Maria Sagan

Toronto

416.865.7851

maria.sagan@mcmillan.ca

Expertise Banking & Finance Financial Services

Language Spoken

English
Polish

Maria Sagan is a highly respected lawyer with a diverse financial services practice focused on banking law and complex financing transactions. She works with major banks, private equity firms, and domestic and international corporations in domestic, cross-border and multijurisdictional financings.

Drawing on broad experience, Maria advises on secured and unsecured lending, asset-based lending, acquisition finance, derivative and structured transactions, securitizations, syndicated lending and debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing. She has been recognized as a rising star in the areas of financial services regulatory and banking by the IFLR100 Financial and Corporate Guide.

Maria served a secondment with the derivatives legal group of a leading Canadian bank, gaining valuable insight into the negotiation of derivatives contracts with international financial institutions.

Maria is currently the Co-Chair of the Young Professional’s Committee of the Association for Corporate Growth, Toronto Chapter.

Expertise

Industries

Banking & Finance

Practices

Financial Services

Representative Matters

Counsel to a Canadian financial institution in connection with a US$500 million financing to a Canadian real estate company
Counsel to a major US financial institution in connection with a US$155 million financing to a Canadian healthcare company
Counsel to a major US financial institution in connection with a US$740 million financing of an international healthcare company
Counsel to a private equity lender in connection with healthcare financing to two Canadian healthcare companies (total of up to Cdn$106 million)
Counsel to a major US financial institution in connection with a Cdn$175 million financing to a Canadian IT corporation
Counsel to a major US financial institution in connection with a US$1.2 billion financing to an international chemical production corporation
Counsel to a private US lender in connection with a US$100 million acquisition financing of a Canadian media technology company
Counsel to a Canadian distribution company in connection with a US$1.1 billion financing by a syndicate of US and Canadian financial institutions
Counsel to an international equipment rental company with respect to a US$1.75 billion financing by a syndicate of US and Canadian financial institutions
Counsel to a major Canadian pharmaceutical company with respect to a EUR 210 million financing by a syndicate of European and Canadian financial institutions

News

Rankings & Recognition

Recognized by IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate Guide 2020 as a Rising Star in Financial Services Regulatory and Banking
Recognized by IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate Guide 2019 as a Rising Star in Financial Services Regulatory
The Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Book Prize in Securities Regulation, 2010, Osgoode Hall Law School
The Gowlings Prize in Securities Regulation, 2010, Osgoode Hall Law School
The John S. Proctor Award of Distinction, 2003-2007, York University

Directorships & Affiliations

Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), Toronto Chapter, Young Professional’s Committee (2016 – present)
Canadian Bar Association
Ontario Bar Association
Canadian Bar Association
Young Leaders in Infrastructure (Member)
Women’s Infrastructure Network (Member)

Education & Admissions

2011

Called to the Ontario bar

2010

JDOsgoode Hall Law School

2007

Specialized Honours BA (summa cum laude)York University

Publications

“Staying Secured in Uncertain Times: A refresher on taking security in Canada,” Secured Finance Network, The Secured Lender (International Issue) (2021)
“The Phase-Out of LIBOR: A Primer,” Banking & Finance Law Review (August 2020)
“The ABA Guide to International Bar Admissions,” Sagan M. & Todgham-Cherniak, C. (2012)
“Canada-Ontario,” in Russell W. Dombrow and Nancy A. Matos (Eds.), Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association (2012)
“Goodbye boilerplate: Canadian Securities Administrators release guidance on environmental disclosure,” Canadian Securities Law News, CCH, No 203 (December 2010)
“Change is Near but Unclear: Canadian Regulators Publish Initial Proposals on OTC Derivatives,” Derivatives Law Bulletin (November 2010)
“A Greener Future: Environmental Disclosures in Securities Regulation,” Briefly Speaking, Vol 35, No 5 (October 2010)
“Challenges and Opportunities at the Wills Project,” Briefly Speaking, Vol 35, No 3 (June 2010)