Lawyer Profile
Jim S. Hong
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Jim brings decades of banking and finance experience and an international perspective in corporate and securities law, offering clients tailored solutions for structured finance and securitizations.
Jim has broad market knowledge and experience advising on securitizations, public and private managed products, structured asset-backed financings and derivatives. He supports clients in developing securitization structures and products on Canadian and cross-border transactions.
Jim is recognized as a leading lawyer in securitization matters and is a co-author of the Canada Chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide to Securitisation, published by Global Legal Group, London.
Eagle Credit Card Trust in its C$250 million public multiclass offering of credit card receivables-backed notes, Series 2023-1
Fairfax Financial and Fairfax India in Fairfax India's US$1 billion equity offering, including its US$561 million initial public offering of subordinate voting shares and concurrent US$500 million private placements of voting and subordinate voting shares
Jim is an adjunct professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School where he teaches commercial law.
Before he joined Torys, Jim practised in the international securitization group of a major U.K. law firm based in London, where he advised on debt refinancing, RMBS and CDO transactions.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2001 (ON)