Canada: Project Finance/PPP & PFI

Finance has evolved from a supporting function to a strategic driver in aerospace and defence, shaping how organisations fund innovation, manage risk and deliver complex programmes. As capital requirements grow and economic pressures mount, financial strategy is becoming central to competitiveness and long-term resilience in an increasingly uncertain global market.

Infrastructure projects increasingly rely on collaborative delivery models that challenge traditional risk allocation frameworks. As capital markets evolve and financing sources diversify, the tension between collaborative approaches and conventional bankability requirements creates new structural challenges that demand innovative solutions from owners, contractors, lenders, and equity providers.

Project finance raises long-term debt and equity against the project's assets and future cash flows rather than against sponsor balance sheets. Lenders will not commit capital...

On November 4, 2025, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the 2025 federal budget (Budget 2025). Budget 2025 contains significant infrastructure announcements across five major categories: trade and transport infrastructure, community and core public infrastructure, housing delivery and financing, defence and security infrastructure, and critical minerals and clean economy enablers.

Big infrastructure projects pose complex legal challenges. Design and scheduling issues can give rise to complications on any construction project; however, big projects involve additional demands...

On October 17, 2023, the Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks (the "Ministry") published a Proposal Notice (the "Proposal")...

Canadian financial institutions will soon be mandated to assess the human rights consequences associated with their project finance loans.

As we approach the end of the year, owners of private companies often ask, "If I need to take money out of my corporation, should I pay myself a bonus or a dividend?"

Litigation funding is gaining in popularity among plaintiffs, especially corporate litigants who could fund their own litigation but are looking at litigation funding as a form of project finance.