Paul Belanger How to pronounce this name. Partner | Toronto

• RBC on its $13.5-billion acquisition of HSBC Bank Canada, the largest bank merger transaction in Canadian history

• Definity Financial (formerly Economical Mutual Insurance Company) on the first property and casualty demutualization in Canada

• National Bank of Canada on the regulatory aspects of its acquisition of Canadian Western Bank

• Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board on its acquisition of HomeQ Corporation, the parent company of HomeEquity Bank, the first acquisition of a Canadian bank by a pension fund

• TD Insurance on the first ever Canadian-risk CAT bond issuance

• Blue Cross Life Insurance Company of Canada on its assumption reinsurance of British Columbia Life and Casualty Company

• MCAP Financial Corporation on its C$1.5-billion mortgage purchase from Home Trust Company

Paul is recognized as a leading lawyer in the following publications:

• Chambers Canada Legal Guide 2025 (Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory; Banking & Finance: Financial Services Regulation)

• Chambers Global Legal Guide 2025 (Banking & Finance: Financial Services)

• The Best Lawyers in Canada 2025 (Banking and Finance Law, Insurance Law)

• The Legal 500 Canada 2025 (Insurance; Hall of Fame – Banking & Finance)

• Lexology Index: Banking 2025 (Banking – Finance; Global Elite Thought Leader: Banking – Regulatory)

• The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2024 (Consistently Recommended – Banking & Financial Institutions; Most Frequently Recommended – Financial Institutions Regulation – Ontario)

• Lexpert Special Edition: Finance & M&A 2024

• Lexpert Special Edition: Technology and Health Sciences 2024

• Lexology Index Thought Leaders 2024 (Banking – Regulatory)

• Lexology Index Thought Leaders: Global Elite 2024 (Banking – Regulatory)

• Lexology Index: Insurance and Reinsurance 2024
  

• Lexology Index: Canada 2024 (Banking, Insurance & Reinsurance)

• IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial and Corporate Law Firms 2024 (Market Leader – Financial Services Regulatory)

• Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers 2024 – Independently Rated Lawyers (As nominated by senior in-house counsel)

• Lexpert's Leading 500 Cross-Border Lawyers: A Guide to Doing Business in Canada 2019 (Banking & Financial Institutions)

• Euromoney's LMG Insurance and Reinsurance Expert Guide 2019

• Euromoney's LMG Banking, Finance and Transactional Expert Guide 2019 (Banking)

In 2002, Paul was named one of Canada's "Top 40 Under 40" by Lexpert, a magazine for lawyers, in Lexpert's first such report.

• Co-author : Consultation on NSF Fee Restrictions: Proposed Amendments to the Financial Consumer Protection Framework Regulations
  Blakes Bulletin on Financial Services Regulatory, November 21, 2024.
• Co-author : OSFI and FCAC Report on AI Use and Risk at Federally Regulated Financial Institutions
  Blakes Bulletin on Financial Services Regulatory / Technology, November 20, 2024.
• Co-author : Department of Finance Proposes Updates to Canada’s Financial Sector Framework
  Blakes Bulletin on Financial Services Regulatory, August 16, 2024.
• Co-author : 2024 Federal Budget: Banking, Financial Services Highlights
  Blakes Bulletin on Financial Services Regulatory, April 19, 2024.
• Co-author : Unwrapping the Criminal Interest Rate Regulations Released December 23, 2023
  Blakes Bulletin on Financial Services Regulatory, December 23, 2023.
• Co-author : OSFI’s New Guideline B-10: Third-Party Risk Management
  Blakes Bulletin on Technology / Financial Services Regulatory, May 17, 2023.
• Co-author : Budget Bill 2023: Changes for Financial Institutions
  Blakes Bulletin on Financial Services Regulatory, May 8, 2023.
• Co-author : Second Phase of Consultation on Open Banking in Canada Opens with a New Moniker: Consumer-Directed Finance
  Blakes Bulletin on Financial Services Regulatory, February 13, 2020.

Admitted to the Ontario Bar – 1988
LLB, University of Western Ontario – 1986