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Aaron
Collins

Partner
  • acollins@airdberlis.com
  • 416.865.3412
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  • Toronto Office
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Admitted to the Ontario Bar: 2008
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When involved in a financing or restructuring transaction, Aaron’s experience and insight into the common issues faced by clients allows him to identify potential problems early and provide practical, common-sense solutions that help his clients achieve their objectives. His approach ensures that his clients can focus on running their business, instead of worrying about legal issues. A self-described deal junkie, Aaron thrives on getting deals done and will make sure your transaction gets across the finish line.

As the Co-Leader of the firm's Financial Services and Banking & Finance Groups, Aaron's practice focuses on corporate and commercial lending transactions with an emphasis on asset-based, syndicated, secured, mezzanine and subordinated debt, both domestic and cross-border. He also practises in the area of insolvency and restructuring law, including the commercial aspects of turnarounds, reorganizations, liquidations, security enforcement, receiverships, plans of arrangement under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, proposals and bankruptcies under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the purchase and sale of distressed assets and businesses.

Aaron regularly acts for a broad range of lenders, including domestic and foreign banks and asset-based lenders, borrowers in many different industries and unsecured creditors, court-appointed officers and other stakeholders on domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters.

Expertise

  • Healthcare
  • Cannabis
  • ESG & Sustainability
  • Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Banking & Finance
  • Financial Services

Representative Matters

Representative Matter

Ontario Provides $670-Million Loan for Vianode’s First North American Synthetic Graphite Facility

Aird & Berlis is advising the Province of Ontario on all aspects of the announced transaction, including commercial, lending and real estate matters, with a team led by Paige Backman (Corporate/Commercial) and including Aaron Collins, Jonathan Yantzi and Kanika Sharma (Financial Services) and Ethan Eisen and Kenneth Pimentel (Real Estate).

November 25, 2025

Representative Matter

Allied and Partners Reorganize Ownership of TELUS Sky

Aird & Berlis represented Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust in the reorganization of the ownership of TELUS Sky, a 60-storey, mixed-use high-rise building in Calgary, Alberta.

December 31, 2024

Representative Matter

Allied Properties REIT Completes Acquisition of Ownership Interest in 400 West Georgia and Increased Ownership Interest in 19 Duncan

On April 1, 2024, Allied Properties REIT completed the acquisition from Westbank for an aggregate property value of $920.7 million.

April 01, 2024

Representative Matter

Aird & Berlis Acts for the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development in its Winning Bid for Volkswagen Gigafactory

The Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade successfully bid for Volkswagen’s first overseas gigafactory, which will be built in St. Thomas.

May 16, 2023

Representative Matter

Ninepoint Partners Secures $100M Credit Facility From BMO

On April 28, 2023, Ninepoint Partners, the manager of Ninepoint-TEC Private Credit Fund II, secured a $100 million revolving credit facility from BMO, with $50 million committed and an additional $50 million available through an accordion feature.

April 28, 2023

Representative Matter

Wynnchurch Capital Acquires Majority Ownership in FloWorks

On January 20, 2023, Wynnchurch Capital, L.P., a leading middle market private equity firm, acquired a majority ownership in FloWorks International, LLC from Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. FloWorks is a leading specialty distributor of critical flow control products and provider of tailored technical solutions for MRO-focused applications.

January 26, 2023

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Professional Involvement

Memberships

  • Turnaround Management Association

“Specialty Provisions to Meet New Challenges (Including “Force Majeure”),” Law Society of Ontario's Understanding Commercial Debt Financing Transactions Webinar, November 23, 2020.

"Guiding Borrower Clients through Potential Breaches," Law Society of Ontario Webinar, September 15, 2020.

"Keeping Fees to a Minimum in a Financing Transaction," Aird & Berlis LLP Collateral Matters Newsletter, December 2013.

“No Shortcut to an Injunction: Royal Bank of Canada v. Rastogi,” National Banking Law Review, October 2011, Vol. 30, No. 5.

"Changes to the Canadian Payments Association Rules for Pre-Authorized Debits," National Creditor Debtor Review, June 2010, Vol. 25, No. 2.

"Fraud in Lending Transactions," National Creditor Debtor Review, September 2009, Vol. 24, No. 3.

"The CDS Contagion," (with Sam Billard) National Banking Law Review, June 2009, Vol. 28, No. 3.

"Lending in Troubled Times," The Banking Law Journal, June 2009.

"Section 347 of the Criminal Code and Everyday Commercial Transactions," National Banking Law Review, February 2009, Vol. 28, No. 1 and Aird & Berlis LLP Collateral Matters Newsletter, December 2008.

"Leaving License Agreements Behind – A Caution About Insolvent Licensors," Aird & Berlis LLP Collateral Matters Newsletter, October 2008.

"License Agreements, Legislative Amendments and the Implication for Restructurings," Aird & Berlis LLP Collateral Matters Newsletter, October 2008.

"Canadian Privacy Legislation and the Cross-Border Transfer of Personal Information," Telehealth Law, July 2008.

"Canadian Privacy Legislation and the Cross-Border Transfer of Personal Information Part One: Personal Health Information," Aird & Berlis LLP Procurement, Privacy & Healthcare Technology Newsletter, May 2008.

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Aird & Berlis Recognized in 2026 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

March 17, 2026

Education

  • LLB, University of Windsor, 2007
  • BACS, Finance and Economics, University of Western Ontario, 2004
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