James Padwick

James provides business focused, practical advice primarily in the areas of banking, secured financing and corporate and commercial transactions. He is recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2023 for his work in Banking and Finance Law and as one of Canada’s leading practitioners in the area of Asset-Based Lending in The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2023.

With respect to banking and secured financing, the more difficult, complex and structured the transaction, the better. Syndicated, secured, non-secured, domestic, cross-border, revolving, term, asset based, cash flow, convertible, equity sweetened, crypto lending, mining finance, acquisition finance - the weird and the wonderful. James led a study (available on request) on the Canadian convertible debt market reviewing a large number of public and 44 internal transactions, and consistently acts on complex cross border sophisticated transactions.

James also advises clients on a broad variety of corporate/commercial agreements, including shareholders agreements, partnership agreements, management services agreements, asset and share sale agreements (M&A), collaboration agreements and confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements. His clients have included a number of life sciences and tech companies as well as not for profit organizations, and he has served on boards through the entire life cycle, including involvement with a Canadian tech start-up from 1.0 beta testing to a high multiple, multi-million dollar exit.

In providing service to clients James leverages his business experience and education (MBA, CFA level I).