Overview

Some of the data collected by this provider is for the purposes of personalization and measuring advertising effectiveness. Some of the data collected by this provider is for the purposes of personalization and measuring advertising effectiveness. David Eeles has over 25 years' experience representing project developers, sponsors, industrial hosts and other project participants in connection with the acquisition, development, construction, financing, operation, restructuring and disposition of energy, infrastructure and industrial projects, including renewable energy projects, power plants, cogeneration plants, heavy oil upgraders and public-private partnership projects. He has acted as the lead lawyer on a number of such projects, and acts for clients on a wide range of legal matters—from responding to and/or drafting competitive bid documentation, to structuring and creating legal entities to own and operate projects, to drafting and negotiating all manner of key project documents. In the electricity area, he represented the Alberta Electric System Operator in the development and competitive procurement of the Fort McMurray West 500 kV Transmission Project, an approximately 500 km, C$1.6 billion, high-voltage transmission line project between Edmonton and Fort McMurray. This project culminated in a C$1.4 billion bond financing in October 2017, making it the largest public-private partnership financing ever completed in Canada. This project was named P3 Deal of the Year in 2017 by Project Finance International, North America Transmission Deal of the Year by IJGlobal, and won the Gold Award for Project Financing in 2018 from the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.

Practice Areas

• Banking/Finance
• Commercial Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1996 (AB)