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:

• 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.
  
  
• 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 $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.

Recent Group Activities

Henday project receives Silver Award from CCPPP 
The Northwest Anthony Henday Drive DBFO Project, on which Stikeman Elliott represented the underwriters (RBC Dominion Securities Inc.), recently received a 2008 Silver Award for project finance from the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.
 
Toronto lawyer quoted in Financial Post 
October 8 / D'Arcy Nordick was quoted in the article "Surviving the Credit Crunch" about public-private partnerships resilience in tough economic times.
 
Montréal lawyer quoted on P3
May 14 / Erik Richer La Flèche was quoted in the Financial Post article "Canada eyes global deals - Expertise On Tap" speaking about global P3 deals.

Firm acts on PPP Deals of the Year
The firm advised on two infrastructure projects selected as Deals of the Year by Project Finance Magazine: Quebec's Autoroute 25 and the Invenergy & St Clair project.

Canadian Council for PPP Awards
The firm's work on Quebec's first PPP was recognized as the Autoroute 25 project was presented the Silver Award for Project Financing at the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships 8th annual National Awards for Innovation and Excellence.

Quebec government's first PPP transaction
The firm is acting for a syndicate led by Macquarie North America Limited and Kiewit Construction Cie, who won the tender for the construction of Autoroute 25 - the Quebec government's first public-private partnership project.