Practice Areas & Industries: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Our Financial Services Group, in conjunction with our other Practice Groups, provides comprehensive and specialized advice and legal services in all aspects of financial services law.

Our Group is a large multidisciplinary team with expertise in all areas of financial services law, including banking, lending, leasing, structured finance, project finance, securitizations, regulatory matters, bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring and related disciplines.  Our multidisciplinary approach reflects the reality of financial services both domestically and internationally where traditional financial sectors have become integrated and traditional activities require special expertise.

Our Financial Services Group provides a wide range of services to major Canadian and foreign banks, financial institutions, trust companies, credit unions, insurance companies and investment dealers.  The Group also represents numerous corporate borrowers and lessees in diverse sectors of the economy.  We make it our business to know and understand the financial services marketplace and to respond practically and efficiently to our clients' needs. 

Services Available

Members of the Financial Services Group provide advice on all aspects of financial services law, including:

• Governmental, corporate and commercial financing
• Syndicated loans and participations
• Structured finance and leasing
• Securitizations
• Project financing
• Real estate financing
• Natural resource and energy financing
• Acquisition financing
• Venture capital financing
• Formation and operation of credit unions, co-operative associations and other financial institutions
• Admiralty financing
• Aircraft financing
• Receivership, bankruptcy and insolvency
• Enforcement and realization of security
• Corporate Restructuring
• Fraud and forensic/investigations
• Work-outs and arrangements
• Financial instruments and derivative products
• Trade finance
• Electronic banking
• Clearing system issues
• Regulatory issues, including "branching"
• Consumer credit
• Credit and debit cards
• Joint ventures, partnering, alliance building between and with financial institutions
• Establishment and acquisition of banks, trust companies, insurance companies and mortgage companies
• Mergers and acquisitions of financial institutions
• Preparation of standard security and loan documents
• Corporate trust services
• New products and expanded services of financial institutions
• General corporate and commercial concerns of financial institutions