Timothy John Murphy

Partner


Toronto

Tel : 416.865.7908
Fax : 416.865.7048

Email : tim.murphy@mcmillan.ca
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Professional Experience Tim Murphy's practice focuses on transactions with a public component with a particular emphasis on public private partnerships and on assisting governments and the private sector on broader public policy issues. In a wide array of areas, including infrastructure, energy and health care, Tim brings extensive experience in the public sector and combines it with expertise in project finance and construction law. Formerly Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Canada, Tim provided strategic advice and direction to the Cabinet, the Prime Minister and to senior levels of the public service. His public sector experience also includes serving as Chief of Staff to the Finance Minister of Canada, as a Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario and as a strategic advisor to governments at all levels.

As a lawyer, Tim has advised national and international clients in diverse areas including finance, construction law, infrastructure and renewable energy, government procurement and bid practices generally. Tim is ranked in Projects by Chambers Global and PLC Which Lawyer. Canadian Legal Lexpert and IFLR 1000 ranks Tim as a "Leading Lawyer" in Project Finance. Tim was also nominated by in-house counsel and his peers to appear in the 1st edition of the Guide to the World's Leading Banking Finance and Transactional Attorneys in the field of Project Finance.

Tim is currently teaching the Law and Policy of Public Private Partnerships at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and was recently a sessional professor of Securities Regulation at the Queen's University Faculty of Law.
Representative Transactions

  • Counsel to Metrolinx with respect to the Air Rail Link transit project
  • Counsel to the successful private sector consortium in connection with each of the following:
    • the financing, design, construction and maintenance of the new Oakville Hospital Project
    • the design, building, financing and maintenance of the St. Thomas Consolidated Court House
    • the design, building, financing and maintenance of the Ontario Highway Services Centres Project
    • the building and financing of the Lakeridge Health Project
    • the building and financing of the Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation Henderson General Hospital
    • the building and financing of the Bluewater Health Capital Redevelopment Project in Sarnia, Ontario
    • the building and financing of the Rouge Valley Health System Project
    • the building and financing of the London Health/St. Joseph Health Centres
  • Counsel to private sector bidders in connection with:
    • Drivers' Examination Services Project
    • Barrie Transit Project
    • GO East Transportation Maintenance Facility Project
    • Billy Bishop Airport Tunnel Project
    • the Runnymede Healthcare Centre
    • the Credit Valley Hospital
    • Toronto South Detention Centre
  • Counsel to Infrastructure Ontario
  • Counsel to the lenders to the bidding consortium for Moncton Court House Project
  • Counsel to the owner/developer with respect to the construction of a $120 million warehouse Facility
  • Counsel to Export Development Canada with respect to loans to Chrysler Canada, Inc.
  • Counsel to the developers of photovoltaic electricity projects under the RESOP and FIT programs

publications and presentations
February 06, 2013
Staying Right and Honourable: the corporate counsel's guide to dealing with media, government and the public
McMillan Corporate Counsel CPD Series
February 2013
Navigating C-45: Changes to a federal water act may open the gates to water infrastructure
Water Canada
January 2013
What can we expect with changes to the Navigable Waters Act?
Water Canada
Volume 13, Number 1
December 13, 2012
P3s as an Expedient Financing Vehicle - Public and Private Sector Perspectives
10th Construction Financing Conference


  • aboriginal law
  • aboriginal law (real estate)
  • construction
  • construction/real estate litigation
  • debt products
  • electricity
  • emissions trading and climate change
  • energy
  • health
  • projects
  • public policy and government relations
  • transportation

  • Board of Directors, Ontario Stroke Network
  • Board of Directors, Legal Aid Ontario
  • Board of Directors and Chair, Human Resources, Compensation and Pension Committee, Morguard Corporation
  • The Toronto Board of Trade, Infrastructure Committee
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Member
  • Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, JD Program and Masters of Law
Called to the Ontario bar - 1989

York University, LLM - 2007

University of Toronto, LLB - 1987

Queen's University, BA - 1982