Allan A. Mass | Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP

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Allan A. Mass B.F.A., LL.M., LL.B., B.C.L., B.A., Counsel

Allan A. Mass has over 35 years’ experience in financing, and mergers and acquisitions. He has participated in a wide variety of commercial transactions including loan syndications, secured and unsecured financings, securitizations, project financings, public-private partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions of businesses.

Allan was an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University from 1977 to 1991, where he lectured on obligations and security in property. He was also the Executive Editor of the McGill Law Journal in 1971. He has published articles on secured lending and has appeared as a lecturer and panelist at conferences on matters of Québec law. Allan was a founding director of the Canadian Turnaround Management Association and is a director and Vice-President of the Quebec Writers’ Federation and a number of other private and non-profit corporations. He also served as a director of Spar Aerospace Inc. prior to its privatization.

Allan was the managing partner of the Montréal office from 1980 to 1983 and from 2001 to 2004.

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Allan has expertise in the following fields:

Banking and secured lending
Acquisitions and sale of businesses
Project financing
Loan syndication
Bankruptcy, insolvency and liquidation
Interest rate and currency swaps
Securitization
International trade and the W.T.O.

Representative Work

A-30 Highway Project - counsel to the Government of Québec

Counsel to the arranger/agent and purchasers on a $50 million private placement of First Mortgage Bonds by Maritime Electric Company, Limited

Acted for a major Canadian bank and syndicate of lenders in connection with the financing of the acquisition of a full-service regional cable and telecommunications provider, and in connection with the financing and refinancing of one of its operating subsidiaries, a global leader with operating companies in numerous media-related businesses

Acted for lenders and borrowers on numerous syndicated loans and banking facilities, and in numerous merger and acquisition transactions

Acted as legal counsel to a syndicate of lenders led by Royal Bank of Canada in the provision of various credit facilities in the aggregate amount of $3.255 billion made available to Quebecor Inc. and Quebecor Media Inc. as well as the ongoing replacements, restatements and renewals thereof

Acted as legal counsel to the Government of Québec (Ministère des Transports du Québec and the Agence des Partenariats Public-Privé du Québec) in connection with the project documentation and, in particular, the credit agreement and partnership agreement and all matters relating to the financing of the Completion of Highway 30 in the Montréal Area as a public-private partnership. The Government of Québec received the Gold Award for Project Financing on November 24, 2008 awarded by The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships for this Project which is the largest P3 undertaken in the Province of Québec and one of the largest in Canada

Acted as legal counsel to Aéroports de Montréal in connection with its $140 million and $205 million bank credit facilities and its various issues of Revenue Bonds

Acted as legal counsel to Royal Bank of Canada in connection with bank credit facilities in favour of AeroMag 2000 (YUL) Inc., which is responsible for the de-icing services provided at the Pierre E. Trudeau International Airport in Montréal, Canada

Acted as legal counsel to the Government of Canada in connection with the privatization of Pêcheries Canada Inc., a Canadian Crown Corporation, as well as its subsidiaries Pêcheries Cartier Inc. and Chantiers Maritimes du Canada Ltée

Acted as legal counsel to ABB Inc., a large multi-national engineering services group, in connection with its on-going bank credit facilities and Canadian securitization program as well as the preparation of construction and engineering contracts and tender documentation during the past 25 years

Acted as legal counsel to Maritime Electric Company, Limited, the electric utility which supplies and distributes all of the electricity in the Province of Prince Edward Island, Canada in connection with all of its bond financings during the past 25 years

Acted as legal counsel to the Business Development Bank of Canada, a Canadian Crown Corporation, in connection with all of its domestic and international borrowings during a period of 11 years