Background
Bruce Fowler is a partner in our Toronto office. Bruce is a native of Edmonton, Alberta and practised law in Calgary before joining Borden & Elliot (the Toronto predecessor firm of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP) in 1987.
He obtained a B.A. at the University of Western Ontario, an LL.B. at the University of Windsor and an LL.M. at Columbia University, New York City. He was called to the Alberta Bar in 1983, the New York State Bar in 1987 and the Ontario Bar in 1988.
Areas of Practice
Bruce is a member of the Firm's Financial Services Group where his practice focus is on lending, project finance and structured finance and leasing.
Bruce is also a member of the Energy Law Group and Public-Private Infrastructure Projects Group and provides project financing advice and services to the Firm’s clients engaged in power project development and infrastructure and alternative financing and procurement projects (AFP).
Rankings and Recognitions
Recognized in the 2011 edition of Chambers Global - The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (Banking & Finance).
Recognized in Euromoney/Legal Media Group – Guide to the World's Leading Structured Finance and Securitization Lawyers and Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers.
Recognized in 2011 edition of IFLR 1000 as a leading lawyer in Project Finance.
Professional Experience
Bruce's banking and lending practice includes cash flow and asset-based lending, public-company take-over bid financing, subordinated lending and loans syndication and participations, including cross-border transactions.
Bruce has advised energy sector clients in transactions involving Ontario's electricity industry restructuring and has acted for project developers, sponsors, proponents and lenders on major power projects and transportation, hospital and other social infrastructure projects in Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Québec.
He has acted for lenders, lessors and equity-providers in cross-border leveraged lease and conditional sales transactions, and in synthetic leasing and asset monetization transactions. Assets financed include chemical facilities, food processing facilities, printing facilities, manufacturing facilities, flight simulators, telecommunications equipment, railway rolling stock and aircraft.
Professional Activities
Member of the Canadian Bar Association and American Bar Association, member of Steering Committee of ABA Section of Business Law, Project Finance and Development Committee