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Stephanie M. Robinson
Partner
Toronto
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Tel :
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416.865.7204
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Fax :
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416.865.7048
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Professional Experience
Stephanie is a partner in the firm's Financial Services Group. Stephanie's practice focuses on corporate finance and structured finance transactions, including domestic and cross-border commercial debt financing, syndicated lending, asset-based lending, and securitizations. Stephanie also provides regulatory advice to domestic and foreign financial institutions carrying on business in Canada, including with respect to obligations that arise under anti-money laundering legislation. She has completed a secondment providing legal support to the equity derivatives group of a leading Canadian bank where she worked on a broad range of transactions involving Canadian public companies and investment funds. Stephanie graduated from the JD/MBA joint program at Osgoode Hall and the Schulich School of Business where she completed a specialization in Financial Services.
Stephanie is a market leader in the practice surrounding commercial defeasance transactions and regularly acts for servicers across Canada. She is a member of the CMSA Canadian Advisory Board with members of the CMBS industry and rating agencies.
Stephanie has been an instructor for the Integrative Legal Strategy course at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Representative Transactions
- Counsel to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as agent to a Syndicate of lenders for the US$400 million secured asset based credit facility provided to General Cable Industries Inc. and General Cable Company
- Counsel to a telecommunications company in a secured credit facility with a Chinese lender
- Counsel to the borrower of a $10 million term loan made under the Province of Ontario Strategic Jobs and Investment Fund
- Represented private equity group in connection with $30 million asset-based credit facilities for a food processing facility
- Counsel to GE Canada Finance Holding Company as agent to a syndicate of lenders on a $600 million secured credit facility provided to Air Canada.
- Represented RBC as agent to a syndicate of lenders on a $300 million secured credit facility provided to an equipment financier.
- Counsel to GE Capital Commercial Finance as agent to a syndicate of lenders on a US$700 million secured credit facility provided in connection with the acquisition of Linens 'n Things Inc.
- Acted as counsel to the master servicer and special servicer in connection with the securitization of several pools of Canadian commercial mortgage loans.
- Counsel to GE Capital Commercial Finance as agent to a syndicate of lenders for the $140 million senior secured revolving and term credit facilities provided to The Forzani Group Ltd.
publications and presentations
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- Commercial Finance Association
- Commercial Mortgage Securities Association
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- Loan Syndications and Trading Association, Inc.
- Toronto Board of Trade
- Women in Capital Markets
- Board of Directors, Treasurer and Member, Finance Committee, Canadian Mothercraft Society
Called to the Ontario bar
- 2002
Osgoode Hall Law School, JD
- 2000
Schulich School of Business, MBA,
- 2000
Queen's University, BA (Hons.)
- 1996
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