855 2nd St SW, Suite 4500, Bankers Hall E, Calgary, AB
Year called to bar: 2011 (AB); 2003 (NY)
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.
On June 25, 2014, North West Redwater Partnership entered into a four-year $3.5 billion syndicated credit facility with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch, Royal Bank of Canada, certain other lenders, and Royal Bank of Canada, as agent.
