David M A Amato

Practice Areas

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, private equity funds 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 leading member of the asset based lending team (an area for which we are recognized as a leading firm), Mr. Amato is a trusted advisor to a number of Canadian and US banks who provide asset based financing.

Mr. Amato also has extensive insolvency and restructuring experience acting on behalf of creditors.