Our Practice
Our Infrastructure/Public-Private Partnerships practice encompasses a cross-disciplinary group of lawyers experienced in all aspects of infrastructure and service delivery. Over the past decade, we have worked on some of the most significant projects in Canada and the United States.

We draw from our firm's transactional focus to combine our core strengths in Corporate/Commercial, Corporate Finance & Securities, Project Finance, Infrastructure, Commercial Real Estate, Environmental, Taxation and Mergers & Acquisitions. We are supported by our leading Competition & Foreign Investment Review, Technology and Litigation practices. Our expertise and experience in these areas, combined with our substantial experience in acting for both public and private sector partners, specific knowledge of a significant range of legislation impacting the ability of various levels of government and public sector bodies to contract and finance projects and expertise on a broad range of partnership structures and financing platforms, allow us to effectively and seamlessly achieve the client's business objectives as the transaction evolves.

Our practice includes but is not limited to:

• Joint venture structuring;
• Project development;
• Public & private financings;
• Domestic & international taxation;
• Corporate governance;
• Regulatory issues;
• Litigation;
• Site assembly;
• Environmental remediation.

Combining resources from each of our Toronto, New York and Montréal offices, we are pleased to be active in the growing PPP sector in North America.  Through our experience as lead counsel to the Miami Access Tunnel consortium (comprised of Meridiam Infrastructure, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Transfield Services), we have developed the necessary experience in project development, project finance and taxation to successfully work with clients in this growing sector.  This experience includes greenfield and brownfield projects and all areas of project financing (whether through bank, private activity bonds or other form of bond financing or Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act financings).

Our Clients
We have acted for a diversified list of clients and projects:

• Hospitals;
• Major bridges;
• Roads and tunnels;
• Hydro projects;
• Waste water/sewage treatment facilities;
• Rail lines;
• Rail stations;
• International airports;
• Casinos;
• Courthouses and jails;
• Schools and universities;
• Data, archives and information centres.

Recognition
Several of our lawyers are regularly recognized as leading PPP/project finance practitioners by Chambers, Lexpert® and Euromoney. Davies received the highest ranking in the Chambers Global survey since 2007. Chambers Global 2009 comments that our PPP/infrastructure practice has "outstanding capabilities right across the board".

We are pleased to have been part of a number of projects that have been specifically recognized by the project finance community, including the following:

• 2009 – Port of Miami Tunnel, on which we acted as lead counsel to the Miami Access Tunnel consortium, was awarded the Americas PPP Deal of the Year by each of Project Finance magazine and Project Finance International.
• 2009 – Niagara Health Systems Project, on which we acted as lead counsel to the consortium led by Plenary Health, was awarded the Americas Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year by Project Finance magazine.
• 2007 – Durham Consolidated Courthouse, on which we acted as lead counsel to the Access Justice Durham consortium, was awarded the Award of Merit for Project Financing by the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.
• 2005 – Canada Line, on which we acted as counsel to the lending syndicate, was awarded the North America Transport Deal of the Year by Project Finance magazine.
• 2004 – Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre, on which we acted as lead counsel to the Access Health Abbotsford consortium, was awarded the North America Infrastructure Deal of the Year by Project Finance magazine.