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ASSET-BASED LENDING Kevin J. Morley Partner in Osler's Financial Services Group and a leading debt finance lawyer with more than 25 years of experience. As a key advisor to numerous financial institutions, funds and other credit providers, Morley has significant experience in: multijurisdictional asset-based, project, acquisition, commercial, cash flow, equipment, subordinate and mezzanine financings; financial institution regulation; capital market transactions; acquisitions, establishment and divestitures of finance businesses and portfolios; and financial institution licensing and regulation. Morley also has significant insolvency and restructuring experience, having represented creditors in connection with the restructuring or recovery of billions of dollars of debt. Recognized in: The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (most frequently recommended); The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; The Best Lawyers in Canada (Lawyer of the Year 2012 – Equipment Finance); Chambers Global; IFLR; and PLC. Member of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-6488 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto B T F kmorley@osler.com R.D. Jeffrey Rogers Jeff Rogers is a partner in the firm's banking and financial services group. His practice focuses on complex domestic and cross-border debt financing transactions including syndicated lending, leveraged acquisitions, tender offer financing, high yield, asset-based lending and subordinated debt. Rogers has been recommended in banking and finance law in Chambers Global, The Best Lawyers in Canada and was recognized by Lexpert® as one of the "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40." Rogers acts routinely for major financial institutions such as GE Capital, JPMorgan, Citibank, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. He has acted for both borrowers and lenders on financings including Catalyst Paper Corporation, Western Forest Products, Unisource, Levi Strauss & Co., The Brick Furniture Warehouse, Cott Corporation, Liz Claiborne, Easton-Bell, Indalex, Linens 'n Things, Canwest Global Communications Corporation, Air Canada, Domtar Inc., Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, Goodyear, Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One Inc. McMillan LLP Tel: (416) 865-7818 Fax: (647) 722-6742 Toronto jeff.rogers@mcmillan.ca Arnold Cohen Norton Rose Canada LLP Arnold Cohen is a partner and Co-Chair of the Norton Rose asset-based lending team in Canada. His practice includes financing and insolvency and restructuring. His financing practice focuses on asset-based lending (both Canadian and cross-border transactions), in which he represents leading US and Canadian asset-based lenders and factors. Cohen also regularly represents lenders and corporate borrowers in the financing of real estate, receivables and equipment, as well as acquisition, project, structured and traditional bank financings, all on both a syndicated and a non-syndicated basis. Cohen's restructuring practice involves representing secured lenders, trustees, receivers and corporate clients in all aspects of the insolvency and restructuring process, including reorganizations, acquisitions, turnarounds and enforcement of security and other creditors' rights. He has appeared before various courts in these matters. Tel: (514) 847-6082 Fax: (514) 286-5474 Montréal G T F arnold.cohen@nortonrose.com Keyvan Nassiry Partner in the Banking & Finance Group of BCF LLP. Practice focuses primarily on sophisticated domestic and cross-border financing transactions. Has significant experience in asset-based lending, syndicated loans, real estate loans, securitization, equipment financing and leasing, factoring, intercreditor relations and other aspects of banking and financing law. Acts for Canadian, American and offshore banks, commercial lenders and other financial institutions, as well as borrowers, in connection with complex secured and unsecured credit facilities. Featured in The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory. Also featured in the Lexpert ® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada and The Best Lawyers in Canada peer review guide. Past President of the Montréal chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) and board member of the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys (ACFA). Admitted to the Québec Bar in 1991. LLM, London School of Economics, 1992. BCF LLP Tel: (514) 397-6760 Fax: (514) 397-8515 Montréal keyvan.nassiry@bcf.ca 54 | LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca D-00-Bios.indd 54 13-05-16 1:48 PM T F