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Michael Disney

Michael Disney is a partner in the Corporate/Commercial, Capital Markets, Financial Restructuring & Insolvency, Mergers & Acquisitions and Banking practices. In addition, throughout his career, Michael has had extensive ongoing involvement in legal research at the firm.

Representative Work

  • Acted for Newshore Financial and the conduits sponsored by it in connection with the restructuring of $7 billion of assets in such conduits as part of the recent restructuring of $32 billion of non-bank sponsored asset-backed commercial paper.

  • Acted for Woodbourne Investment Management LLC in connection with a $300-million financing of All Seniors Care Living Centres.

  • Acted for Dundee Securities Corporation in connection with the restructuring of approximately $2 billion of short-term debt obligations and contractual obligations of Skeena Capital Trust, a Canadian third-party asset-backed commercial paper conduit. This transaction was the first negotiated restructuring of a Canadian third-party asset-backed commercial paper conduit affected by the August 2007 Canadian asset-backed commercial paper market disruption.

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Professional Affiliations

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Canadian Bar Association

Board Memberships

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Community Involvement

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Teaching Engagements

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Speaking Engagements

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Articles and Publications

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Michael has written and lectured extensively on legal opinions and was a member of the Canadian Bar Association - Ontario Personal Property Security Opinion Committee that produced the Personal Property Security Opinion Report. He has also participated in many conferences and published papers relating to corporate and commercial law, including "Securities Transfers in the Modern Market" (with Janet Holmes) for the 1997 Queen's Annual Business Law Symposium and "The Unanimous Shareholder Agreement: A Promise Unfulfilled?", Corporate Structure, Finance and Operations, vol. 8 (Carswell, 1995).

Michael Disney
Michael Disney
Partner
Office:
Toronto
Tel:
416.863.5540
Email:
mdisney@dwpv.com
Bar Admissions:

Ontario, 1980

Education:

Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.B., 1978

University of Toronto, B.A., 1975