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Marie-France Béland is a partner in Gowlings’ Montréal office, practising in the financial services sector with a particular emphasis in the fields of lending, real estate and restructuring.

Marie-France acts for both creditors and debtors with regard to Canadian and cross-border financing transactions which include public and parapublic infrastructure programs, and various types of financing, namely corporate, real estate, equipment, DIP (debtor in possession) and structured financing. She also acts within the framework of restructurings and as such, she represents trustees and creditors by studying securities within the framework of their realization. Marie-France has a particular expertise on documentary credit (the subject of  her master’s thesis) as well as a specialization in the farm credit and aircraft sectors.

While studying for her degree, she performed a one-year internship with the Honourable Judge Pierre Dalphond at the Court of Appeal.