University of British Columbia
British Columbia, 1995
Ms. Bahadoorsingh’s practice is focused on real estate finance, commercial lending, secured transactions and real estate acquisitions and dispositions. She also practises general corporate/commercial law, including buying and selling of businesses, professional incorporations, corporate reorganizations and business succession planning.
Ms. Bahadoorsingh has spoken and written extensively on secured transactions in Canada. She co-authored a chapter in an International Bar Association publication entitled, “Remedies Under Security Interests in Canada: An Overview” (2002) and was a contributing author to CLEBC’s British Columbia Personal Property Security Act Practice Manual for over 17 years.
Ms. Bahadoorsingh received the Dorothy A. Dilworth Memorial Prize & Shield for “Most Outstanding Female Graduate” from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business in 1990, from where she obtained a Bachelor of Commerce (Urban Land Economics), with Honours; she received an LLB from UBC in 1994, after studying international law in a study-abroad exchange program at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Vancouver Sun included Ms. Bahadoorsingh in their “Ones to Watch” feature in its January 3, 2003 edition. Best Lawyers has consistently recognized Ms. Bahadoorsingh as one of Canada’s top Banking & Finance lawyers. She was featured in the Continuing Legal Education of B.C.’s “In the Spotlight” column in 2017 (https://www.cle.bc.ca/anjili-bahadoorsingh-in-the-spotlight/).
Ms. Bahadoorsingh is a past Chair of the Banking Law Subsection of the Canadian Bar Association (B.C. Branch) and a former Director of the Association of Women in Finance. Her many volunteer activities have included serving as a Trustee of the West Vancouver Memorial Library and as a Director of the Trinidad & Tobago Cultural Society of B.C. She is currently a Director of the West Vancouver Memorial Library Foundation.
Prior to joining Terra Law, Ms. Bahadoorsingh practiced at a well-established mid-sized Vancouver law firm for 4 years, followed by 15 years at a leading national law firm.
- Acting as counsel for banks, institutional lenders, financial intermediaries and borrowers in all areas of lending, including acquisition & construction finance, real estate refinance, asset-based lending, CMBS financing and project finance;
- Advising purchasers and vendors of commercial and investment properties, including shopping centres, hotels and apartment buildings;
- Preparing standard form financing documents for private lenders, equipment financiers and automobile lessors;
- Representing a major U.S. lender with respect to several golf course and hotel financings in British Columbia and Alberta; and
- Counsel to a U.S. railroad company which bought, financed and sold several short-line railways in Canada.