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Bruce C. Barker

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Bruce Barker is a partner in the corporate commercial department. He practices business law, with an emphasis on private mergers and acquisitions, banking and corporate finance. Bruce has represented institutional lenders and investors of all types, including the major Canadian banks, many of the United States and European money center banks, bond holders, hedge funds and a global American financial services company. Lexpert included him among the Top 100 Creative Lawyers in Canada.

He is chairman of Bay-Front Associates, an inter-disciplinary partnership that develops tax efficient solutions for domestic and cross-border financing, inter-company funding and repatriation of profits.

Bruce is a member of the advisory council of the Institute for Entrepreneurship, Richard Ivey School of Business. He is a past member of the editorial board of the Banking and Finance Law Journal and is an occasional instructor in the Master of Laws program at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he teaches international banking and finance law.

Education

Dartmouth College, BA, 1971, summa cum laude University of Toronto, LLB, 1975 

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 1977

Recent Experience

China Construction Bank, in its application to establish a foreign bank branch in Canada (Schedule III bank).
Glencore International, in its acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Viterra for approximately $6.1 billion by way of a plan of arrangement and the sale of certain assets of Viterra to each of Agrium and Richardson International for aggregate proceeds of approximately $2.6 billion.
Citibank, N.A., in opposition to a motion brought by BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited under the Plan of Compromise and Arrangement, which restructured the $32 billion third-party asset backed commercial paper market – Re Metcalfe & Mansfield Alternative Investments II Corp.
Raleigh Wind Power Partnership and its sponsor, Invenergy Wind North America LLC, in its $179,000,000 project financing of the Raleigh Wind Energy Project.
Project developer, in securing land rights for wind projects in Saskatchewan, Ontario and Nova Scotia.
CIBC Mellon Trust Company, Computershare Trust Company and BNY Trust Company, in the $35 billion restructuring of the third party ABCP in accordance with The Montreal Proposal.
EllisDon Corporation, in the $104.1 million alternative financing and procurement transaction involving the redevelopment of the Mississauga and West Toronto campuses of Trillium Health Centre.
McKenna Gale Capital, in a $50 million equity and subordinated debt investment in Barrett Xplore Inc., a private New Brunswick corporation engaged in fixed wireless and satellite internet services.
Omstead Foods Limited, in the divestiture of their commercial fish products division.  The sale was structured as an asset sale and required significant expertise in real estate, employment, pensions, union/management, environmental and corporate law.
Credit Suisse, Canadian counsel for the administrative and collateral agent in advice on loan agreements, Canadian security documents and title insurance matters surrounding a US$226.5 million first lien credit agreement.
BFA Securities Inc., in conjunction with Royal Bank of Canada, acted for the arranger of financial products in the establishment and structuring of a "Partly Paid Share" program.
BFA Securities Inc., in the establishment and structuring of a $480 million "strip bond" program.
Cadbury Trebor Allan Inc., in its acquisition of Adams from the global confectionary and manufacturing division of Pfizer Inc. for US$4.2 billion.
JP Morgan Chase Bank, in property advice on the Canadian aspects of an $800 million multi-jurisdictional syndicated loan facility secured by, inter-alia, real properties located in various Canadian jurisdictions.
JP Morgan Chase, as agent, in the establishment of a US$675 million credit facility to be utilized by borrowers worldwide.
MDS Proteomics Inc., (biotechnology), counsel to debtor, in its $100 million debt, in the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act proceedings.
Canadian counsel to Credit Suisse, in its amended and restated senior secured credit facilities to Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. including a seven-year $1.625 billion term loan facility, seven-year $50 million synthetic letter of credit, and five-year $225 million revolving credit facility.
Centrica plc, a leading provider of energy and essential services in the U.K. under AA and British Gas brands, in its $1 billion acquisition of Enbridge Services Inc., which more than doubled the customer base of Centrica's Canadian business.
Deutsche Bank, in representing the bondholder in an oppression claim against Sherritt International Corporation in the New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench.

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Chambers Canada
Banking & Finance
Chambers Global The World's Leading Lawyers for Business
Banking & Finance
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Repeatedly recommended, Banking & Financial Institutions
Repeatedly recommended, Asset Equipment Finance/Leasing

 

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Recognized for Banking and Finance Law; Equipment Finance Law; Project Finance Law
Canadian Who's Who
Consistently recommended, Asset Equipment Finance/Leasing
LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
Received an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating
Lexpert Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada
Recognized as one of the leading lawyers in the area of Banking and Financial Institutions

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