Michelle is a partner in the firm's Financial Services group. Her practice includes real estate financing, commercial debt financing, acquisition financing, asset-based lending and project financing. Michelle advises financial institutions, private equity firms and domestic and international corporations in domestic, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional financings.
In 2017, Michelle was seconded to a leading Canadian bank where she worked in the Capital Markets Law Group with a focus on negotiating financing agreements with large domestic and international clients of the bank.
Michelle joined McMillan as a summer student in 2012 and completed her articles with the firm in 2014. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law where she graduated Cum Laude. Prior to law school, Michelle received her Masters of Arts in Economics from Queen's University, and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto.