Kyle Abrey

Kyle Abrey

Associate Director, Financial Services, Osler Works - Transactional

Key Contact: Osler Works – Transactional

Contact Information

kabrey@osler.com

tel: 416.862.5912

Office

Toronto

Bar Admission

Ontario, 2017

Scotland, 2012

Language(s)

English

Kyle is an Associate Director of Osler Works – Transactional, a service that uses cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes and skilled legal professionals to support our deal teams and clients largely in the context of transactions. He oversees a team of lawyers and paralegals in connection with negotiating and closing financing transactions.

Kyle has over 10 years of experience advising clients in the financial services industry. He worked as a corporate and financial services associate with CMS in Edinburgh, which included secondments to a professional regulatory body in Brussels, focusing on European Union law, and to Standard Life, assisting with a corporate acquisition. Most recently, prior to returning to private practice with Osler, Kyle was at HSBC Bank Canada supporting commercial lending transactions and served as in-house counsel to Royal Bank of Canada advising its wealth management business.

    Prior to joining Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

    • Advised a Canadian financial institution’s foreign branches on the cross-border offering of products and services to accredited investors in Canada and represented them in filings to Provincial securities regulators
    • Represented a Canadian bank on its proposed acquisition of a UK private banking business
    • Represented a global financial institution in its acquisition of an investment platform for advisers from a French multi-national company
    • Acted for a global asset manager in its acquisition of a UK broker-dealer business
    • Represented a large UK charity’s interest in a successful multi-million pound share issue
    • Represented a UK bank in the successful sale of its interests in a private equity fund to a family office in China

  • The Participation House Project (Durham Region), Director
  • Pro Bono Ontario, Legal Counsel
  • Supervising Lawyer and Clinic Student, Edinburgh Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC)
  • Alzheimer Scotland, 3x3 Challenge Participant, 2013
  • Action for Children UK, Three Peaks Challenge Participant, 2011

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Ontario Bar Association
  • Law Society of Ontario
  • Law Society of Scotland (non-practising)

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