Our Financial Services Group

Our Financial Services Group, in conjunction with our other Practice Groups, provides comprehensive and specialized advice and legal services in all aspects of financial services law.

Our Group is a large multidisciplinary team with expertise in all areas of financial services law, including banking, lending, leasing, structured finance, project finance, securitizations, regulatory matters, bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, and related disciplines.  Our multidisciplinary approach reflects the reality of financial services both domestically and internationally where traditional financial sectors have become integrated and traditional activities require special expertise.

Our Financial Services Group provides a wide range of services to major Canadian and foreign banks, financial institutions, trust companies, credit unions, insurance companies and investment dealers.  The Group also represents numerous corporate borrowers and lessees in diverse sectors of the economy.  We make it our business to know and understand the financial services marketplace and to respond practically and efficiently to our clients' needs. 

Our Services

Members of the Financial Services Group provide advice on all aspects of financial services law, including:

  • Governmental, corporate and commercial financing
  • Syndicated loans and participations
  • Structured finance and leasing
  • Securitizations
  • Project financing
  • Real estate financing
  • Natural resource and energy financing
  • Acquisition financing
  • Venture capital financing
  • Formation and operation of credit unions, co-operative associations and other financial institutions
  • Admiralty financing
  • Aircraft financing
  • Receivership, bankruptcy and insolvency
  • Enforcement and realization of security
  • Corporate Restructuring
  • Fraud and forensic/investigations
  • Work-outs and arrangements
  • Financial instruments and derivative products
  • Trade finance
  • Electronic banking
  • Clearing system issues
  • Regulatory issues, including "branching"
  • Consumer credit
  • Credit and debit cards
  • Joint ventures, partnering, alliance building between and with financial institutions
  • Establishment and acquisition of banks, trust companies, insurance companies and mortgage companies
  • Mergers and acquisitions of financial institutions
  • Preparation of standard security and loan documents
  • Corporate trust services
  • New products and expanded services of financial institutions
  • General corporate and commercial concerns of financial institutions

Our Experience

Our Financial Services Group has played a key role in some of the highest profile and most complex financings, workouts, restructurings and liquidations in recent Canadian and international business history.

We have a diversified practice which ranges from advising small business and entrepreneurs to advising banks and financial institutions in connection with a large volume of corporate and commercial lending of all types, equipment leasing and vendor finance programs, as well as advising financial institutions on regulatory matters.  The common thread is the Group's focus on achieving client objectives in innovative ways. 

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP's lawyers serve on the boards of directors of various financial institutions and industry associations, and many of them are active in speaking and teaching on lending and financial service issues.  A number of lawyers in our Group have been described in international publications as amongst the leading lawyers in Canada in their specialty.  The educational qualifications, backgrounds and interests of the Group's lawyers create a resource that is highly responsive to the needs and concerns of our clients and the financial service sector in which they do business.

Members of the Financial Services Group draw on expertise from our other Practice Groups in all areas, including capital markets, energy, real estate, tax, litigation and other relevant specialties such as international business, communications and environmental law.

We pride ourselves in addressing client needs in an effective and cost efficient manner through the utilization of partners, associates and paralegals individually and in working groups appropriate to particular projects.  Combined with our leading-edge expertise, as one of the largest firms in Canada, we have the depth of resources within each regional office and throughout the firm, nationally, to handle a high volume of transactions and projects.

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