Davies | Nicholas J. Leblovic

Corporate/Commercial

Corporate Finance & Securities

Mergers & Acquisitions

Structured Finance

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Toronto Board of Trade
Canadian Bar Association
Ontario Bar Association

Advisory Committee, United Way of Hamilton-Burlington
Member, Halton and Burlington Development Charges Advisory Committees
Member, Township of Tiny Committee of Adjustments

Ontario Bar, 1971

University of Toronto, LL.B.
University of California, LL.M.
McMaster University, B.A.

Nicholas Leblovic is a partner with particular emphasis on acquisitions, dispositions, financings, secured transactions, leveraged leasing and corporate reorganizations. He has been lead counsel to a broad range of public and private clients of the firm, including financial institutions, public and private corporations and governmental agencies.

In recent years, he has been involved in a number of major transactions, including the $200 million initial public offering of Osprey Media Income Fund, the development, construction and financing of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, the financing of Philip Services, and the merger of United Grain Growers and Agricore and the related financings, the leveraged lease financing of Nav Canada and the representation of a significant secured creditor group in the Air Canada insolvency proceedings.

Nicholas, together with other partners of the firm, has been instrumental in the development of new cross-border and Canadian domestic equipment lease structures and has been actively involved in major equipment lease transactions involving Canadian Pacific, Air Canada, Transamerica and Austrian Railways and Nav Canada.

Nicholas is a member of several professional organizations and on the Editorial Board of Carswell's Canadian Corporation Precedents and Canadian Securities Law Precedents. He has participated in various seminars dealing with corporate commercial topics and was an instructor in the Advanced Business Law Workshop taught to third year law students at the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. Nicholas is recognized in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory as a repeatedly recommended practitioner in asset/equipment financing and leasing. He is also included in Euromoney Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Aviation Lawyers.

Nicholas received his B.A. in 1965 from McMaster University, an LL.B. in 1968 from the University of Toronto and an LL.M. in 1970 from the University of California. Nicholas has been associated with the firm since his call to the Ontario Bar in 1971.

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