Lawyer Profile
Stephen Neil
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Drawing on his significant transactional experience and deep technical skill, Stephen provides strategic advice to prominent institutional investors and other businesses on their complex and important transactions.
Stephen practices corporate law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. He has experience in public and private acquisitions and divestitures, consortium transactions, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements and other complex corporate matters, with a particular focus on transactions in the infrastructure and energy sector. He has represented some of Canada’s largest private equity firms, pension plans, asset managers and financial institutions.
Torys acted as counsel to Ontario Power Generation in the up to C$3 billion innovative equity investment by Canada Growth Fund and Building Ontario Fund in the Darlington New Nuclear Project, a project involving the construction of up to four grid-scale commercial small modular reactors
Torys acted as counsel to Canadian Western Bank in its C$5.3 billion sale to National Bank of Canada, one of the six largest banks in Canada
OMERS Infrastructure and Enbridge Transmission Holdings in the C$261 million sale of their combined interest in the East-West Tie Limited Partnership to Hydro One Networks Inc.
Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure in its acquisition of an 80% equity interest in the Sharp Hills Wind Farm, one of the largest onshore wind farms in Canada, from EDP Renewables Canada Ltd.
Sunwing in its sale of Sunwing Vacations Inc. and Sunwing Airlines, Inc. to the WestJet Group of companies
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2015 (ON)