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Yannick Beaudoin

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Yannick Beaudoin has 25 years of experience in infrastructure, energy, project development, project finance, and structured finance matters (he is involved in securitization programs of every significant asset class involving Québec assets).

Yannick acts on transformative, complex and highly innovative projects in Canada. He advises project proponents in the transportation, social infrastructure, alternative and renewable energy, power and health care sectors – as well as a wide range of fields, including transit, light rail and high speed train, toll roads, hospitals, education, wind, solar, battery storage, hydrogen, pipelines and urban redevelopment.

He leads projects using all types of project delivery modes, whether structured as a private or public project, including both traditional and collaborative approaches, and specifically Design-Build-Finance- Operate-Maintenance (and all of its alterations), Public-Private Partnership, Collaborative delivery with shared risk/reward, Progressive Design-Build, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (including EPCM), Framework Agreements and Construction Management Agency.

As part of one of the leading infrastructure and capital project legal teams in Canada, Yannick and the broader Bennett Jones' team have experience working with both public and private sector clients, and he understands how to work jointly with project teams to successfully deliver projects on time and on budget.

Yannick has a demonstrated track record of success, having successfully closed leading and major projects over the years. This allows him to share insights and best practices, leveraging insights gained from previous collaborations, while allowing the team to anticipate challenges and implement best practices. Lessons learned from past projects contribute to better outcomes.

Yanick also assists clients (whether private partner, its members, sponsors, subcontractors, third party participants (Indigenous Peoples, governments, cities and municipalities) to secure billions of dollars of debt, using various structures and instruments. He acted on behalf of lenders and borrowers on a wide range of Canadian infrastructure projects, with experience to manage multi-billion dollar, sophisticated financing structures applied to inherently complicated transactions.

Yannick regularly acts on projects requiring financings involving third-party debt and equity capital invested at different corporate levels, at different times in the project lifecycle, and involving various government policy incentives, such as loan guarantees, and the monetization of various environmental and tax attributes credits, with equity and quasi-equity capital solutions that include convertible debt instruments, preferred and structured preferred stock, and warrants coupled with debt financing components.

Over the years, Yannick assisted sponsors, equity investors, underwriters and lenders in structuring transactions to responding to rating agency inquiries, and requests to achieve targeted ratings. He has closed several simultaneous combined bank/bond project financings, including offerings in Canada and coordination of counsel for offerings internationally, and is familiar with the unique intercreditor issues and scheduling required to successfully achieve financial close.

Lastly, Yannick acted for sponsors and joint-venture partners in connection with energy-related projects and infrastructure enabling matters. He advises clients on the structuring, feasibility and the operation of energy related projects in Quebec, from assisting them in developing their process and template agreements to helping them obtain the various permits and licences required for their contemplated activities.

In short, Yannick shepherded complicated multiparty project and financing transactions to successful conclusions and counseled clients on terms to ensure bankability, certainty of funding and operational flexibility while addressing lender protections and concerns.

Canadian and international legal directories consistently recognize Yannick as a leading lawyer in his areas of practice. The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory ranks him in project finance, infrastructure law, banking & finance, and all aspects of asset financing. IFLR1000 includes him in banking & finance and real estate. The cross-border Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada rank Yannick in project finance.

Prior to joining Bennett Jones, Yannick was a partner at another Canadian national law firm in Montréal.

Education

University of Montréal, BA, 1996 University of Montréal, B.C.L., 1997

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Québec, 1998

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Alto (formally Via-HFR Inc., a federal crown corporation) on the existing corridor services transition matters during the co-development phase related to Canada’s first high speed rail project; the country’s largest ever infrastructure project that will transport passengers between Montréal and Toronto

Canada Infrastructure Bank in its C$1-billion innovative financing to support Montréal-Trudeau transformation as part of the 2028–2035 Flight Plan, a development initiative aimed at increasing capacity at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport

