Claudine Millette specializes in the financial services sector. She focuses her practice primarily on lending and financing, insolvency and corporate restructuring.
More specifically, Claudine represents banks and other financial institutions, both nationally and internationally, arranging credit facilities and security transactions. She also advises financial institutions in restructuring credit arrangements for businesses facing financial difficulties.
Claudine handles both public and private financing, including:
- business and real estate financing
- project financing
- syndicated and cross-border transactions
- acquisition financing
- leveraged financing
She also has expertise in other modes of financing, such as asset-based lending and financing through factoring and the issuance of convertible bonds.
Experience
- Acting for BMO in their role as Agent for the lending syndicate of bankers regarding the CCAA and Chapter 15 insolvency filing of the Aldo Group (Retail).
- A syndicate of lenders headed by Bank of Montreal, with respect to senior credit facilities totalling $100 million for a telecommunications business.
- A syndicate of lenders headed by Bank of Montreal, with respect to credit facilities for a manufacturing business.
- A Canadian bank in the financing of an acquisition of an American business by a Canadian medical insurance company.
- Acting for BMO in their role as Agent for the lending syndicate of bankers regarding the CCAA and Chapter 15 insolvency filing of the Aldo Group (Retail).
- A syndicate of lenders headed by Bank of Montreal, with respect to senior credit facilities totalling $100 million for a telecommunications business.
- A syndicate of lenders headed by Bank of Montreal, with respect to credit facilities for a manufacturing business.
- A Canadian bank in the financing of an acquisition of an American business by a Canadian medical insurance company.