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) 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’s experience includes acting for:
- Allied Gold Corp. in connection with its US$175 million gold stream in relation to the Kurmuk gold project in Ethiopia, its gold prepaid forward arrangements with various financial institutions, its credit facility with a syndicate of lenders, its US$53 million gold streams in relation to the Agbaou and Bonikro mines in Cote d’Ivoire, and its gold stream in relation to the Bonikro mine in Cote d’Ivoire
- Artemis Gold Inc. in connection with its $385 million syndicated project financing facility and $40 million cost overrun facility, its $140 million master lease agreement, its US$141 million precious metal purchase agreement, and its US$190 million gold purchase and sale agreement, all in relation to the Blackwater project in British Columbia, Canada
- Orla Mining Ltd. in connection with its US$125 million project finance facility in relation to the Camino Rojo oxide gold project in Zacatecas, Mexico, its US$150 million debt refinancing package, its US$250 million credit facility, its US$360 million gold prepaid forward arrangements with various commercial banks, and its US$200 million unsecured convertible notes
- Marathon Gold Corporation in connection with its US$225 million project finance facility in relation to the Valentine gold project in Newfoundland in Labrador, Canada
- Lundin Mining Corporation in connection with various transactions, including its US$648 million gold and silver stream in relation to the Candelaria mine in Chile, its US$1.75 billion revolving credit facility with a syndicate of commercial banks, and its US$800 million term loan with a syndicate of commercial banks
- Calibre Mining Corp. in connection with various secured gold prepayment arrangements and its US$75 million private placement
- Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. in connection with its US$2 billion sustainability-linked credit facility
- Sandstorm Gold Ltd. in connection with its US$625 million sustainability-linked credit facility
- Atlantic Gold Corporation in connection with its $115 million project finance facility, $20 million equipment finance facility and US$150 million revolving credit facility in relation to its Moose River consolidated project in Nova Scotia, Canada
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.
*Services provided through a Professional Corporation
