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We lend billions of dollars to commercial real estate projects every year. But it’s not just capital that distinguishes us. It’s the empowered nature of our workforce. Our advisors are experienced experts whose sole focus is to deliver financing strategies that enable you to achieve greater success.

Our Better Lending culture – three decades in the making – is built on the skill that comes from pure mortgage lending. Because we start from a position of knowledge about you, your project, and your market, we can design solutions that are fit for your purpose. And because accountability is in our nature, we meet our commitments.

Better by design, better by nature, better for you in every corner of the country.

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Yafit Shimoni

Yafit is a member of:
Team Gidney and Barda

Director, Commercial Financing

yafit.shimoni@firstnational.ca

437.783.3300

Intuitive. Driven. Resourceful.

“I add value by fostering collaboration, providing professional guidance, and optimizing processes to deliver quality and timely results as a dedicated team.”

Yafit joined the First National team in March 2023, but has been working in the commercial mortgage industry since 2008. Her expertise spans credit risk management/adjudication, underwriting, funding, operations, and team leading.

With her strong background in credit and experience underwriting various asset classes and loan structures, Yafit intuitively draws on insights and precedents to analyze financing opportunities and support decision making. Driven to deliver results, she focuses on mentoring her team in loan underwriting, executing transactions and effective stakeholder engagement. Yafit relies on her varied experience and industry knowledge to tackle challenges by offering a range of potential solutions.

When she’s not adding value for First National borrowers, Yafit enjoys family time at the cottage and planning her next travel adventure.