Nora F. Osbaldeston

Nora Osbaldeston is one of Miller Thomson’s leading financial services lawyers. She has extensive experience acting for financial institutions and corporate borrowers on a variety of domestic and international cross-border financing transactions including syndicated and bi-lateral transactions across a wide range of industries and sectors including agriculture and food, automotive and transportation, education, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, hotel and hospitality, construction, long term and senior care, professional sports and team financings, professional services, retail, telecommunications and media, and family offices.

Nora has earned a number of distinctions throughout her career including being named to Best Lawyers in Canada since 2013 and Lexpert (Canada) for Banking and Finance. She was the inaugural recipient of the Federated Press Women & Leadership Award for exceptional achievement and outstanding leadership by a Canadian Woman Lawyer, a past recipient of the Lexpert Zenith Award celebrating leading women lawyers in Canada and WXN’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada in the professional category.

Nora has been a member of the Advisory Board for the Canadian General Counsel Awards and is a member of the Advisory Board for Lexperts Rising Star Awards.

Nora is on the board of directors of RFA Bank, a Schedule 1 Bank under the Bank Act (Canada) and is chair of its governance, conduct review and compensation committee and its nomination committee. She also sits on the Bank’s audit committee. Nora is a board member and chair of the finance committee of Multilaw, a leading global network of 90 independent law firms in 100 countries. Nora is also a founding member and volunteer of Swim Drink Fish Canada, a grassroots environmental, water focused charity.

Currently Nora is the Ontario Regional Managing Partner at Miller Thomson and sits on the firm’s national executive committee. She is the former Office Managing Partner for the firm’s offices in Toronto, Vaughan and Markham and former national chair of the firm’s Financial Services Group.