Darcy Ammerman

Associate


Toronto

Tel : 416.865.7853
Fax : 416.865.7048

Email : darcy.ammerman@mcmillan.ca
VCard : vcard

Professional Experience

Darcy is an associate in the firm's Financial Services group. Her developing practice includes commercial debt financing, acquisition financing, asset-based lending, secured transactions and project financing. Darcy joined the firm as a summer student in 2009 and returned to complete her articles in 2011.

Darcy played a significant role in the recent $1.81 billion closing of the Northeast Anthony Henday Drive Project in Alberta and has participated in the closing of several other major infrastructure projects including the Ontario Provincial Police Modernization Project and the Ontario Highway Service Centers Project. She has been involved in commercial financing and asset acquisition transactions, and served as an active board member on the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Research Ethics Board.

While attending law school, Darcy was a Senior Editor for The Ottawa Law Review, worked as both a research and teaching assistant and worked alongside in-house counsel at a not-for-profit organization.

Special Recognition

  • Sprott Foundation Bursary for high academic achievement, Carleton University
  • Dean's Honours List, Carleton University  
Representative Transactions

  • Canadian counsel to Vitran Corporation Inc., a publicly traded North American transportation company in the sale of its Supply Chain Operation (SCO) business to LEGACY Supply Chain for US $97 million in cash in which LEGACY Supply Chain acquired various Vitran Canadian and U.S. subsidiaries carrying on the SCO business (2013).
  • DIP financing: counsel to Crystallex International Corporation, a mining company, whose main asset was a $3.2 billion arbitration claim against Venezuela (2012).
  • DIP financing: lender counsel for the $175 million financing provided to Catalyst Paper to help fund its operations during the period of credit protection under the CCAA (2012).



  • asset-based lending
  • financial services
  • projects
  • dip financing

  • Ontario Bar Association
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • OBA Young Lawyers' Division Central Executive Member 2012-2013
Called to the Ontario bar - 2011

University of Ottawa, LL.B. - 2010

Carleton University, M.A. in Psychology - 2006

Carleton University, B.A. (Hons.) in Psychology - 2002