Background
Glen Bowman is a partner in our Montréal office. Glen was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1992. He graduated from the National Program of McGill University's law faculty in 1991. He also received a Bachelor of History degree from McGill in 1988. He is fluently bilingual in English and French.
Areas of Practice
· Glen acts as counsel to lenders, such as banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions, and borrowers in both secured and unsecured loan transactions.
· He has considerable expertise in syndicated, real estate and asset based lending.
· Glen also represents creditors and debtors in non-litigious restructuring, insolvency and workout matters.
Professional Experience
· Glen's mandates have included:
· Syndicated and non-syndicated lending:
- represented syndicates of lenders led by Bank of Montreal to various public and private companies;
- represented a syndicate of lenders to Vidéotron Ltée in a secured financing in the amount of $1,587,000,000;
- represented a syndicate of lenders to Sun Media Corporation in a secured financing in the amount of approximately $400,000,000;
- represented syndicates of lenders to BCE and its subsidiaries for various amounts;
- represented The Toronto-Dominion Bank in loans made to a public automotive parts company and its subsidiaries in the amount of approximately $400,000,000;
- represented The Toronto-Dominion Bank in secured loans made to a consortium of marine response corporations for various amounts;
- represented a syndicate of lenders to Dollarama
- represented Royal Bank of Canada in secured loans made to a private operator of old age homes for various amounts;
- represented a syndicate of US lenders led by Bank of America in relation to the acquisition by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters of Van Houtte.
· Real estate lending:
- represented a life insurance company in various loans in the public and private sectors;
- represented the Cité du commerce électronique in interim and long term secured loan transactions relating to the first and second phase of E-commerce Place in downtown Montréal;
- represented subsidiaries of a publicly traded transportation income fund in relation to a secured loan transaction relating to several immovable properties;
- represented Bank of Montréal in relation to the financing of the former Montréal YMCA; and
- represented several syndicates of lenders to a pulp and paper company with respect to the financing of its mills.
· Asset based lending:
- represented a syndicate of lenders led by GE to a privately owned operator of several paper mills;
- represented an insurance company with respect to a monetization of a sponsorship agreement entered into between the owners of the Bell Center and Bell Canada;
- represented an automobile manufacturer with respect to the securitization of a portion of its leasing portfolio in Quebec; and
- represented a fleet leasing company in a financing based on its portfolio of leases and leased vehicles.
· Transactions on behalf of borrowers:
- represented a clothing manufacturer in the restructuring of its various credit facilities;
- represented a private manufacturer of plumbing supplies in the restructuring of its credit facilities;
- represented a publicly traded transportation income fund in the negotiation of various secured lending transactions; and
- many lending transactions on behalf of various publicly traded companies and income funds.
Professional and Community Activities
· Member of the Canadian Bar Association
· Chair of BLG's Professional Committee
· Speaker at BLG U
· Author of Le bail immobilier (Montréal : Jewel Publications, 1989), a work on real estate leases, 'Senior Managers of Quebec and their Fiduciary Obligations', (1990) 4 National Labour Review 62 and 'Letters of Credit', in International Business Transactions (Netherlands: Kluwer, 1994) with Pierre Dalphond