Hillel Rosen is a partner who specializes in corporate and commercial law and is a member of the firm's Management Committee. He has a diverse practice that is transactional in nature. Hillel has particular expertise in business acquisitions (including those that relate to distressed or insolvent companies), real estate transactions, the forest products industry and secured financing transactions (both as borrowers' and lenders' counsel).

On real estate matters, Hillel regularly acts on various types of transactions including acquisitions, dispositions and joint venture arrangements involving commercial real estate. Hillel recently acted for Kimco Realty Corporation in establishing a partnership and subsequent acquisition by that partnership of a 1.2 million square feet power centre development project in Boisbriand, Quebec. In the forest products sector, Hillel recently acted for Société générale de financement du Québec in its acquisition of 148,500-acres of private timberlands. As well, Hillel acted for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. in its divestiture of its 485,000-acre private timberlands. As part of Hillel’s secured lending practice, he regularly acts for GE Capital in respect of business and commercial real estate financings. In the context of corporate restructurings, Hillel has completed a number of acquisitions of distressed businesses and played the principal role in the acquisition of a public pharmaceutical manufacturer through a CCAA restructuring.

As well, Hillel is intensively involved with the firm’s regulatory practice concerning the Competition Act and Investment Canada Act and, in that regard, he has helped many Canadian and multinational corporations through the merger compliance procedures. As a regulatory lawyer, Hillel has acted for Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. and affiliates of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in respect of competition law matters. In respect of Investment Canada matters, Hillel has acted for General Electric in connection with its takeover of Universal Studios and TPG Group in respect of its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Axcan Pharma.

Hillel has achieved one of Martindale Hubbell’s highest rankings.

Hillel is a member of the McGill University Faculty of Law Advisory Board, director of the Jewish Public Library and a member of the Canadian Turnaround Management Association. In 1985, Hillel was a double Gold Medallist of the combined B.C.L. and LL.B. program at McGill University. He then obtained a master's degree from Oxford University in 1987. He became a partner in 1996.

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