Order: In the Matter of Bridging Finance Inc. et al.

Order

IN THE MATTER OF
BRIDGING FINANCE INC., DAVID SHARPE, BRIDGING INCOME FUND LP, BRIDGING MID-MARKET DEBT FUND LP, BRIDGING INCOME RSP FUND, BRIDGING MID-MARKET DEBT RSP FUND, BRIDGING PRIVATE DEBT INSTITUTIONAL LP, BRIDGING REAL ESTATE LENDING FUND LP, BRIDGING SMA 1 LP, BRIDGING INFRASTRUCTURE FUND LP, and BRIDGING INDIGENOUS IMPACT FUND

File No. 2021-15

Adjudicators:

M. Cecilia Williams

March 28, 2023

ORDER

(Subsections 127(8), 127(2) and 127(1) of the Securities Act, RSO 1990, c S.5)

WHEREAS the Capital Markets Tribunal held a hearing in writing to consider a motion by Staff of the Ontario Securities Commission to extend a temporary order issued on April 30, 2021, and extended on May 12, 2021, August 10, 2021, December 22, 2021, March 21, 2022, June 29, 2022, and September 26, 2022;

ON READING the materials filed by the parties and on considering that the respondents Bridging Income Fund LP, Bridging Mid-Market Debt Fund LP, Bridging Income RSP Fund, Bridging Mid-Market Debt RSP Fund, Bridging Private Debt Institutional LP, Bridging Real Estate Lending Fund LP, Bridging SMA 1 LP, Bridging Infrastructure Fund LP, and Bridging Indigenous Impact Fund (collectively, the BFI Funds) consent to the relief sought;

IT IS ORDERED THAT pursuant to subsections 127(8), 127(2) and paragraph 2 of subsection 127(1) of the Securities Act, until 30 days after the Tribunal releases its decision on the merits in the enforcement proceeding file no. 2022-9, all trading in securities of the BFI Funds shall cease, except that PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. in its capacity as receiver and manager, without security, of all the assets, undertakings and properties of Bridging Finance Inc. and the BFI Funds may trade in or facilitate the issuance or redemption of units of a BFI Fund with prior approval of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

 

“M. Cecilia Williams”
M. Cecilia Williams