Business Law
Banking and Corporate Finance
Insolvency

Linda Widdup practices commercial law with an emphasis on commercial lending, business acquisitions and commercial insolvency. She advises business clients on a wide-range of commercial and banking transactions, as well as lenders, receivers and corporate debtors in commercial insolvency matters including under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. Linda has extensive experience in drafting credit and security documentation for financial institutions for use in their national commercial lending operations. Linda is a recognized authority in personal property security legislation and has published extensively in that area.

Prior to starting with MLT's Saskatoon office, Linda worked for four years in the banking and financial services group of a major New Zealand law firm. The focus of her work in New Zealand was providing advice on that country's newly-enacted Personal Property Security Act which was modeled closely after the Saskatchewan legislation.

Linda has authored a book and a number of articles on personal property security legislation.

• Admitted to the Saskatchewan Bar
• LL.B. (Distinction, Saskatchewan, 1996)
• B.A. (Honours, Saskatchewan, 1991)

• Named One of Canada's Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 (Lexpert Legal Directory, 2007)
• Saskatchewan Law Review Honour (1996)
• Named in Lexpert US/Canada Cross-Border Guide as a Canadian Corporate Lawyer to Watch (2008)

• University of Saskatchewan College of Law - Sessional Lecturer (Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Receiverships; since 2007)
• Saskatoon Symphony Society - Board of Director (since September 2005)
• Canadian Bar Association - Member of Committee developing template receivership order and initial order under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (since September 2005)
• New Zealand Law Society - Personal Property Securities Act Subcommittee Member (1999 - 2003)
• Providing submissions to the Law Commission of the United Kingdom in relation to Consultation Paper No 164, “Registration of Security Interests: Company Charges and Property other than Land”, October 2002

• L Widdup and L Mayne, Personal Property Securities Act, a conceptual approach (Wellington: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2000, Revised edition, 2002) (328 page text)
• L Widdup, “Leases and Proceeds under the PPSA: A comment on New Zealand Bloodstock v. Waller (February 2006) in Company and Securities Law Bulletin (Wellington: LexisNexis Butterworths).
• L Widdup and T Telfer, “Remedies under the Personal Property Security Act” (December 2004) in Morison’s Company and Securities Law (Wellington: LexisNexis Butterworths).
• L Widdup, “The Personal Property Securities Register—Are we being seriously misled?” (December 2002) in Company and Securities Law Bulletin, Issue 12 (Wellington: LexisNexis Butterworths).
• L Widdup and T Telfer, “Priority between Security Interests” (December 2002) in Morison's Company and Securities Law (Wellington: LexisNexis Butterworths).
• L Widdup, “A Canadian Perspective on Personal Property Security Act Legislation” (August 2002) in Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin Vol 18, No. 2 (Chatswood: LexisNexis Butterworths).
• L Widdup and T Telfer, "Scope of the Personal Property Securities Act 1999” (August 2002) 1149-1171 in Morison's Company and Securities Law (Wellington: LexisNexis Butterworths).
• L Widdup and T Telfer, "Creation and Enforceability of Security Interests" (August 2002) 1181-1201 in Morison's Company and Securities Law (Wellington: LexisNexis Butterworths).
• L Widdup, “Insights into the PPSA” (Sept 2001) in New Zealand Law Journal 326 (Wellington: LexisNexis Butterworths).
• L Widdup and L Mayne, “PPSA Controversy” (March 2001) in New Zealand Law Journal 51 (Wellington: LexisNexis Butterworths).
• L Widdup, “The Aftermath of New Bullas and Beyond Brumark Investments” (Sept 2000) in 11 Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice 247 (Pyrmont, Australia: LBC Information Services).
• L Widdup and L Mayne, “New Zealand’s Personal Property Securities Act 1999, Some Debatable Issues” (June 2000) in 11 Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice 156 (Pyrmont, Australia: LBC Information Services).

• "Midmarket Commercial Technical Update". Presented at the CAIRP Insolvency and Restructuring Forum (Calgary: May 2008)
• Recent Presenter at CBA Bankruptcy & Insolvency section, CBA Business Law North and South Sections and Mid-Winter Meeting (Saskatchewan)
• Amendments to Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. Presented to the Saskatoon Insolvency Group (March 2006)
• Personal Property Securities Act (New Zealand). Presented at the Lexis Nexis Butterworths Professional Development Seminar (Wellington, NZ: March 2001)
• “Application of the Personal Property Securities Act (New Zealand)”. Presented at the Business Information in Action's Credit Law Conference (Auckland, NZ: February 2001)
• Personal Property Security Law Reform. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Banking and Financial Services Law Association (Brisbane, AUS: June 2000)