Jill R. Pereira Partner Vancouver Tel : 604.893.7645 Fax : 604.893.2391 Email : jill.pereira@mcmillan.ca VCard :

Professional Activities

Jill Pereira is a partner in the Vancouver office of McMillan. Prior to joining the firm in 2010, she was a partner in the business law and financial services group of another national law firm.

Jill's practice focuses primarily on banking and secured lending transactions. She advises local, national and international clients, both borrowers and lenders, on complex and routine debt financing transactions and other commercially-driven projects.

Her areas of expertise include:

• advising on the finance of complex infrastructure (P3) projects;
• advising on multi-jurisdictional, syndicated debt financing transactions, with a particular focus on the mining, forestry, gaming, hospitality, healthcare and real estate development sectors; and,
• advising on general banking matters and a wide range of corporate, commercial, regulatory and compliance issues.

Memberships

• Canadian Bar Association, Banking, Real Property and Business Law Subsections
• Vancouver Bar Association
• Association of Women in Finance

• Advised the lenders to the successful proponents of two hospital redevelopment projects in Ontario; London Health Sciences Centre and the Windsor Regional Hospital.
• Advised the consortium on financing issues related to the design, construction and maintenance of a hospital outpatient facility in Surrey, BC.
• Advised the lenders in connection with credit facilities for the development and construction of two of the largest mixed use real estate development projects in BC.
• Assisted lead counsel by providing advice to a Canadian-based public mining company on the financing issues related to its acquisition of a controlling interest in a South African mine.
• Advised a Canadian-based public auctioneering company including its global subsidiary operations in connection with the refinancing of its corporate debt.
• Assisted lead counsel in advising the lenders in connection with a revolving credit facility and a Term Loan B to a Canadian gaming company and its US and Canadian operating subsidiaries.
• Assisted lead counsel in advising the lenders in connection with a financing transaction in the amount of C$1.2 billion involving a major acquisition of forestry related assets located in BC.
• Advised a US based private equity group on cross-border issues related to the financing and subsequent insolvency of a Canadian gaming company and its Canadian operating subsidiaries.
• Advised a BC forestry company and its subsidiaries in connection with a syndicated credit facility of C$352 million.
• Advised two financial institutions, one a Schedule II Bank and the other a BC credit union, in connection with the sale of their respective insurance subsidiaries.
• Advised BC's largest credit union on a wide range of commercial and treasury-related matters, including those related to its credit and prepaid card business, the sale of its residential mortgages and the negotiation and documentation of various corporate level credit facilities.

Seminars

Jill has spoken at various legal education seminars on topics related to her areas of practice.