Irv focuses his practice on acting 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 borrowers who are engaged in financing transactions at the local, national and international level.

Irv has been involved in the financing of an extensive range of businesses including aircraft, forest and mining products, farming, merchant banks, hotels, oil and gas products, real estate developments, newspapers, high technology products and operations and national retail chains. These financings often have cross-border components to them and often include syndications and participations with government and other lending institutions acting for the lead or secondary lender. Irv has drafted financing and leasing documents utilized by lenders and lessors in the ordinary course of their businesses. He regularly provides advice to clients on the establishment of their internal lending and borrowing guidelines, regulatory and compliance matters and the structuring of financing transactions and is also often asked by his clients to lecture and give seminars on a range of banking and financing issues.

Bar Admissions
British Columbia (1984)

Education
University of Alberta (B.A., 1975)
Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B., 1980)

Significant Accomplishments
Representative transactions include acting for:

HSBC Bank Canada as agent and for the syndicate of HSBC Bank Canada, Canadian Western Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Alberta Treasury Branches with respect to project and infrastructure financing on a multi-towered real estate project in Calgary, Alberta

HSBC Bank Canada as agent and for the syndicate of HSBC Bank Canada, Farm Credit Canada, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Rabobank Nederland, Canadian Branch with respect to working capital and term financing extended to Canada’s largest dairy farm operation

Business Development Bank of Canada, and for HSBC Bank Canada and Canadian Western Bank with respect to term financing extended on Indian lands in British Columbia

HSBC Bank Canada with respect to working capital financing extended to one of Canada’s largest pulp producers

HSBC Bank Canada with respect to working capital and term financing extended to one of Canada’s largest helicopter operators carrying on business in Canada and U.S.

HSBC Capital (Canada) Inc. with respect to mezzanine financing extended to some of British Columbia’s leading real estate developers and manufacturers

Business Development Bank of Canada with respect to various term financing transactions

Bank of East Asia (Canada) with respect to term and real estate financings


Professional Associations
*Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada 2015: recognized for banking
*Lexpert / American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2014: recognized for banking law
*Best Lawyers in Canada: recognized for banking and finance law
*Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2015: most frequently recommended as a Leading Practitioner for banking and financial institutions
*Lexpert 2014 Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada: recognized for banking & financial institutions
*Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory: BV Peer Review rated

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