Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Financial Services

Michael is a senior partner in the Financial Services Group in Calgary. His practice focuses on banking, corporate lending, acquisition finance, structured finance and project finance. He also has extensive experience in corporate and commercial acquisitions and regularly advises on cross-border financings. His recent transactions include major project financings, major acquisition financings and cross-border structured financings, as well as financings of pipelines, refineries, oil sands projects, conventional oil and gas reserves, petrochemical plants, mining assets and power generating assets. Specifically, Michael is lead counsel to the borrower for the project financing of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline and is lead counsel to the lenders for the financing of North West Redwater’s Sturgeon Refinery.

Michael is recognized as a leading lawyer in all major legal directories and ranking publications.

Michael is a member of the Law Society of Alberta, the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association and the Calgary Bar Association.