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Peter Murphy is an associate in Gowlings' Business Law Group, working out of the Firm's Toronto office. His practice has a special focus on energy and technology law.
Peter has extensive experience acting for clients in the energy industry. Peter advises Bruce Power LP on service agreements, fuel and equipment supply agreements and on technology and intellectual property matters. Peter has acted for Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation in its renegotiation of power purchase agreements with independent power generators, and has advised a major wind farm developer on project financing and service agreements relating to a new wind farm development project. Peter also provides commercial law, financing and regulatory advice to developers of solar photo-voltaic generating facilities and alternative fuel production facilities.
Peter's technology law expertise includes joint ventures, outsourcing, financing and intellectual property development, distribution, licensing, maintenance and support agreements. Peter advises technology law clients on a wide variety of technology law matters. For five months in 2006, Peter was seconded to a multinational technology company to work as part of its in-house legal department. While there, he acted as lead counsel on the negotiation of multiple international technology development, licensing and distribution contracts.
Peter's unique experience in energy, technology and financing law was recently recognized by the province of Ontario. Peter was invited to act as part of a multi-disciplinary team of top legal advisors drawn from a number of major law firms to advise Infrastructure Ontario and the province of Ontario on their selection of a nuclear technology vendor. As part of this legal team, Peter advised on the negotiation and drafting of Infrastructure Ontario's nuclear procurement RFP documentation and an agreement for the development of a two-unit nuclear power plant with a capacity of up to 3.5 GW.
Before joining Gowlings in 1999, Peter gained extensive experience in commercial law, including secured financing, mergers and acquisitions and real estate at the Toronto office of another of Canada's largest national law firms. Prior to entering law, Peter worked as a computer programmer in the business risk analysis department of the Ontario Share and Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Representative Work
Acted for a Canadian chartered bank on a $900,000,000 accounts receivable financing program
Acted for AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.) on multiple international technology development, licensing and distribution contracts
Advised on the international shipment and refurbishment of 10 multi-million dollar industrial motors
Was lead counsel on a long-term information technology outsourcing
Advised solar photo-voltaic generation developers on project structuring and energy law
Advised Ontario Centres of Excellence with respect to a thin-film solar photo-voltaic start-up venture, including related venture capital financing
Community Involvement
Peter has been involved in a variety of community initiatives, including co-management of a fundraising project for Big Brothers of Toronto.
Articles
2.11.10
Global Adjustment: A Political Time Bomb in Ontario, Canada
Topic: Policy, Regulatory & Legal Article Viewed 2817 Times;
27 comments Prior to April, 2009, most Ontario electricity consumers in Ontario, Canada paid little attention to the "Provincial Benefit" line item on their electricity bills. They had little reason to. Since its inception in 2005, the Provincial Benefit, known in Ontario's electricity industry as the Global Adjustment, was a relatively small adjustment on Ontario electricity consumers' electricity bills.
