As a partner with Fraser Milner Casgrain's Financial Services Group in Toronto, Peter acts for a number of Canadian domestic financial institutions and foreign banks and as Canadian counsel for several foreign law firms. In addition to his transactional practice, Peter is also responsible for helping to manage the firm's relationship with two key financial institution clients.

Peter's practice includes acting for clients in the following matters:

(i) Banking/corporate financing, including syndicated financings, cross border multi-currency transactions, project financings, aircraft financing and leasing, and LBO financings

(ii) Bank Act regulatory advice to both domestic and foreign financial institutions (including foreign bank entry, subsidiary incorporation and bank amalgamation)

(iii) Trade finance/documentary credit transactions (domestic Canadian and international)

(iv) Structured financings, including asset-backed securitizations, receivables purchases, and synthetic leases

(v) Loan workouts, security enforcement and insolvency/debt restructuring for financial institution clients in court restructurings and bankruptcies of corporate debtors