Carla Elizabeth Potter

Carla Potter* is a partner in the Banking & Specialty Finance Group at Cassels. Carla’s practice focuses on corporate financing and equipment finance matters, representing both lenders and borrowers involved in domestic and cross-border lending and leasing transactions and corporate reorganizations. Within her corporate finance practice, Carla regularly acts for borrowers and lenders in corporate and commercial lending, project finance, asset-based finance, convertible debt, syndicated lending and securitization transactions. She has a proven track record of working with resource companies on their project finance transactions, including project debt, subordinated debt, project finance equipment facilities and on specialty finance matters in connection with project finance transactions. Within Carla’s equipment finance practice, she regularly works with international and domestic commercial finance companies establishing lease and finance operations in Canada and with equipment finance companies on securitization transactions. Carla is recognized as a leader in her field by Chambers Canada (Banking & Finance), Best Lawyers in Canada (Equipment Finance, Banking & Finance Law), the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Asset Equipment Finance/Leasing, Mining), and IFLR1000 (Banking) and has been recognized as a leader in the field in Lexpert ’s Special Edition on Energy and Mining . Carla has completed the Osgoode Certificate in ESG, Climate Risk and The Law.

Carla is a Chartered Professional Accountant and Chartered Accountant with experience working at national accounting firms in both an assurance and business advisory capacity and brings this experience to bear in her practice. She is also a prolific author and regularly speaks on various topics relating to equipment finance and corporate finance matters. Select publications include: