About Ali
Ali's practice focuses on financial services in the areas of banking and commercial lending transactions, including debt financing, asset-based finance, acquisition finance, project finance and related transactional work. She regularly acts on secured and unsecured debt syndications, acquisition financings, reorganizations, note and bond deals and intercreditor arrangements. She also assists clients with general corporate and commercial matters and regularly advises on cross-border financings.
Ali works primarily in energy, oil and gas, farming and agriculture, renewable power and related service industries.
Prior to joining Blakes, Ali practiced in the corporate and commercial group at a large full-service law firm in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ali acted for various lender clients including banks, credit unions, and mortgage brokers in relation to the provision of operating loan facilities, term loan facilities and subordinated debt facilities, as well as commercial mortgage loans securing industrial, commercial and multi-tenant residential properties. Ali also acted for the persons, partnerships, limited partnerships, co-ownership syndicates and corporations to whom such loan facilities are provided, assisting those borrowers in the structuring of their borrowing entity, negotiating on their behalf the terms of any borrowing or loan facilities with financial institutions, and completing those loan transactions.
