Jay (Jiyung) Choi

Jay (Jiyung) Choi is a Partner in the Banking and Finance group in Dentons' Toronto office. His practice focuses on Banking and Finance Law.

Jay advises both lenders and borrowers on a wide range of corporate and commercial lending transactions, including general cash flow financing and asset-based lending, whether structured as bilateral loans, widely syndicated loans or direct lending transactions.

He has significant experience in leveraged finance and has worked on numerous acquisition financing transactions both in Canada and in the United States, including large private equity sponsored leveraged buyouts. Jay's other areas of practice include investment grade loans and insolvency-related financing.

Jay is admitted to practise in Ontario and New York and has extensive experience leading on complex multi-jurisdictional lending transactions. Prior to joining Dentons, he worked in the Finance Group of a leading US law firm in New York. He also practised as a foreign legal consultant at a leading law firm in Seoul, South Korea.

His experience includes representing Unitil Corporation (a NYSE-listed public utility holding company) in its US$55.8 million acquisition of Aquarion Water Company of New Hampshire, Inc. and Abenaki Water Co., Inc. and the related acquisition financing; advising the agent on a US$95 million cross-border financing of a consortium of private equity firms' acquisition of a manufacturing business; advising the lender in connection with a US$43.5 million construction financing of US real properties; advising the lender in connection with a CA$85 million cross-border secured financing of a North American manufacturing business; advising a world-leading tech company in connection with a US$100 million cross-border secured financing for acquisition purposes; representing Unitil Corporation in connection with its US$275 million revolving credit facility; acting for Investissement Québec in connection with the completion of the CA$2.54 billion financing of Telesat LEO, of which CA$400 million was provided by Investissement Québec and CA$2.14 billion was provided by the Canada Development Investment Corporation; and advising Sierra Metals Inc. in connection with a US$95,000,000 credit agreement.

He holds a BCL and LLB from McGill University (2007) and was admitted in Québec (2009, inactive), New York (2010) and Ontario (2013). He is recognised by The Legal 500 Canada for Banking and Finance and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Ontario Bar Association.