Kerri Lui is a partner in our Business Law Group in Toronto. She maintains a general corporate transactional practice with a focus on projects in the energy and defence industries.

In particular, Kerri has significant experience advising acquirers, joint ventures, investors and developers of various power generation assets in connection with private mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, procurements and project agreements. She has also frequently advised Canadian and international financial institutions and borrowers on secured lending and project finance transactions, including syndicated and cross-border deals.

In 2016, Kerri completed a six-month, full-time secondment to the Canadian in-house legal department of a major US-based power developer, where she advised on project agreements and corporate matters. In 2012, she completed a secondment to the in-house legal department of a major Canadian bank.

Kerri received a J.D. from the University of Toronto in 2011 and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (with distinction) from the Richard Ivey School of Business in 2008. During her legal studies, Kerri worked as a renewable energy policy research analyst and co-authored an article entitled “Policy Risk and Private Investment in Ontario’s Wind Power Sector”, which was published in Canadian Public Policy.

Kerri was called to the Ontario bar in 2012. She is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association and the Ontario Bar Association.

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

Kerri has acted as counsel to:

• Irving Shipbuilding Inc. in respect of its negotiations with Canada in connection with the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy and Irving’s contracts to develop and design 15 Canadian Surface Combatant Ships.
• East-West Tie Limited Partnership on its $427 million private placement note offering in respect of the East-West Tie Transmission Line
• A provincial government in an agreement in principal with the Government of Canada to restructure the financing of a hydroelectric generation station, one of the biggest financings in Canada
• OMERS in connection with its investment in the Bangalore Airport.
• Enwave Energy Corporation in connection with its Deep Lake Water Cooling Project.
• An Australian pension fund in the acquisition of a 49% undivided interest in eight Ontario hydroelectric facilities totalling 152 MW
• A global infrastructure fund’s acquisition of a material interest in a diversified, Canadian hydropower portfolio comprising 415 MW
• NextEra Energy Partners LP in its US$1.27 billion sale of wind and solar generation assets to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board