Gus Karantzoulis > Borden Ladner Gervais LLP > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower
22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON M5H 4E3
Canada

Work Department

Banking and Finance

Position

Partner

Career

Gus’ practice focuses on lending, structured finance and securitization, project and infrastructure finance, private equity and debt capital markets.

His services include:

  • extensive experience advising Canadian and foreign based financial institutions, private equity funds and other lenders (as well as borrowers) on sophisticated debt financing transactions including cash flow lending, syndicated lending, acquisition financing, asset-based lending and leveraged finance, and with particular expertise in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional financings
  • representing participants in structured finance and securitization transactions, including securitizations of commercial mortgage loans, residential mortgage loans, credit-card receivables and other asset classes
  • advising project developers, governments, sponsors, lenders and underwriters on the financing of public-private infrastructure projects and major power projects in Canada
  • extensive expertise in advising financial institutions, investment banks, corporations, trustees and collateral agents across the spectrum of debt capital markets transactions with particular expertise on domestic and cross-border high yield debt offerings and other secured bond issuances (whether on a first lien, second lien, pari- passu or subordinated basis).
Gus is Chair of the Partnership Board, the firm’s governing body, and the Toronto regional leader of the Structured Finance and Securitization Group.
Gus is also fluent in Greek.

Languages

English and Greek

Memberships

  • Member, Commercial Mortgage Securities Association
  • Member, Association for Corporate Growth
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, Ontario Bar Association
  • Member, American Bar Association (business law section)
  • Member, Hellenic Canadian Lawyers Association

Education

  • MBA, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2000
  • LLB, University of Toronto, 2000
  • B.comm. (High Dist.), University of Toronto, 1996

Bar Admission

  • Ontario, 2002

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Banking and finance

(Leading partners)

Gus KarantzoulisBorden Ladner Gervais LLP

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP is distinguished by its extensive national footprint, with the banking and finance team represented across all five of its offices in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. In Toronto, Gus Karantzoulis is highly regarded for his full-service banking and finance practice, which encompasses advice to financial institutions, alternative lenders and borrowers on corporate, real estate and project finance. Also noted in Toronto are Stephen Redican, who heads the national regulatory practice, and transactional banking partner Howard Silverman. In Montreal, national financial services lead Claudine Millette is recommended for her robust lender-side practice. Olivier Tardif and regional managing partner Vincent Frenette also handle transactional matters from Montreal.