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• Acted for the Miami Access Tunnel consortium, comprised of Meridiam Infrastructure, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Transfield Services Ltd. for the design, build, finance, operation and maintenance of the US$1.3 billion greenfield Port of Miami Tunnel project. Davies also acted as lead counsel for the consortium on the financing of the Project, with the senior debt financing of US$340 million being provided through a club of 10 international banks and the subordinated debt financing of US$341 million being provided as a 35-year fixed rate loan by the United States Department of Transportation under the federal TIFIA (Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998) program. This project was awarded the 2009 Global PPP Deal of the Year by Project Finance magazine and the 2009 Americas PPP Deal of the Year by each of Project Finance International and Project Finance magazine.

• Acted for Access Justice Durham (sponsored by Babcock & Brown, and including PCL Constructors and Johnson Controls), the successful consortium which entered into an agreement to design, build, finance and maintain the Durham Consolidated Courthouse, the first availability payment PPP relating to courthouses in North America and the first project to be completed by Infrastructure Ontario. This project received the 2007 CCPPP Award of Merit for Project Financing.

• Acted for Access Justice St. Thomas, a consortium of Meridiam Infrastructure, PCL Constructors Canada Inc. and Honeywell Limited, in relation to the design, construction, finance and operations of the St. Thomas Consolidated Courthouse project.

• Acted for the lenders to the Rose City Parkway Group consortium (with Macquarie, Hochtief, Aecon and Fengate as sponsors), which was short-listed to design, build, finance and maintain the Windsor-Essex Parkway in Ontario.

• Acted for Accès Santé CHUM, a consortium including Fiera-Axium Infrastructure, Acciona S.A., HSBC Specialist Fund Management Limited, Pomerleau inc. and Verreault inc., which was short-listed to participate in a request for proposal from the Agence des partenariats public-privé du Québec and the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal ("CHUM") to design, build, finance and maintain the CHUM's new hospital centre. The CHUM is one of the largest university hospital centres to be procured in North America.

• Acted as lenders' counsel to Fiera Axium Infrastructure and Meridiam Infrastructure Finance S.A.R.L. in their bid for the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) Research Centre project.

• Acted for private equity firm Birch Hill Equity Partners Inc., TD Capital Group Ltd. and the other principal shareholders of Lift Technologies Inc. in the sale of Lift Technologies to Calvi Holdings of Italy.

• Acted for Woodbourne Investment Management on its provision of a $100-million financing of All Seniors Care Living Centres Inc.

• Acted for Cadim Inc. (a division of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) in connection with its partnership arrangements with Westmont Hospitality Group and Cadbridge Investors LP, and acted for Cadbridge and InnVest REIT in connection with their joint negotiated takeover bid for Legacy Hotels REIT in a transaction valued at approximately $2.5 billion.

• Acted as Canadian counsel for Man Financial Inc. (now MF Global Ltd.), a global broker for exchange-traded futures and options, in its negotiated acquisition of the Canadian operations of Refco Group Ltd.

• Acted for TrizecHahn Corporation and TrizecHahn Office Properties Ltd. in their disposition of the Canadian office portfolio for proceeds in excess of $2 billion.