Lawyer Profile
Sadira E. Jan
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Overview
A calming voice during a business negotiation can be difficult to find. Sadira provides that to her clients in their time of need. With a thorough understanding of business principals, Sadira understands the practical issues her clients are facing and helps them develop a feasible solution that also provides legal protection.
While Sadira’s practice focuses on banking and financing transactions, you’ll also find she provides sound advice the areas of mergers and acquisitions and general corporate/contractual work. She has extensive experience in negotiating, leveraged finance, project finance and asset based lending transactions for both borrowers and lenders. She negotiates bilateral and syndicated credit facilities and debt offerings ranging in size from the hundreds of thousands to the billions. She also works on commercial transactions: from an acquisition or a divesture to creative structuring of private corporations, partnership or franchise transactions, she can provide sound and practical advice from the preliminary establishment of the business relationship through to the negotiating, drafting and closing of the deal.
One of the region’s leading practitioners in the area of renewable energy, including wide-ranging expertise in wind, hydrogen, tidal and solar energy. Sadira has represented clients from the beginning stages of a project to its eventual de-commissioning since the beginning of the industry in Atlantic Canada. Her focus on, and understanding of, this industry and its complex regulatory and compliance regimes makes her well positioned to provide sound and strategic advice to Canada’s next generation of renewable energy projects: from offshore wind to residential and commercial retro fit programs and property assessed financing.
In the fisheries, another uniquely regulated industry, she has a depth of knowledge of the unique aspects of the topic and the interaction between the regulators, the commercial fishery and other significant stakeholders such as Indigenous Peoples in Canada which she taught for a decade at Dalhousie University. She’s considered a leading expert in Canada by her peers.
Managing Partner, Halifax, 2025 – present Member, Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society Member, Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA), 2023 Lecturer, Fisheries Law, Dalhousie University, 2016 – 2025 Past Member, Board of Governors, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Past Member, Executive Committee, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Past Member, Board of Directors, Prescott Group
Best Lawyers: Banking and Finance Law “Lawyer of the Year” Halifax, 2023, 2025 Lexpert rating: Banking & Financial Institutions, 2025 – 2026 Lexpert rating: Energy (Electricity), 2022, 2025 – 2026 Best Lawyers: Asset-Based Lending Practice, 2026 Best Lawyers: Banking and Finance Law, 2021 – 2026 Best Lawyers: Energy Law, 2026 Best Lawyers: Project Finance Law, 2021 – 2026
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2007 (NS)