Banking & Finance: Financial Services Regulation

Working with more than 50 domestic and foreign banks and insurers, the legal professionals at Gowling WLG are the preferred counsel on a wide variety of transactions ranging in size from $1 million to $34 billion.

Our broad range of expertise is balanced by highly specific and innovative service offerings. For example, our portfolio management programs reduce client risk by assuming full responsibility for all aspects of various types of claims, including insurance claims and defaulted mortgages and loans.

We have in-depth experience with a variety of non-traditional lenders – such as mezz, ABL, sub-debt and DIP – and provide insightful financial regulatory law services to help our clients achieve transaction approvals and ensure compliance with all levels of Canadian regulatory requirements.

We offer a comprehensive range of legal services, including:

• Asset-based lending
• Bond financing/public debt
• Consumer finance and cards
• Commercial insurance law
• Corporate and debt restructurings
• Cross-border and domestic transactions
• Demand and enforcement proceedings
• Employment and labour
• Insolvency and restructurings, including litigation proceedings
• Leasing
• Mortgage recovery
• Project finance
• Real estate lending
• Receiverships, bankruptcy and related enforcement proceedings
• Renegotiating loans and security agreements
• Senior secured and unsecured lending
• Shariah-compliant financing
• Sub-debt, mezzanine and second lien lending
• Syndicated, club and joint venture transactions
• Tax
• Trade finance