Gordon Baird

Banking & Finance

Focuses on lending and secured transactions, with particular emphasis on the power, financial services, financial market infrastructure, private equity, and communications industries. Regularly acts for banks, non-bank lenders and borrowers on domestic, cross-border and international debt transactions. Recent transactions include acting for lenders to hydro-electric, wind and solar generation facilities, both at the operating level, the holding company level, and the super holding company level, acting for central clearing parties on liquidity facilities of various types, including by way of a syndicated repurchase and reverse repurchase transactions, acting for pension fund related commercial paper issuers and a financial institution on their backstop liquidity facilities, acting for lenders providing capital call facilities, subscription facilities, net asset value facilities and hybrid facilities to domestic and international private equity funds, acting for lenders on single lender and syndicated margin loans secured by significant blocks of public company securities, including in the context of a take-over bid, financing acquisitions of hydro-electric generation projects, financing a government payment stream relating to the cessation of coal powered generation, and, acting for lenders and borrowers on the financing of infrastructure projects in Canada and the United States.