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Vincent Frenette

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Work Department

Banking & Finance

Position

Regional Managing Partner, Montréal

Career

Vincent Frenette is the Regional Managing Partner of BLG’s Montréal office and practices within the firm’s Financial Services Group. Vincent’s main areas of practice are corporate finance and related aspects of corporate law.

He works mainly on behalf of lenders (including major Canadian banks and some foreign banks), insurance companies, other institutional lenders, as well as alternate and private lenders. He also works on behalf of borrowers for the financing of private and public corporations, mainly via syndicated transactions. He is often involved in construction and project loans and other types of real estate financing, in addition to alternative financing through asset-based lending, leasing, factoring and convertible debt. He also routinely advises lenders on legal aspects of loan programs and related processes.

Vincent also regularly acts as strategic adviser for commercial and legal issues faced by BLG clients, as well as on financing arrangements related to acquisitions, restructuring and other similar operations, for clients operating in various industries such as real estate, energy, media, transportation, telecommunications, entertainment, manufacturing, professional services and insurance.

Vincent’s practice also covers contractual arrangements related to swaps and other derivative instruments, for interest rate and currency hedging mainly as part of financial arrangements.

Memberships

  • Member, Board of directors, Canadian Club of Montréal
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association

Bar Admission

  • Québec, 1996

Education

  • Accelerated Leadership Program, Harvard Law School, 2016
  • LLB, Université de Montréal, 1995

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Banking and finance

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP is distinguished by its extensive national footprint, with the banking and finance team represented across all five of its offices in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. In Toronto, Gus Karantzoulis is highly regarded for his full-service banking and finance practice, which encompasses advice to financial institutions, alternative lenders and borrowers on corporate, real estate and project finance. Also noted in Toronto are Stephen Redican, who heads the national regulatory practice, and transactional banking partner Howard Silverman. In Montreal, national financial services lead Claudine Millette is recommended for her robust lender-side practice. Olivier Tardif and regional managing partner Vincent Frenette also handle transactional matters from Montreal.

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