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Partner and a respected legal advisor to business leaders in Montréal. He advises
clients primarily in respect of fi nancial services, corporate and M&A matters. He has
been involved in a wide range of complex transactions related to project infrastructure
fi nancing, acquisition fi nancing, syndicated fi nancing, secured transactions, acquisi-
tions, mergers, derivative products and debt restructurings. He has acted for clients in
numerous industrial sectors, including manufacturing, fi nancial and other services,
forestry and forest products, information technology and telecommunications. Admit-
ted to the Bar in Québec, 1988.
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Xeno Martis specializes on a cross-Canada basis in the areas of project fi nancing,
corporate fi nancing and insolvency. He leads teams of lawyers acting on behalf of lending
syndicates and investors in project fi nancing, public and private take-overs, asset acquisi-
tions, structured leverage and synthetic lease fi nancings. Martis has represented both
international and Canadian banking institutions as well as Crown corporations in some
of Canada's most high-profi le project fi nance transactions and insolvency proceedings.
He is a frequent panelist and lecturer before various continuing legal education programs
and private clients. rough the World Bank, Martis advised a foreign government on
its banking legislation and on legislation providing for the creation of security inter-
ests on personal and real property. Martis is consistently recommended for his project
fi nancing, banking and fi nance law expertise in leading legal publications. He was called
to the Québec Bar in 1976.
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Marc Novello specializes in corporate fi nance. He represents and advises lending
syndicates and investors in project fi nancing, public and private take-over bids, asset
acquisitions and debt restructuring. He also represents borrowers in connection with
their borrowings and derivative instruments. Novello is actively involved in the imple-
mentation, negotiation, preparation and fi nalization of all aspects of cross-border
fi nancing, including credit and inter-creditor agreements, investment contracts and
security documents and bank debt restructuring documentation. He is a conference
lecturer on best legal practices in bank fi nancing and the creation of eff ective security
documentation in syndicated loan transactions. He is consistently recognized as one of
Canada's leading Banking Law lawyers by ! e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and
Best Lawyers in Canada and a leading Banking & Financial Institutions lawyer in ! e
Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. He was called
to the Québec Bar in 1989.
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Senior Partner. Michael Allen has a broadly based practice in corporate fi nance
and banking law. He regularly acts for both lenders and borrowers in international
project fi nance and is well known for his work in secured transactions and public-
private partnerships. He is also highly experienced in large commercial restructurings
and work-outs. Allen's practice has included transactions in North, South and Latin
America, Africa, Russia, the Asia-Pacifi c and Caribbean. His industry sector experi-
ence includes infrastructure, mining, energy, forestry and telecommunications. Allen
has been recognized by Lexpert® as one of Vancouver's leading practitioners in Banking
& Financial Institutions, Corporate Commercial and Project Finance. Named in ! e
2014 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and ! e
2013 Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in
Canada. He was also listed in Lexpert® 's 2012 Report on Business Magazine insert as one
of Canada's Leading Infrastructure Lawyers.
Etienne
Massicotte
Osler, Hoskin &
Harcourt LLP
Tel: (514) 904-5778
Fax: (514) 904-8101
Montréal
Xeno C.
Martis
Fasken
Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
Tel: (514) 397-7509
Fax: (514) 397-7600
Montréal
Marc
Novello
Fasken
Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
Tel: (514) 397-7581
Fax: (514) 397-7600
Montréal
Michael
S. Allen
Farris,
Vaughan, Wills
& Murphy LLP
Tel: (604) 661-9311
Fax: (604) 661-9349
Vancouver
emassicotte@osler.com
xmartis@fasken.com
mnovello@fasken.com
mallen@farris.com
