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Jagdeep Shergill
Jag practises in the area of corporate and commercial law. He works primarily with private companies, partnerships and trusts on a variety of transactions, including asset/share acquisitions and dispositions, fund and joint venture investments, corporation restructurings, management buy-outs and various other commercial arrangements (including the negotiation of asset and investment management agreements, franchise and license agreements and shareholder and limited partnership agreements). A large part of Jag’s practice is devoted to working with institutional clients in the public sector, particularly pension plans, other tax-exempt entities and their fiduciaries, with respect to their structuring activities and their real estate, infrastructure and private equity investments, including joint ventures, co-investments and fund investments. As part of his work with public sector institutions, Jag has assisted clients with investments in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. In this regard, he has worked extensively in the negotiation and settlement of limited partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, side letters, subscription agreements and other types of investment and governance agreements. Jag has also acted for a number of private equity firms in connection with their investment activities, including the ultimate sale and disposition of their portfolio companies. With respect to corporate structuring work, Jag oversees Lawson Lundell’s corporate services paralegal group and is frequently involved in various cross-border reorganization transactions. In this regard, Jag frequently assists counsel in other jurisdictions on matters of British Columbia and Canadian law, chiefly in the area of mergers, acquisitions, arrangements, amalgamations and other corporate proceedings.
Lawson Lundell LLP
Jaime Cardy
Jaime Cardy is a senior associate in the Privacy and Cybersecurity group in the Toronto office. She acts on behalf of clients across multiple sectors and highly regulated industries, including technology, retail, financial services, insurance, real estate, automotive, public sector and healthcare. Jaime’s practice focuses on the full range of privacy, access to information, data governance, regulatory compliance, and related consumer protection matters. As a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/C), Jaime assists clients on a range of strategic and practical data governance matters, developing privacy management programs, breach planning and incident response, representing clients before privacy regulators, advising on privacy compliance and risk in complex corporate transactions involving data-based assets and cross-border data flows, responding to data subject rights requests, handling freedom of information matters, complying with Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation and Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules, and counselling clients on various other initiatives involving personal information. She regularly addresses novel issues raised by modern processing of personal information, such as the use of biometrics, artificial intelligence, and online behavioural advertising. Prior to joining Dentons, Jaime was an adjudicator at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, where she conducted hearings and issued binding orders on appeals and complaints under Ontario’s provincial, municipal and health sector privacy legislation. She is highly skilled in interpreting and advising on both privacy and access to information issues, making her well-positioned to assist clients in navigating those statutory regimes. She received her Juris Doctor from Western University and went on to complete her Masters in Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. During her law school career, she was both a research and teaching assistant. Additionally, she gained valuable experience as a student-at-law at Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and as an intern in the Health and Human Rights Department at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dentons
Jake Gilbert
Jake advises domestic and international clients, both public and private, on a full range of business matters, including cross-border and Canadian mergers and acquisitions. Jake's primary areas of focus are financial services (including banking, credit cards, loyalty, brokerages, insurance, mutual funds and wealth management) and software companies. He also advises clients on deals and commercial arrangements in the consumer goods, pharma and manufacturing sectors.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
James (Jim) Murdoch
Managing Partner
Thorsteinssons LLP
James A. Woods
Founder
Woods LLP
James C. Yaskowich
Counsel Areas of Practice Tax Planning Audit &CRA Proposals Corporate Tax Planning Objections Personal Tax Planning Tax Litigations Indirect Tax Voluntary Disclosures Tax Representation & Litigation Criminal Tax Defence
Felesky Flynn LLP
James Gage
Practises exclusively in bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring matters. Extensive experience advising debtors, creditors and court officers in work-out, restructuring, receivership and bankruptcy proceedings in both Canadian and international contexts. Recent matters include lead bankruptcy counsel to Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc. in its restructuring proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, to the syndicate of senior secured lenders in the cross-border restructuring proceedings of a natural gas and electricity retailer, and to CannTrust Holdings Inc. in its restructuring proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. Other recent matters include Canadian restructuring counsel to a car rental company in its global restructuring proceedings implemented under chapter 11 the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, and to U.S. Steel Canada Inc. in its restructuring proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
McCarthy Tétrault
James Goulden
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
James Goulden KC
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
James Little
Alternative Dispute Resolution Construction and Infrastructure Law Commercial and Business Litigation Domestic and International Arbitration Public Policy Surety
Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
James MacInnis KC
Partner
Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson
James MacLellan
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
James Papadimitriou
Senior partner in the Montréal office. Practice focuses on real estate (acquisitions, dispositions, development, joint ventures, financing, mortgage purchases, syndications, participations and leasing). He is also the firm’s Real Property and Planning Group lead for the Québec region.
