Michèle Friel practises in the areas of commercial contracts, corporate financing, financial services, and general banking law. Her practice focuses primarily on secured financing transactions in Canada and cross-border loans, both on a syndicated and non-syndicated basis. Friel represents and advises banks and other lending institutions as well as borrowers in a broad range of financing transactions, including asset-based loans, cash flow loans, project financings, acquisition financings, factoring, securitization transactions, and capital call or subscription loans. She has extensive experience working on financing transactions which involve taking guarantees and security in multiple jurisdictions in Canada, the US, and other countries around the world.
