Canada
McCarthy Tétrault
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Michel Deschamps
McCarthy Tétrault, Canada
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Work Department
Banking & Finance
Position
Practices banking and commercial law. Broad experience in domestic and cross-border loan syndications, secured transactions, receivables financing, international banking transactions, and regulation of financial institutions (including on consumer protection matters).
Career
Canadian delegate on law reform projects in secured transactions sponsored by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law. Member of working groups of these organizations and of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada. Chair of the Québec Bar Law Review and the Québec Bar committee on secured transactions. Associate Professor (banking law) at the Law Faculty of Université de Montréal.
Memberships
Barreau du Québec (Advocatus Emeritus), American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (Fellow), CBA.
Personal
Author of numerous articles or law book chapters on matters such as the law of negotiable instruments, letters of credit, assignment of receivables, conflict of laws, personal property security, aircraft financing and consumer protection law.