66 Wellington St W, Suite 5300, TD Bank Twr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1997 (ON)
Co-Lead of the firm’s National Energy Group and Partner in the firm’s Toronto office. Significant experience representing domestic and foreign investors and sponsors in a variety of conventional and energy transition assets, including electricity transmission and distribution, district energy, energy storage, hydrogen, and all electricity generation technologies including nuclear. Has assisted financial institutions and borrowers on project financings and re-financings of power projects across Canada and in the US. Regularly acts for project developers and sponsors negotiating commercial arrangements in the sector, including power purchase and energy service agreements, and joint-venturing and Indigenous participation arrangements.
On September 25, 2018, Inter Pipeline Ltd. (“Inter Pipeline”) completed its divestiture of the Heartland Petrochemical Complex’s Central Utility Block (“CUB”) to Fengate Capital Management (“Fengate”), a privately held infrastructure and real estate investment firm.
On September 7, 2016, Chaudiere Hydro Limited Partnership, which is an affiliate of Hydro Ottawa, completed a private placement of an aggregate of $203,802,000 Senior Secured Amortizing Bonds.
Bruce Power L.P. has established a program providing for the offering and issuance of an unlimited aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes. In conjunction therewith, on June 23, 2016, Bruce Power L.P. issued $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Series 2016-1 Senior Unsecured Notes, due June 23, 2021, and $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Series 2016-2 Senior Unsecured Notes, due June 23, 2026.
On December 3, 2015, Bruce Power L.P. (Bruce Power) and the Independent Electricity System Operator (the IESO) entered into the Amended and Restated Bruce Power Refurbishment Implementation Agreement (the ARBPRIA) to extend the operating life of the Bruce Power facility to 2064.
