Our work in this area reflects both the increasing use of PPP/Alternative Financing and Procurement (AFP) models in funding large infrastructure developments in Canada, and a growing need for creativity and practicality on the part of advisers to large projects. Members of our PPP/Infrastructure Group have advised a variety of stakeholders on the development, financing, and acquisition/divestiture of projects utilizing different combinations of Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Maintain models. We have been involved in many of Canada's most prominent public infrastructure projects, having advised in connection with the development, design, construction and financing of a variety of projects in Ontario, Québec, British Columbia and Alberta, as well as the Maritime provinces. Our experience extends to highways and roads (public and tolled), transit, hospitals, other public facilities (including schools and university buildings, courts and law enforcement facilities, concert halls and sport facilities), and power production facilities.

Among other projects, we have recently worked on (or are currently working on) the following:

• New Oakville Hospital Project, a $2 billion project agreement to design, build, finance and maintain the New Oakville Hospital.

 

• Windsor-Essex Parkway, a $1.6 billion limited access parkway linking Highway 401 with a new bridge and border crossing over the Detroit River, acting for the Ministry of Transportation (Ontario) and Infrastructure Ontario.

 

• RCMP E-Division headquarters, the first PPP by the Canadian federal government.

 

• Toronto South Detention Centre, a 1,650-bed maximum security facility development in Toronto.

 

• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, an approximately $200 million, 450,000 square foot capital redevelopment project in Toronto.

 

• Autoroute-25 (Québec's first public-private partnership), a 7.2km four-lane highway project, including a 1.2km six-lane bridge. Selected as North American PPP Deal of the Year for 2007.

 

• Surrey Outpatient Facility, a $239 million, 17,500 square metre health care facility project in British Columbia.

 

• The proposed $1.86 billion Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) development project.

 

• The $266 million Northwest Anthony Henday Drive highway project in Alberta.

 

Our work on these projects and many other transactions has developed a good working relationship with governmental PPP agencies and we have gained extensive knowledge of their practices and approaches to key issues, and of the public-policy environment in which they operate.

With offices in the five largest cities in Canada, we also provide Canadian legal services in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Pacific Rim. Our international PPP experience includes highway, railway and power production projects in China, India, Bahrain, Senegal and Australia, among other locations. We have also acted for a broad range of international financial institutions, including the World Bank, International Finance Corporation and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in connection with projects.