Senior Vice President & General Counsel
As Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Paul is responsible for managing legal and commercial issues across Plenary’s portfolio at both the corporate and project levels.
Paul has more than 20 years of project finance and public-private partnership (P3) experience in North America, Europe and Asia as a lawyer and, at Plenary, as Co-Head of the Project Structuring & Investment Group. In that role, he provided executive oversight for teams bidding, closing and delivering dozens of P3 projects in Canada and the United States under a variety of risk allocation approaches and sectors, including the Ontario Line Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations and Maintenance (RSSOM) project (Ontario), the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Phase 1C project (Ontario), the University of Idaho Utility System P3 concession (Idaho), and the East Rail Maintenance Facility project (Ontario).
Prior to joining Plenary in 2012, Paul practiced as a corporate and project finance lawyer in New York, Washington, D.C., and Toronto. Paul is a graduate of the University of Auckland, the London School of Economics and New York University School of Law, and a Member of the Law Society of Ontario and the New York Bar.