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ProfileAlison R. ManzerAlison Manzer is a partner in the Financial Services Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Alison's 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 business reorganization, syndicated lending and related areas. A significant part of her practice involves multi-jurisdiction 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. She is a member of the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, based in New York, sitting on its executive, and is one of a very few Canadians elected to The American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, having been a regent of the College. In July 2010, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Those involvements reflect the multinational nature of her practice. Alison has been active with the Canadian Bar Association, has been 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. Alison has also chaired several other national and provincial committees for the Canadian Bar Association. She is active with several committees of the American Bar Association, including Private Equity, Project Finance, Securitization and Structured Finance and Business Finance. She has lectured and written extensively on legal matters, particularly dealing with financial institution issues. Alison has authored 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, and recently, Asset-Based Lending in Canada and Law in International Finance, both published by national legal text publishers. She has been an editor of the CCH Canadian Commercial Law Guide, and the Federated Press Corporate Financing Journal. Her list of published articles includes over 200 titles written for a wide range of publishers in areas including financial institution regulation, commercial finance, asset based lending, international and cross-border finance and specialty finance products, among others. Alison has been a director of several financial institutions, including a Schedule II bank, insurance companies, leasing finance companies, securitization trusts and other financial services industry corporations. She has been recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory each year starting with its first publication in 1997, in Structured Finance, Asset/Equipment Finance & Leasing, and Banking & Financial Institutions (and has been listed each year since) and in the Guide to the Leading Lawyers in Canada directory published by Lexpert and American Lawyer Media in those same categories. Alison has been listed in the Euromoney Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers and Leading Women in Business Law, Chambers Global (in the area of Banking & Finance) and in Best Lawyers in Canada as an expert in equipment finance. She has also been listed in more than 40 international Who's Who publications, in a wide variety of categories. In addition to her LL.B. (Law) and a B.Sc. Hon. (Biochemistry), Alison has an M.B.A. and an LL.M. in banking and financial services. She has also completed the Canadian Securities Course and the advanced securities programs, Canadian Investment Finance I and II with the Canadian Securities Institute. Alison is an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School teaching the Masters of Law program in international finance. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1979. EducationLL.M., Osgoode Hall Law School, 1996 Achievements
Call to the barOntario, 1979 Associations
Practice Areas Automotive Financial Institutions Regulation Financial Services Insurance - Corporate & Regulatory International Business Lending & Finance Private Equity Restructuring & Insolvency Securitization & Structured Finance In The News Cassels Brock Recognized In Chambers Global 2012 23 Cassels Brock Lawyers Included in Best Lawyers® in Canada 2012 22 Cassels Brock Lawyers Named in Lexpert’s 2011 Directory Newsletters M&A in Canada: A 2011 Mid-Year Review Financial Services Group e-LERT - Proposal for a New Framework for the Regulation of Securitized Products |