David Amato focuses on corporate finance and is Co-Chair of our asset-based lending team. As counsel to various foreign and domestic financial institutions, insurance companies and other credit providers, he has significant experience in sophisticated debt financing transactions and has led numerous multijurisdictional, international and domestic debt financing mandates (including cash-flow, asset-based, acquisition, leveraged buyout, debtor-in possession, mine and project financings). As a key member of the asset-based lending team (an area for which we are recognized as a leading firm), Mr. Amato represents, and is a trusted advisor to, a number of Canadian and US asset-based lenders.
Mr. Amato also has extensive insolvency and restructuring experience acting on behalf of creditors.
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Year of call
Ontario 2000
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Law school
LL.B., University of Windsor, 1998
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Education
B.A. (Hons.), University of Toronto, 1994
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Selected client work
Mr. Amato has acted recently in the following matters:
- Bank of America, N.A. in connection with:
- Senior credit facilities in favour of Pinnacle Security and its affiliates (US$200 million) and Unisource Worldwide, Inc. and its affiliates (US$640 million)
- Amendments and restatements of the senior secured asset-based revolving credit facilities in favour of Univar Inc./Univar Canada Ltd. (US$1.1 billion ), Brown Shoe Company Inc. (US$380 million), Michaels Stores Inc. (US$1.1 billion) and Toys "R" Us, Inc. (US$2.05 billion)
- Senior secured asset-based revolving credit facilities in favour of Cooper-Standard Automotive and its affiliates (US$125 million) and Arclin Surfaces Inc. and its affiliates (US$25 million)
- Royal Bank of Canada in connection with:
- Amendments and restatements of the senior secured asset-based revolving credit facilities in favour of High Liner Foods Incorporated (US$120 million) and Gibson Energy ULC (US$200 million)
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in connection with:
- Revolving and term loan credit facilities (Canadian, US, UK and Swiss) in favour of IHS Inc. (US$1 billion)
- Senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility in favour of Core-Mark International (US$200 million)
- Senior secured asset-based credit facilities in favour of Jones Apparel Group Inc./Jones Apparel Group Canada (US$650 million)
- CIBC Asset-Based Lending, Inc. in connection with:
- Senior secured asset-based revolving credit facilities in favour of Olco Petroleum Group Inc. ($70 million) and Venture Steel Inc. ($80 million)
- Citibank in connection with:
- Continental Tire’s €750 million - 8.50% senior secured notes due 2015, issued by Conti-Gummi Finance B.V., Amsterdam, and in connection with €625 million - 6.50% senior secured notes due 2016, and €625 million - 7.125% senior secured notes due 2018 issued by Conti-Gummi Finance B.V., Amsterdam
- Deutsche Bank in connection with:
- Continental Tire’s amended and restated credit facility providing multi-currency term and revolving facilities in the aggregate principal amount of €13.5 billion in favour of Continental AG and certain of its subsidiaries in the forward-start facility agreement providing a forward-start term loan facility in the aggregate principal amount of €2.5 billion in favour of Continental AG and certain of its subsidiaries, and in connection with €1 billion - 7.50% senior secured notes due 2017 issued by Conti-Gummi Finance B.V., Amsterdam
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Rankings and recognitions
- Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2011-2013: Banking & Finance
- Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2012 - repeatedly recommended in Asset Equipment Finance/Leasing
- Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2011-2012: Banking & Finance
- Best Lawyers in Canada, 2012-2013 - Equipment Finance Law
- Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2011 - repeatedly recommended in Asset-based Lending
- International Financial Law Review - “rising star” - Banking
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Memberships and activities
- Canadian Bar Association
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships
- Canadian Italian Advocates Organization
- Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys
- Turnaround Management Association
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