Practising extensively in the area of debt capital markets, Howard MacKichan's primary focus is on private placements by US and Canadian institutional investors in the Canadian and American capital markets. Funds have been placed in Canadian and US dollars, Euros and pounds sterling. MacKichan has been a fellow of the American College of Investment Counsel since 1992, one of only a few Canadian members, and was a member of the committee developing the ACIC's model form agreements. He has strong relationships with the North American life insurance companies and their investment advisors active in this area. MacKichan also represents a broad range of financial institutions and major and intermediate corporations in their capital markets transactions, including large syndicated loans, bridge finance, second-lien structures, first-out structures, project finance, structured finance, club deals and complex intercreditor agreements, from structuring to closing. In addition, with his strong restructuring team, MacKichan has led the successful workout and restructuring of several intermediate exploration and production companies on behalf of their cross-border institutional noteholders.
