Allan A. Mass

Allan A. Mass practices corporate and commercial law in the Banking and Finance group of Dentons Canada LLP’s Montreal office. His practice focusses on corporate financing and mergers and acquisitions.

Allan represents clients 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’s expertise extends to 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.

Allan frequently lectures and serves a panelist on matters regarding Quebec law. He has published several articles on secured lending. As former managing partner of the Montréal office from 1980 to 1983 and from 2001 to 2004, Allan has been very active in the management of the firm.

Experience

Government of Québec: Acting as counsel in connection with the A-30 Highway Project.
Confidential client: Acting as counsel on a CA$50 million private placement of First Mortgage Bonds by Maritime Electric Company, Limited.
Confidential client: Advising 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.
Various clients: Advising on numerous syndicated loans and banking facilities, and in numerous merger and acquisition transactions.
Confidential client: Acting as legal counsel to syndicate of lenders led by Royal Bank of Canada in the provision of various credit facilities in the aggregate amount of CA$3.255 billion made available to Quebecor Inc. and Quebecor Media Inc. as well as the ongoing replacements, restatements and renewals thereof.
Government of Québec (Ministère des Transports du Québec and the Agence des Partenariats Public-Privé du Québec): Acting as legal counsel 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.
Aéroports de Montréal: Acting as legal counsel in connection with its CA$140 million and CA$205 million bank credit facilities and its various issues of revenue bonds.
Royal Bank of Canada: Acting as legal counsel 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.
Government of Canada: Acting as legal counsel 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.
ABB Inc.: Acting as legal counsel to this 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.
Maritime Electric Company Ltd.: Acting as legal counsel to this 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.
Business Development Bank of Canada: Acting as legal counsel to this Canadian Crown Corporation, in connection with all of its domestic and international borrowings during a period of 11 years.

Recognition

Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished BV Peer Review Rating

Activities and Affiliations

Member, Québec Bar
Member, Law Society of Upper Canada
Member, Canadian Bar Association

Community Involvement and Pro Bono

Member, Board of Directors of the Lord Reading Law Society
Director, Rover Arts
Founding director, Canadian Turnaround Management Association
Involved in a number of private and non-profit corporations
Director, Spar Aerospace Inc. (prior to its privatization)
Adjunct professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University (from 1977 to 1991), where he lectured on obligations and security in property.
Executive Editor, McGill Law Journal (1971)

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Allan A. Mass

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