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Partner | Leader, Global Infrastructure & Projects

Ella Plotkin is the Leader of the firm’s Global Infrastructure & Projects Group. Her practice focuses on project finance and development, banking, and public private partnerships. With considerable experience in infrastructure development and finance, Ella’s practice spans Canada and the U.S. as well as emerging markets.

Regularly advising lenders, developers, contractors, and procuring authorities, Ella assists clients with all aspects of project development and finance in the infrastructure, energy, telecom and natural resource sectors. Ella has advised the winning consortia (or their lenders) on multiple award winning P3 projects in Canada and the US including the DC Streetlighting Project, US36 Express Lanes/Bus Rapid Transit Project, the Pennsylvania Bridges Project, the Miami Dade Courthouse Project and Merced Campus (UC) Project in the US, as well as Eglinton Crosstown LRT and numerous other civil infrastructure and social infrastructure projects across Canada. Ella is part of the team advising the procuring authorities on the Ontario Line Subway Project, as well as the Ottawa Civic and WAHA Projects in Ontario, both of which are procured using a progressive P3 model.

Ella has advised the Province of Ontario on the financing of the Wataynikaneyap Project, involving the rollout of a 1,800 km transmission line to connect 16 remote First Nations communities in Northern Ontario, being the first majority Indigenous owned project to be developed in Canada, as well as numerous other projects in the energy sector. Ella is a member of the steering committee for Women in Energy Canada (WIECan).

Ella also has extensive experience advising on international project finance transactions. She acted in the largest private sector financing at the time in Romania (Mobifon S.A. – mobile GSM network.), the financing of the development of an oil and gas project in India by an international financial institution, and the financing by other international financial institutions of the development of an oil terminal in Georgia, a mine development in Turkey, multiple mobile GSM projects in Eastern and Central Europe, a major eucalyptus pulp mill in Uruguay and numerous other project finance transactions in emerging markets globally.