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Brent Thomas has a broad banking and finance practice where he acts for both borrowers and lenders on all types of commercial debt financing transactions, including syndicated financing, cross-border financing, acquisition financing, asset-based lending, project financing and secured transactions. Brent also has significant experience assisting a variety of stakeholders on complex infrastructure and public-private partnership (P3) projects, including responding to government RFPs and acting for purchasers and sellers on M&A transactions in the secondary P3 market.



Representative Matters

  • Counsel to Bird Construction Inc. as borrower under a $200 million syndicated credit facility with Bank of Montreal as lead arranger, bookrunner and administrative agent, and The Toronto-Dominion Bank, ATB Financial and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as lenders.
  • Counsel to a bidding consortium in connection with the Edmonton Valley Line West LRT Project in Edmonton.
  • Counsel to the finance parties in connection with the successful closing of the $967.5 million project financing transaction to design, build and finance the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project in British Columbia.
  • Counsel to the finance parties in connection with the successful closing of the $70 million project financing transaction to design, construct, finance and maintain long-term care facilities in Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor in Newfoundland.
  • Counsel to the design-build joint venture in connection with the successful closing of the $4.6 billion project financing transaction to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Hurontario LRT Project in Ontario.
  • Counsel to the finance parties in connection with the successful closing of the $633 million project financing transaction to design, build, finance, maintain and rehabilitate an extension of the existing Trillium Line in Ottawa.

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Rankings & Recognitions

  • Counsel to the finance parties in connection with the successful closing of the $6 billion project to design, build and finance the Ontario Line – Southern Civil, Stations and Tunnel Project in Ontario
  • Counsel to the equity sponsors of the ONLineLinx consortium in support of its bid to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Ontario Line – Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations and Maintenance (RSSOM) Project in Ontario
  • Counsel to ONxpress Operations Inc. in connection with the successful closing of the progressive design, build, operations and maintenance of the GO Rail Expansion – On-Corridor Works Project in Ontario
  • Counsel to equity sponsors of the Concert-Bird Partners consortium in connection with the successful closing of the project financing transaction to design, build, finance, operate and maintain five new high schools in Alberta

Education & Admissions

2018
Called to the Ontario bar
2017
JDWestern University
2012
BARyerson University

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Ottawa LRT and the Future of P3s: Public (interest), Private (collaboration) & (meaningful) Partnerships

A summary of the Commission’s key recommendations arising from the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Public Inquiry regarding the public-private-partnership (P3) model.

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Dec 5, 2022
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Rules for Control of Electronic Chattel Paper – Ontario’s Push to Modernize the Personal Property Security Act

On Friday, May 15, 2020, the electronic chattel paper amendments to the Ontario PPSA finally came into force, nearly a year after receiving royal assent.

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May 18, 2020
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Federal Government Relief Programs for Small and Medium Enterprises

Federal Government Relief Programs for Small and Medium Enterprises

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Apr 24, 2020

Deals & Cases (9 Posts)

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Canada Infrastructure Bank invests up to $100 Million in Ameresco as Part of the Building Retrofits Initiative

McMillan LLP acted as counsel to the Canada Infrastructure Bank (“CIB”) on its financing to Ameresco Canada Inc. (“Ameresco”) as part of the Building Retrofits Initiative (BRI)

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Mar 31, 2023
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Ontario Line Southern Civil, Stations and Tunnel Project

On November 8, 2022, Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx reached Financial Close on a $6 billion fixed-price contract with Ontario Transit Group, a consortium comprised of Ferrovial Construction Canada Inc. and VINCI Construction Grands Projets, to design, build and finance the Ontario Line Southern Civil, Stations and Tunnel Project.

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Nov 8, 2022
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GO Rail Expansion On Corridor Project

On April 14, 2022, Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario, together with ONxpress Transportation Partners, reached Commercial Close in respect of the GO Rail Expansion On Corridor Project for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Region, marking the start of the Project’s Development Phase.

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Apr 14, 2022
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BBGI Global Infrastructure Invest $41 Million in Canada’s First Public-Private Partnership Project in the Hydropower Sector

On February 4, 2022, BBGI Global Infrastructure S.A. reached financial close on a $41 million investment in InPower BC General Partnership, the project company responsible for the John Hart Generating Station Replacement Project.

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Feb 4, 2022
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Five New High Schools Being Built Under a DBFM Contract in Alberta

On September 28, 2021, Concert-Bird Partners reached financial close on its $300 million Alberta P3 school bundle, “Five New High Schools in Alberta Project.” 

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Sep 28, 2021
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Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project Reaches Financial Close

On February 10, 2020, Aecon Group Inc. (TSX: ARE) announced that Fraser Crossing Partners had reached financial close on the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project in British Columbia.

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Feb 1, 2020
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Hurontario LRT

On October 21, 2019, the Mobilinx consortium reached financial close of the CAD$4.6 Billion DBFOM contract with Infrastructure Ontario (“IO”) and Metrolinx for the Hurontario Light Rail Transit (“LRT”) Project in Ontario.

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Oct 21, 2019
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Gander and Grand Falls Windsor LTC

On June 14, 2019 the Fengate-led consortium Newfoundland and Labrador Healthcare Partners (NL Healthcare Partners) announced its financial close for the Gander and Grand Falls Windsor Care Homes infrastructure project.

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Jun 14, 2019
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Ottawa’s Trillium Line South Extension

On March 29, 2019, the City of Ottawa and TransitNEXT reached financial close on the Stage 2 Trillium Line south extension, a key component of Ottawa’s C$2.366 billion Stage 2 LRT project.

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Mar 29, 2019