Marc D. Adler is counsel in our Financial Services Group in our Calgary office. Mr. Adler's practice is transaction-based and focuses primarily on banking, project finance, acquisition financing and corporate lending. Mr. Adler represents several key financial institutions and corporate lenders as well as significant corporate borrowers in connection with syndicated and bilateral credit facilities, structured finance transactions, acquisition financings, project financings, and other secured and unsecured debt financing transactions. Mr. Adler has also represented electric utility owners and operators and private power developers in connection with the development, construction, financing, purchase and sale, and operation of electric power, co-generation, combined cycle electricity generation and energy related projects. Mr. Adler also has considerable experience in single-seller and multi-seller securitization transactions. Mr. Adler's recent transactions include the financings of a wind farm project in Southern Alberta and he is currently working on a US $1 billion syndicated cross border credit facility.
Mr. Adler is a member of the Law Society of Alberta, Canadian Bar Association and Calgary Bar Association and he is also a current member of the Board of Directors of Alberta & Orient Glycols Company Limited (which owns and operates a large ethylene glycol plant and is held, in part, by one of the largest corporations in Asia). Mr. Adler is also a former Bar Admission Course instructor.
Mr. Adler received his B.Comm. from the University of British Columbia in 1989 and his LLB from the University of Alberta in 1993. Mr. Adler has received several scholarships and awards throughout his education and was on the Deans list throughout law school. Mr. Adler was called to the Alberta bar in 1994.
Transactions & Cases
Mr. Adler acted recently as lead counsel in connection with the establishment of $494 Million syndicated cross border credit facility for Trinidad Drilling Ltd., acting on behalf of the syndicate led by GE. Mr. Adler has also acted as lead counsel in connection with syndicated credit facilities of the following borrowers: Petrominerales Ltd., Quicksilver Resources Canada Inc., Kettles Hill Wind Energy Inc., Enterra Energy Trust and Sembiosys Genetics Inc. Mr. Adler has also acted as lead counsel for the bilateral financings of several energy companies including Impax Energy Services Income Trust (acting on behalf of The Toronto-Dominion Bank), Boundary Drilling, Rally Energy, Great Plains Exploration, Canadian Superior Energy and Seekers Petroleum. Mr. Adler has also played a key role in several other significant financings including the acquisition financing for Nexen Inc., and the financings of Schlumberger Canada Inc., Canadian Hydro Developers, Inc. and Calpine Canada.