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Partner, Financial Services; Co-chair, Securitization, Structuring and Derivatives,
McMillan LLP. Practices business and fi nancial services law. Advises major corpora-
tions, fi nancial institutions, investment dealers and government agencies on secured
loans, derivatives, securitization, reinsurance security, personal property security, and
securities transfer law. Represented Canada on $32-billion restructuring of non-bank
ABCP market. Legal agent for Department of Finance, providing advice on domestic
debt and capital markets activities. Chair, Personal Property Security Law Committee,
Ontario Bar Association. Fellow, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.
Co-author, Annotated Securities Transfer Act. Listed in: ! e Lexpert®/American Lawyer
Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Banking & Financial Institutions;
Best Lawyers in Canada, structured fi nance; ! e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory,
Banking & Financial Institutions and Derivative Instruments; Martindale-Hubbell
Canada: BV® Distinguished™; Legal Media Group/Expert Guides: structured fi nance
and securitization.
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Practice includes syndicated loan transactions, infrastructure and project fi nanc-
ings, public-private partnership transactions, corporate reorganizations, debt and equity
off erings, M&A, derivative products and property development joint ventures. Recent
transactions include acting on public-private partnership transactions in Canada for
either the project consortium or their lenders; renewable energy transactions includ-
ing joint ventures for wind and solar developments and project fi nancing of renewable
energy facilities; revolving and term corporate and acquisition credit facilities; and capital
markets bond, debenture and MTN off erings in Canada and the United States. Lauded
as world-class and national leading lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell, Chambers Global: ! e
World's Leading Lawyers for Business, Euromoney's IFLR 1000, PLC Which Lawyer?,
! e Best Lawyers in Canada and ! e Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading
500 Lawyers in Canada. Called to Alberta (1981) and Ontario (1985) Bars.
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Partner practicing corporate restructuring insolvency, private-equity funds and
investments, private-company acquisitions, banking, structured and project fi nance.
Lead counsel in Canadian and cross-border insolvencies. Experienced in the formation
of private investment funds, regulation of banks and fi nancial institutions, and corpo-
rate governance. Named Toronto Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Lawyer of the
Year 2013 by Best Lawyers. Included in Chambers Global: ! e World's Leading Lawyers
for Business, ! e Best Lawyers in Canada 2014, Law Business Research's International
Who's Who of Business Lawyers; Global Counsel 3000; PLC Which Lawyer?; Legal
Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers and
Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers; the 2006 Lexpert® Guide to the 100 Most
Creative Lawyers in Canada; ! e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory; and ! e Lexpert®/
American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. Fellow of both the
Insolvency Institute of Canada and the American College of Commercial Finance
Lawyers. Called in Ontario in 1975.
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John Torrey's practice involves the structuring, documentation and negotiation
of complex lending transactions. He acts regularly for both lenders and borrowers
in bilateral and syndicated, secured and unsecured fi nancings, most of which are
multi-currency and multijurisdictional in nature. Torrey has particular expertise in
acquisition and project fi nancings and all aspects of mine fi nancing and consider-
able experience with debt restructurings. Recent signifi cant experience includes the
fi nancing of the $5.8-billion acquisition of Safeway by Sobeys, the $2.5-billion fi nanc-
ing of Silver Wheaton and the $2.5-billion fi nancing of Kinross Gold. He is repeatedly
recommended by the world's leading legal publications, including Chambers Global,
! e Best Lawyers in Canada, the Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers, ! e
Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and ! e
Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory. He has been named a "Leading Individual" for
Banking and Finance by ! e Legal 500 Canada 2014 and "Banking Lawyer of the
Year" for 2010 by ! e Best Lawyers in Canada.
Robert M.
Scavone
McMillan LLP
Tel: (416) 865-7901
Fax: (647) 722-6728
Toronto
Carol D.
Pennycook
Davies Ward
Phillips &
Vineberg LLP
Tel: (416) 863-5546
Fax: (416) 863-0871
Toronto
Jay A.
Swartz
Davies Ward
Phillips &
Vineberg LLP
Tel: (416) 863-5520
Fax: (416) 863-0871
Toronto
John W.
Torrey
Fasken
Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
Tel: (416) 865-4394
Fax: (416) 364-7813
Toronto
rob.scavone@mcmillan.ca
cpennycook@dwpv.com
jswartz@dwpv.com
jtorrey@fasken.com
