Best Lawyers in Canada for Asset-Based Lending Practice

Serge Levy is a partner and Head of the Montréal office’s Debt Financing and Projects & Infrastructure Groups. His practice is focused on banking law, corporate finance, financial services and commercial law. He is routinely involved in high-profile, sophisticated debt financing transactions representing corporate borrowers and financial institutions alike, on both a secured and unsecured basis. Serge has acquired a wealth of experience in the area of cross-border leveraged f...

Michèle Friel practises in the areas of commercial contracts, corporate financing, financial services and general banking law. Her practice focuses primarily on secured financing transactions in Canada and cross-border loans, both on a syndicated and non-syndicated basis. Ms. Friel represents and advises banks and other lending institutions as well as borrowers in a broad range of financing transactions, including asset-based loans, cash flow loans, project financings, acquisition fina...

William focuses on restructuring and insolvency law, commercial lending and real estate. He is widely recognized for his experience with restructuring national and international companies by several legal publications. An accomplished corporate and commercial lawyer, Bill has worked with many of Canada’s largest financial institutions and court officers in the insolvency and restructuring area. He is a leading practitioner in ABL and CMBS financing. His experience also extends to railwa...

Brent Clark is a leading banking and finance lawyer in Fasken’s Vancouver office. Acting primarily for banks, credit unions, pension funds and other borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured financing transactions, he is highly recognized by peers and clients for his extensive experience in asset-based lending and banking and finance law. An established practitioner in his field, Brent represents all types of lenders and borrowers, in both real and personal property secured financi...

Marlin J. Horst is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Asset-Based Lending Practice. Marlin J., who practices law in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Marlin J. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Practising extensively in the area of complex commercial transactions, Rick Borden focuses on large-scale projects and financings in the energy sector, including oil sands projects, pipeline projects and LNG projects. His clients include major Canadian banks and project sponsors and he has strong relationships with the key project lending specialists at the major Canadian banks. He also has significant experience in joint venture arrangements in the energy sector and often advises on matters ...

David Amato focuses on corporate finance and is co-chair of our asset-based lending team. As counsel to various foreign and domestic financial institutions, insurance companies, private equity funds and other credit providers, he has significant experience in sophisticated debt financing transactions and has led numerous multijurisdictional, international and domestic debt financing mandates (including cash-flow, asset based, acquisition, leveraged buyout, debtor-in possession, mine and proje...

Craig Mitchell is a partner in the Banking & Finance Group. His practice focuses on banking, restructurings and workouts. He has expertise in private acquisition financings, take-over bid financings, debtor-in-possession financings, asset-based lending and mezzanine lending. Craig acts as counsel to both lenders and borrowers on domestic and cross-border financings in North America, Europe and Asia, and as counsel to creditors and debtors in commercial insolvencies and restructurings. He ...

Matthew Longstaff has extensive experience advising investment banks, sovereigns, private equity houses and corporate clients in a broad range of cross‑border debt financings, including high‑yield bonds, leveraged bank finance, syndicated and bilateral bank financings, project financings, convertible and exchangeable bonds, sovereign bonds, hybrid capital issuances, consent solicitations, and securitizations, as well as advising on restructurings and in distressed debt scenarios. In addition,...

Jennifer Legge is Head of the Banking & Finance Group. She is also a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Restructuring & Insolvency Groups, as well as a member of the Management Committee in the Toronto office. Jennifer advises her clients on a diverse range of corporate and business law matters, having over 25 years’ experience in structuring, negotiating, documenting and administering a wide variety of financing arrangements, including senior, mezzanine and subordinat...

Ed provides banking and debt financing expertise to a variety of clients. He counsels financial institutions, private lenders, and corporate borrowers on complex corporate and commercial financing matters with a focus on leveraged buyout acquisitions, asset-based lending, capital call facilities, financing for mortgage investment corporations, and various other bespoke financing arrangements and in the aircraft, mining, commercial real estate and diversified commercial industries. Ed’s ...

Luc-Antoine Manneh is a partner in the Montreal office’s Banking & Financial Services team. He is involved in closing domestic and cross-border financing transactions on behalf of both lenders and borrowers. In this capacity, Luc-Antoine is particularly involved in drafting and negotiating credit agreements, intercreditor agreements and subordination agreements in the context of syndicated or bilateral financing transactions such as asset-based lending financing, acquisition financi...