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Katie
Bell

Associate
  • kbell@airdberlis.com
  • 416.865.7718
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Admitted to the Ontario Bar: 2025
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Katie advises clients on financing and lending matters by integrating legal, financial and business considerations to support practical outcomes. She values clear, dependable communication and works collaboratively across practice areas to support complex transactions. Katie’s adaptable approach helps her deliver results in fast-paced or high-pressure situations.

Katie is a member of the firm’s Financial Services Group. Her practice includes advising both financial institutions and corporate borrowers on a wide range of national and cross-border transactions. Katie works on syndicated and bilateral loan arrangements, asset-based lending and asset and equipment financing and leasing. She also advises on financing structures that support ongoing operations, acquisitions and project-specific initiatives.

Katie joined Aird & Berlis as an associate after summering and articling at the firm, where she previously worked as a legal assistant and law clerk in the Tax Group.

Expertise

  • Financial Services

Representative Matters

Representative Matter

Sencap and Manulife Finance Long-Term Care Homes Across Ontario

Aird & Berlis acted as legal counsel to Sencap and Manulife with a team led by Jill Fraser and including Michael Cappabianca, Katie Bell and Shannon Morris (Financial Services), Josh Eisen (Capital Markets) and Carlos Casasola (Real Estate).

June 27, 2025

Professional Involvement

Community Involvement

  • Volunteered with Pro Bono Students Canada
  • Held student leadership roles with the Queen’s Law Journal and Queen’s Legal Aid
  • Served as Public Relations Executive for the Student Law Association at Ontario Tech University

Teaching Engagements

  • Part-Time Professor, Law Clerk Program, Durham College, where she taught courses in civil litigation, legal office procedures and legal communications, 2019
Co-Author, "Credit Where Credit Is Due – Except in Cases of Fraud," Aird & Berlis LLP, Financial Perspectives, September 30, 2025.

Related Publications

Article

Credit Where Credit Is Due – Except in Cases of Fraud

September 30, 2025

Education

  • JD, Queen's University, 2024
  • BA (Honours, with Highest Distinction), Ontario Tech University, 2021
  • Teaching and Training Adults Certificate, Durham College, 2019
  • Law Clerk Advanced Diploma, Durham College, 2014
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