Our Team

Adam E. Delean

Partner

	Direct: 416.865.8232 Office: Toronto Fax: 416.865.7380 Email: adelean@torys.com

	Adam is repeatedly recognized as one of Canada's leading banking and finance lawyers.

Practice

Adam Delean's practice focuses on corporate banking, leveraged finance and structured finance. Adam has extensive experience in sophisticated debt financing transactions involving corporations, commercial banks, private equity funds, insurance companies, trusts and special-purpose vehicles. He represents both lenders and borrowers in transactions which include bank credit facilities, Canadian and U.S. bond financings, structured finance transactions, mezzanine financings and derivatives, with particular expertise in cross-border and international financings.

Adam also regularly advises lenders and borrowers on compliance matters related to financing arrangements.

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Recognitions

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2011—Most frequently recommended in banking and financial institutions

Lexpert/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2010, 2011 and 2012—Leading practitioner in banking and financial institutions

Chambers & Partners’ Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011—Leading lawyer in banking and finance

Law Business Research's Who’s Who Legal, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2012—Leading lawyer in banking

Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers 2011—Leading lawyer in banking law

Legal Media Group/Euromoney's IFLR1000 The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms 2008, 2009 and 2011—Leading lawyer in financial services regulatory

Woodward White’s Best Lawyers in Canada 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012—Leading lawyer in banking law

Lexpert's Cross-Border Guide to the Leading U.S./Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada 2010—Leading cross-border practitioner in banking and financial institutions

Transactions

Adam has recently represented

Brookfield Special Situations Partners in its 2011 $125 million senior secured loan to Armtec Holdings Limited
Sherritt International Corp. in its 2011 $400 million senior unsecured note offering
RBCDS and BMO Capital Markets on SkyLink Aviation's C$110 million Canadian high-yield debt offering in 2011
ICICI Bank Canada in its 2011 senior secured loan to Hinduja Global Solutions to finance the acquisition of On-Line Solutions Inc.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in its 2011 senior secured credit facilities in favour of Canadian private equity firm to finance an acquisition in the residential mortgage sector
Novelis as global coordinating counsel in its December, 2010 U.S.$4.8 billion refinancing, which included a U.S.$2.5 billion high yield offering, a U.S.$1.5 billion term loan B financing, and U.S.$800 million international ABL revolving facility
Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in connection with the $268 million senior secured credit facilities and $135 million Canadian high yield offering by Livingston International
CPPIB Credit Investments in $150 million senior secured credit facilities in favour of Osisko Mining
Centerra Gold Inc. in its U.S.$150 million senior secured credit facility with EBRD as lender
Sears Canada in its U.S.$800 million ABL revolving credit facility
Canada Post Corporation in its $400 million revolving credit facility and $1 billion Canadian bond offering
numerous Canadian and U.S. private equity firms in the debt financing (senior, mezzanine and vendor take-back) of acquisitions, including Carlyle, KKR, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, EdgeStone Capital Partners, Birch Hill Equity Partners, Sentinel Capital Partners, CPPIB and ONCAP LP
Art Gallery of Ontario in the construction financing for the AGO Transformation Project
Ontario Power Generation in its $1 billion syndicated credit facility
Hindalco Industries in the US$3.1 billion international syndicated credit facilities that financed its acquisition of Novelis