Ana Badour is a partner in our Financial Services Group in Toronto. Her practice focuses on banking and secured transactions, including senior and subordinate loans, cross-border transactions, restructurings, acquisition financings, as well as asset-based lending transactions.

Ms. Badour acts for banking institutions, banking syndicates, non-bank lenders and borrowers. Her recent transactions include:

· acting as Canadian counsel to a syndicate of lenders on the U.S. $2.35 billion refinancing of Canadian and US credit facilities to a North American waste management company;

· acting for a syndicate of lenders on an asset-backed loan to a pulp and paper manufacturer in connection with its exit from CCAA;

· acting for a syndicate of lenders on a Cdn. $1.45 billion and U.S. $300 million credit facility to a Canadian telecommunications company;

· acting for a global syndicate of lenders on a U.S. $2.25 billion global credit facility to a Canadian automotive supplier;

· acting for a global syndicate of lenders on the establishment and refinancing of a Canadian/ Australian Cdn. $2.1 billion syndicated facility to one of Canada's largest agribusinesses;

· acting for a Canadian provider of outsourced data centre infrastructure on the refinancing of its senior and subordinate cross-border credit facilities;

· acting for a syndicate of lenders on a credit facility to a Canadian nuclear power generator; and

· acting for a syndicate of lenders on a C$300 million credit facility to Canada's largest public construction and infrastructure development company.

Ms. Badour is a regular contributor on credit matters to the Canadian M&A Perspectives blog.

Ms. Badour received her B. Math (Operations Research) from the University of Waterloo in 2000, and her LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2003. She was called to the Ontario bar in 2004.