David Wedlake

Partner

• Queen’s Marque
  600-1741 Lower Water Street
  Halifax, N.S.
  B3J 0J2
• +1.902.444.1705
• +1.902.420.1417
• dwedlake@stewartmckelvey.com
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Language(s) spoken: English

Bar Admission(s): Nova Scotia, 2016

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Legal Assistant(s): Wendy L. MacIsaac

David has a practice focusing on transactional and insolvency matters, regularly dealing in the areas of banking, finance, mergers & acquisitions, loan enforcement and restructuring matters, as well as general corporate and commercial law matters.

David has assisted lenders and borrowers in numerous banking and finance matters across a wide array of secured lending transactions, including drafting credit agreements, planning and preparing security packages, and coordinating and negotiating cross-jurisdictional opinions, including:

• acted as lender’s counsel to a Canadian financial services company in several financing projects for wind, solar, and tidal renewable energy projects;
• acted as lender’s counsel in multi-jurisdictional asset-based credit facilities;
• acted as borrower’s counsel in connection with $250MM acquisition financing; and
• acted as borrower’s counsel in connection with syndicated, cross-border credit facilities.

With respect to mergers & acquisitions, he has regularly assisted purchasers and vendors, with experience in transactions of all sizes in a variety of industries.

David has acted for creditors and debtors in a variety of CCAA, bankruptcy, receivership and related enforcement matters, and provided advice to trustees and receivers in the course of insolvency proceedings. He has also worked on matters that include: debt collection and foreclosures; contract review and other commercial matters; regulatory compliance; tax matters and reorganizations; and commercial and residential real property matters.