Overview

Hard-working and methodical, Gilles is known for immersing himself in his clients’ deals and being a strategic thinker.

Gilles has a broad generalist practice that is primarily transactional in nature. He is often called upon to advise on complex, time-sensitive transactions, and clients value his ability to think strategically in helping them achieve their goals.

Gilles has experience in advising clients on a wide range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, secured lending, securities offerings, and various other general corporate matters. He also regularly advises clients on corporate governance issues and their ongoing securities and corporate law obligations.

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 Xplore Inc., a leading provider of high-speed broadband services to Canadians in rural communities, in connection with a comprehensive recapitalization that included more that $1.6 billion of new funding being committed to Xplore’s fibre-to-the-home network roll-out by private debt and equity providers and under federal and provincial government broadband programs.

Acted for Beanfield Metroconnect, a portfolio company of DigitalBridge, in securing a strategic equity investment from OMERS Infrastructure.

Acted for DigitalBridge in its acquisition (and related bank financing) of Beanfield Metroconnect, an independent bandwidth infrastructure provider serving the enterprise, carrier and multi-dwelling unit markets in Toronto and Montréal over its owned fibre network.

Acted for Ironbridge Equity Partners in the sale of its portfolio company, Thermogenics Inc., to Audax Private Equity.

Practice Areas

• Corporate & Commercial Law
• Securities

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2009 (ON)