OUR FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP
Financial professionals need a law firm that can play a proactive role in planning for change and keep them at the forefront of their industry. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) is driven to help achieve the best possible results for all our clients, and our Financial Services Group speaks our client's language. The Group is a multidisciplinary team committed to providing quality services, practical solutions, and professional service in a timely manner. And having played a key role in some of the highest profile and most complex financings, workouts, restructurings and liquidations in recent history, BLG has the expertise to act as your trusted and well-connected advisor.
BLG's Financial Services Group has experience in all areas of financial services law, including banking, lending, leasing, structured finance, project finance, securitizations, regulatory matters, bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, and related disciplines.
Understanding your business and how legal changes affect you today and in the future is BLG's business. Like you, BLG believes that nothing less than achieving results through excellence will do. This commitment to service has resulted in the frequent recognition of many of our legal professionals at home and abroad. Professionals in BLG's Financial Service Group were featured in the 2009 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and listed as 'Most Frequently Recommended' in the 2009 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. Most recently, BLG was listed in the 2009 edition of Chambers Global as a leader in the Canadian Banking & Finance category and clients described the Firm as being respected for 'excellent service, timely responses, reasonable rates and practical advice.'
The fast-paced nature of your business demands immediate solutions. And BLG is committed to staying focused on your success and achieving the best possible outcome. At BLG, it begins with service.
OUR SERVICES
Included in the range of services and advice provided are:
- Governmental, corporate and commercial financing
- Syndicated loans and participations
- Structured finance and leasing
- Securitizations
- Project financing
- Real estate financing
- Natural resource and energy financing
- Agricultural financing
- Acquisition financing
- Venture capital financing
- Formation and operation of credit unions, co-operative associations, trust companies 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