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Suzanne Villeneuve
Lawyer
Suzanne’s practice focuses on corporate finance, banking law, financial services, and commercial law.
Suzanne’s financing practice includes asset-based lending, syndicated lending, structured finance, factoring, private equity, project finance, asset finance and leasing, restructuring transactions, and related areas. She regularly represents financial institutions and corporate borrowers and has worked with business in various industries, including the retail, manufacturing, transportation, and financial sectors.
Suzanne also has a diversified corporate and commercial practice and significant expertise with respect to sales and acquisitions of businesses and assets, commercial real estate, joint ventures, commercial leases, licensing, and shareholder matters.
Drawing on her experience in bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring and commercial litigation, Suzanne also provides advice to her clients with respect to the financing, sale or purchase of assets in a context of financial distress, debt restructuring, or with respect to the completion of complex or litigious acquisitions.
Suzanne regularly advises clients on viable alternatives to litigation. She is a commercial and civil mediator, accredited by the Institut de Médiation et d’Arbitrage du Québec (IMAQ).
Representative Work
Represented financial institution with respect to multi-jurisdictional asset-based lending credit facilities in favour of major automobile parts manufacturer ($150M)
Legal counsel to syndication agent with respect to $180M financing in favour of international supplier;
Conversion of $60M of syndicated loans in shares and partnership units for purchase of commercial real estate through plan of arrangement;
Represented Canadian retailer with respect to $35M asset-based lending facility;
Canadian counsel to lender with respect to $50M asset-based credit facility in favour of Canadian toy manufacturer;
Represented syndication agent with respect to $500M syndicated loan to metal recycling company;
Memberships
M&A Club Canada (Member of the Advisory Board)
Turnaround Management Association – Montreal Chapter (Member of the Board of Directors)
Institut de Médiation et d’Arbitrage du Québec
ADR Institute of Canada
Barreau du Québec
Areas of Expertise
Commercial Real Estate
Secured Lending
Corporate and Commercial
Mergers & Acquisitions
Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Education
University of Ottawa
Accredited Mediator (Institut de Médiation et d’Arbitrage du Québec)
Year of Call
1996