Mr. Sam Billard

Sam Billard is a partner with Aird & Berlis LLP in Toronto in its Financial Services Group, where his practice focuses on project finance, syndicated lending, asset-based lending, restructuring with a focus on the Caribbean, leasing, derivatives, asset-backed commercial paper, structured finance and carbon trading. He specializes in unusual, often multi-jurisdictional, secured-lending transactions. Mr. Billard provides corporate, regulatory and transactional advice to some of the largest financial institutions in North America. Previously, he worked in the Royal Bank of Canada's Law Depart- ment, as well as several other Canadian law firms in banking, restructuring and structured finance. Mr. Billard is a member of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association and ABI, and is admitted to the Ontario Bar Association. He received his B.A. with honors, as well as his LL.B. and M.B.A., from Dalhousie University.