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Overview

Creative, innovative and structured financial solutions are vital to any large-scale project. Ensuring you have legal advice you can trust is key to the management of risk and reward and securing your success. Our lawyers have a proven track record across the project finance lifecycle and can advise on all aspects of your financing needs.

As decarbonisation, sustainability and efficiency, and the transmission and storage of power and data continue to be economic priorities, it is clear that investment in areas such as construction and infrastructure, telecommunications and energy will grow over the short, mid and long term. Acting for both sponsors and funders, we structure finance solutions across numerous sectors. Whether helping clients finance projects in new jurisdictions or brokering international deals covering multiple regions, we offer seamless legal advice built on real knowledge and experience.

To take your project from vision to reality, you need a legal adviser with in-depth knowledge of financing techniques, industry-specific experience and a practical, solutions-oriented approach. With a team of skilled project finance lawyers in key regions across Canada, we are well equipped to lay a strong financing foundation for your project - regardless of its size, complexity or location.

As one of Canada's largest infrastructure and construction law firms, our professionals advise clients across the lifecycle of construction and infrastructure projects - from design and procurement to completion and dispute resolution. Our project finance practice includes infrastructure and large project financing, PPP project financing, and large development project credit facilities.

We are a qualified service provider to all six major domestic Canadian banks, as well as several foreign banks, and have widespread relationships with other major financial institutions. Our leading-edge advice on emerging technologies and unique product offerings combined with our deep sector experience ensures we can support all of your project finance needs.

We are also proud to offer our clients access to one of the largest Indigenous law practice groups in Canada, with many project financings performed in this area.

Project finance services

  • Alternative debt
  • Bespoke debt solutions
  • Construction project debt
  • Export credit agency finance
  • Indigenous financing
  • Infrastructure funds providing senior debt
  • Islamic finance solutions
  • Land acquisition and development credit facilities
  • Mezzanine finance
  • Public-private partnership (PPP) financing
  • Royalty and streaming finance
  • Senior secured and unsecured lending
  • Structured debt solutions
  • Sub-debt and second lien lending
  • Syndicated, club and joint venture transactions


Creative, innovative and structured financial solutions are vital to any large-scale project. Ensuring you have legal advice you can trust is key to the management of risk and reward and securing your success. Our lawyers have a proven track record across the project finance lifecycle and can advise on all aspects of your financing needs.

As decarbonisation, sustainability and efficiency, and the transmission and storage of power and data continue to be economic priorities, it is clear that investment in areas such as construction and infrastructure, telecommunications and energy will grow over the short, mid and long term. Acting for both sponsors and funders, we structure finance solutions across numerous sectors. Whether helping clients finance projects in new jurisdictions or brokering international deals covering multiple regions, we offer seamless legal advice built on real knowledge and experience.

To take your project from vision to reality, you need a legal adviser with in-depth knowledge of financing techniques, industry-specific experience and a practical, solutions-oriented approach. With a team of skilled project finance lawyers in key regions across Canada, we are well equipped to lay a strong financing foundation for your project - regardless of its size, complexity or location.

As one of Canada's largest infrastructure and construction law firms, our professionals advise clients across the lifecycle of construction and infrastructure projects - from design and procurement to completion and dispute resolution. Our project finance practice includes infrastructure and large project financing, PPP project financing, and large development project credit facilities.

We are a qualified service provider to all six major domestic Canadian banks, as well as several foreign banks, and have widespread relationships with other major financial institutions. Our leading-edge advice on emerging technologies and unique product offerings combined with our deep sector experience ensures we can support all of your project finance needs.

We are also proud to offer our clients access to one of the largest Indigenous law practice groups in Canada, with many project financings performed in this area.

Project finance services

  • Alternative debt
  • Bespoke debt solutions
  • Construction project debt
  • Export credit agency finance
  • Indigenous financing
  • Infrastructure funds providing senior debt
  • Islamic finance solutions
  • Land acquisition and development credit facilities
  • Mezzanine finance
  • Public-private partnership (PPP) financing
  • Royalty and streaming finance
  • Senior secured and unsecured lending
  • Structured debt solutions
  • Sub-debt and second lien lending
  • Syndicated, club and joint venture transactions


Key contacts

Chris Alam

Christopher N. Alam

Partner

Lending Practice Group Leader

Toronto
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Client work

Projects and Infrastructure - Project Finance - Client Work - NAV Canada

NAV Canada

NAV Canada

Counsel to NAV Canada with respect to an issuance of $850 million of general obligation notes in two series on a private placement basis pursuant to exemptions from the prospectus requirements of applicable Canadian securities laws.
Projects and Infrastructure - Project Finance - Client Work - ACCIONA

ACCIONA

ACCIONA

Counsel to the Fraser Crossing Partners consortium as it reached financial close on the $967.5 million contract to design, build and partially finance the Pattullo Bridge DBF project.
Projects and Infrastructure - Project Finance - Client Work - ACCIONA and Aecon

ACCIONA and Aecon

ACCIONA and Aecon

Counsel to ACCIONA as it reached financial close on the $1.728 billion contract to design and build the Vancouver Broadway Subway project.
Projects and Infrastructure - Project Finance - Client Work - NAV Canada

NAV Canada

NAV Canada

Counsel to NAV Canada with respect to an issuance of $850 million of general obligation notes in two series on a private placement basis pursuant to exemptions from the prospectus requirements of applicable Canadian securities laws.
Projects and Infrastructure - Project Finance - Client Work - ACCIONA

ACCIONA

ACCIONA

Counsel to the Fraser Crossing Partners consortium as it reached financial close on the $967.5 million contract to design, build and partially finance the Pattullo Bridge DBF project.
Projects and Infrastructure - Project Finance - Client Work - ACCIONA and Aecon

ACCIONA and Aecon

ACCIONA and Aecon

Counsel to ACCIONA as it reached financial close on the $1.728 billion contract to design and build the Vancouver Broadway Subway project.
Projects and Infrastructure - Project Finance - Client Work - NAV Canada

NAV Canada

NAV Canada

Counsel to NAV Canada with respect to an issuance of $850 million of general obligation notes in two series on a private placement basis pursuant to exemptions from the prospectus requirements of applicable Canadian securities laws.
Projects and Infrastructure - Project Finance - Client Work - ACCIONA

ACCIONA

ACCIONA

Counsel to the Fraser Crossing Partners consortium as it reached financial close on the $967.5 million contract to design, build and partially finance the Pattullo Bridge DBF project.
Projects and Infrastructure - Project Finance - Client Work - ACCIONA and Aecon

ACCIONA and Aecon

ACCIONA and Aecon

Counsel to ACCIONA as it reached financial close on the $1.728 billion contract to design and build the Vancouver Broadway Subway project.
Projects and Infrastructure - Project Finance - Client Work - NAV Canada

NAV Canada

NAV Canada

Counsel to NAV Canada with respect to an issuance of $850 million of general obligation notes in two series on a private placement basis pursuant to exemptions from the prospectus requirements of applicable Canadian securities laws.

Awards and accolades

Our team is repeatedly recognized in the industry by a wide range of awards and directories, including Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Lexpert and Acritas. The annual Lexpert survey of leading infrastructure firms consistently includes more Gowling WLG lawyers than any other.
In 2020, our firm was co-awarded the OCNI Export Award for our work on the US$35- billion Al-Dabaa nuclear power plant in Egypt. We also received the Chairman's Award in 2020 by the Alberta Construction Association.
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