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Financing GPUs And Data Center Equipment In Canada: A Practical Guide For US Equipment Finance Companies
The AI boom is creating unprecedented demand for GPUs, servers, power systems, cooling infrastructure, and other data center assets in Canada. As highlighted in the Equipment Lease & Finance Association’s (ELFA) recent article, as part of the data center “gold rush,” equipment finance has become a critical part of the capital stack supporting data center development, with lenders increasingly financing GPU-backed infrastructure and related technology assets. Canada’s cooler environment, expansive geography and access to abundant water and electricity in certain provinces, make the country a desirable location to build data centers.
Canada Finance
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Cassels
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Continuation Vehicles In Private Equity: Structuring, Governance And Execution
Private equity sponsors are increasingly using continuation vehicles to extend ownership of high-conviction assets while providing liquidity options to existing investors. This comprehensive analysis examines the strategic considerations, structural mechanics, and critical risk factors that sponsors, limited partners, and new investors must navigate when evaluating continuation vehicles as an alternative to traditional exit strategies.
Canada Finance
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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Available Solutions And Potential Structuring
Infrastructure projects delivered through collaborative models like alliances and IPD face a fundamental challenge: reconciling shared-risk governance with traditional project finance requirements. This analysis examines practical financing structures—from progressive P3s and government backstops to catalytic capital and holdco arrangements—that bridge the gap between collaborative delivery principles and lender bankability expectations.
Canada Finance
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Gowling WLG
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Canadian IPO Market 2026: Recovery Or Restructuring? Legal Lessons For Private Companies Considering Going Public – Part 1 Of 3
Canada's IPO market has undergone fundamental restructuring rather than simple recovery, with companies staying private longer and institutional investors increasingly favoring rigorous long-form offerings over alternative listing structures. The mining sector remains a critical counterweight, representing over $1.1 trillion in market capitalization and demonstrating sustained capital-raising strength even as traditional IPO activity contracted sharply between 2022 and 2024.
Canada Energy
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Miller Thomson LLP
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Les ACVM proposent de rendre permanent l’élargissement de la dispense pour financement de l’émetteur coté
Les Autorités canadiennes en valeurs mobilières proposent d'inscrire dans la réglementation les modifications apportées à la dispense pour financement de l'émetteur coté, permettant aux émetteurs de lever jusqu'à 50 M$ CA sans prospectus. Le projet de modification simplifie certaines conditions tout en introduisant de nouvelles exigences d'information pour les émetteurs confrontés à des incertitudes financières.
Canada Finance
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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
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CSA Proposes Permanent Increase To Capital-Raising Limits Under The Listed Issuer Financing Exemption
The Canadian Securities Administrators have published proposed amendments to the listed issuer financing exemption that would permanently increase capital-raising limits from $10 million to up to $50 million for larger companies. These changes build on temporary relief measures that facilitated $3.7 billion in capital raised over the past year and include streamlined operational conditions aimed at simplifying the exemption's use for eligible exchange-listed reporting issuers.
Canada Finance
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Cassels
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Federal Financial Institutions Legislative And Regulatory Reporter – March 2026
The Reporter provides a monthly summary of Canadian federal legislative and regulatory developments of relevance to federally regulated financial institutions. It does not address Canadian provincial financial services legislative and regulatory developments. In addition, purely technical and administrative changes (such as changes to reporting forms) are not covered.
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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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