Keyvan Nassiry

Expertise

Banking and Financial Services

• Asset-Based Lending and Factoring
• Equipment Leasing
• Real Estate Financing
• Securitization
• Syndicated Lending and Participations

Business, Commercial and Corporate Law

• Corporate Finance
• Cross-Border Transactions

Strategic Teams

• Banking and Financial Services
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Real Estate

Professional background

Keyvan Nassiry is a partner in the Financial Services and Real Estate Law strategic teams. He has deep expertise in Canadian and cross-border financing transactions. He has significant experience in asset–based lending, syndicated loans, securitization, equipment financing and leasing, real estate financing, factoring, inter-creditor relations and other aspects of banking and financing law.

Mr. Nassiry regularly acts for Canadian, American and off-shore banks, asset–based lenders and other financial institutions as well as borrowers in connection with complex secured and unsecured credit facilities.

Mr. Nassiry is featured in Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and in the Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada. He is also featured in the Best Lawyers in Canada peer review guide. The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory recognizes Mr. Nassiry among Quebec’s most frequently recommended practitioners in asset-based lending. Mr. Nassiry is currently the President of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA - Montreal Chapter).

Publications

• "Asset-Based Lending - Selected Legal Issues in Canada-US Cross-border Deals," Lexpert Guide to the Top 100 Industry Specialists in Canada, October 2006.
• "The Law of Guaranties - a Jurisdiction-by-Jurisdiction Guide to U.S. and Canadian Law", Quebec chapter.

Professional affiliations

• Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys (ACFA)
• Turnaround Management Association (TMA)

Conferences

• "Introduction to Factoring," 10th Annual Conference on secured lending, Insight, 2010.

• "Analyse du financement sur actifs : obtenir le capital recherché pour subvenir aux besoins de votre entreprise," Cinquième conférence avancée sur le financement et les sûretés, Canadian Institute, 2008.

• "Le prêt sur actifs," Eighth conference on secured lending, Insight, 2008.

• "Drafting and negotiation of loan and security documents" - Insight - 7th Annual Conference on secured lending - 2007.

• "Drafting of the Loan Agreement" – Insight – 6th Annual Conference on secured lending - 2006.

• "Practical Aspects of Financings" – Insight – 5th Annual Conference on secured lending - 2005

• "Tracing the Life of a Loan - Giving it Out & Getting it Back," Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Legal Education - 2003

• "Négociation d’un financement et d’une hypothèque" – Montreal’s Young Bar Association - 2000.

Representative work

• Lead counsel to a U.S. hedge fund with respect to its Cdn$27,000,000 financing of a luxury hotel in Montreal through entities established in Delaware and Nova Scotia.

• Lead Canadian counsel to one of the largest truck and trailer rental businesses in North America with respect to a US$550,000,000 syndicated facility and a US$200,000,000 Term B secured note indenture entered into as part of its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

• Lead counsel to a privately-held U.S. real estate investment and financial services company with respect to its Cdn$44,000,000 financing of a luxury hotel in Montreal through a vehicle based in the Channel Islands, UK.

• Lead counsel to an American asset-based lender with respect to a Cdn$60,000,000 senior credit facility to a leading North American carpet manufacturer.

• Lead counsel to the largest non-bank financing company in North America with respect to a Cdn$40,000,000 credit facility to a Canadian apparel manufacturer.

• Lead counsel to a joint venture between Société générale de financement du Québec (SGF) and the leading provider of natural gas services and the largest pipeline company in North America with respect to US$60,000,000 secured revolving and term facilities for the restart and expansion of a petrochemical plant in Montreal.

• Lead counsel to an American asset-based lender with respect to a US$50,000,000 secured revolving facility to the second largest coastal woodland operator in British Columbia.

• Lead counsel to a joint venture between - Société générale de financement du Québec (SGF) and a Norwegian multinational with respect to a US$18,000,000 secured term facility for the construction of a manufacturing plant near Montreal for the supply of aluminum wheel suspension components to General Motors.

• Lead Canadian counsel to a syndicate of American and UK lenders with respect to a US$180,000,000 credit facility to a leading provider of drug development services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

• Lead Canadian counsel to a syndicate of American lenders with respect to US$300,000,000 credit facilities to an American multinational for the acquisition of a Montreal cable manufacturer.

• Lead counsel to an American financial institution with respect to a US$25,000,000 asset-based facility to a Canadian mining corporation for the acquisition of a US competitor.

• Lead counsel to an American factor with respect to factoring arrangements (including a US$30,000,000 revolving accounts receivable and inventory financing) for a Canadian manufacturer of gift wrap and garden furniture.

• Lead counsel to a Schedule I bank with respect to the purchase of a junior CDN$15,000,000 secured term loan to a Montreal-based customs brokerage business.

Current affairs

• News > Keyvan Nassiry in The 2013 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada January 16th, 2013
• News > Four BCF Lawyers in Best Lawyers in Canada September 5th, 2012
• News > Three BCF Partners in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory May 29th, 2012