Overview

With excellent business instincts from his extensive experience and network in the energy sector, Seán brings insightful solutions and strategic prowess to help clients with their most complex matters.
Seán O’Neill is Co-Head of the Firm's National Energy Group and a partner in our Business Law Group in Toronto.
Seán has significant experience representing acquirers, investors, developers and financiers of a variety of energy assets, including renewable, conventional and nuclear power generation facilities, electricity transmission and distribution systems and energy transition projects. He regularly represents sponsors in structuring and settling joint ventures for project development and negotiating commercial agreements, including power purchase arrangements, behind-the-fence energy services and management and operation contracts.  He has assisted both financial institutions and borrowers with project financings of energy projects across Canada and in the US. He has advised numerous clients in their successful responses to energy procurements in most provinces of Canada.
Seán received his B.Comm. from the University of Alberta in 1987 and his JD from the University of Toronto in 1995.
Leading Lawyer: Energy: Power (Transactional) - Canada
Leading Lawyer: Energy and Natural Resources – Power
Leading Lawyer: Corporate Commercial Law; Energy (Electricity); Infrastructure Law; Project Finance
Leading Lawyer: Energy Law; Energy Regulatory Law; Project Finance Law
Highly Regarded: Project Development, Banking, Project Finance, M&A, Energy

Practice Areas

• Banking/Finance
• Natural Resources & Energy
• Corporate & Commercial Law
• Privacy Law
• Information Technology Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1997 (ON)