Suzanne Villeneuve

Suzanne is the Chair of KRB’s Banking and Finance Group. 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).