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Peter A. Willis
Partner and Section Leader, Debt Products Group
Toronto
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Tel :
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416.865.7210
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Fax :
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416.865.7048
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Professional Experience
Peter is a senior partner in McMillan's Debt Products Group and is the head of the firm's Projects Group. His practice is focused on corporate finance with an emphasis on project finance, public private partnerships, securitizations and asset-based lending. Peter's practice is increasingly devoted to advising consortia, arrangers, lenders and other participants in connection with P3 infrastructure projects. He also has many years of experience providing advice to both lenders and financial intermediaries in connection with the structuring and completion of domestic and international finance transactions. Peter recently led the team which represented Export Development Canada, as agent for the Governments of Ontario and Canada, in connection with the extension of up to $3.8 billion of restructuring financing to Chrysler and the provision of US$9.5 billion of financing solutions to General Motors.
Peter has been recognized in the following legal directories:
- Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2013 in the area of Projects: PPP & Infrastructure
- The Best Lawyers in Canada® 2013 Edition in the practice areas of Equipment Finance Law and Structured Finance Law;
- Listed in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2011 as a leading practitioner in the area of Asset Equipment Finance/Leasing
- Who's Who Legal: Canada 2010, as one of Canada's leading practitioners in the area of Banking;
- IFLR 1000 Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms as a leading lawyer in both Project Finance and Banking;
- 2009 PLC Which Lawyer Yearbook, as highly recommended in banking and financial services; and,
- Peer review rated in LexisNexis Martindale-Hubble for high to very high legal ability and very high ethical standards.
publications and presentations
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- automotive
- debt products
- international finance transactions
- projects
- Canadian Bar Association
- Canadian Finance and Leasing Association
Called to the Ontario bar
- 1991
Schulich School of Business, York University, MBA
- 1991
Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB
- 1988
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