Mr. Pontier’s project practice covers a range of multifaceted cross-border transactional and advisory work for sponsors, lenders, investors, credit agencies and service providers across every major industry, including energy and infrastructure, mining, toll roads, stadia, oil and gas and real estate development, and project finance (projects and private-public partnerships). Mr. Pontier’s work in structured finance transactions includes matters involving the debt capital markets, structured finance (repurchase agreements and other asset-based lending arrangements, term asset-backed securitizations, covered bond and conduit transactions), restructuring (of debt for portfolios of energy projects) and the termination of structured finance transactions.
He is also recognized for his pro bono work on impact finance (Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) / Development Impact Bonds (DIBs)) for establishing domestic and international financing solutions.