Torys LLP has welcomed Kerri Lui as a Toronto-based corporate partner who will draw on her background of advising clients within the infrastructure, energy, and project development sectors to collaborate closely with the firm’s infrastructure and energy group.
According to the firm’s news release, Lui’s corporate transactional practice has focused on energy and infrastructure projects. She has handled both domestic and international projects and transactions.
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory has featured her as a leading lawyer who has been repeatedly recommended in the areas of energy (electricity) and infrastructure law.
Lui has helped acquirers, investors, developers, and joint ventures navigate matters involving mergers and acquisitions, project development, corporate governance, and strategic commercial arrangements.
Per the firm’s news release, her experience has also encompassed assisting financial institutions and borrowers with secured lending and project finance transactions, such as complex syndicated and cross-border mandates.
Before joining Torys LLP
According to her LinkedIn profile, Lui previously worked at McCarthy Tétrault LLP in the Greater Toronto Area, where she became a partner in January 2020, an associate in September 2012, and a summer/articling student in May 2010.
Through secondments from McCarthy Tétrault, she was a legal secondee at Aypa Power in 2020, an attorney at NextEra Energy Resources from 2015–2016, and an articling student at Scotiabank in 2012.
Lui also served as a policy research analyst at the Richard Ivey School of Business from 2008–2010, as an LSAT Instructor for The Princeton Review from 2008–2009, and as a research assistant at the Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights in 2009.
She gained admission to the Ontario bar in 2012. She earned her JD from the University of Toronto in 2011 and her HBA from Ivey Business School at Western University.
More Torys LLP news
According to an update from the Insolvency Institute of Canada, its board of directors approved new members that included Adam Slavens, a Toronto-based partner at Torys.
Last June, Torys announced that it had added Robert Froehlich as a Calgary-based partner in the firm’s energy group.
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