Huw Evans brings skilled deal acumen, strategic thinking, and a rigorous approach to advising institutional and other leading investors on their projects and complex transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
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Overview
Huw practises corporate law, with an emphasis on transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He regularly acts for infrastructure funds, pension funds and other infrastructure investors in connection with M&A transactions, joint ventures, project financings and developments.
Huw has led numerous significant acquisitions and divestures of energy and infrastructure assets, including renewable power projects and PPP assets. In addition, he regularly advises clients in these industries on a broad range of corporate, securities and governance matters.
Huw is such an expert on the power side. He is thoughtful, thinks holistically, and is very practical and commercial.
—Chambers Canada, 2024
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Recognition and Awards
| 2024-2025 | Chambers Canada—Leading lawyer in energy: power (transactional) |
| 2023-2025 | The Legal 500—Leading partner in energy and natural resources: power |
| 2021-2023 | The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory—Leading lawyer in M&A |
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Professional Involvement
Huw is a co-chair of Torys’ Student Committee. He is also a director of Canadian Stage, Canada’s leading not-for-profit contemporary theatre company, and the Oak Ridges Trail Association, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building and maintaining public hiking trails on the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Education and Bar Admissions
- JD, 2007
- University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
- BA (Honours, Gold Medalist), 2003
- Queen's University
- Ontario, 2008