Sébastien Vilder > Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP > Montreal, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Offices
3000-1 Place Ville Marie
Montreal QC H3B 4N8
Canada
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Sébastien Vilder
Work Department
Financial Services; Infrastructure
Position
Sébastien is the Managing Partner for the Montréal Office and regional practice group leader of the financial services group. He specializes in project financing and has been involved in numerous project financings in Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia for renewable energy and infrastructure projects. Sébastien’s list of clients include financial institutions, development banks, governments and sponsors. Sébastien has advised clients on a wide range of complex projects including recently on a portfolio of over 500MW of wind projects in Alberta (insured by the German export credit agency and the Danish export credit agency), and also, on a $600 million project financing for a wind project in Quebec, Canada.
Career
Sebastien has taught at McGill University on project financing and is frequently asked to participate as moderator or speaker at conferences on project financing.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Energy and natural resources > Power
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP’s power practice has a strong orientation towards projects and transactional mandates, including M&A, joint ventures and financings. Toronto-based department co-head Vivian Kung is particularly sought after for her broad industry focus, which spans projects, finance, corporate and procurement-related issues. The group additionally benefits from the transactional experience of Keith Byblow, who heads the corporate and commercial group in Calgary; Scott Clarke, also based in Calgary; Montreal-based project finance specialist Sébastien Vilder; and Calgary-based up-and-coming energy partner Ky Kvisle. The team is also increasingly involved in standalone regulatory matters, with Calgary-based regulatory and environmental law expert Terri-Lee Oleniuk a key contact in this sphere.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- International expertise
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology