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• Acted for the City of Toronto in the Toronto waterfront revitalization project, including negotiations with government ministries and agencies, advising on issues such as public ownership of lands, governance, environmental liabilities and conveyancing, and negotiation of procurement, design, development, construction and financing documentation.

• Acted for Plenary Health which led the successful consortium for the design, build, finance and maintenance of the new Bridgepoint Hospital, replacing the existing facility. The Bridgepoint Health project reached financial close on August 12, 2009.

• Acted for Plenary Health which led the successful consortium for the design, build, finance and operation of the new Niagara Health System project. The Niagara Health System project reached financial close on March 27, 2009. The project is an Alternative Financing and Procurement ("AFP") project for the design, build, finance and maintenance aspects of a greenfield 970,000 square foot hospital and cancer centre in St. Catharines, Ontario. Payments to cover construction, building maintenance, lifecycle repair and renewal and project financing will be made on an availability and performance basis, in a total amount of $1.42 billion over 30 years, or a net present value of $759 million. This project was awarded the 2009 Americas Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year by Project Finance magazine, 2009 Award of Merit for Project Financing by the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships and, since 2010, has been included annually on ReNew Canada's Top 100 Canada's Biggest Infrastructure Projects list.

• Acted for Plenary Health which was engaged to build, finance and operate the North Bay Regional Health Centre project. This was Infrastructure Ontario's first project in its "public/private" design-build-finance-operate initiative in the health care sector.

• Acted for The Plenary Group, part of Plenary Properties, which has teamed with York University to deliver a new state-of-the-art headquarters for the Archives of Ontario, in its successful bid to design, build, manage and finance the new Archives of Ontario building.

• Acted for Plenary Health Kelowna Limited Partnership, which was awarded the $95.3-million contract by the Interior Health Authority to design, build, finance and maintain the new Interior Heart and Surgical Centre at Kelowna General Hospital, the first cardiac critical care centre in British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland.

• Acted for Plenary Health Care Partnerships in their successful bid to design, build, finance and maintain the Humber River Regional Hospital. The new $1.1 billion state-of-the-art acute care facility will be constructed on a block of approximately 27 acres in Toronto, Ontario.

• Acting for the City of Toronto in the $640 million redevelopment of Union Station, including the acquisition of Union Station from The Toronto Terminals Rail Company, the restoration and major transportation redevelopment jointly with Metrolinx and the creation of a new below-grade strata retail level.

• Acted for Plenary Properties LTAP LP, which was awarded the $1.13-billion contract by Defence Construction Canada for a 33-year design-build-finance-maintain concession for the new headquarters of Canada's foreign intelligence and national cryptologic agency. Spanning over 84,000 square metres and scheduled for completion in 2015, the state-of-the-art facility will become the new home of Canada's national cryptologic agency. This project was awarded the 2011 North American Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year Award by Project Finance magazine.

• Acted for the Royal Canadian Military Institute in connection to the redevelopment of 426 University Avenue as a 42 storey mixed-use condominium project.

• Acted for Plenary Group and Innisfree Limited which were awarded a contract to design, build, finance and maintain a new, specialized mental health and outpatient medical services facility for St. Joseph's Healthcare. The new facility will provide more inpatient beds and more services than the current facility, and will have expanded outpatient clinics for psychiatry, diagnostic imaging and medical services, along with research and academic spaces.

• Acted for the Plenary Group which was awarded a contract by Infrastructure Ontario and the Province of Ontario to design, build, finance and maintain the new courthouse for the use and occupation by the Ministry of the Attorney General. This state-of-the-art facility will bring two existing courthouses (Superior Court of Justice and Ontario Court of Justice) into one facility in downtown Thunder Bay.

• Acted for Plenary Roads which led the successful consortium for the design, build, finance and maintain of the Disraeli Bridges project in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

• Acted for the Borealis Transportation Infrastructure Trust ("Borealis") which was an equal partner with Canadian Pacific Railway Company ("CPR") in the Jobs Tunnel (formerly Detroit River Tunnel), which operates a rail tunnel between Windsor and Detroit. On June 30, 2009, Borealis purchased an additional 33.5% interest in the partnership for aggregate proceeds of $110 million, increasing its total partnership interest to 83.5%. Borealis now owns 83.5% and CPR owns 16.5%, though their interests in certain assets of the partnership remain evenly split. Regulatory approvals for the transaction were required under the Competition Act (Canada), the Canada Transportation Act, 2006 and the International Bridges and Tunnels Act, 2007.

• Acted for the University of Waterloo in connection with the commercial "high tech" development of the 750 acre North Campus in Waterloo, Ontario.

• Acted for MaRS Discovery District in the RFP for the redevelopment of the 1 million square foot second phase of the MaRS Convergence Centre in downtown Toronto and currently acting in the commencement of such redevelopment by a subsidiary of MaRS. MaRS is a non-profit innovation centre connecting science, technology and social entrepreneurs with business skills, networks and capital to stimulate innovation and accelerate the creation and growth of successful Canadian enterprises.

• Acted for Plenary Group which was awarded a contract by Infrastructure Ontario to design, build, finance and maintain a multi-million dollar MGS Data Centre in Guelph, Ontario. Scheduled for completion in 2010, the new data centre, for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, will provide a major upgrade to Ontario's information technology support capacity. Plenary's contract covers a 30-year maintenance period. At the end of the 30-year maintenance period, Plenary Properties will have been paid approximately $637.2 million for the construction of the facility, building maintenance, lifecycle repair and renewal and project financing. In today's dollars this is equivalent to $352 million.

• Acted for Morgan Stanley Real Estate in connection with its acquisition of Three Sisters Mountain Village Ltd.

• Acted for Metro Toronto with respect to the structuring of lease/leaseback/licensing arrangements to create an effective financing vehicle for private sector funding in connection with the development of the BCL Amphi Arena Project, a 33,000-seat amphitheatre/arena to be located at Exhibition Place.

• Acted for the City of Toronto with respect to the new Exhibition Place Soccer Stadium (BMO Field) project. This project involved all aspects of development and construction, including requests for proposal processes, negotiation of development agreements, construction contracts and other related documentation.

• Acted for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation in the $1-billion development, financing and operation of the Niagara Falls Casino Complex/Gateway Project.