Michael Wunder | Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP

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Michael Wunder LL.B., Partner

Michael practises with both Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP’s Financial Services Group and Insolvency and Restructuring Group with a broad range of experience in all facets of (a) commercial and corporate domestic and cross-border lending transactions, including secured and unsecured loan transactions, asset-based lending and intercreditor and subordination arrangements, and (b) domestic and cross-border commercial restructurings, receiverships and enforcement of rights for secured and unsecured creditors. Michael has practised in the Financial Services Group and Insolvency and Restructuring Group at FMC for over 20 years.

Michael is very active in cross-border matters, serves as co-chair of the Firm’s Chicago cross-border initiative, and is regularly retained to assist clients in Chicago, New York and other major U.S. financial centres. Michael is also the Vice-Chair of the Cross-Border Lending Sub-Committee of the American Bar Association's Commercial Finance Section.

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Michael has extensive experience having acted as counsel for secured and unsecured creditors, bank/lender syndicates, corporate debtors, creditor committees and bondholder groups and major trade creditors of insolvent entities, in both domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring transactions. Michael also has experience in representing CCAA monitors and receivers in insolvency proceedings.

Michael has over 20 years experience acting on behalf of Canadian and foreign financial institution clients and foreign law firms in single lender and lending syndicate secured and unsecured financings. His experience extends to a significant number of Canada-U.S. cross-border multi-currency transactions, acquisition financings and asset based lending. Michael is a trusted advisor to his lending clients, giving them strategic counsel on structuring and documenting complex financing transactions.

Representative Work

Counsel to the Ad Hoc Group of First Lien Lenders of Catalyst Paper Corporation and certain of its subsidiaries in their CCAA/Chapter 15 proceedings

Counsel to Tenor Capital Management as interim DIP lender to Crystallex International Corporation in its CCAA /Chapter 15

Counsel to Bank of Montreal and lending syndicate to Altus Group Income Fund

Counsel to Rexall Sports Corp. in the acquisition of the Edmonton Oilers National Hockey League franchise

Canadian counsel to lending syndicate in connection with loans to Student Transportation of America, Student Transportation of Canada and Parkview Transit

Counsel to Bank of Montreal in connection with loans to Bird Construction Group

Nortel Networks – Canadian Counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Nortel Networks Inc. and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries in the cross-border CCAA/Chapter 11 proceedings

Trident Exploration Corp. - Canadian Counsel to Trident Exploration Corp. and Trident Resources Corp. in connection with their cross-border CCAA/Chapter 11 restructuring proceedings

Cooper-Standard Canada - Canadian counsel to an informal note holder group and the backstop parties in connection with the Cooper-Standard cross-border CCAA-Chapter 11 restructuring proceedings

Masonite International Corporation - Counsel to Bank of Montreal in Masonite’s financial restructuring and as the leading global manufacturer of residential and commercial doors emerged from protection under both Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and the CCAA

Acted as counsel to Ticketmaster Canada Inc., a major stakeholder, with respect to the court approval and implementation of the sale of the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club

Acted as counsel for Harris N.A. (formerly Harris Trust)/Bank of Montreal as agent and the lending syndicate with respect to the realization of its security against and receiverships involving (a) Atchinson Casting Corp. and its subsidiaries, including Canadian Steel Foundries and (b) Anicom Multimedia Wiring Systems Incorporated

Acting for PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. in its capacity as receiver of SAAN Stores Ltd.

Canadian counsel to TerreStar Networks Inc. in connection with its CCAA recognition proceedings of TerreStar's chapter 11 cases

Teaching Roles

Instructor for banking law courses offered by the Institute of Canadian Bankers

Instructor for the Ontario Bar Admission Course (Debtors’ and Creditors’ Rights)

Prior Speaking Engagements

Speaker at the ABA Business Law Section Spring conference in Boston in April, 2011 on cross-border lending issues