22 Adelaide St W, Suite 3400, Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2008 (ON)
John Vellone is a partner in BLG's Toronto office and national leader of Energy, Resources and Renewables Sector, encompassing the Power, Oil & Gas, Mining, and Forestry sectors. He has a comprehensive energy law practice covering a breadth of corporate, commercial and regulatory issues with a particular focus on Canadian electricity markets and infrastructure revitalization. His clients include provincial and territorial governments, system operators, regulated utilities, developers, investors, and lenders. He provides counsel concerning corporate, commercial and regulatory aspects of the electricity and natural gas industries and power project development for a variety of technologies, including battery storage, wind, solar, hydro-electric, nuclear, biomass/biogas, tidal, natural gas, and co-generation (combined heat and power) district energy. Vellone represents clients in proceedings before provincial regulatory agencies, primarily the Ontario Energy Board. He also advises management and boards on ESG matters including corporate governance best practices, sustainability mandates and net-zero initiatives. He is recognized in Chambers Global and Chambers Canada: Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business (Energy - Power: Regulatory). Called to the Ontario Bar in 2008.
Capital Power Corporation completed its acquisition of Goreway Power Station Holdings Inc., which owns the Goreway Power Station, from JERA Co., Inc. (JERA) and Toyota Tsusho Corporation for a total of $977 million.
