Reem F. Georges Hindieh

First Year of Call
1994

Areas of Practice
Banking, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Competition Law, Conveyancing, Corporate and Commercial Law, Corporate Counsel (In-House Counsel), Environmental Law, Insurance Law, Real Property, Securities

Description
I am a native English speaking lawyer and leader possessing degrees in Finance and Law with honours, with an international background, federal government Secret level clearance and a functional level in French.

• Two decades of top-level experience as a leader in financial institutions & banking; risk management; securities & derivatives; insurance; corporate & commercial law; corporate governance, legislative & policy interpretation & development/drafting, research & opinions; procurement, sales/acquisitions & leasing; contracting, licensing & intellectual property; financing, competition law; tax; and creditors remedies (including financial institutions insolvency & workouts).

• A senior Director, legal and policy advisor for Federal and Provincial governments housing finance, financial institutions & insolvency, fraud & securities laws, & assisted housing & affordability programs.

• A principal legal advisor on & one of the architects of the Canada Mortgage Bonds program, Canadian Registrered Covered Bonds legal framework, & National Housing Act Mortgage-backed Securities program, Canada’s largest capital markets/securitization programs ($400+ billion).

• Principal legal advisor on the ground-breaking, Canadian “first”,emili automated underwriting/ decisioning system and important related insurance, IT, procurement, privacy and access issues.

• A principal legal advisor on & one of the architects of North America’s first line of credit mortgage insurance product, the federal residential construction and municipal financing programs and principal legal advisor for a suite of other real estate and infrastructure financing and insurance products.

• Legal & policy advisor to Chinese, Korean, Mexican, & Polish government & other foreign entities.

• Principal drafter & negotiator of investment, procurement/sale, derivative/repo, trust, bank, loan, IT/IP data & other major agreements with financial, IT, regulatory, governmental, & other institutions/parties.