Sébastien is the Managing Partner for the Montreal Office. He specializes in banking and project financing and has been involved in numerous financings and project financings in Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. He also has expertise for financing renewable energy and infrastructure projects. Sébastien’s list of clients include financial institutions, companies, sponsors and governments. Sébastien recently advised the sponsor on two financings in Canada of battery storage projects (representing a total capacity of 380 MW). Sébastien acted also for a syndicate of lenders on a $600 million financing for the Apuiat wind farm in Quebec, with a capacity of 204 MW.
On January 18, 2017, Boralex Inc. (“Boralex”) a leader in the Canadian market for the development, building and operation of renewable energy power facilities and France’s largest independent producer of onshore wind power, completed the acquisition of all of the economic interest of ENERCON Canada Inc. (“ENERCON”) in the 230 MW Niagara Region Wind Farm Project (the “Project”), located in the Province of Ontario, for a total cash consideration of approximately $232.4 million.
Air Canada closed its private offering of three tranches of Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificates (EETCs), in the aggregate face amount of US$1,031,390,000. This is the second EETC offering in the last two years used by Air Canada to finance the acquisition of new aircraft to be added to its fleet. In April 2013, Air Canada closed the first Canadian offering using EETCs under the Cape Town Convention, which was ratified in December 2012, and became effective April 1, 2013, in Canada.
