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Ben Nuttall is an experienced financial services lawyer with a focus on corporate finance and commercial real estate. With a wealth of experience, Ben excels in orchestrating complex multi-million-dollar financial transactions, encompassing project financing, loan agreements, participation agreements, and security agreements.

Ben’s clients include financial institutions, corporate borrowers, and lenders, whom he represents across a diverse array of financing endeavors. His notable achievements include spearheading negotiations for a syndicated loan agreement totaling approximately $180 million for a wholesale flooring and leasing facility. Moreover, Ben has provided invaluable counsel to a Canadian Chartered Bank on loans ranging from $50 million to $100 million.

Known for his versatility and dedication to client success, Ben’s contributions extend beyond negotiations to encompass navigating participation agreements and serving as a trusted advisor on multimillion-dollar loans. His expertise underscores his commitment to delivering exceptional outcomes in every transaction he undertakes.

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Representative Matters

  • Acted as counsel for a Canadian Chartered Bank advising in relation to series of independent loans to large-scale agribusiness operators. Loans ranged in value from approximately $50 million to $100 million and were secured by real property, agricultural quotas (including Dairy, Layer and Broiler) and other security agreements.
  • Acted as lead lender’s counsel on a $30 million loan to a Canadian Oil and Gas company.
  • Acted for lead lender in respect of $47 million syndicated loan made to a development corporation to finance the construction of a condominium tower in Calgary.
  • Acted for lender in respect of project financing facilities provided to a power corporation to finance the construction of two fifteen mega-watt gas to power projects which use natural gas to generate power from two turbines.
  • Acted for lender in respect of an amended and restated loan agreement for a wholesale flooring facility and a wholesale leasing facility in the aggregate amount of approximately $180 million.
  • Acted for lender in respect of project financing facilities of approximately $30 million for the purchase and development of an automobile dealership property.
  • Acted for a seismic data corporation in respect of $50 million syndicate facilities to refinance existing facilities and for general operating purposes.
  • Acted for lead lender in respect of syndicated project financing provided to a development company for the construction of a residential community in Calgary.
  • Acted for lender in respect of an equipment financing to an energy corporation for the purchase and construction of drilling rigs, services rigs, and oilfield rental equipment.
  • Acted for lead lender in respect of an amended and restated syndicated loan agreement for facilities of approximately $180 million for general operating purposes and for the purchase of real estate in Alberta.
  • Acted as lead lender’s counsel on a $75 million multi-jurisdictional cross-border loan transaction to a major Canadian drilling company.
  • Acted for lender in negotiating participation agreement regarding a loan to a Canadian oilfield services company; the participation agreement was to be used as a template for a series of participations between the two financial institutions.
  • Acted as borrower’s counsel on a $20 million loan to finance the reorganization of a major Canadian private corporation.
  • Acted as borrower’s counsel on a $14 million loan to finance the construction of an industrial/logistics warehouse in north Calgary.
  • Acted as lender’s counsel on a $12 million loan to local restaurant owner.
  • Acted for shareholders in $50 million sale of shares in a Calgary-based engineering company to a publicly owned engineering company.
  • Acted for shareholders in $10 million sale of shares in a Calgary-based meat-packing company.
  • Acted for shareholders in $9 million sale of shares in a Calgary-based engineering company to a Venezuelan engineering company.
  • Acted for Alberta-based construction company on two separate asset purchase transactions of $10 million each.
  • Acted for owner on the negotiation/formation of a $14 million agreement regarding the construction of an industrial/logistics warehouse in north Calgary.

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Directorships & Affiliations

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Law Society of Alberta
  • Bar Council, England & Wales
  • Middle Temple, Inns of Court, London

Education & Admissions

2008
Called to the Alberta bar
1996
Bar Vocational CourseInns of Court School of Law
1995
Common Professional Examination The College of Law
1994
M. Phil University of Cambridge, Department of Law
1993
BSc, Econ. in Philosophy and EconomicsLondon School of Economics