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Band 4

Energy: Power (Transactional)

Nationwide - Canada

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About

Provided by Robert Blackstein

Canada

Practice Areas

Energy: Power

Corporate Commercial

Private Equity

Infrastructure

Mergers & Acquisitions

Team North®

Private Equity & Venture Capital

Storage

Indigenous Power

Career

Rob Blackstein is a seasoned corporate and transactional lawyer and co-chair of BLG's Electricity Markets Group in Toronto. Rob is involved in all aspects of the energy and infrastructure industries, from upstream structuring between investors down to the project level, including project development, debt and equity financings, construction, operations, mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions, both domestic and cross-border.

Rob works on a wide range of infrastructure and energy projects and transactions for public authorities, owners, lenders, equity providers, operators, customers, developers and design-builders. His experience in Canada's energy is extensive and spans transmission, distribution and generation (solar, wind, hydroelectric, gas and nuclear), district energy projects and hydrogen. Rob acts on a number of the sector's most significant and marquee energy and infrastructure transactions, including complex bilateral arrangements as well as number of “first of a kind" projects. Rob also acts on the formation and structuring of various project and investment vehicles, including energy and infrastructure funds, and has represented fund sponsors and institutional investors in connection with such transactions. On large scale infrastructure projects, Rob acts for public authorities, developers and design-builders in a number of areas, including hospital projects, toll roads, rail and ports.

Rob is involved in a number of industry associations and is the Chair of the Toronto Board of Trade's Energy Transition Committee, a cross-sectoral committee that aims to develop a sustainable, reliable and affordable energy system in the Toronto Region in order to enable business growth.

Professional Memberships

Member, Canadian Bar Association

Personal

Chair, Toronto Board of Trade's Energy Transition Committee

Volunteer board member, John G. Althouse Before and After School Program

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Bar Admission

Ontario, 2006

Education

University of Windsor

LLB

2005

University of Detroit Mercy School of Law

JD

2005

Queen's University

BA (Hons.)

2002

Chambers Review

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Chambers Canada Guide

Energy: Power (Transactional) - Nationwide - Canada

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Band 4
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Robert Blackstein focuses on project development, financing and operations. He is involved in various aspects of the energy industry, including electricity transmission, carbon capture, and indigenous investment into energy projects. Robert is the co-chair of Borden Ladner Gervais' Electricity Markets Group in Toronto.

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