Ms Karen Dawson > Bennett Jones LLP > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Bennett Jones LLP Offices
3400 ONE FIRST CANADIAN PLACE
PO BOX 130
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Canada
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Ms Karen Dawson
Work Department
Financial Services
Position
Partner
Career
Karen Dawson has extensive experience representing borrowers, agents, lenders and trustees in a wide range of domestic and international finance transactions, including corporate lending transactions, asset based lending transactions, equipment financings, acquisition financings, project financing, leveraged and operating leases, securitizations and private placements in various sectors including banking/financial institutions, energy, oil and gas, transportation, manufacturing, communications and technology. She also has experience working on restructurings, and routinely advises in connection with cross-border financing arrangements.
Memberships
Karen is a member of the American Bar Association (Business Law Section), New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Education
Mount Allison University, BA (Political Science/History), 1992, with first class honours
Dalhousie University, MA (International Relations), 1994
McGill University, LLB/BCL, 2002, with great distinction
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Banking and finance
(Next Generation Partners)Bennett Jones LLP’s longstanding dominance in the oil and gas sector has produced an energy-focused finance practice specializing in advising corporate borrowers on project finance, acquisition finance, syndicated lending and leveraged finance transactions. In Calgary, Philip Backman QC’s name is synonymous with energy finance; he continues to advise North West Redwater Partnership on the financing of the construction of its C$10bn bitumen refinery in Alberta, one of the largest projects ever constructed in Canada. Outside of the energy sphere, Calgary-based financial services co-head Patrick Brennan is highlighted as ‘the first name you think of for aviation finance in Canada’. Karen Dawson is also a key contact in Calgary. On the lender side, Toronto-based Mark Rasile has recently undertaken work for China Construction Bank. Steven Lutz, who co-leads the financial services group, is also recommended in Toronto.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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- Energy and natural resources: oil and gas
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- Transport: aviation
Firm Rankings
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Energy and natural resources: mining
- Energy and natural resources: power
- International trade
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure and projects
- Intellectual property
- International expertise
- Labour and employment
- Tax
- Technology
- Pensions