Kaliopi Dimitrakoudis

Avocate

Toronto
[email protected]
416.367.6541

Nous sommes désolés. Le contenu de cette page n'est présentement disponible qu'en anglais.

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.
  • Acted as Canadian counsel for a U.S. investment firm in connection with multiple acquisitions, and related financings (including by way of securitization with the issuance of secured portfolio railcar equipment notes), of various portfolios of railcars and related equipment.
  • 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, Faculté de droit Osgoode Hall de l'Université York, 2023
  • MBA, École de commerce Schulich, 2023
  • MA (Philosophy), Université York, 2018
  • BA (Hons.), Université Queen’s, 2017