Lawyer Profile
Milosz A. Zemanek
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Milosz brings a strong combination of project finance skills and sophisticated commercial acumen to help clients develop and finance some of the largest and most complex energy and infrastructure projects in the country.
Milosz has deep project finance and project development experience in the energy and infrastructure industries. His clients benefit from his broad market coverage, having represented all principal parties across the spectrum of project finance transactions, including lenders, sponsors, equity investors, arrangers and underwriters, and service providers. Milosz plays a leading role on large and complex energy project financings, and his experience includes advising on industry-leading “first of kind” transactions in the energy space.
As the head of Torys’ Energy Storage Practice and a past chair of Energy Storage Canada, Milosz brings deep industry insights into energy storage developments in Canada and the U.S.
the 11-bank syndicate of lenders to Henvey Inlet Wind LP, a joint venture between Nigig Power Corporation and Pattern Energy Group LP, in the C$1.2 billion refinancing of the 300 MW Henvey Inlet Wind Project in northern Ontario, a deal which won Canadian Law Awards' 2022 Infrastructure & Projects Deal of the Year
a syndicate of banks led by Bank of Montreal in connection with the C$263 million project financing to develop, construct and operate Pattern Energy's and Samsung's 100 MW North Kent wind power project located in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, Ontario
The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company and Bayerische Landesbank as the lenders to Pattern Energy Group LP in the C$263 million construction-to-term financing to develop, construct and operate its 147 MW Mont Sainte-Marguerite Wind project in the Chaudière-Appalaches region, Québec
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank as the lenders in the project financing of the 33 MW Ohorayama Wind project in Kochi Prefecture, Japan owned by Pattern Energy Group LP and Green Power Investment Corporation
Milosz is a former director and chair of the board of Energy Storage Canada (2016-2021).
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2004 (ON); 2005 (NY)