Steve Lutz is an acclaimed financial services lawyer with a wide range of interests and expertise. Steve specializes in handling a broad spectrum of complex matters, including domestic and cross-border asset-based and syndicated lending transactions. As an acknowledged expert in debt and equity-raising markets, Steve works with major international financial institutions, private lenders and advisory firms. Steve routinely acts for banks and public and private borrowers in project financings, subordinated debt, acquisition finance and debt restructuring transactions. His experience includes drafting template loan and security documentation for some of the largest Canadian and US banks and financial institutions.
Steve’s banking and finance rankings include Chambers Canada, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 Canada and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
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- Recognized by Chambers Canada (2025) as a leading lawyer in the area of Banking & Finance
- Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2025) as “One to Watch” in the areas of Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Insolvency and Financial Restructuring
- Recognized in the 2024 Lexpert Special Edition on Finance and M&A as one of Canada’s Leading Finance and M&A Lawyers
- Recognized in the 2024 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a Consistently Recommended Lawyer in the areas of Asset-Based Lending and Banking & Financial Institutions and a Repeatedly Recommended Lawyer in Asset Equipment Finance/Leasing
- Recognized by Chambers Global (2024) as a leading lawyer in the area of Banking & Finance
- Recognized by Chambers Canada (2024) as a leading lawyer in the area of Banking & Finance
- Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2024) as a leading lawyer in the area of Asset-Based Lending Practice and Banking and Finance Law
- Listed in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2023 as a leader in Banking
- Recognized in the 2023 Lexpert Special Edition on Finance and M&A as one of Canada’s Leading Finance and M&A Lawyers
- Recognized in the 2023 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a Consistently Recommended Lawyer in the area of Banking & & Financial Institutions and a Repeatedly Recommended Lawyer in the areas of Asset-Based Lending and Asset Equipment Finance/Leasing
- Recognized by Chambers Global (2023) as a leading lawyer in the area of Banking & Finance
- Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2023) as a leading lawyer in the areas of Asset-Based Lending and Banking & Finance
- Recognized by Chambers Canada (2022) as a leading lawyer in the area of Banking & Finance
- Recognized by Chambers Global (2022) as a leading lawyer in the area of Banking & Finance
- Recognized in the 2022 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a Repeatedly Recommend Lawyer in the areas of Asset-Equipment Finance/Leasing and Banking & Financial Institutions
- Listed in the Legal500 Canada 2022 as a Recommended Lawyer – Banking and Finance
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