Jana W Mansour

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Jana Mansour is National Co-chair of Dentons Canada’s Infrastructure and PPP group, and is also a member of our Construction and Project Finance groups. Based in Dentons’ Vancouver office, Jana advises owners, developers and contractors from early-stage consideration through financing, construction, operation and disposition of large-scale infrastructure, power and energy projects.

Jana represents owners and contractors in the negotiation of project agreements, including complex multi-phased engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, equipment supply contracts, construction management agreements, engineering contracts, operation and maintenance agreements and long-term service agreements. He regularly assists clients in the preparation, review and clarification of requests for proposals, and the preparation of compliant bids. Jana has also provided advice with respect diverse joint venture and governance arrangements, including joint bidding, consortium, partnership and shareholders’ agreements.

Jana has broad experience in the financing of projects, as well as the purchase and sale of equity interests in such projects, including assisting private equity funds in the assessment of operating assets. His project finance experience has featured a variety of lender syndicates, including commercial banks, as well as bilateral and multilateral agencies like the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).

Jana has dealt with a variety of assets and project locations, including wind and solar farms in Canada, the US and Mexico, gas-fired power plants and pipelines in the US and Mexico, a biofuel power plant in Hawaii, a large silver and zinc mine in Bolivia, a high speed rail concession in Brazil, rolling stock for New York City’s subway and Rome’s Metro, LNG and other port terminals in British Columbia, Texas, Mexico and Papua New Guinea, and nuclear power plants in Texas and Finland.

Jana began his legal career in Montréal before moving to New York City, where he practiced law for 17 years with two major international law firms. During 2010 - 2016, he was a partner in the Project Finance and Development Group of a major international law firm, based in New York.