Samantha Cunliffe

Samantha Cunliffe is a partner in the firm's Business Law Group in Vancouver and Co-Head of the National Infrastructure Group. Her practice focuses on the development, financing, and refinancing of complex infrastructure projects across Canada. She regularly advises borrowers, sponsors, and lenders on both the commercial and financing aspects of projects across a broad range of sectors, including fibre networks, water treatment facilities, schools, hospitals, roads, rail, and other transportation infrastructure.

Samantha has extensive experience acting on some of Canada's most significant infrastructure and project finance transactions. Her recent mandates include advising the successful consortium on the Alto High Frequency Rail Project; advising a developer on the financing and refinancing of various fibre projects across Canada; advising the lenders to the successful consortium on the Alberta Schools Bundle 5 Project; advising the lenders on the Mapleton Water Treatment Plant Project; and advising the successful consortium on ongoing matters relating to the Finch West LRT Project.

British Columbia Bar, 2009; Ontario Bar, 2018