Don M.E. Waters

Partner


Toronto

Tel : 416.865.7920
Fax : 416.865.7048

Email : don.waters@mcmillan.ca
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Professional Experience Don Waters is a partner in the firm's Financial Services Group. Don's practice is focused on corporate debt finance and structured finance transactions, including asset based lending, syndicated lending, cross-border debt financings, securitization and collateralized debt obligation transactions.

Don's experience in corporate debt financing transactions includes leading syndicated, bilateral, club, domestic and cross-border debt financings and debtor-in-possession financings for financial institutions, borrowers, syndicates and private equity sponsors.

Don routinely acts in securitization and structured finance matters on behalf of sellers, financial institutions, asset providers, swap counterparties, liquidity providers and servicers in securitization transactions with respect to a variety of asset classes, including commercial and residential mortgages, trade receivables, collateralized debt obligations, personal credit lines and vehicle loans and leases.

Don is recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada in Structured Finance Law. Don is a member of the firm's Japan practice group and acts for a number of Japanese financial institutions and corporations. From 1996 to 1997 Don worked at the Japanese firm of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune in Tokyo.

publications and presentations
February 2012
collateral (un)damaged: Canadian regulators publish consultation paper on segregation and portability in OTC derivatives clearing
derivatives law bulletin
June 2011
International Cash Pooling
Cross-Border Cash Management Systems and Intra-Group Financing
- Canada chapter (Co-author)
February 2011
Clearing becomes Clearer: OSFI Releases Timeline for Implementing Basel III Central Counterparty Reforms
Derivatives and Financial Institutions Regulation Bulletin
June 2010
Country Q&A - Canada
Structured Finance and Securitization
PLC cross-border Structured Finance and Securitization Handbook 2010


  • derivatives
  • financial services
  • international finance transactions
  • securitization

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Ontario Bar Association
Called to the Ontario bar - 2000

University of Toronto, LLB - 1998

University of Western Ontario, BA - 1993