Alison R. Manzer
Partner at Cassels Brock
Toronto, Ontario
- Partner in the Financial Services Group with Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
- Practice encompasses a broad range of commercial practice in the financial services sector, including financial institution regulation, corporate and commercial lending, asset-based financing, securitization and structured finance, private equity, project finance, asset finance and leasing, business reorganization, syndicated lending and related areas
- Practice involves multijurisdiction transactions where she has expertise in the structuring requirements of financing, investment and securitization transactions to solve taxation, conflicts of laws, document structure, currency and rate issues, among others
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- Partner in the Financial Services Group with Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
- Practice encompasses a broad range of commercial practice in the financial services sector, including financial institution regulation, corporate and commercial lending, asset-based financing, securitization and structured finance, private equity, project finance, asset finance and leasing, business reorganization, syndicated lending and related areas
- Practice involves multijurisdiction transactions where she has expertise in the structuring requirements of financing, investment and securitization transactions to solve taxation, conflicts of laws, document structure, currency and rate issues, among others
- Elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
- Active with the Canadian Bar Association, chair of the national committee on Financial Institutions, a member of the national liaison committee with the accounting profession, chair of continuing legal education and a member of the finance committee
- Lectured and written extensively on legal matters, particularly dealing with financial institution issues
- Wrote Canada/U.S. Commercial Law Guide; A Guide to Canadian Money Laundering Legislation; The Bank Act Annotated; A Practical Guide to Canadian Partnership Law; the banking chapters of the CCH Canadian Commercial Law Guide; a book on banking and credit relationships, several chapters for Falconbridge on mortgages, asset-based lending in Canada, law in international finance and Halsbury’s Laws of Canada: Banking and Finance 2012 and Practice Advisor (banking and lending), all published by national legal text publishers
- Editor of the CCH Canadian Commercial Law Guide, and the Federated Press Corporate Financing Journal
- Recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory each year starting with its first publication in areas including structured finance, asset/equipment finance and leasing and banking and financial institutions; recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global for banking and finance, The Best Lawyers in America for equipment finance law, the Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers, and the Guide to the World's Leading Women in Business Law (banking and finance); in addition, pre-eminently rated from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
- Completed the Canadian Securities Course and the advanced securities programs, Canadian Investment Finance I and II with the Canadian Securities Institute
- LL.B. law degree; M.B.A. and an LL.M. degrees in banking and financial services; B.Sc. Hon. degree in biochemistry
