Overview

Sébastien works in close partnership with domestic and international clients to provide business-minded and creative solutions for their merger and acquisition, private equity and financing matters.

He advises on complex and high-profile cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and financing matters for a wide variety of clients, including private and public companies, and private equity and venture capital funds. Clients across diverse industries, such as retail, manufacturing, energy and clean technology, turn to him for his practical and business-minded advice.

Sébastien regularly advises clients on fund formation and private equity investment transactions in Canada and abroad. Institutional and strategic investors can rely on Sebastien’s wealth of knowledge and good sense of market trends.

Sébastien also has particular expertise in working with clients through all stages of their real estate transactions, from negotiation to financing. He acts as lead counsel on a number of significant financing transactions, including acquisition, asset-based, mezzanine, project and real estate financing and cross-border syndicated facilities. He has acted as key adviser in a number of transformative REIT transactions.

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 MKB Equity Partners Inc. in its acquisition of Cascadia Windows Ltd., a British Columbia-based fiberglass window manufacturer, as well as co-investment arrangements with Blue Earth Capital and Canada Growth Fund.

Advised Novacap Management Inc. on the structuring and fundraising of a continuation vehicle and on the underlying transaction, which involved the sale of Revau from Novacap legacy funds to a new continuation vehicle.

Advised Montclair Capital on the establishment and launch of MontClerc Capital Fund I, a pioneering private investment fund regrouping multiple Quebec-based family offices.

Practice Areas

• Banking/Finance
• Real Estate
• Corporate & Commercial Law
• Natural Resources & Energy

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1997 (QC)