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Banking & Financial Services

Fulfilling your banking & financing needs in the global economy can be challenging. You need a legal partner who understands the complexity of lending and financing in Canadian and cross-border transactions.

We find business-focused solutions to help you structure a lending transaction, or negotiate governmental, corporate, commercial or project financings. Clients depend on us for corporate and commercial loans, bilateral and syndicated loans, securitizations, structured finance, derivatives, and leasing arrangements to help move their businesses to the next level across the country and around the world.

We can also:

  • address insolvency matters for creditors, borrowers, receivers, trustees in bankruptcy, and monitors
  • establish electronic banking and e-commerce electronic banking, payments, debit and credit card products, and financial instruments

 

 

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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

 

How a business is evaluated in the market is no longer solely based on its financial success or the products and services it sells. It is also based on reputation and whether it is seen as responsible and responding to investor demands.

 

Clients trust BLG to help them understand and embed ESG into their business strategies.

 

Experience

  • [BLG acts/Acted] for Export Development Canada (EDC) in connection with its Business Credit Availability Program – Reserve Based Lending Program (BCAP – RBL). The BCAP – RBL program was established by EDC to provide loans and loan guarantee support for small and medium sized oil & gas producers in Alberta and across Canada. BLG has advised EDC from the inception of the program on the design, structuring, documenting and administration of the program.
  • [BLG acts/Acted] for Northland Power Inc. in connection with the establishment of a credit facility for the permanent financing of its distribution utility Empresa de Energía de Boyacá (EBSA) in Colombia for an aggregate amount of approximately $465 million, inclusive of a Canadian dollar tranche and a synthetic Colombian peso tranche.
  • Export Development Canada (EDC) in connection with the Canada Emergency Business Account program (CEBA), a C$55 Billion program which provides loans to Canadian small and medium sized businesses which have been adversely affected by COVID-19.
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