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Partner

McCarthy Tétrault LLP is a law firm with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montréal and Québec City, as well as London, UK.

Richard’s practice focuses on project finance as well as corporate and structured lending. He advises banks, pension funds and other financial institutions as well as borrowers, including many developers, in the development and financing of projects in the infrastructure, mining and energy sectors. Richard appears as a leading lawyer in banking law in the 2016 edition of Best Lawyers in Canada, is recommended as a leading lawyer in the 2015 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in the areas of banking law, project finance and asset securitization, is recommended as a leading infrastructure lawyer in the 2015 edition of Lexpert Guide on Infrastructure and is recommended as a leading lawyer in global mining in the 2015 edition of the Lexpert Guide on Global Mining.His recent experience includes:acting for other developers and financial institutions in various renewable energy project financings;acting for the successful proponent in connection with the development of new McGill University Health Centre, which PPP project won Project Finance International’s 2010 Award for Deal of the Year (Americas) and the 2010 Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships’ Gold Award for Project Financing; acting for a lender and equity holder in connection with $944 million financing of Stornoway Renard Diamond mining project; acting for the equity and lending syndicates in connection with a capital markets platform established by the Montréal airports authority totalling over $1 billion; acting for a number of lending syndicates and borrowers in the forestry, manufacturing, energy, telecommunication, transportation, agribusiness and retail sectors. Specialties: Financial ServicesCapital MarketsMiningEnergy Secured Lending & Project FinanceStructured Finance & SecuritizationInfrastructureClean Technology