Lawyer Profile
François Gilbert
Montréal, Québec
Overview
François Gilbert is senior counsel in the Banking Group. He has over 30 years' experience as a banking and finance lawyer covering a wide range of sectors including structured finance, securitization, project finance, syndicated lending, derivatives and financial market infrastructure.
François has broad experience of syndicated loans, inter-creditor and cross-border security issues, asset-based lending and acquisition finance. He has also been involved in a number of project financings in the mining, energy and PPP sectors.
He has significant expertise related to OTC and exchange-traded derivatives across interest rates, foreign exchange, equity, commodity, credit and fund-linked products. His experience also includes structured products with embedded derivatives (including share-, index- and credit-linked notes), clearing and settlement systems. François regularly advises on the regulation of derivatives, exchanges and clearing houses, and has extensive experience with repos, repackaging transactions, and both cash and synthetic structured credit transactions backed by novel classes of debt (including project finance and emerging market debt). He also advises financial institutions and pension and investment funds on structured transactions driven by tax or regulatory considerations.
François is also recognized as a leading lawyer in the fields of securitization and receivables factoring with knowledge relating to several asset classes, including trade receivables, auto and heavy equipment loans and leases, credit cards and esoteric assets such as data center receivables.
François is a member of the Québec bar and of the Law Society of Ontario, and a Solicitor in England and Wales.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1994 (ON); 2009 (QC)