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Gowling WLG
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Thomas J. Timmins

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Position

Partner
Leader – Energy Sector Group (Canada)

Career

Tom is a senior corporate-commercial lawyer serving clients in renewable energy project development and finance. With more than twenty years’ experience in renewables, he is frequently sought out for his intimate knowledge of complex power project contracts and his ability to help get challenging projects across the finish line.

Tom leads Gowling WLG Canada’s Energy Sector Group, is a member of the Toronto office’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Council and a member of the Firm’s China Executive Leadership Team.

Named as a ‘Leading Lawyer’ by The Legal 500 Canada and to Who’s Who Legal, Tom also serves as a director of Aazhogan Bridge, as a member of the Legal Committee of Transparency International (Canada), as Board member of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Urban Energy at Metropolitan Toronto University.

In 2022, he was appointed to the roster of adjudicators under Annex 309 of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement. He teaches Infrastructure and Project Finance Law at Windsor Law and has previously served as Chair of the Canadian Solar Industries Association (now CanREA), as co-founder of the West Toronto RailPath, as a committee member of Toronto BikeShare and as Chair of the Children’s Own Museum.

In the Canadian power sector, Tom and his team act frequently in the rapidly evolving DERs, EV, BTM generation and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry verticals and have been deeply engaged in Canada’s rollout of AMI 2.0 technologies and the negotiation of complex power-system-related SaaS contracts.

Tom appears regularly in international news media regarding renewable energy and transportation sector matters and has been quoted in such leading news sources as the Economist Intelligence Unit, The Globe and Mail, Financial Post, World Journal, BNN and Canadian Business.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Energy and natural resources > Power

(Leading partners)

Thomas Timmins – Gowling WLG

Gowling WLG fields a comprehensive power practice that draws on transactional and regulatory specialists in the renewables, energy transition and nuclear spheres. The team additionally benefits from its ability to lean on the wider firm’s prominent offerings in Indigenous, environmental and infrastructure law. Ahab Abdel-Aziz serves as global director of nuclear power generation and recently advised Atomic Energy of Canada on its memorandum of understanding with AtkinsRéalis to deploy CANDU reactors in Canada and internationally. Thomas Timmins heads the Canadian energy group and is recommended for projects work. Also noted are energy regulation partner Ian Mondrow and nuclear law associate Magdalena Hanebach. Named lawyers are based in Toronto.

Canada > Transport > Aviation

The practice group at Gowling WLG handles a range of aviation mandates, among them customer and supply agreements, M&A, procurement agreements, lease agreements, financing, regulatory matters and litigation. The department is directed by Toronto-based Thomas Timmins, who specializes in energy project development and finance. Other names to note include Ottawa-based Cynthia Elderkin, who regularly advises on the licensing, regulation, leasing, sale, purchase and financing of commercial, business and personal aircraft; and Montreal-based David Kierans, who majors on secured lending, project finance and aviation finance.

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