Jennifer Wasylyk (formerly Sorge)_unpublish

Jennifer is an associate in the Financial Services Group. Her practice focuses on corporate finance matters, representing both borrowers and lenders in a variety of secured and unsecured lending transactions. In addition, Jennifer’s experience includes general corporate and reorganization matters.

Prior to joining Cassels Brock as an associate, Jennifer gained corporate/commercial law and finance experience while working as both a summer and articling student with the firm. During that time, she assisted on a variety of transactions within the Financial Services, Business Law and Advocacy Groups.

Jennifer also has extensive energy and regulatory experience. She has worked at the Ontario Energy Board, National Energy Board and Alberta Energy and Utilities Board.  In addition, Jennifer has worked at an isooctane production facility in Alberta.

Some of the transactions in which Jennifer has been involved include:

• Acting for a multi-national equipment finance company, as borrower, in a US$300,000,000 syndicated credit facility
• Acting for a major US bank and various institutional investors in connection with the purchase of senior secured notes from a railway company
• Representing several international mining companies, each in connection with the issuance of senior notes.
• Acting for an equipment financing company in its financing of an anaerobic digestion green energy facility
• Representing a financing company in connection with the sale and leaseback of equipment to a large mining corporation
• Acting for a renewable energy company in connection with the purchase of a wind turbine company
• Representing a manufacturing company in obtaining credit facilities from a major bank
• Acting for a freight transportation company in connection with its purchase of an industrial, commercial and residential waste collection business 

Jennifer is a published author who recently co-wrote the Banking and Finance chapters of Halsbury's Laws of Canada. Jennifer is also a sessional professor at Queen's University Law School where she teaches a course on the Personal Property Security Act.

Prior to joining Cassels Brock as an associate, Jennifer was both a summer and articling student at the firm.

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