Kaliopi Dimitrakoudis

Associate

Toronto
[email protected]
416.367.6541

Kaliopi maintains a broad banking and financial services practice.

Kaliopi provides counsel across a broad spectrum of financial matters, advising on restructurings, bankruptcy proceedings, and recovery efforts for creditors, court-appointed trustees, and other stakeholders. She works with banks, financial institutions, and corporate clients on financial arrangements, including secured and unsecured deals, asset-based financing, and international operations.

Kaliopi joined BLG as an associate after completing her first and second-year summers and articling term with the firm.

Experience

  • Represented Telesat, one of the world's largest satellite operators, in its $2.54B funding agreements (for its subsidiary, Telesat LEO Inc.) with the Government of Canada and the Government of Québec for its broadband satellite constellation, Telesat Lightspeed network.
  • Acted for RFA Capital Holdings Inc. and RFA Bank of Canada (formerly Street Capital Bank of Canada) in connection with a private securitization of mortgage renewal rights, the first mortgage renewal securitization completed in Canada.
  • Advising secured parties on issues relating to the granting and enforcement of security interests in personal property under the Personal Property Security Act (Ontario).
  • Advising clients with respect to claims arising from fraudulent preferences, fraudulent conveyances, settlements and other claims for the recovery of assets in insolvency matters.

Beyond Our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Member-at-Large, Insolvency Law Section Executive, Ontario Bar Association
  • Member, Ontario Bar Association
  • Member, Law Society of Ontario
  • Member, Hellenic Canadian Lawyers’ Association

Awards & Recognition

  • Awarded the Michael MacNaughton Writing Award for Insolvency Law, by the Ontario Bar Association (2023)

Bar Admission & Education

  • Ontario, 2024
  • JD, Osgoode Hall Law School, 2023
  • MBA, Schulich School of Business, 2023
  • MA (Philosophy), York University, 2018
  • BA (Hons.), Queen's University, 2017