IS YOUR LAW FIRM PREPARING YOUR BUSINESS FOR THE FUTURE? Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC) is a leading Canadian business law firm with more than 500 lawyers and one of Canada’s largest energy practices. With offices in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal and New York, FMC is a national firm with strengths in all of Canada’s leading business centres. MONT R É A L • OTTAWA • TORONTO • E DMONTON • CALGARY • VA NCOU VER • NEW YORK www.fmc-law.com CANADA’S ENERGY LAW FIRM NATIONAL STRENGTH, LOCAL DEPTH s compliance and regulatory approvals Unlike many national and regional law firms, FMC is s negotiations with First Nation organizations the only national law firm with a balanced practice in both Western and Eastern Canada. This makes FMC OUR ENERGY LAWYERS unique in its ability to service the day-to-day needs of its FMC’s lawyers are at the leading edge of issues related to clients in the renewable energy sector both locally and wind energy. It is this industry-centered approach which internationally while allowing us to draw on the strength has made our team unique in its ability to meet clients’ and depth of its national resources when needed. needs. MULTI-DISCIPLINARY WIND POWER Our team of lawyers is widely recognized for their EXPERIENCE expertise in the energy and renewable power industry. In 2008, Chambers & Partners, a leading international From wind power project structuring and financing to legal directory, ranked FMC as a leading Canadian energy development and operation, our lawyers have the expertise law firm. The rankings, which are based on peer and required to successfully navigate our clients through the client review, include commentary about FMC’s energy challenges that arise in the various stages of wind power practice: generation projects. Our clients, including public utilities, large independent power producers, commercial and “The excellent and impressive energy group at this industrial consumers of power, power marketers, financial international firm acts for national and international clients in institutions, institutional and non-traditional investors all oil and gas regulatory, environmental assessment, project and financial advisors, value the strength of this firsthand finance, infrastructure and tax matters, as well as renewable experience. power issues. It is one of the dominant regulatory firms in Calgary.” By calling upon their well-grounded and multi-disciplinary expertise, our lawyers have successfully guided clients Many of FMC’s lawyers have been named as leaders in the through: energy practice by other publications such as The 2008 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Lexpert/American Lawyer s project acquisition and financing Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Who’s Who s site acquisitions and land leases Legal and the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory. s responses to clean and renewable energy RFPs, and For more information about FMC’s wind energy practice the subsequent development of generation projects please contact any of the lawyers listed below: underpinned by purchase contracts s negotiation and preparation of power purchase Peter Harder, Senior Policy Advisor, Ottawa agreements, interconnection agreements, operation 613 783 9664 [email protected] and maintenance agreements, cost recovery John Hurley, Partner, Montréal agreements, joint venture agreements and standby 514 878 8826 [email protected] agreements s employment and immigration arrangements Helen Newland, Partner, Toronto 416 863 4471 [email protected] s structuring to optimize the tax benefits of a project s interpretation of and compliance with Provincial Miles Pittman, Partner, Calgary energy legislation, guidelines and codes, including 403 268 6313 [email protected] those that deal specifically with energy conservation Ron Stuber, Partner, Vancouver s environmental assessments and receipt of 604 443 7129 [email protected] subsequent permits and licenses s lobbying and strategic public policy advice Barry Zalmanowitz, Managing Partner, Edmonton 780 423 7344 [email protected] www.fmc-law.com/wind_energy At Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, our lawyers have extensive experience advising and representing project proponents, lending institutions, equipment suppliers and contractors in relation to the design, development, financing, construction and operation of wind energy production facilities. The following is a list of representative transactions and projects: Counsel to Counsel to Counsel to Counsel to NAIKUN WIND ENMAX CORP. EPCOR UTILITIES C-FREE POWER DEVELOPMENT INC. CORP. INC. in connection with the $16 million in connection with a junior developer in the negotiation acquisition of the acquisition of a of wind and water and structuring of Kettles Hill Wind 100-200 MW wind power projects, in a 320 MW offshore Energy Inc. by its power project in connection with a wind farm located subsidiary, ENMAX northern B.C. $4.2 million equity in the waters of Green Power Inc. financing with a Hecate Strait large European private equity fund Counsel to Counsel to Counsel to Counsel to THE LENDERS BORALEX THE LENDERS WIND POWER INC. in connection with in connection with in a $107.5 million in connection with the $144.3 million its acquisition of project financing the development, project financing of nine windfarms in connection with joint venturing (with a 99 MW wind farm in Southwestern windfarm projects a European wind project in Manitoba Ontario, including in Québec (54 MW) developer), and sale matters relating to and Nova Scotia of a wind power land acquisition, (30.6 MW) project in southern permitting, and Alberta municipal and zoning issues Counsel to Counsel to Counsel to a Counsel to a WINDLAB ENBRIDGE ONTARIO VANCOUVER- LEADING SYSTEMS PTY LTD. WINDPOWER L.P. BASED ADVANCED INDEPENDENT WIND PROJECT POWER PRODUCER an Australian in connection with windpower EPC contracts relating with an expected in the development developer, in to its Kingsbridge capacity of 100 of multiple wind farm connection with windpower project in MW in connection projects, totalling 900 the development of Ontario with strategic MW, for submission sites for wind power environmental and in Hydro-Québec projects in Alberta Aboriginal advice Distribution’s 2,000 MW wind energy RFP www.fmc-law.com/wind_energy.