Josh leverages years of professional experience in the renewable energy sector to help his clients strategically balance risk tolerances with business objectives. 

Josh is an associate lawyer in the firm’s Financial Services Group in Vancouver. He maintains a corporate, commercial, and debt-finance practice with a focus on renewable energy and infrastructure projects. Josh has advised clients in the energy, infrastructure, natural resources, financial services, private equity, manufacturing, consumer products and technology sectors on mandates related to credit facilities (bilateral and syndicated), debt securities (secured and unsecured, public and private), other debt transactions, corporate and project development, and environmental, regulatory, and Aboriginal matters. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Josh spent multiple years consulting in the renewable energy industry. 

Josh obtained his JD (Environmental and Natural Resources Law Specialization) from the Peter A. Allard School of Law, where he was the Class of 2022 Valedictorian. At law school, Josh received a certificate in Indigenous cultural competency and served as co-president of the Allard Law and Business Society and External Relations Director for the UBC Environmental Law Group. Josh also spent a semester as a corporate counsel extern with a large energy utilities company, allowing him to understand business decision making in company risk areas. 

Josh was called to the British Columbia bar in 2023 and is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia. He holds a BSc in Natural Resources Conservation from the UBC Faculty of Forestry, where he continues to mentor undergraduate students interested in careers in policy and law through the UBC Forestry Tri-Mentoring Program. 

Some of Josh’s recent mandates include:

• Advising owners, operators, managers and developers of wind, solar and hydroelectric electricity projects across Canada on the financing, refinancing and corporate and commercial structuring of their projects
• Advising Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. in connection with its financing of three hydroelectric facilities with The Canada Life Assurance Company for C$179.9 million
• Advising Scotia Capital Inc. in connection with its role as agent bank in the issue and sale through private placement of C$52 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured amortizing bonds by Skyline Clean Energy Limited Partnership, an investment vehicle focused on investing in renewable and clean energy production with a focus on rooftop solar 
• Advising a syndicate of lenders including the Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank of Canada, and CaixaBank as lenders and hedge providers for the contract to design, build, and finance the 1Door4Care hospital project at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
• Advising Interfor Corporation in connection with its issuance of an aggregate principal amount of US$200 million Series H senior secured notes with Prudential Private Capital
• Advising a major forestry company on a debt reorganization involving the exchange of secured bonds, termination of existing financing arrangements and establishment of new credit facilities
• Advising Vantage Airport Group Ltd., as Canadian borrower, in connection with its upsizing of a credit facility with, among others, a syndicate of lenders led by MGG Investment Group LP, as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, to support the acquisition of additional ownership interest in LaGuardia Gateway Partners, the developer and manager of LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B
• Advising Methanex Corporation in connection with its amended and restated credit agreement with Royal Bank of Canada, as Agent and a syndicate of Canadian and International lenders to, among other things, upsize the credit facilities established thereunder to a maximum authorized borrowing of US$500,000,000
• Advising Corby Spirit and Wine and Ace Beverage Group in connection with the financing of their acquisition of the assets and branding of Nude Beverages