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Bird, Donald G., Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Vancouver - (604) 640-4175 - dbird@blg.com
National practice group leader of BLG's Financial Services Group. Regularly acts for lenders and borrowers
in commercial and corporate loans. Has extensive experience in both syndicated and cross-border lending.
Practice also includes regulatory advice to financial institutions, structured finance transactions, as well as
general corporate commercial transactions. Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.
Member of the Solicitors' Legal Opinions Committee of the Law Society of British Columbia. Former Ad-
junct Professor at University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law, and has been an instructor for the profes-
sional legal training course of the BC Law Society for over 15 years. Co-editor of the British Columbia Personal
Property Security Act Practice Manual. Received his BComm (Hons) from the University of British Columbia
in 1984, and his LLB from University of Toronto in 1987. Called to the British Columbia Bar in 1988.
Bain, David R., Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP Vancouver - (604) 641-4812 - drb@bht.com
Partner and leader of Bull Housser's Financial Services Group. David Bain acts for lenders and borrowers
on debt financings and commercial lending transactions, including: multi-lender financings, project finance,
aircra and marine financing, asset-based lending, inventory financing and securitizations. His clients include
Canadian chartered banks, foreign banks and major non-bank lenders, as well as corporate borrowers. In-
volved in some of BC's most significant financings in the forest, transportation, real estate development, hotel
and resort, manufacturing and film sectors, and in numerous cross-border loan transactions and syndicated
financings, Bain was Managing Partner of the firm from 2003 to 2006. He has been recognized in Lexpert®,
Best Lawyers and Martindale-Hubbell in the areas of banking, finance, and asset-based lending.
Kalef, Michael M., Koffman Kalef LLP Vancouver - (604) 891-3700 - mmk@kkbl.com
Partner and senior member of the firm's banking group with over 40 years of experience. Focus on banking,
financing and real estate matters, handling a wide range of financing techniques and banking arrangements,
including syndicated loans among domestic and foreign banks and offshore financing transactions. Engaged
as senior counsel by a number of Schedule I and Schedule II banks on lending, enforcement and bank regula-
tory issues. Loan transactions include financings for the redevelopment of the Vancouver downtown water-
front and the former Expo 86 lands; the 2010 Olympic Village; the River Green Development in Richmond;
the Vancouver Canucks; Rogers Arena; P3 municipal ice rinks and athletic facilities, numerous multi-unit real
estate developments, and various leveraged buy-outs. Called to the British Columbia Bar in 1974.
Laskin, Irving D., Lawson Lundell LLP Vancouver - (604) 631-9235 - ilaskin@lawsonlundell.com
Irv Laskin acts for banks and other lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured financing and leasing
transactions. His clients include financial institutions, merchant banks and other lenders, and a mix of bor-
rowers engaged in financing transactions at the local, national and international level. He has been involved
in the financing of a wide range of businesses, including aircra, forest and mining assets, merchant banks,
hotels, oil & gas reserves, real estate developments, farms, greenhouses, newspapers, high-technology prod-
ucts and operations and national retail chains. ese financings oen have cross-border components and have
included syndications and participations with government and other lending institutions, acting most oen
for the lead and sometimes secondary lender. He is recognized by e Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the
Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and e Best Lawyers in Canada, both for banking law. Laskin was called to
the British Columbia Bar in 1984.
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