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Banking and Finance Law

We can assist you in dealing with legal issues relating to financial institutions, including banks, insurance companies and investment firms, in such areas as financial services and activities including deposit taking, funds and investments, investment management, insurance, consumer credit legislation, retail products and custodian services
 

We can assist you in managing your risk and protecting you in relation to guarantees, indemnities, bank guarantees, letters of credit and performance bonds, rights of the guarantor, determination and discharge of guarantees, letters of comfort, consumer credit guarantees, subrogation, cross deeds of covenant, and considerations governing upstream, downstream and cross-stream guarantees.

We can help manage your risk and provide you with practical advice concerning lending, including syndicated and term loans, interest, default, project finance, leveraged finance, including charges, mortgages, consumer credit, and Personal Property Securities, including the concept of and types of security interests, registration, priorities, remedies and enforcement under the Personal Property Securities Act.

We can provide you with advice concerning the contractual relationship between banker and customer and their duties of care to one another, including duty of confidentiality, codes of banking practice, types of bank account and customer, and termination of the relationship,credit references, garnishee orders and Mareva orders.