Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Guarantee and Indemnity (2022 Reissue)

Dr. Alison R. Manzer, B.Sc., LL.B., LL.M., M.B.A., M.Sc., D.B.A., is a partner in the Financial Services Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. She has an extensive commercial law practice, with a large cross-border and international practice base, including financial institution regulation, asset-based lending, securitization, structured finance, project finance, commercial lending, corporate finance, banking, insolvency and bankruptcy, asset finance and related areas. Dr. Manzer has held several financial services industry directorships and many positions with legal organizations, including the American Bar Association (Fellow), where she chairs committees, the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys (Past President); and the American College of Commercial Financial Lawyers (former Regent). Dr. Manzer is an adjunct professor in the LL.M. program at Osgoode Hall Law School (International Finance) and has authored many books on financial services and commercial law topics. She is ranked in most legal peer rankings in Canada, the United States and globally in Banking and in Asset Finance.

Charles Newman, B.A., LL.B., is a partner serving as Co-Chair of the Banking & Specialty Finance Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. Charles’ practice focuses on all types of secured and unsecured lending transactions, including project/infrastructure financings, syndicated loan transactions, debtor-in-possession financings and asset-based and real estate-based lending matters. Charles does extensive work for Canadian and U.S.-based private equity funds in connection with their cross-border investments in equity, quasi-equity and qualified debt obligations. He also routinely acts on behalf of lenders, borrowers and receivers in connection with special account, work-out related, security enforcement and receivership files. He is recognized as a leader in his field by such authorities as the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Best Lawyers in Canada, IFLR1000, Legal 500 Canada, Chambers Canada and Chambers Global.

Marc Mercier, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B., LL.M., is a partner in the Banking & Specialty Finance Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. His practice emphasizes secured, unsecured and merger and acquisition financing, treasury management and financial derivatives-related matters, along with complex reorganizational workouts and restructurings, in the domestic and international contexts. Marc also handles financing work in the subordinated/convertible debt, venture capital and private equity areas. Marc has acted for some of the largest financial institutions in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, has authored articles published in legal journals and texts, and speaks frequently at derivatives, secured lending, insolvency and restructuring and law reform conferences and bank seminars. He has been an adjunct faculty member of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and at Osgoode Hall Law School. As a senior member of the firm’s financial services practice area, Marc is active in the practice development and mentoring of senior and junior members of his team. In 2018, the Ontario Junior Hockey League honoured Marc with the Chairman’s Award for demonstrating the league’s core values, including integrity, professionalism and sportsmanship. Marc successfully climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in July 2018.

Jennifer Wasylyk, B.Sc., J.D., is a partner in the Banking & Specialty Finance Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. Her practice focuses on corporate finance matters, representing both borrowers and lenders in a variety of domestic and multi-jurisdictional matters, including secured and unsecured lending transactions, project finance, convertible debt, asset-based lending and syndicated loans. In addition, Jennifer’s experience includes general corporate and reorganization matters. Jennifer was previously a sessional professor at Queen’s University Law School, where she taught courses on commercial law and the Personal Property Security Act.

Corina Capmare, B.A., J.D., is an associate in the Banking & Specialty Finance Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. Corina’s practice focuses on corporate and commercial law, representing both lenders and borrowers in a variety of domestic and cross-border financing transactions and corporate finance matters, including secured lending transactions, asset-based lending and syndicated loans. Corina graduated from the J.D. program at Queen’s University. While there, she was an active member of her student community as a volunteer at Queen’s Business Law Clinic, Pro Bono Students Canada and the Queen’s Literacy Outreach program.