Overview

Elise is an insightful practitioner who provides clients with creative solutions for their complex business matters – whether structuring a private equity fund or leading an M&A transaction.

She advises on intricate and high-profile cross-border and domestic investments, mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions for a wide variety of clients, including private equity and venture capital funds, and private and public companies. She has experience in investment fund formation, secondary market transactions, joint ventures and other complex investment structures. Clients in a broad range of industries – including retail, clean tech, aviation and aerospace, real estate and infrastructure – turn to Elise for her versatility and her commitment to excellence.

In 2014, Elise was seconded for two months to the legal department of one of Canada’s largest pension funds, where she acted on infrastructure and commercial real estate investments. And in 2018, she was seconded to the Canadian legal department of a multinational operator of convenience stores.

Elise is involved in several Montréal arts and business exchange initiatives, including as an active participant in the Mécènes investis pour les arts program.

Acted for Novacap Management Inc., a leading North American private equity firm, on closing its US$3.8 billion Novacap Technologies VII, its largest technology buyout fund.

Acted for First Nations Venture Capital of Québec (FNVCQ) in launching the C$45-million FNVCQ II Fund, an innovative impact fund designed to support the social and economic development of Québec First Nations communities.

Acted for Beanfield Technologies Inc. and its subsidiaries in connection with the securitization of certain fibre network asset and related customer contracts through the private placement of C$565-million of secured fibre network funding notes.

Acted for Novacap Management Inc. in the formation of US$1-billion Novacap Digital Infrastructure Fund I, L.P., first fund dedicated to digital infrastructure.

Practice Areas

• Corporate & Commercial Law
• Natural Resources & Energy
• Securities

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2009 (QC)