Robert G. Borduas

Biography

Robert Borduas has significant experience in bank financing, commercial leasing, securitization and general commercial law. He has particular expertise in project financing, derivative products and structured financing. He acts as lead counsel representing borrowers and financial institutions in syndicated loan, securitization and factoring transactions, as well as cross-border leasing transactions and syndication and sub-participation transactions. Mr. Borduas has also acted as counsel in various public-private partnerships in Canada.

Mr. Borduas is Co-Chair of our Projects and Project Finance Team. He was a member of the Mulroney-Johnson Commission that advised the Government of Quebec on the implementation of the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Mr. Borduas taught business law at the Faculty of Law of Université de Sherbrooke for three years.

Year of Call

• Quebec Bar 1988

Law School

• LL.B., Université de Sherbrooke, 1987

Selected Client Work

• The lenders of one of the bidding consortiums in connection with the completion of Highway 25 in Montréal
• Bombardier Inc. with respect to letters of credit for €4.3 billion
• Alcan Inc. with respect to a syndicated loan facility of $1 billion and in connection with its cross-border securitization program
• Quebecor Media Inc. with respect to syndicated loan facilities
• RONA Inc. with respect to syndicated loan facilities totalling $600,000,000
• The consortium led by SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. with respect to the $543,000,000 structured financing of the Trans-Canada Highway project in New Brunswick
• Royal Bank of Canada as the agent of the underwriting bank syndicate in connection with the syndicated loan facilities of Alter Moneta
• Laurentian Bank of Canada in connection with the securitization of certain residential real estate loans
• Domtar in connection with the securitization of its accounts receivable
• Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. in connection with the securitization of its European accounts receivable
• GE Canada Equipment Financing GP in connection with the sale of an interest in a commercial mortgage loan and the securitization of such interest
• Bombardier Capital Ltd. with respect to the securitization of its accounts receivable resulting from its inventory financing business
• Bombardier Inc. with respect to the securitization of its accounts receivable
• Royal Bank of Canada with respect to various bank financing transactions
• BNP Paribas with respect to the creation and implementation of new financial products
• TVA Group Inc. with respect to syndicated loan facilities totalling $160,000,000
• SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. with respect to syndicated loan facilities and various project financings and transactions relating to accounts receivable
• Mittal Canada Inc. in connection with various bank financing transactions
• Québec Cartier Mining Company with respect to its corporate and capital restructuring
• The leading sponsor of the NATO pilot training facility, a public-private partnership (whose structure he designed), which is financed through the issuance of two series of bonds totalling $826,000,000
• Bell Canada with respect to the first qualified technological equipment lease in Canada
• Bombardier Inc. in connection with the program with the Government of Quebec to finance its regional jets

Speaking Engagements

• Conferences on public-private partnerships
• The Quebec Forum of In-House Counsel
• The Canadian Bankers Association
• The Quebec Association of Franchising

Rankings and Recognitions

• Best Lawyers in Canada - Equipment Finance Law, 2008

Memberships and Activities

• Mulroney-Johnson Commission
• Taught Business at the Université of Sherbrooke