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Stikeman Elliott LLP is one of Canada's leading business law firms, with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver as well as in London, New York and Sydney. The firm is recognized as a Canadian leader in each of its core practice areas – corporate finance, M - A, corporate-commercial law, banking, structured finance, real estate, tax, insolvency, competition/antitrust, employment and business litigation – and is regularly retained by domestic and international companies in a wide range of industries including financial services, insurance, technology, telecommunication, transportation, manufacturing, mining, energy, infrastructure and retail.
The firm€™s Canadian offices are leaders in their respective jurisdictions and it has prominent cross-border expertise, as the first Canadian firm to open offices in London and New York, and extensive experience in the U.S., Europe, China, South and Southeast Asia as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. Our 500 lawyers include many of Canada€™s most prominent business practitioners and leading litigators, and our depth across practice areas enables clients to benefit from efficient, expert teams of lawyers at all levels. The firm has also invested heavily in leading-edge knowledge management and project management systems in order to assure our clients of advice of the highest quality.
Stikeman Elliott has been recognized by national and international legal directories as a Canadian leader in business law.
- #61502; #1 for Lexpert/American Lawyer ranked lawyers in M - A, Corporate Finance and Corporate-Commercial
- #61502; #1 for Lexpert ranked lawyers in M - A, Corporate Finance and Corporate-Commercial
- #61502; #1 in the Best Lawyers rankings for M - A, Securities, Corporate Law and International Arbitration
- #61502; Ranked Top-Tier in Corporate Law, M - A and Corporate Finance in Chambers Global€™s The World€™s Leading Lawyers and the International Financial Law Review IFLR 1000
The firm€™s National Litigation Group, whose specializations include class actions, securities litigation, antitrust and restructurings, has been ranked among the top three business litigation practices in Canada by Lexpert. The firm is also well known for its extensive regulatory and government relations expertise; the latter anchored by its office in Ottawa.
Stikeman Elliott was named as one of Canada€™s 50 Best Employers in 2010 and 2011 (as selected by Aon Hewitt), one of Canada€™s Top 100 Employers from 2009-2011, one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers and Best Employers for New Canadians for 2010 (each as selected by Mediacorp) and as one of Canada€™s €œGreen 30€? environmentally-friendly employers (as selected by Hewitt Associates, in partnership with Maclean€™s and Canadian Business magazines). The firm was the first national Canadian law firm to be certified as carbon neutral, as of 2008.
Project Finance
Our project finance capability draws on the skills of our banking, corporate, energy, real estate, securities and tax groups, as well as experience developed through our work on projects involving public-private partnerships and AFP structures. Our project finance experience spans a number of industries, including electric power co-generation and the development of other natural resources, real estate development and public and private-sector infrastructure financings. Our expertise covers unsecured and secured lending, by one lender or in syndication, as well as structured transactions.
Our broad-based experience in the sector gives us considerable insight into current market realities and the strategies employed to allocate, transfer and mitigate risks in the transaction. Our results-oriented approach and understanding of the various sectors accessing project finance allows us to provide significant strategic value to our clients.
Among many other projects, our recent Canadian project finance expertise includes acting in connection with: - #61502; the $622 million Bridgepoint Hospital project in Toronto;
- #61502; the proposed $1.86 billion Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) development project;
- #61502; the $266 million Northwest Anthony Henday Drive highway project in Alberta;
- #61502; the $942 million Goreway Station project in Ontario;
- #61502; the $518 million financing for development of the Harrison Lake hydroelectric facilities in British Columbia, the first monoline-insured bond deal of its kind in Canada; and
- #61502; the $329 million financing of a regional cancer centre in British Columbia.
Internationally, we have advised on a $450 million financing for a mine project in Russia and a US$1.3 billion public-private passenger rail project in Mexico, as well as other mine financing deals in Argentina, Guyana and South Africa, among others. We have also acted in connection with project financing for roads and public infrastructure projects in Asia, Africa and Australia.
Recognition for Our Work
Chambers Global€™s The World€™s Leading Lawyers for Business ranks our Project Finance and PPP/Infrastructure practice among Canada€™s leaders, citing lawyers in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. IFLR1000 notes the firm as a leader in project finance, while the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory identifies Stikeman Elliott banking and infrastructure finance lawyers in each of the four Canadian offices as leading practitioners in their field.
Public-Private Partnerships/Infrastructure
Major infrastructure projects require counsel with varied and in-depth expertise. Stikeman Elliott€™s Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)/Infrastructure Group has recent and ongoing involvement in some of the most challenging and innovative public infrastructure projects in Canada, and our extensive background makes the firm a leader, nationally and internationally, in the areas of public-private partnerships and infrastructure development and finance. The International Financial Law Review rates Stikeman Elliott as a €œTier 1€? firm for Projects, Chambers Global€™s The World€™s Leading Lawyers for Business ranks our PPP/Infrastructure practice among Canada€™s leaders, citing leading lawyers in our Vancouver, Toronto and Montréal offices, while The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory identifies Stikeman Elliott infrastructure finance lawyers in each of these offices as leading practitioners in their field.
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 Canada۪s most prominent public infrastructure projects, having advised in connection with the development, design, construction and financing of a variety of projects in Ontario, Qu̩bec, 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: - #61502; 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.
- #61502; RCMP E-Division headquarters, the first PPP by the Canadian federal government.
- #61502; Toronto South Detention Centre, a 1,650-bed maximum security facility development in Toronto.
- #61502; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, an approximately $200 million, 450,000 square foot capital redevelopment project in Toronto.
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