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Suzana A. Lobo

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Suzana Lobo is a standout business lawyer and one of the most trusted advisors in Canada's banking and financial services industries. She serves domestic and international clients on sophisticated and high-profile transactions in all areas of banking and finance.

Suzana deals in long term relationships with clients. She brings an unwavering focus on relationships to every file and is highly respected as an astute connector and team-builder.

She has over 20 years of experience acting for financial institutions, including lenders such as banks and trust companies, as well as for borrowers in complex secured and unsecured lending transactions. This includes international and cross-border financings, syndicated loan transactions, acquisition finance transactions, construction and real estate financings, equipment financings, project financings and debt restructuring transactions. Suzana has a very sophisticated bank regulatory practice where she regularly secures complex approvals from various regulatory authorities, including OSFI and the Minister of Finance. Recently, she helped lead the Bennett Jones team that advised on one of the fastest approvals for a bank merger in Canadian history. 

In payments, Suzana represents many world class payment entities including numerous Canadian and global fintechs.

Suzana acts for many of Bennett Jones' biggest banking and financial services clients in Canada and globally. She is sought after for her outstanding strategic advice and innovative thinking in the rapidly changing financial services industry. 

She is widely recognized by legal directories as one of Canada's top lawyers in banking and finance law.

Suzana is a member of the National Board of Directors of Special Olympics Canada.

Education

University of Ottawa, BSocSc, 1999, cum laude University of Ottawa, LLB, 2002

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 2003

Recent Experience

Riverstone Holdings LLC, as Canadian counsel, in its acquisition of International-Matex Tank Terminals from Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation for US$2.67 billion.
VW Credit Canada, Inc., in the renewal of Volkswagen’s €25 billion debt issuance programme.*
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent and collateral agent, in the US$1.45 billion senior secured credit facility providing term and revolving facilities in favour of Cedar Fair L.P., Magnum Management Corporation and Canada’s Wonderland Company.*
Garda, in a private placement in the United States and Canada of two series of 9.75 % senior unsecured notes due 2017 in the aggregate principal amounts of US$250 million and $75 million, and a bank refinancing consisting of a $215 million secured three-year term loan and a $125 million secured three-year revolving credit facility.*
Parq Holdings Limited Partnership, in a US$415 million project financing.*
TELUS International (Cda) Inc., in a US$330-million secured facility provided by a syndicate of lenders led by The Bank of Nova Scotia and The Toronto-Dominion Bank.*
Porter Aviation Holdings Inc. and City Centre Terminal Corp., in the sale of the passenger terminal at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport to Nieuport Aviation Infrastructure GP, a consortium of Canadian and international infrastructure equity investors.*
Borealis Infrastructure Management Inc., in financing the acquisition of a diagnostic business.*
Mckesson Canada, in various financing-related matters.*
Royal Bank of Canada, in its acquisition of ABN Amro Bank NV’s Canadian commercial leasing division.*
Sears Canada Inc., as counsel to the court-appointed Monitor FTI Consulting Inc. in the CCAA proceedings of Sears Canada Inc. and its affiliates.*
Various financial institutions in their banking operations in Canada.*
Various money transmitters such as PayPal, Western Union and MoneyGram with their Canadian businesses.*
* Experience prior to joining Bennett Jones

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Best Lawyers in Canada
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The Legal 500 Canada
Recommended, Banking and Finance
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Repeatedly Recommended: Banking & Financial Institutions

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