Guillaume Michaud

Norton Rose Fulbright

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“I had a picture of a house, and the house was Premiere Mortgage Centre”

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Andrea is an Employee Learning and Development professional with two years of experience who is passionate about using her skills to implement innovative and pioneering HR initiatives to drive a culture of professional development. Her strengths lay in people and relationship management, critical thinking and delivering behaviour change projects with an innovative twist. She has been responsible for introducing compliance learning tailored to our significantly diverse employee base of over 12,000 and using her skills to create engagement for and roll out of 'Altogether Autism & Neurodiversity awareness programme at The Warehouse Group. She has shifted the way our team engages with learning, cultivating a continuous learning and development culture specific to their journey.

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J.R. Laffin is widely recognized as a leading dealmaker and talented public M&A lawyer. He advises on many of Canada’s most sophisticated and complex M&A transactions, offering strategic solutions and innovative approaches. J.R. was honoured in 2021 as a Top 10 M&A lawyer in Canada by a global news outlet for his leadership in high-profile transactions. He is known for his legal expertise, professionalism and collaborative approach helping clients complete industry-altering transactions. In addition to his distinguished legal presence, J.R. provides leadership as public M&A practice group head and is an active mentor to junior lawyers providing advice and support.

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innovative approach, Guillaume sees every file as a chance to evolve the firm’s approach, whether with innovative uses of reverse vesting order transactional structures, or third party stays and releases, distressed M&A strategies, and other outside-the-box debtor-led or creditor-led restructuring tools and solutions. Admitted as a member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada in 2024, Guillaume regularly publishes thought leadership to share insights honed through his unique experiences. He is President of the Canadian Bar Association – Quebec Branch – Insolvency Section and a member of the Executive Committee. In recent years, he’s also served on the boards of the Turnaround Management Association (Montreal Chapter), Des mots d’la dynamite Theatre Company for Children, and Friends of the Botanical Gardens of Montreal.

Guillaume Michaud forged his practice during the 2008 economic crisis, becoming Norton Rose Fulbright Canada’s Head of Insolvency and Restructuring in 2024. Guillaume practises all aspects of insolvency law (including litigation), with a particular emphasis on developing the distressed mergers and acquisitions space. His work involves key leadership roles on files such as Taiga Motor Corp, Lion Electric Company, Stornoway Diamonds, Tergeo Critical Minerals, Lithion Technologies, SSense, and other headline-making cases. Known for his

Maria Sagan, partner in McMillan LLP’s Toronto office, is a highly respected financial services lawyer with over 15 years of experience representing both borrowers and lenders. Her expertise is in domestic, cross-border and multijurisdictional financings, and she routinely acts for major Canadian banks, foreign banks, private equity firms, and domestic and international corporations. Drawing on broad experience, Maria advises on secured and unsecured lending, asset-based lending, acquisition finance, derivative and structured transactions, securitizations, syndicated lending, and debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing. She has been recognized by the Secured Finance Network’s Top 40 under 40 for her contributions to the secured finance industry, and by the Secured Finance Network’s The Secured Lender as a leading woman in the commercial finance industry for her excellence and dedication to client service.