Rachel Leigh Islam

Rachel is a lawyer in the Business Law Group and the Financial Services Group at Gardiner Roberts. Her practice spans a broad range of corporate, commercial, and financing matters, with a focus on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and secured lending transactions. She advises clients across a variety of industries, including technology, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, energy and infrastructure, healthcare, hospitality, food and beverage, retail, financial services, and commercial real estate.

Known for her practical, business-focused approach, Rachel regularly assists clients with matters ranging from business formation and structuring to complex purchase and sale transactions that often involve financing arrangements and corporate reorganizations. Her extensive financial services experience includes acting for Canadian Schedule I banks and other financial institutions, private lenders, and corporate borrowers in regional, multi-jurisdictional, and cross-border senior and subordinated bilateral and syndicated lending transactions, including acquisition financings, technology debt financings, real estate financings, and cash flow and asset-based lending.