100 King St W, Suite 6200, 1 First Cdn Pl, PO Box 50, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1998 (ON)
Rick’s practice covers many areas of banking, finance and securities law, with an emphasis on securitization and structured finance, corporate finance and financial institutions work. He has acted for clients on a variety of securitization and structured finance transactions and has extensive experience in acting for single and multi-seller securitization conduits, issuers, underwriters and investment banks covering a wide variety of asset classes, including covered bonds, residential mortgages, credit cards, automotive loan and lease receivables, equipment and automotive dealer floorplan receivables and trade receivables. Rick has also acted on many public and private initial and secondary offerings of corporate and financial institution debt, equity and innovative capital products.
On July 29, 2015, Bank of Montreal completed its domestic public offering of Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class B Preferred Shares, Series 35 (Non-Viability Contingent Capital (NVCC)) (Preferred Shares Series 35).
Pursuant to a €5 Billion Global Covered Bond Programme, on October 22, 2014, La Caisse centrale Desjardins du Québec (CCDQ) completed an offering of an aggregate amount of €1,000,000,000 0.375 per cent covered bonds due October 22, 2019 (the Covered Bonds).
On January 22, 2010, Ford Credit Canada Limited (FCCL) completed a retail loan securitization transaction, receiving proceeds of approximately $510 million.
On June 29, 2009, Ford Credit Canada Limited (FCCL) completed a retail loan securitization transaction, receiving proceeds of $0.6 billion. In order to carry out the transaction, Ford Auto Securitization Trust, a newly established master trust sponsored by FCCL, purchased a pool of retail conditional sale contracts from FCCL.
On June 24, 2009, Canadian Road Leasing Company (CRLC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Credit Canada Limited (FCCL), completed a lease securitization transaction, receiving proceeds of US$1.3 billion.
On April 15, 2009, Canadian Road Leasing Company (CRLC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Credit Canada Limited (FCCL), completed a lease securitization transaction, receiving proceeds of $600 million.
On September 25, 2008, Ford Credit Canada Limited (FCCL) completed two retail loan securitization transactions, receiving immediately available proceeds of approximately $0.9 billion.
Golden Credit Card Trust completed a public offering of $950 million 4.159 per cent credit card receivable-backed senior notes, series 2003-1, and $50 million 5.069 per cent credit card receivable-backed subordinated notes, series 2003-1.
