Samantha Cunliffe is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Infrastructure and Project Finance groups in Vancouver. Her practice is primarily focused on the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects. She regularly acts for borrowers and lenders on both the commercial and financing aspects of public-private partnership projects in a wide range of industry sectors including organics, water treatment, social infrastructure, road, rail and other transportation. Recent transactions include advising the successful bidder on the CCPPP-award-winning Edmonton Valley Line West Project and the lenders to the successful bidder on theIFLR1000-award-winning Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre Project. Samantha is also advising a bidder on the Go Rail Expansion On-Corridor Project. Samantha is a called to the Bars in British Columbia and Ontario and is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, Vancouver Bar Association, Law Society of British Columbia, and Law Society of Ontario.
Governments are still prepared to invest in infrastructure to keep the economy moving, but increased costs in the COVID era mean the private sector is seeking relief from the public sector
