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Public infrastructure projects such as roads, hospitals, and schools are increasingly built and managed through public/private partnerships (P3). These arrangements are complex, demanding breadth and depth of legal expertise in project finance, outsourcing, and design/build/finance/operate arrangements.
The P3 Group at Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP has experience in alternative funding and P3 projects worldwide, representing governments, public sector institutions, lenders, and project sponsors. Knowing "the other side" helps us anticipate client needs, and advise them on what works—and what doesn’t. Lenders seek to minimize unquantifiable risk: we have special expertise in risk allocation. Implications of labour action, design issues, and operating concerns must all be assessed, quantified and shared. Negotiating those arrangements is where we shine.
Our knowledge of the U.K. Private Finance Initiative and our experience advising on some of the earliest Canadian P3 projects gives us a keen awareness of issues that arise and the problem-solving techniques needed to resolve them. And our national practice group gives seamless service no matter where the project, the sponsors, or the financiers are located. Should tax, environmental, or public policy issues crop up, the resources of our full service firm are at our clients’ service.
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Counsel to ISL Health, the consortium chosen to design, construct and operate the new, state of the art, Patient Care Centre at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, British Columbia
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Representing the Calgary Board of Education in private-public "partnership" transactions with private developers in respect of the construction of its new administrative centre and in respect of constructing and renovating schools in Calgary
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Counsel to the Government of British Columbia in connection with the design and construction of extensive improvements to and the ongoing operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of the Sea-to-Sky Highway
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Counsel to the underwriter and lenders to the preferred proponent in connection with the financing of a major Ontario P3 hospital project
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Counsel to the Province of Quebec in connection with the A30 P3 highway project
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Advised the Province of Quebec and Société Immobilière du Quebec in connection with the development of the Montreal Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall
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Counsel to the Province of British Columbia with respect to the Sierra Yoyo Desan Road in north-east British Columbia
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Counsel to the Government of British Columbia in connection with the design and construction of extensive improvements to and the ongoing operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of the Kicking Horse Canyon Highway
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Counsel to the financial advisor/arrangers for a short-listed bidder in connection with the Abbotsford Hospital and Cancer Centre P3 project in British Columbia
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Counsel to 407 International Inc. in respect of its acquisition from the Province of Ontario of 407 ETR Concession Company Limited which operates and manages Highway 407
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Counsel to 407 International Inc. in respect of its initial public offering and various private placements and public offerings as secured bonds
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Counsel to a significant shareholder of Strait Crossing Developments Inc. in connection with the management, maintenance and operation of the Confederation Bridge between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
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Counsel to the Province of Alberta in connection with the construction and operation of a high speed broadband network called SuperNet
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Counsel to an Alberta based health care provider in the P3 development of a parking facility
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Counsel to the Ontario Ministry of Transportation in a P3 transaction between the federal, Ontario and municipal governments and the owner of Buttonville Airport
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Counsel to Teramira Holdings with respect to its acquisition from Ontario SuperBuild Corporation of the Ontario government’s 50% equity interest in Teranet Inc.
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