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Glavota, Dom, Gowling WLG Hamilton - (905) 540-3240 - dom.glavota@gowlingwlg.com
Dom Glavota is a senior practitioner in Gowling WLG's Hamilton office, practicing financing, real estate
and restructuring and insolvency law. Glavota is an executive member of the firm's Financial Services Indus-
try Group. Glavota has worked with Gowling WLG's Practice Innovation Group to develop, implement and
refine new models for the efficient delivery of legal services for loan documentation and recovery of defaulted
loans. Glavota leads a team that oversees the recovery of a large portfolio of defaulted commercial loans across
Canada through the use of a sophisticated portfolio management soware system and work process designs.
Glavota routinely acts for major financial institutions and non-institutional lenders on domestic and interna-
tional transactions and has been involved with financings for a variety of businesses with operations in Canada
and the United States, including the agricultural, automotive, energy, manufacturing, media, shipping/logis-
tics and telecommunications sectors.
Zverina, Tom, Torys LLP Toronto - (416) 865-7674 - tzverina@torys.com
Practice focuses on the financing of M&A transactions with additional extensive experience in a broad range
of debt financing work, including project financing of wind, solar and hydro projects, asset-backed loans,
public and private debt securities, railcar financing, equipment leasing, reinsurance security arrangements
and derivatives products. Regularly involved in creating and implementing innovative and unique tax-driven
structured debt transactions. Also very experienced with complex domestic and international transactions
and has navigated many high-stakes projects. Ontario Bar, 2001. LLB, 1999, Queen's University. BA, 1994,
Simon Fraser University.
David, Guy, Gowling WLG Ottawa - (613) 786-0247 - guy.david@gowlingwlg.com
Guy David is a leading expert in the financial sector, focusing on domestic and international project and struc-
tured finance, debt capital market transactions, derivatives and financial regulatory law. His transactional
experience includes financing the commercialization of the Canadian air navigation system, advising the gov-
ernment sponsor on establishing the C$12-billion Canadian secured credit facility, several PPP and renewable
energy transactions, over 30 capital markets bond issues and advising foreign and domestic banks and insur-
ance companies in Canadian financial regulatory matters. His international experience includes assignments
throughout the Caribbean, Vietnam, Cambodia, Ecuador and Romania. David is qualified in both the com-
mon-law and civil-law legal systems and is fluent in English and French. He is co-author of David & Legault,
e 2016 Annotated Bank Act and has spoken extensively on finance topics in Canada and internationally.
Atlas, Kenneth S., Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Montréal - (514) 954-2522 - katlas@blg.com
Partner in BLG's Financial Services Group, practicing in Montréal and Toronto. Specializes in banking, se-
cured and unsecured debt financing, project finance, debt and corporate restructuring, and bankruptcy and
insolvency matters, as well as venture-capital financing. Represents Canadian and foreign lenders and loan
syndicates in numerous syndicated financing transactions (including multi-jurisdictional cross-border loans)
and in many bankruptcy and insolvency restructuring matters involving Canada and multiple jurisdictions.
Writer and speaker on the subjects of financing, security, and bankruptcy and insolvency. Adjunct Professor of
bankruptcy and insolvency at McGill University's Faculty of Law since 1985. Former lecturer on business law
at McGill University's Faculty of Management (1982‒1994). Member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada,
CBA, IBA, INSOL International and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Called to the Québec Bar in 1981
and Ontario Bar in 1988. Toronto tel: (416) 367-6332.
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