Vincent Frenette

Vincent Frenette is the regional managing partner of BLG's Montréal office and practices within our Financial Services Group. 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 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 routinely advises lenders on legal aspects of loan programs and related processes. Frenette regularly acts as strategic adviser for commercial and legal issues 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. His practice covers contractual arrangements related to swaps and other derivative instruments, for interest rate and currency hedging mainly as part of financial arrangements.