Lara Nathans

Lara is McCarthy Tetrault’s Industry Strategy Leader, responsible for leading the firm and its people to truly understand and align with our clients and their industries. As Leader of our Retail and Consumer Markets Group, Lara is a trusted advisor to consumer-facing businesses looking to establish or grow in the Canadian market. She advises global companies entering Canada (through M&A, e-commerce, bricks and mortar or a combination) on their market entry strategies and related legal issues. She regularly advises retail industry clients on operational issues, new projects and their response to COVID-19, including navigating reopening and recovery across jurisdictions. Lara excels at negotiating M&A transactions, reorganizations and commercial matters for retailers (including e-commerce and digital) and consumer facing businesses. She provides well-informed guidance on multifaceted strategic and operational issues, including domestic and global expansion, COVID-19 response, reopening and recovery. · McCarthy Tétrault

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Lara Nathans is McCarthy Tétrault’s Industry Strategy Leader and Leader of the Retail and Consumer Markets Group. She advises consumer-facing and global companies on market entry into Canada, M&A and reorganizations, e-commerce and commercial matters, and on operational and COVID-19 reopening and recovery issues.

Practice areas

RetailConsumer MarketsCorporate / M&ACommercialE-commerceRestructuring

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Canada

McCarthy Tétrault · Lara is McCarthy Tetrault’s Industry Strategy Leader, responsible for leading the firm and its people to truly understand and align with our clients and their industries. As Leader of our Retail and Consumer Markets Group, Lara is a trusted advisor to consumer-facing businesses looking to establish or grow in the Canadian market. She advises global companies entering Canada (through M&A, e-commerce, bricks and mortar or a combination) on their market entry strategies and related legal issues. She regularly advises retail industry clients on operational issues, new projects and their response to COVID-19, including navigating reopening and recovery across jurisdictions. Lara excels at negotiating M&A transactions, reorganizations and commercial matters for retailers (including e-commerce and digital) and consumer facing businesses. She provides well-informed guidance on multifaceted strategic and operational issues, including domestic and global expansion, COVID-19 response, reopening and recovery.

Canada

Expertise

Retail and consumer-facing businessesMarket entry strategies for global companies entering CanadaMergers & acquisitions and reorganizations for retailersE-commerce and digital retailOperational issues and project work for retailersCOVID-19 response, reopening and recovery; domestic and global expansion strategies

Admissions

Ontario, 2002