Financing Depth
Our Financial Services Group represents sophisticated commercial lenders including Canadian Schedule I banks, tier-1 institutional lenders, global financial institutions, private lenders and corporate lending clients on significant, complex domestic and cross‐border financings, as well as with enforcement, restructuring and exit from distressed exposures.
Our team provides industry‐specific commercial financing depth in key economic sectors including real estate, which includes conventional and CMHC loan transactions, multi-residential, office, seniors facilities, shopping centre, student housing, construction and pre-development properties, mining and resources, insurance, pharmaceuticals, media and telecom, aviation and automotive.
Customized Deal Risk Control
We build financing deal execution teams that manage risk in a way that matches your business priorities. We understand your needs: Closing Certainty, Execution Quality, Accelerated Turnaround, Deal/Price Fit, Cost Certainty. Our approach allows you to minimize advisor management and focus on other deal priorities. We know that trusted advisors reliably deliver results that help drive your success and insulate you from risk.
Deal Flow
Our extensive work with key institutional and private lenders keeps us current with financing practices and helps us connect deals to the right funding sources. Having worked on both sides of the table, we understand the market realities, pricing and fit behind successful financing relationships.
FI Regulatory
Insight and analysis of domestic regulation of banking, securities, stock exchange matters, and other financial products and transactions is increasingly important to a compliance-focused world. We keep our clients up-to-date and armed with the tools to effect financial compliance efficiently.
Additional Expertise
- Project finance, real estate finance, construction lending and development bonds
- Secured and unsecured credit lines
- Loan syndications
- Senior, term and mezzanine debt
- Acquisition finance, including private equity financings
- Asset‐based lending and receivables finance
- Equipment leasing
- IP and software financing
- Government finance
- Scientific Research and Experimental Development financing
- Shariah compliant financing
- Security enforcement and collections
- Mortgage enforcement
- Commercial fraud
- Money laundering
- Banking law
- Treasury functions and accounting operation
- Regulatory, compliance and AML
- Letters of credit and trade finance
- Private and cost-appointed receivers
- Forbearance agreements
- Loan and guarantee enforcement and recovery
- Distressed debt trades
- DIP Loans
- Distressed M & A and formal bid processes
- Informal workouts and restructuring under the CCAA, BIA and WURA
- Advice to CROs, financial advisors, monitors, receivers, trustees, and liquidators
- Structuring sales processes and approvals
- Debt and security restructuring
- D.I.P. financing
- Mortgage and personal property security enforcement
- Loan and security agreements
- Forbearance agreements
- Guarantee enforcement
- Lender liability
- Recovery and sale of assets
- Sale plans for assets
- Negotiating with secured, unsecured creditors, debtors and other interested persons
- Court reports
- Priority disputes
- Opinions regarding the validity and enforceability of security interests
Primary Contact
Alex Eisenberg
Partner & Co-Chair of the Financial Services Group
T 416.865.6668
F 416.865.6636
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Alex Eisenberg
Partner & Co-Chair of the Financial Services Group
T 416.865.6668
F 416.865.6636
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Arlene O'Neill
Partner, Co-Chair Corporate Law, Executive Committee
T 416.865.6640
F 416.865.6636
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Paul Stoyan
King's Counsel (K.C.) CEO, Chair and Partner
T 416.865.6611
F 416.865.6636