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Leila Burden Nixon is an associate in the Financial Services Group in Gowlings' Toronto office where she practises in the areas of banking, restructuring and business law (general corporate and pensions).

Leila acts for both lenders and borrowers in secured lending transactions, including syndicated financings, subordinate debt financing, acquisition financings and refinancing; for servicers to CMBS loan portfolios; and for receivers and secured creditors on insolvency matters, including commercial mortgage enforcement. Her corporate practice focuses primarily on pensions and benefits, where she has acted for trustees and administrators of pension plans in connection with surplus entitlement, drafting of plan documentation and mergers and acquisitions.

Leila has also had the pleasure of gaining valuable insight into the operation of financial institutions as in-house counsel while on a 10-month secondment with one of the Firm’s largest banking clients.