McCarthy Tétrault
James Parker
Partner
Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson
James Roberts
Partner, Tax Litigation
Counter Tax Litigators LLP
Jamie Litchen
Jamie Litchen is a partner in the Securities Group at Cassels. Jamie is also an active member of the firm’s Mining and Cannabis Groups. Jamie represents a wide variety of public and private companies as well as investment dealers in connection with various securities, corporate and commercial matters. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions in a broad range of industries, including mining, cannabis and technology. Jamie has extensive experience advising on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including numerous M&A transactions, business combination transactions, take-over bids, corporate reorganizations and go-public transactions. Through Jamie’s corporate finance practice, she assists startup clients as well as established companies in connection with seed capital, private placements, public offerings and secondary offerings. Learn more.
Cassels
Jamie Orzech
Practice focuses on commercial real estate including acquisitions and dispositions of all asset classes; commercial leasing including, new project first occupancies, ground lease and sale lease back transactions; borrower and lender side financing transactions, including securitization/ bond financings; real estate development projects including condominium and subdivision development. Extensive experience in the structure and implementation of real estate joint ventures, co-ownerships and other multi-ownership structures. Represents pension funds, REITs, developers, government agencies, financial institutions, public and private real estate managers, and life insurance companies.
McCarthy Tétrault
Jana Mansour
Partner
Dentons
Janan Paskaran
With a track record helping domestic and multinational organizations execute investments in Canada and around the world, Janan is a leading corporate lawyer advising clients on their M&A and capital markets transactions. Janan’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on international transactions. He has an efficient, practical approach that comes from an extensive background of experience representing public and private issuers in a wide variety of financing, business combination and public and private M&A transactions. Janan also regularly counsels clients across sectors on their securities compliance matters, commercial transactions, and corporate finance, procedures and governance. Janan is the co-leader of Torys’ Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
Torys
Jane Helmstadter
Partner, Co-Head of Commercial Real Estate
Bennett Jones LLP
Jasleen Chahal
Associate
Gowling WLG
Jason Arbuck
Jason Arbuck is the Chair of the Banking & Specialty Finance Group and Co-Chair of the Hospitality Group at Cassels. Jason’s practice is devoted to commercial and asset-based lending transactions, banking and securitization transactions, factoring and fintech related legal work, hotel financing and acquisition transactions, and real estate development projects. A large portion of his practice is focussed on cross-border transactions. He has significant experience in drafting and negotiating loan and credit agreements, receivables purchase agreements, hotel purchase agreements, and hotel management agreements. Learn more.
Cassels
Jason Bullen
Jason (Jake) Bullen serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Private Equity Group and is a partner in the Business Law Group at Cassels. Jake’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, financings, strategic advice, corporate re-organizations and complex commercial agreements, with a significant cross-border component. He advises private equity funds, large Canadian, US & international companies and emerging companies on corporate transactions (such as M&A and financings) and commercial agreements. Jake also provides strategic advice on matters such as multi-jurisdictional structuring and corporate governance. His clients include private equity funds, hedge funds, family offices, investment banks, athletes, artists and innovative providers of goods and services in retail, consumer goods, food & beverage, manufacturing and distribution, financial services, technology, FinTech, AI, waste management, real estate, sports, entertainment and cleantech/renewable energy. Learn more.
Cassels
Jason Gudofsky
Jason is the Chair of McCarthy Tétrault’s Competition/Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. He has over 25 years of experience advising on all aspects of competition law, including mergers, joint ventures and alliances, and both civil and criminal investigations. Significant recent mandates include: Parkland/Husky, Parkland/Pétroles Crevier, Discovery/WarnerMedia, Hitachi Rail/Thales Ground Transportation Systems, NCR/Cardtronics, AstraZeneca/Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Aon/Willis Towers Watson AbbVie/Allergan, Harris Corporation/L3 Technologies, and Walt Disney/21st Century Fox. Jason also advises on foreign investment/national security reviews under the Investment Canada Act, including the following significant transactions: Cineworld/Cineplex, Zijin Mining/Continental Gold, CCCI/Aecon and CNOOC/Nexen. Jason is regularly relied upon to provide risk assessments, internal audits and navigate sensitive matters through the relevant Canadian governmental authorities. Jason previously worked for three years at a leading international law firm in Brussels.
McCarthy Tétrault