Jennifer Ashley Wasylyk

Jennifer Wasylyk* serves as Deputy Managing Partner at Cassels and is a member of the firm’s Mining , Banking & Specialty Finance and Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Groups. Jennifer acts on behalf of both borrowers and lenders in a broad range of domestic and international corporate finance transactions. She has extensive experience structuring and negotiating secured and unsecured transactions, syndicated facilities, project finance facilities, asset-based lending transactions, streaming and prepay arrangements, other alternative finance structures and complex intercreditor arrangements. Jennifer has particular expertise in the natural resources field and regularly works with both lenders and resource companies in the mining sector. She has worked at the Ontario Energy Board, Canada Energy Regulator, and Alberta Energy Regulator. Jennifer has completed the Osgoode Certificate in Mining Law and the Osgoode Certificate in ESG, Climate Risk and the Law. Jennifer is recognized as a leader in her field by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Asset Equipment Finance/Leasing, Banking & Financial Institutions, Mining), IFLR1000 (Banking & Finance), and Best Lawyers in Canada (Banking and Finance Law). In 2023, Jennifer was named a Lexpert Rising Star , an award that celebrates Canada’s leading lawyers under 40.

Jennifer is the past Chair of the Executive Committee of the Ontario Bar Association’s Natural Resources and Energy Law Section and is also a member of Women in Mining. Jennifer was previously a sessional professor at Queen’s University Law School where she taught courses on commercial law and the Personal Property Security Act .