A number of flagship electrical vehicles (EV) battery clients on all legal matters related to procurement, financing, construction and operation matters for their respective manufacturing plant in Québec 

Transurban Group, one of the world's largest toll road operators, in its acquisition of 100 percent of the equity interests in the A25 Highway toll road and bridge concession in Montréal, Québec

Transurban Group, one of the world's largest toll road operators, in its C$355-million sale of a 50 percent interest in Concession A25, L.P., the concession operating and maintaining A25 Highway toll road and bridge concession in Montréal, Québec, to a pension fund company

Transurban Group, one of the world's largest toll road operators, on numerous transactions (debt financing, hedge structures, holdco financing and cross-border notes issuance) to provide financing for the A25 toll road and concession in Montréal, Québec 

The owner and equity sponsor using a progressive design build delivery approach with an energy conglomerate as sole tenant and operator, using a cross-border bondable lease structure

The lenders and underwriters, including hedge providers, on numerous transactions (debt financing, hedge structures, holdco financing and cross-border bond issuance) exceeding C$1.218 billion to provide financing for the Autoroute 30 concession project

Various data centre projects on behalf of the developers, including on the procurement and construction of a C$1.2-billion next-generation research centre and data storage facility

A tenant in connection with the negotiation for the relocation of its Montréal headquarters in a new built-to-suit facility

A qualified bidder in connection with the construction of the new headquarters of a Federal crown agent and the real estate development of the lands adjacent to the existing headquarters

A lender in a financing for infrastructure upgrades at a marine port in Québec 

The private partner in the transfer of the design and build obligations for the second phase of a P3 project from the existing joint venture contractor to a new contractor, including in connection with the solicitation of the required Bondholders consent

Both sponsors and finance parties (including hedge providers) on numerous cross-border bond issuances, each in the range of C$600-1.3 billion, to finance or refinance various infrastructure projects in Canada

The lenders on the acquisition financing of a number of secondary sale transactions involving portfolio of infrastructure projects in Canada

Numerous bidders and project entities on various projects to design, construct, finance, operate, maintain and rehabilitate transactions, including on the financing for such projects, using rated bonds and short-term credit facilities, for example in connection with AMT Lachine Maintenance Centre Project, the Hydro-Québec Data Centre Project, the Sorel detention facility, the Hospital Centre of the University of Montréal (CHUM), the Champlain Bridge Replacement Project, the McGill Hospital Health Centre Project (MUHC),  the Centre Hospitalier de I'Université de Montréal Research Centre (CRCHUM), the Baie-Saint-Paul Hospital Project, the Sainte-Justine Hospital Renovation Project, the Markham Stouffville Hospital.

The lead arrangers and the lending syndicate of a US$2.55-billion term facility and US$600-million revolving credit facility to support the US$6.3-billion sale of Nuvei
Volta Energy Solutions Canada (VESC), a subsidiary of Solus Advanced Materials, in connection with the C$150M loan offer from Investissement Québec for VESC’s EV-grade battery copper foil plant in Granby, Quebec
Osisko Mining Inc. on its earn-in and joint venture on certain mineral properties held by Bonterra Resources Inc. in Québec's Eeyou Istchee James Bay region
Capvest Partners in its acquisition of Recochem, a Québec based manufacturer of aftermarket transportation and household fluids

Recent Recognition

IFLR 1000 The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms
Highly regarded in Real Estate and Banking & Finance
Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Infrastructure Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Infrastructure lawyer

Best Lawyers in Canada
Recognized for Asset-Based Lending Practice, Construction Law, Equipment Finance Law, Project Finance Law, Real Estate Law and Structured Finance Law
Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

Consistently Recommended, Asset Equipment Finance/Leasing; Asset Securitization; Infrastructure Law; Project Finance
Repeatedly Recommended, Asset-Based Lending

 

The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
Recognized as a leading lawyer in Project Finance
Lexpert Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada
Recognized as a leading lawyer in the area of Business Issues
The Legal 500 Canada
Recommended, Real Estate

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