Provided by Ella Plotkin
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 an 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.
Provided by Chambers
Leading the firm's infrastructure and projects group out of Toronto, Ella Plotkin covers a breadth of project finance matters pertaining to infrastructure and project development. She is sought after for her handling of mandates covering sectors including transportation and energy.
Provided by Chambers
Ella is a fantastic drafter and technical lawyer.
Ella Plotkin draws on her deep well of experience to develop creative solutions to complex problems. She is fiercely protective of her clients' interests but sensitive to the commercial context.
Ella is very organised, detail-oriented, and a strong drafter and problem solver. She is great to work with.
Ella Plotkin is diligent in her work and extremely insightful.
Ella is a fantastic drafter and technical lawyer.
Ella Plotkin draws on her deep well of experience to develop creative solutions to complex problems. She is fiercely protective of her clients' interests but sensitive to the commercial context.
Ella is very organised, detail-oriented, and a strong drafter and problem solver. She is great to work with.
Ella Plotkin is diligent in her work and extremely insightful.
