Karen Dawson
Canada Guide 2025
Band 5 : Banking & Finance
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About
Provided by Karen Dawson
Practice Areas
Co-Head of the firm's Banking and Secured Transactions group, Karen Dawson is a highly knowledgeable, practical and client-service oriented financial services lawyer with extensive experience acting as lead counsel in a wide range of complex domestic and international finance transactions, including corporate lending transactions, asset based lending transactions, reserves based lending arrangements, equipment financings, acquisition financings, project financings and private placements. She also has broad experience working on restructurings (including the establishment of debtor-in-possession financing arrangements and foreclosures), and routinely advises as Canadian counsel in connection with cross-border financing arrangements.
Chambers Review
Canada
Calgary-based Karen Dawson regularly advises lenders and borrowers on a diverse range of finance transactions, including bridge finance and refinancing mandates. She also has experience concerning the amendment of syndicated credit agreements. Her client base includes a range of borrowers, as well as private equity houses and other alternative lenders.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Karen Dawson is very responsive, knows her subject matter very well and provides valuable insight."
"Karen Dawson is very knowledgeable and has a broad base of experience in special situations and distressed lending."
"Karen Dawson is very responsive, knows her subject matter very well and provides valuable insight."
"Karen Dawson is very knowledgeable and has a broad base of experience in special situations and distressed lending."
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