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Forum Overview
Dates: September 30 - October 2, 2026
Location: Loch Lomond, Scotland
Organized under the guidance of a distinguished Steering Committee, the Forum gathers 48 senior professionals, including in house counsel from major institutional investors and leading global lawyers, for strategic discussions on emerging risks and challenges in direct infrastructure investments.
Using candid, peer-driven discussion, this Forum explores trends and developments in foreign infrastructure investments, to discern best practices for successfully completing transactions and address the long term risks facing investors.
2026 Steering Committee
Committee Co-Chairs
Krista is the co-head of the Infrastructure and Energy practice, as well as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. Krista has deep experience in complex, innovative, first-of-kind transactions and projects. With robust insight into all types of energy projects and infrastructure asset classes, she regularly leads large teams working to advance significant projects and transactions. Krista is also an accomplished lead negotiator and has extensive experience advising multiple stakeholders with respect to their complex projects and transactions.
Committee Members
John D. Franchini is a partner in the Global Corporate/M&A Group of Milbank LLP based in New York. Mr. Franchini also co-heads the firm’s Global Infrastructure Practice. He has extensive experience representing infrastructure, sovereign wealth, private equity, hedge and pension funds, together with their portfolio companies, in investment, acquisition, recapitalization, disposition and strategic joint venture transactions. Mr. Franchini has significant transactional experience involving core and non-core infrastructure assets, power generation and transmission assets, midstream natural gas pipelines, telecommunications business and other digital infrastructure assets, including regulated businesses. Mr. Franchini also advises public and private companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other corporate transactions, including stock-for-stock mergers, tender offers, private stock and asset purchases, complex joint ventures, private placements of equity securities and restructurings. He regularly represents clients in competitive auction scenarios, both as sellers and bidders. Mr. Franchini has completed transactions throughout Asia, Latin America and North America throughout his career.
John is a corporate partner who advises on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, with a focus on the Energy and Infrastructure sector. He advises on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, co-investments and carve-outs, often with a cross-border element. John previously worked at OMERS Infrastructure, one of the world’s leading infrastructure investors, as Managing Director and global co-head of legal.
Cormac Kerins is a Senior Vice President and Head of European Legal for Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group. In this role, Cormac is responsible for the European legal function and all aspects of legal and transaction execution activities across Europe. Prior to joining Brookfield, Cormac was a Senior Legal Counsel with Partners Group’s London office, where he led execution of European investments for private equity, real estate, infrastructure, debt and secondaries funds. Previously he was an Associate with Milbank’s London office where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and private equity. Cormac has a Master of Laws from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a recipient of the Hugo Grotius Fellowship, and a Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Business Administration, first class honours, from University College Dublin. He is admitted as lawyer in England & Wales, Ireland and New York.
Experienced lawyer with 20 years’ multi-jurisdictional legal experience in the financial sector in Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. Specialist understanding of various financing structures and extensive experience in all aspects of investments. Strong leader with focus on relationships, Olga is strategic and passionate about playing a role in achieving the best investments outcomes. In her current role, Olga is leading a high-performing legal team focusing on Infrastructure, Property and Debt investments across Australia, the UK and the US.
Daniel is Managing Director & Associate General Counsel at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP). OTPP is Canada’s largest single-profession pension plan, with C$247.2 billion in net assets. It holds a diverse global portfolio of assets, approximately 80% of which is managed in-house, with over C$30bn billion in the EMEA region. Daniel specialises in international M&A and supports OTPP’s private equity, infrastructure, venture/growth, credit and funds teams on transactions and portfolio management across the EMEA region. Prior to joining OTPP in 2018, he worked for Latham & Watkins.
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