Ella Plotkin is the Leader of the firm’s Global Infrastructure & Projects Group. Her practice focuses on project finance and development and public private partnerships. Ella has extensive experience advising on large scale infrastructure development matters and construction law.
Regularly advising procuring authorities, developers, contractors, and funders, Ella assists clients with all aspects of project development and finance in the infrastructure and energy sectors. Ella is part of the team currently advising the procuring authorities on the Ontario Line Subway Project, as well as the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus Redevelopment Project and WAHA Redevelopment Project in Ontario, both of which are procured using a progressive P3 model, and was part of the team advising the Government of Canada on the Gordie Howe International Bridge Project.
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 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 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.
Ella is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships and is a member of the Steering Committee for Women in Energy Canada.
Ella has been recognized in numerous industry publications as an expert in project development in finance including by Chambers Canada, Chambers Global, IFLR 1000, Who’s Who Legal and by Legal 500 Canada.
