her practice is primarily focused on the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects. She regularly acts for borrowers and lenders on both the commercial and financing aspects of public-private-partnership projects in a wide range of industry sectors, including water treatment, social infrastructure, road, rail and other transportation. Recent transactions include advising the successful bidder on the Go Rail Expansion – On Corridor Works Project, the lender to the successful bidder on the Wetaskiwin Water Treatment Plant Project, the successful bidder on the Edmonton Valley Line West Project, the lenders to a bidder on the Deerfoot Trail Improvements Project and the vendors on the sale of a majority interest in the Rt. Hon. Herb Gray Parkway Project. Member of the Canadian Bar Association, Vancouver Bar Association, Law Society of British Columbia, and Law Society of Ontario.
Governments are still prepared to invest in infrastructure to keep the economy moving, but increased costs in the COVID era mean the private sector is seeking relief from the public sector
