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, project finance 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 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 C$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 the acquisition financing of a casino operator by a private equity firm;
· acting for a syndicate of lenders on an asset-backed loan to a North American distributor of building products in North America;
· acting for a syndicate of lenders on a credit facility to a Canadian nuclear power generator;
· acting for a syndicate of lenders on a C$300 million credit facility to Canada's largest public construction and infrastructure development company; and
· acting for the providers of the margin funding facility in connection with the restructuring of the Canadian non-bank asset-backed commercial paper market.
Ms. Badour also co-presented the workshop "Anatomy of a Secured Loan Transaction" at the Commercial Loan Finance and Security Conference (Canadian Institute) in March 2008 in Toronto.
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.