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Clients note: "Blakes provides strong commercial awareness and pragmatic advice to suit our business needs. They have enhanced energy regulatory expertise."

Chambers Global Legal Guide 2025

The Blakes Power group has advised on diverse issues impacting power and energy-related projects, including thermal, gas-fired and combined heat and power (CHP), nuclear, district energy, and renewable energy (including wind, solar, hydro and biomass) projects. Owners and developers of electricity-generating projects, energy suppliers and consumers, and electricity traders regularly seek our guidance on a broad range of topics, including the impact of evolving markets, facilities operations, management, development, operation and financing of power projects, compliance with wholesale electricity market rules and environmental requirements, Indigenous matters, power supply, transmission and distribution challenges, and a host of other energy law issues.

Our team of lawyers are actively engaged in advising clients on the successful financing of capital-intensive projects. We have served as counsel in many of the largest and most complicated project finance transactions across Canada and internationally.

Clients rely on us because of our successes with respect to many of the largest and most high-profile projects in Canada. Our clients appreciate our comprehensive knowledge of financing techniques and access to capital, as well as our ability to anticipate problems and devise strategies to mitigate risks.

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