Mark Surchin

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Overview

Mark Surchin is a partner in a business law group and is the Co-Chair of the Opinions Committee at Goodmans. He also oversees the professional development of the firm’s corporate clerks.

Mark has an active transactional corporate law practice with an emphasis on debt financings. He provides ongoing corporate/commercial advice to a number of companies carrying on business in Canada and plays a lead role advising a variety of the firm’s borrower and lender clients in debt financing transactions, both domestic and cross-border. Mark has extensive experience in high yield and other debt securities transactions and is also involved in secondary transactions in the private equity fund context. 

Mark is recognized as a leading lawyer by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (banking and financial institutions), Best Lawyers in Canada (asset based lending, corporate law and banking and finance law), IFLR1000 (banking and capital markets: debt) and is AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. In 2023, Mark was elected as bencher of the Law Society of Ontario.

Expertise

Featured Work

Mark’s recent transaction work includes acting for:
  • Whitehorse Liquidity Partners in connection with its capital structure
  • Tricon Capital Group in its senior syndicated credit facilities 
  • a U.S. bank in structuring and documenting credit facilities made available to a cross-border borrower
  • various U.S. law firms in several cross-border facilities, both for lenders and borrowers
  • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in its secondary purchases and sales
  • Cardone Industries in its credit facilities with Citizens Bank
  • Randa Accessories in its credit facilities with Wells Fargo relating to the acquisition of Haggar Clothing
  • Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. in its Credit Agreement with certain investment accounts and funds managed by HPS Invesement Partners, LLC

Awards & Recognition

  • Best Lawyers in Canada Recognized, Asset-Based Lending Practice, Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law 2024
  • IFLR1000 Canada Notable Practitioner, Banking, Capital Markets: Debt 2023
  • Best Lawyers in Canada Recognized: Asset-Based Lending Practice, Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law 2023
  • IFLR1000 Canada Notable Practitioner, Banking, Capital Markets: Debt 2022
  • Best Lawyers in Canada Recognized: Asset-Based Lending Practice, Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law 2022
  • The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory Repeatedly Recommended, Banking & Financial Institutions 2022
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Credentials

Professional Involvement

Mark is a member of the Toronto Opinions Group which works to resolve commonly arising opinion issues, with the goal of facilitating for practitioners the settling of opinions in transactions. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees and the Immediate Past President of the Alumni Association of Brandeis University.

Since 2018, Mark has taught Business Organizations at the University of Toronto to its Global Professional Masters students. Mark is the Vice President of the Law Alumni Association of the Faculty of Law at University of Toronto and a member of the University of Toronto College of Electors. In 2022, Mark received the University of Toronto Arbor Award in recognition of his significant volunteer contributions to the school.

Mark is the co-author of numerous publications including Practical Law Canada’s Cross-border Contracts and Boilerplate Clauses content and the Canadian chapter of The Law Review’s Securitisation Law Review - 3rd Edition.

Mark is an active member of the community and volunteers at Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto General Hospital and Toronto Rehab.

Credentials

  • University of Toronto, J.D., 1981, Honours
  • Brandeis University, B.A., 1978, Summa Cum Laude with High Honours in Politics and Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Affiliations

  • Law Society of Ontario
  • Toronto Opinions Group
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Ontario Bar Association

Call to Bar

  • 1983 Ontario

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